A Big Fat Wedding Banquet When sent to another world, even a routine shopping trip becomes an adventure: all these new scents and foods and possibilities... not to mention heavily armed and drunken jerks causing trouble in the streets. And while this mysterious stranger sure seems helpful, he can't help Asuta and Ai Fa prepare enough giba meat to feed a small army... or a large, honor-bound wedding party. Can a few new recipes and and the lovely ladies of the Ru Clan ensure success? It's a wild time, cooking with wild game!

Asuta's an apprentice in his dad's restaurant - until corrupt real estate developers set it on fire. After running into the blaze to save his dad's knife, he wakes up in a forest on another planet. Can modern cooking skills keep him alive amongst the natives? Or will his guide and associate, Ai Fa, take him out with his own knife first? There may be strange new ingredients to try, but techniques hold firm when Cooking with Wild Game.

Welcome to Giba Burger, home of the giba burger, can I take your order? Asuta's got a food cart in the city, but that doesn't do him much good if he can't attract customers. What's a guy got to do to make an impression around here?

The clan head meeting has concluded, and thanks in no small part to Asuta’s efforts, the Suun clan has finally fallen. The people of the forest’s edge have been freed from their wicked and corrupt rule, and now they can forge a new path forward. But first, the former members of the Suun still need to be dealt with. Kamyua Yoshu’s planned caravan is almost ready to go as well, but what will that mean for Leito? And is the danger the Suun clan posed truly gone? Meanwhile, some new ingredients have fallen into Asuta’s hands. However, making use of them won’t be as simple as before. All this and more in the exciting seventh volume of Cooking with Wild Game!

Meeting For A Meat Meet Asuta's begun cracking the nut of cooking giba - but butchering and roasting up strange new beasts is easy compared to satisfying the appetite of Ai Fa's grand enemy, Donda Ruu. Can Asuta and the ladies of the Ruu household win over the great hunter and the guests at a grand wedding party? Or do shame and exile from the forest's edge await? A chef's life is never easy, especially when Cooking With Wild Game.

The climactic showdown with Donda Ruu may be over and done with, but that doesn’t quite mean things have slowed down for our hero just yet! After all, the wedding of Guzraan Rutim and Ama Min is still looming large, and Asuta’s being asked to cater! Will our hero accept this great responsibility, or is it simply too much for him to handle? And just what effect will it have on his relationship with the forest’s edge if he does? And that’s not all, as this time around, Asuta’s horizons expand out beyond the forest’s edge! Just what sort of exciting new discoveries await him out in the wider world? And will he be able to handle the new trials and tribulations that accompany them? Plus, just who is this suspicious old-timer approaching him, anyway...? Find out all this and more as Asuta faces these challenges both at home and away in the third volume of Cooking with Wild Game!

It's great being a hero! Super powers, loved by every-- wait, what? Brought over by mistake? These stats are awful, and the kingdom sure seems sketchy... And so begins Mukouda Tsuyoshi's life in another world. And if he thought his strength was bad, his special skill is... accessing his old online supermarket?! It's useless for combat, but if he plays his cards right, there's gold in rare goods. At least, that's what Mukouda thinks, but it turns out his modern food might be more special than it appears - and in this world, Japanese food isn't an everyday sight! Quiet days lead to silent storms, especially once a gluttonous fenrir starts causing trouble and asking for seconds!

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