Warning: This review contain spoilers
Kabigon no Yume Gourmet is a Pokémon food manga made for Project Snorlax by Kuwabara Taku who's mostly known for being Drifting Dragons's mangaka.
Kumura created a machine converting Pokémon's dreams into audio. She experiment her machine on Snorlax, who only dream about food and has to cook whatever Snorlax want to eat.
In this manga, many parts of Pokémon are used in cooking alongside normal ingredients: Muk sludge, Veluza fillet, Petilil leaves, Appletun skins, Dolliv oil, Combee honey, Garganacl salt, Scovillain habanero extract, Jumpluff cotton spores, Tropius fruit, Sawsbuck leaves, Bounsweet's sweat and Slowpoke tail.
It's the first (and only one as I write this) media in the entire franchise that center on the food in the Pokémon world. It offer a fresh, new perspective of Pokémon.
Nicknamed Kumu by her friend Kanmi. She's a young and promising inventor stutying at Uva Academy in the Paldea region. She doesn't mind how food tastes and is often seen eating nutrition bar. She's a terrible cook and have some weird ideas.
Kumura's childhood friend, she studying at Uva Academy. Kanmi help Kumura cooking for Snorlax. She admire Katy, the bug-type Gym Leader of Paldea and aim to become a pastry chef. Kanmi is good at cooking sweets. Her Pokémon are Appletun and Bounsweet. She worry about Kumura's bad eating habits.
Your usual Snorlax who only think about sleeping and eating. It was entrusted to Kumura by her teacher. Thought it prefer good food, it doesn't mind eating Kumura's failures.
The art is expressive, food look tasty, some panels have nice background. I'm not a fan of "realistic" and over-detailed art in manga, I prefer comfy art and this one nailed it.
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Overall Kabigon no Yume Gourmet is a good Pokémon manga. It's short, only 30 pages. It's hard to make something this good while leaving the readers satisfied with only 30 pages. I give it 7/10
