A Taste that’s Out of this World!: Restaurant to Another World
Hello fabulous peoples! I’m back this week with a brand new review on
a surprisingly brand new show.
Seriously, it was recently released just this summer. In fact the series
is barely over. Still, I wanted to give
my first impressions of the show while it was still fresh on my mind. So I’ll skip the pleasantries and get right
into this week’s review on Restaurant to
Another World!
The series overall
is episodic in nature, but the overall concept of the show itself is pretty
simple and self-explanatory. The show revolves
around a restaurant called the Western Restaurant Nekoya that magically
teleports to a fantasy world, leaving doors to the restaurant pretty much
everywhere. Each episode documents some
of the regular patrons’ stories of how they encountered the restaurant,
including the waitress who comes to work for the restaurant in episode one. The episodes themselves are also named after
the favorite dishes of the restaurant’s regulars. And yeah, that’s pretty much it.
With the show being
this new, there isn’t a whole lot to really review thus far. But my first impression on it thus far is
pretty decent. And so I give Restaurant to Another World a straight
seven out of ten rating. For the most
part everything looks and tells pretty well.
The overall plot is kept pretty simple in documenting each of the
regulars that come into the Western Restaurant Nekoya. Visually speaking, the animation is pretty
good, especially with the monsters and mythical beings present in the fantasy
world the restaurant travels to. And
can I just admit that some of the dishes made in this show I actually want to
cook-starting with that omelet rice! So
overall, it doesn’t look to bad. But it’s
not great either.
So far my only
downside to Restaurant from Another World
doesn’t have a whole lot of detail at the moment. Namely, what is this world that the Western
Restaurant Nekoya can travel to, and how is it able to travel to this world. I blame this mostly on the fact that the
series is still on-going and these details will be revealed in a later
episode. But even so, I get the feeling
that this series is going to have plenty of new characters visit and new dishes
to be made, so I’m definitely staying for seconds!
So much of Restaurant to Another World is still
shrouded in mystery, but so far it takes the cake as one of the must see shows
of the summer! The show is currently
streaming on Crunchyroll for free in Japanese.
It’s also up on Funimation’s simuldub line up for the summer, which
means Funimation Now subscribers can watch the show in English-granted I’m
still uncertain about watching it in English at the moment. And before I go, I do want to take a moment
and send my regards to those who were injured or otherwise directly affected by
the recent Charlotesville riot.
My thoughts and
prayers go out to those involved, both the alt-right protesters and the counter
protesters. All I can say is that this
should have never happened. We live in
an age where all types of people of color, race, religion, and sexual orientation
should coexist without prejudice or fear of oppression. The
actions carried out in Charlotesville are unacceptable and inexcusable. It’s also troubling to see that our
President, who should be the face and voice of the people, refuse to make this
fact obvious. And while it may be out of
place to bring this up in my weekly post, I still pray that we can find peace
and happiness and live together in harmony as “one nation, under God, indivisible,
with liberty, and justice for all.” And
with that, stay tuned next week for another new review!
-Hanime on Anime
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