Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill is a 2023 Japanese isekai anime by MAPPA based on the light novel series by Ren Eguchi. The anime is available to stream on Netflix. It tells the story of an ordinary worker who is summoned to another realm as a hero with his absurd skill and his two companion familiars.
Plot Summary
A group of four Japanese citizens, consisting of three high school students and one adult, gets summoned into a parallel world of magic by the powerful kingdom—the Kingdom of Reijseger. The three high school students are gifted with incredible skills in magic and swordsmanship.
However, the gifted skill possessed by Tsuyoshi Mukouda (a.k.a. “Mukohda”) puts everyone in a state of astonishment. The skill of online grocery shopping makes him a laughing stock in front of the other heroes who vow to save the country.
Mukohda is not the least interested in the hero’s affairs and leaves the palace with compensation from the Reijseger royals. He learns about his skill of online grocery and his huge storage portal, an item box. He is astonished by the price difference, making even paper valuable in this new world.
To avoid further attention and escape this bizarre world of magic, he plans to leave the kingdom and go to some other place. He changes his attire and hires Werner and his Iron Will adventurers to escort him to the neighboring Veenen Kingdom.
Mukohda provides them with food using his skills and prepares meals on a modern camping stove. Mukohda learns that the Japanese ingredients in his online grocery can upgrade his health and magic. He decides to use only ingredients foraged by hand in case people find his skill and try to benefit from it.
He gets close with the guild members, and his cooking skills make him loved by all. On their voyage, a mystical creature, Fenrir, a legendary wolf monster blessed by goddess Nirnir, startles them. He demands food from Mukohda.
Mesmerized by his cooking skills, the Fenrir insists on becoming Mukohda’s contracted familiar in exchange for three meals a day. Mukohda has no choice, so he agrees and names him Fel.
Fel draws attention everywhere they go, and he is allowed to enter Veenen only due to his familiar contract. Werner and his guild members leave with disappointment as they part from Mukohda. Mukohda decides to register at the Merchants Guild, planning to use Online Grocery to evolve as a mobile merchant and see the world. He also registers for the Adventure Guild to sell goods and monsters hunted by Fel.
Mukohda starts to accept quests from the guild. However, he hates getting involved in huge fights and adventures. In the beginning, he picks small missions like collecting herbs. But Fel takes him to terrible fights that involve enormous monsters from this magical land. Mukohda sells these hunted monsters, and they make enormous gold along with a lot of meat and massive attention.
During their voyage, Mukohda makes another familiar contract with a Slime. He names her Sui, who is adored by Mukohda and Fel. Fel helps Mukohda in developing his mana and helps him acquire skills like Fireball and Stone Bullet.
Mukohda leaves Veenen and reaches Karelina City, where he finds out that his membership with the guild has expired, to renew it, he takes up various other missions and increases his levels. In Karelina City, he saves Lambert, a rich merchant, and makes him his apprentice.
Fel makes Mukohda acquaintances with Nirnir, goddess of wind, who blesses him with wind power with the intention of getting otherwordly sweets as tributes in return. Along with his familiars, Mukohda begins to feed the goddess as well.
With the help of Fel, Mukohda ends up in battles with different monstrous creatures like globins, giant wolves, Kobold King, orcs, etc. Both Mukohda and Sui, begin to increase their skills and status and continue their adventure.
Does Mukohda become an A-Class adventurer?
Mukohda starts taking huge missions that were not taken by anyone. He, along with his immensely powerful familiars starts their expenditure once again.
Metal-lizard, which has evolved into a Mithril-lizard, is killed instantly by Fel. Mukohda also gathers some valuable mithril ore for exchanging it for money. Fel also slaughters the entire Bloodyhorn-bull herd with Sui’s help.
Returning to the guild, Mukohda learns the city lord will certainly want the lizard as a gift for the king, along with the site of the undiscovered mithril ore, all in exchange for a huge amount of gold.
Upon receiving a request from Lambert, Mukohda sells the snakeskin to Lambert. He also exhibits modern soap, shampoo, and conditioner, and Lambert buys them straight away as an anniversary gift for his wife Marie.
Marie loves the shampoo so much that Lambert agrees to sell it to Mukohda since he doesn’t have a shop of his own. Mukohda learns Lambert owns a bathtub, and hopes to buy one for him.
How does Mukohda attract more goddesses?
Suspicious of Nirnirs secrecy, the other goddesses find out about Mukohda and his skill in cooking and online grocery. Agni, the goddess of fire, and Kisharle, the goddess of the earth, bless Mukohda and demand food from him.
Since Mukohda does not have an affinity for water, Rusalka, the goddess of water blesses Sui and demands sweets as well. These make Sui more powerful and enhance Mukohda’s Fireball and Stone Bullet skills. However, feeding more goddesses makes things hectic for Mukohda.
How do Mukohda and his familiars save Karelina City?
A throng of wild wyverns attack and poison the adventurers. After treating them with Sui’s powerful healing potion, Willem, the guild master gives an emergency hunt. Fel and Sui volunteer and slaughter all the wyverns while Mukohda prepares food for them.
Meanwhile, the 3 Japanese teens summoned as heroes, Kaito, Kanon, and Rio, are curious about the apparently useless Mukohda and doubt whether he is alive. They also hope to one day meet the rumored legendary adventurer who tamed a Fenrir as they whine about the bad food.
What is the next adventure in front of Mukohda?
After purchasing a bathtub, Mukohda and Sui construct a bathhouse, and Mukohda finally bathes. He uses wyvern meat to make delicious food. Fel returns, having hunted an Earth dragon, and Mukohda eventually chides his thoughtless choice of prey since his item box is now full of monsters so valuable no one is rich enough to buy them.
As punishment, he denies Fel’s dinner until he takes a bath. Despite Fel’s protests, Mukohda washes him with dog shampoo. Fel gets his feast after his bath but is disconcerted when Mukohda decides he must bathe once a month.
The Earth dragon is so precious that Willem dares not allow it to be butchered in case it gets damaged. Rather, he suggests Mukohda visit Dolan City, where the guild master is a dragon specialist and will allow them to finally visit the ocean. After saying their goodbyes, they depart for their new adventures to Dolan City.
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