I really appreciated the care the author too to make it just as beautiful as the illustrations of anime I've seen. Thanks Netgalley and publisher for this anime inspired cookbook that I never seen anyone for real create. The author also includes quotes from many animes throughout, corresponding to the foods from said anime.

While cookbooks like this aren’t for everyone, I really do love cookbooks like this that offer a door in for people who may not be kitchen inclined or normally interested in learning to cook for themselves or others. So, if you're looking for cookbooks for anime fans, choosing an easy-to-follow Japanese cookbook like this one makes sense. I really appreciated the author including a list of cooking tools in the beginning of the book as sometimes I’d get halfway through prepping a recipe and then realise I don’t have all the equipment I need and so I’d give up and never bother with that recipe again.

So instead of reading it front to back I just went back and forth between things until I had read them all. I would imagine that each author of these various anime/manga would have a recipe they have in mind as they wrote the story and it would've been nice to get their personal opinions what the exact dish is and then give the recipe for that specific dish. Ingredients for a cake would be grouped together and ingredients for the cake filling would be in another group).

Thank you so much to Quarto Publishing Group – Rock Point and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC; it is greatly appreciated.

This is truly a recipe book meant for anime fans whether or not they can make many of the dishes before seeing this. Difficulty levels run the gamut from a simple spaghetti with ketchup sauce to a much more involved miso chashu ramen made with a flavorful braised pork.