Yakumo-san wa Ezuke ga Shitai.
Beauty and the Feast

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I dropped this manga at chapter 69. It was pleasant in the start but the manga is just slow paced and repetitive, it's just boring with the time... The romance is almost inexistant too.

Regarding the characters, I doubt about it. I didnt feel any character development, you can skip from chapter 5 to 50 it will be the same. That's why I say it's repetitive, it's basically the same things over and over without any differences.

The plot is simple : in almost every chapter the MC is coming to the girl's house, he eats, you can see cute girl's faces and nothing else. The author ... tried to develop a story about the girl to make her interesting for the romance plot but damn it's SLOW oh my gosh. Basically you know there is something with her but the author does nothing with it in 69 chapters..

The MC is plain and empty, I have never seen a MC as uninteresting in my entire life. You know he plays baseball, you see him playing sometimes and you know he has a little sister. Basically you do not care about anything else. He does never talk about his feelings neither think about it, he never seems sad or happy. He just eats. I even think that Rui (cliche of the childhood friend that has a cruch on MC for stupid reasons) is more developed than him and more interesting EVEN if you see her once every 15 chapters. This manga is a waifu material. It's only good point is the cute girl but do not wait anything else about this manga..

Don't be fooled by the romance tag. This is the most boring cooking manga ever made with ZERO romance.

I'm sorry but this manga is absolute trash. It starts out as some kind of ultimate woman fantasy about cooking for men. Her greatest joy in life is feeding a man who eats a lot... Now you might be thinking that's a boring and ridiculous plot for a long running series, and you would be correct! But there has to be romance, right? No romance. So it's a comedy? No comedy. What we have here is the most boring "cooking" manga ever made disguised as some kind ... of forbidden romance. If you are expecting things to pick up or get better later in the series then you are going to be 100% disappointed. Please don't waste your time on this dumpster fire trash.

Plot
our female MC Yukumo is a widow. She lives alone and is still mourning the loss of her husband. When a high school boy (our lead male MC) moves next door alone, she gives him some leftover food. From then, he comes over daily for food after his baseball practice. ninety percent of this manga is is him and her eating / cooking food.

Good stuff
1. Lots of food. we have everything from live barbecue to leftover curry.
2. nice round milf. has plenty of bra shots and them boobies are great.
3. decent art.
4. no stereotypes. Almost all characters are nice people, ... but it is a Slice of Life manga, so that is to be expected.
5. has a fluffy and chill vibe. Our female MC still talking to her dead husband is really sweet.

Bad stuff
1. It is a slow manga. Out of 78 chapters, the plot just remains stagnant until chapter 67. There is no romance until the final chapter. Honestly, there are like 5 proper chapters which have plot progression.
2. repetitive.Seeing the same formula of cooking/eating in the same apartment with the same characters gets boring after a while. But that is the content of most chapters.
3. Age gap is absolutely unnecessary. FMC was 28 years, while male MC was 16. But we never actually use it for drama or anything except for a couple jokes like sugar mommy. male MC could have been an adult and it would have worked better as a mature adult romance.

Generally speaking, the manga is so slow, that it is boring. The characters don't have enough charm to actually keep the viewers interested during the cooking/eating chapters. and the dialogues are just plain. There is no ecchi despite having such a gorgeous female lead. felt like wasted potential.

Anyway, only read this if you have free time and just need something drama-free to skim over without using your brain. The very definition of "Nothing ever happens".