Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Season 2

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 lookof 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 disappointed. However, if you are just looking for a casual anime to help pass the time, it is still worth a watch.

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 goinglike 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 substance. Now let’s talk about the part I disliked the most: the main character. His attitude is genuinely frustrating. You’re telling me this guy is surrounded by absurdly overpowered companions and monsters, yet he’s scared of absolutely everything? It gets old very quickly. For example, when they’re about to enter a dungeon, he could easily just send Fenrir ahead to deal with it, but instead he insists on going along, panics the entire time, and somehow that leads to another episode padded out with cooking because he’s too scared to move forward. It feels forced and unnecessary. Even beyond that, I just don’t like his personality. He doesn’t feel like a normal, relatable person. He feels exaggerated purely for the sake of comedy. And that would be fine—if the anime were actually funny. But it isn’t. The jokes rarely land, and the humor mostly relies on repeating the same cowardly reactions and over-the-top fear. After a while, it becomes more annoying than entertaining. The isekai cooking or fantasy food genre itself isn’t new. You can absolutely do interesting things with it, but only if you add depth through world-building, strong character writing, or a compelling overarching story. Isekai Shokudou worked because each character had a meaningful background and personal story. Dungeon Meshi succeeds because the cooking is integrated into dungeon exploration, survival, and character development. In comparison, this anime feels shallow. That’s why I genuinely don’t understand why it needed a second season. The first season was okay—it did what it needed to do. But this continuation doesn’t justify its own existence. It feels like the studio just wanted an excuse to animate basic cooking scenes as filler and sprinkle in the bare minimum of story progression to hold it together. I wouldn’t recommend this anime even as a weekly watch while it was airing. Watching it week by week felt dull, with nothing to look forward to in the next episode. That’s why I ended up dropping it around episode nine and only came back later to finish it. Even binging the rest didn’t improve the experience. If you’re watching purely for the cooking animation, you’ll get more or less the same thing as in the first season. Personally, I actually found the cooking scenes in season one more engaging, probably because everything was still new and the concept hadn’t worn out its welcome yet. But if you’re watching this season hoping for meaningful story continuation or character development from the first season, you’re going to be disappointed. There is some progression, but it’s minimal and mostly uninteresting. In the end, even though I gave the first season a fairly good rating, this season is just plain average. It doesn’t do anything particularly bad, but it also doesn’t do anything well enough to stand out. For me, it’s a forgettable continuation that adds very little to the series as a whole.

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.

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 towatch. 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 take a while for anyone to get used to entering a dungeon, maybe it even gets a little boring to do, but what excuse does he have to not spend his infinite money into developing his life and/or connections? The only thing that was improved after becoming a millionare is that he now has a 5 burner stove, like bro, you need to feed the equivalent of twenty people two times a day every day, how is that nearly enough? Even though they decreased the screen time for cooking, they didn't take advantage of it to add anything new. Anything that was funny in the first season got repeated to boredom on the second. Compared to Dungeon Meshi and Isekai Shokudo, this show simply feels bland.