We get Dora-Chan who so far is not really hitting the mark for me since I think we really did not need another cute familiar and I am not overly found of cute dragons especially since Sui already fit the cute mascot character. But he is not that bad of a character just wished he had a different design.
I loved the new elf character and Mukohda’s new familiar! Why are all of these monsters that find him so food obsessed. Crazy that even the mythril dagger couldn’t cut up the earth dragon. What’s to become of our new squad?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This is the very few anime to manga transition that I've done. Meaning that after watching the available anime, I wanted more of the story so I decided to read manga. I started from where the anime ended though. I read the first volume and the anime did really well in following the manga closely.
It's really worth it.
Although it's just about an isekai-ed person with an "unusual skill" and a his bunch of gluttonous contracted familiars going through places just to eat various exotic monsters through our-world cooking methods, it just isn't boring for me. It helps that there's food porn, the characters are not annoying (except for those gods and goddesses with bratty attitudes that were added just to have those kind of staple Japanese characters; cool with the blessings though), and there's a variety of monsters to choose from.
It just rinse and repeat in every place they go to (subjugation/elimination quest, get monster meat butchered, cook the dish for the day, then get the monetary rewards from sale of monster parts, bonus level, rank, reputation level-ups) though, so I don't know if they can keep up the momentum or it plateaus somewhere and becomes stale.
For now, I'll just quietly enjoy this adventure/slice of life story. First time I've laughed in some time.
Edit to add: Now that I've watched season 2 of the anime, there are differences between the anime and the manga that are more notable than in season 1. Also, at least in season 1 they're still pretending not to advertise various Japanese products.