"Good Eater" by Araki Shin

2015-03-26 : previous : next : index : [books]


"Good Eater" by Araki Shin.  This is the same author who wrote "GJ Bu", with the same illustrator and same 4-page-per-chapter format.  It's sounds very much like the same series, and turns out it was, indeed, very much the same enjoyable 4koma light novel.

There are some key differences -- the "eater" part of the title reflects the main premise of this series, where a party of dungeon explorers eat every monster they defeat.  And they really mean "eat every monster", so having accidentally killed a stone golem becomes a serious problem, for example.  "How about we just leave it?" "No... No!  If we defeat it, we have to eat it.  That's our law."  There is a surprising wide range of topics related to eating, although there are lots of other topics covered as well.

The school settings from "GJ Bu" have been completely replaced by this fantasy setting.  Instead of "another usual after school hour", chapters often start with "in depths of the dungeon as usual".  Anything goes in this fantasy world: golems, dragons, giant cabbages, anything.  These encounters are driven by the theory that "stronger enemies are tastier", so the party goes out of their way to find random creatures.  The foodie fantasy setting worked out better than expected.

The characters are obviously all brand new, although their personalities are very similar the old cast.  There is a former brave, a former demon lord, an assassin (out to kill the other two, but currently inactive because of their former statuses), a waitress who was formerly something else, and a regular normal person who pretty much fills the same role as Kyouya from "GJ Bu".  Readers did not need to go very far to find the same familiar atmosphere all over again.

Having already read 19 volumes of "GJ Bu", naturally I bought this one without giving any second thought, and it was very much what I expected, plus a bit more.  "Good Eater" is looking out to be another balanced and consistent series


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