Audience reviews
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Krohanar
In short, if you enjoyed the first season and did not get tired of watching the same formula happen again and again, now with new types of food, then this second season might still work for you.
But if you already felt that the first season was repetitive, the second season may feel even more tiring.
Art: 7/10
The art did not lose quality.
The food still looks very good, and that continues to be the anime’s strongest visual point. The meals look tasty, the presentation is pleasant, and the cooking scenes are still handled with care.
Visually, the anime remains consistent. It is not a masterpiece, but it knows how to make food look appealing.
Story: 4/10
This is where the second season became much weaker for me.
I watched both seasons on the same day, so maybe that made the repetition eve…
Read at the sourceRobmo
I will die for Sui.
This is a no-plot chill anime focused on food. However, the only plot is Sui. The food looks delicious, it will make you hungry, Sui is the best. The main character has an unnatural ability to cook, and nothing really goes wrong for him, but that's good, because he has Sui. Who ever voice acted and voice directed Sui needs to be promoted.
This is the second season and I would say its more enjoyable than the first. It introduced a new familiar and the show revolves around them most of the time. However, the best one is Sui.
Show is 8/10 for its light hearted fun.
Sui is 10/10
I'll die for Sui.
Read at the sourceBlaybourne
This was a disappointingly stale second season after the first was quite enjoyable. Isekai is not something I often watch so the initial premise felt interesting if not a little contrived, and it seemed like the story had potential to innovate and build upon what it was. Instead, it felt like almost nothing happened over 12 episodes, except for introducing Dora-chan who was unlikeable and annoying (and would’ve been better if liquefied into a soup).
They went to a few towns, explored a dungeon and killed a load of big scary monsters, but because of how strong everyone is, there were no steaks (food pun) at any point. Mukouda remained plain and boring, still screaming and shouting over every encounter like he doesn’t have five octillion blessings and three overpowered familiars in his arse…
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The first season was interesting and novel, but the second season is a real drag. Many parts of it are blatant product placement, and I almost regret not finding a better use for my time. Although the introduction of a new companion was exciting at first, it wasn't enough to keep the show from feeling bland at times.
This season was severely lacking in direction, so many of the episodes end up feeling very repetitive. Mukouda's companions kill everything in one hit, so he's forced to bring whatever rare monsters they catch. This shocks the butchers for all of one second (they ALWAYS have the same reaction). Then, he makes a bunch of money after selling the rare materials, and prepares his companions a meal (or ten). There's almost no deviation in this formula because Mukouda constantly fo…
Read at the sourceTerryCaked
It's good. This anime is literally based around cooking, so... You shouldn't be surprised when it's mostly about cooking.
Despite knowing that, I will say that it's getting a little... Stale.
This season sort of felt like it showed cooking way more often than it did last season, aka: Half, if not most, of the episodes were cooking and a snippet of action.
While this is a comfort anime, if you're coming into this hoping the main character will finally grow a backbone now that he is semi-op, don't get your hopes up :) (he's a coward through-and-through). Don't get me wrong. I love his character, he's just... lacking a little.
Let's hope that if there is another season, maybe they'll focus a little more on his character growth rather than making half of every episode cooking, and a portio…
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Season 2 of Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill is straight-up comfy to watch. Chill vibes + light adventure + amazing food = a combo that keeps you hooked every episode.
The story isn’t complicated or heavy, but that’s actually the charm. Mukoda’s journey with Fel and Sui is fun, relaxing, and sometimes really funny. It’s perfect for when you just want to kick back and enjoy something easygoing.
The biggest highlight? Definitely the food. The animation is insanely detailed it’ll legit make you hungry. Cooking and eating scenes are easily the best part of every episode.
The pacing is smooth too not too fast, not boring either. Yeah, it can feel a bit repetitive sometimes, but overall it’s still super enjoyable.
Basically, this is a great “healing” anime. No stress, j…
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It's no secret that I didn't like Season One of Campfire Cooking. I had more than a few issues with it (which I will get into) that affected my enjoyment of the series, but I am pleased to say that Season 2 addressed so many of those issues and is a lot more enjoyable as a result.
Firstly in S2 we see the inclusion of a new party member with Dora, this helps balance the party dynamic, one of my big issues with S1 was Fel and how annoying and obnoxious he was, with Fel having such a prominent role for so much of S1 as it was mostly just Mukouda and Fel for quite a few episodes, Fel's personality began to grate real fast and it was a detriment to the series. Having Sui and Dora reduce Fel's prominence and actually slot into a proper cast dynamic improves things greatly.
To put this in gene…
Read at the sourceLycanhunt3r
I feel like this is a lesser version of the first season, it isn't necessarily worse, more like a shallow copy of the same thing. It would be interesting to see more character and world development.
I would've liked to see the protagonist realize how lucky he is to have strong familiars or gods by his side, have him try expanding for a multi-regional business, or tackle on improving the world instead of taking whatever there is in his magic grocery store and reselling for 10x the price; maybe even taking some apprendices to help him feed the big dog would be way more enjoyable to watch. Anything to make him vent less and struggle with new problems more.
It's like he's playing on game+, but he's just repeating the first run instead of trying to do something riskier. I know that it should…
Read at the sourcePeachgummies
I really appreciate the diversity of backgrounds on this anime! Even in Isekai, I feel like the effort always goes elsewhere but this one has distinct locations that are convincingly all part of the same world. It helps it all seem real and livable.
The story is overall meh. Things always go incredibly well for our main character whose only tether to humility is the fact that he's Japanese. It's your garden variety cultural propaganda and perfectly enjoyable. I doubt I'll watch it again, but I'm not angry for the time I spent on it.
Also, and I started noticing this in the first season but damn. They really murder a lot of things. They fully wipe out the bad things they murder for quests let alone the more neutral apex predators they take out. Is this not collapsing entire ecosystems? Su…
Read at the sourceRamun_Flame
I'll put my thoughts of both seasons here. This show is basically a slice of life cooking show, despite the power fantasy of having overpowered familiars, and defeating powerful foes constantly. There's a plot outside of the main story that doesn't really get explored at all. We didn't see the other people who got isekai'd once in the second season. I really believe the show could benefit from a stronger plot, but it does still have some appeal.
Even if the story is pretty bland, they do go all out with the food detail. They make everything look really good with the cooking, and maybe that's just the point of the show. It just feels like there's this whole world and potential plot that could be explored, but we just have the constant of everyone always asking to eat, then being really imp…
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Best comfort anime of the season. If you watched season 1, then, just expect more of that.
Here's a basic summary:
- Lots of cooking and eating.
- gorgeous art (especially the backgrounds)
- cute wholesome moments with our mascots, I mean, familiars.
- Lots of silly comedy
- strictly family friendly. No fan service or degeneracy like loli/incest/harems. A perfect show for kids and adults alike.
- pretty much an extension of season 1, with no significant changes. So, if you liked/hated first season, you will like/hate this.
This is not for everyone, but for those who want to turn off their brain and relax, this is a great series.
Read at the sourceSlic_K
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill – Season 2… wow what a name. While it is another one of those basic Isekai animes with a very specific title and “genre”, it definitely has its merits.
I really enjoyed the art style and animation - the vibrant colors of the food, along with the modern art style made it a decently fun watch in the beginning. The MC’s journey, in this alternate world which he was summoned to, collecting companions and rare meat along the way was a refreshing change of pace from the usual “hero summoned to fight some impeding war / demon”. There is no / very little action in the whole anime, I can’t remember actually seeing many fight scenes. The plot, if we can call it that, focuses more on the different types of meat from various monsters and the MC’s…
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I honestly don’t really understand why this anime is so popular. The first season at least had some novelty going for it. It was watchable, mildly entertaining, and the concept felt fresh enough at the time. But this second season completely loses whatever charm the series initially had.
The biggest issue is that nothing meaningful actually happens. Any potentially interesting or story-relevant elements are wrapped up by about halfway through the season, and after that it just turns into a repetitive loop: go somewhere new, cook, move to another city, cook again, and repeat. If there were more episodes, I’m convinced it would just keep going like that indefinitely. If you cut out the cooking scenes entirely, what you’re left with is an extremely thin and boring story with almost no substa…
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Campfire Cooking in Another World season 2 is honestly pretty cool. It’s nothing spectacular, but it’s a comfortable, easy watch where you don’t really have to focus too much on story or details. Just like season one, the animation is really nice, and it clearly caters to a niche that not many shows do — mainly food-focused isekai with a laid-back vibe.
That said, after season one it does start to feel a bit repetitive in season two. The familiars are still funny and likable, Sui’s little “pew pew” moments always manage to bring a smile, and Fel is just straight-up badass — the show would honestly lose a lot of its character without him. The gods are always good for a laugh, and the new familiar is also pretty fun.
But in the end, it doesn’t really go much further than that. It’s a chill…
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The story? Not much to talk about. There’s little progress in anything major. It’s become more a slow SoL sprinkled with action. If it were the plot alone, I’d say, move along. BUT it isn’t, because this is Mappa that we’re talking about.
The animation alone is why I’m recommending this. The first season they revealed that used references to actual cooks to animate, and it appears they did the same again. The cutting of meat and how it sticks to the knife; the deformation of food as they scoop and flip it; how a chopped onion subtly breaks apart in layers as they stir; the look of the potato being cut as the MC scoops rice alongside it with the sauce slowly drooping back onto the plate. These animations are far out of league for a simple plot like this. It’s like having buttercreme, creat…
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This season was disappointing. It's more of the same and extremely repetitive. It ends abruptly with virtually no progress in the story.
One thing that's really irritating about the writing—and it's been there since the first season—is that every single time the familiars finish eating, they immediately ask for more. Seriously, did they have to include this in EVERY episode? It's incredibly annoying and tiresome.
Where's the adventure this season? They barely show any monster battles anymore. The familiars just bring back high-level monsters and tell the protagonist to cook them.
Most things worked well in the first season, but repeating the exact same formula over and over in the second made it really boring. It was a decent anime to kill time or watch while eating, but I'm not sure if…
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Words can't describe how much I LOVE THIS SERIES!
Every episode has been such a treat (literally!). I love how warm and fuzzy this anime is! Definitely hoping for a Season 3 pretty pleaseee!
Story: 9/10 (because the ending was a bit too abrupt for me)
Art: 10/10, loving the bright and vibrant visuals
OST - 9/10, super catchy, especially Salt and Pepper song haha
Characters: 10/10, love love all the characters, including the side characters! Glad they added Dora-chan to this season! I enjoyed watching how OP-ed his familiars were. It's a nice change from other isekais.
Overall, this is a must-watch!
Read at the sourceTms222
This anime perfectly matched the previous season in terms of quality and storyline. Some may see this as a negative, but not me. The title itself is "Cooking in Another World." Therefore, we shouldn't expect much action or character development. Especially since Japanese works like to repeat the same plot. I think it was just right this way. It would have been very bad if they had ruined the story with forced action or character development. Or even if they had done it well, the cooking itself would have lost a lot of screen time.
My only problem is that during the cooking scenes, it would be nice if they shared recipes so we could see the whole cooking process.
Overall, this anime is far behind other cooking anime, such as "Food Wars" or my favorite, "Delicious in Dungeon." But even s…
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Story
To be honest, I am a little disappointed. The first season was good, but what we got in this one is basically the same stuff all over again. No real story progression was made and there were no new objectives for the characters. We didn't even see a spark of potential romance. Don't get me wrong, it is not a bad show, but I definitely expected a little more than just a repeat of the first season's formula.
Visuals
The quality remains high with great-looking scenes and high-quality art. It is classic MAPPA through and through. The production stays very consistent, so if you enjoyed the look of the first season, you will find exactly the same level of polish here.
Conclusion
If you are looking for something more than what was offered in season one, you might walk away feeling disappo…
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Mappa is here giving us a 2nd season of Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill. Or Campfire Isekai for short. If you watched S1, you should know what to expect here. Expect now 1 more familiar to join the group and 2 gods to join the fellow goddess.
One of the biggest praises I can give this series is that it stays true to itself. So many seasonal isekai fail at even achieving their premise. Now, with that being said, there isn't really any story to it outside of cooking. So if you are hoping for something more, you won't find it here. But if you are willing to accept that you find yourself a good vibes fantasy comedy. Think of it as Dungeon Meshi without the storytelling that series has.
I hope Mappa puts out an S3 because this series is the perfect type of anime to tune…
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