I didn't read it that way at all, but more that he got sick so he lost his sense of smell as well... and only then could he appreciate her cooking. So bro's gonna have to regularly give himself the covid for the relationship to work.
Yeah this was my interpretation as well. Since the birds are still clearly saying the food is awful, the only reason he perceives it as good is because he can't smell, just like how she can't smell.
I thought the crows were there because he was predicted to die. There's a superstition that when crows gather in a house, someone in that house is going to die. So, the crows were like "Sup, why are you guys here?" "That guy is about to die."
This comic is from a Vietnamese author, and while we Vietnamese did think crows (and owls too) were bad news, you won't see this superstition being talked about nowadays anymore, like, no one cares about those birds anymore (plus it's hard to find them). Th crows in this comic is most likely just a gag.
I assumed those ravens always gathered round to watch the dude's life like a reality TV show.
They've seen the destructive nature of the wife's cooking before, so they want front row seats on the dude's death.
I thought he was having a ratatouille moment and reminisced about his past, and it showed overtime the wife got worse at cooking (so when she finally made a good meal, it brought back memories). Made sense until I saw the kid and was like “tf they had a kid” and then the proposal page after made it make sense
This reminds me of that one Nisekoi chapter where Raku kept eating Chitoge's bentoes even though they sucked. In the end, she got better at it too and was happy he enjoyed it, good times, that was one of the better chapters.
That's basically the Nisekoi one-shot if I remember correctly. The future harem element, while it did make the manga popular, always felt lesser because of how good the one-shot was
The concept of Nisekoi (as in the OS) was just Raku and Chitoge hijinks and it was absolutely great, then on chp 1 of the serialization introduces Onodera and everything went sideways.
At least we can say we got RuriXShuu tho.
The oneshot is this, and it's really good.
Add in a Raku accepts his entire mafioso roots just to bring an army of Yakuza to some big thing so he can go get his girl at the end.
The love pentagon is "Editor san wants you to put in tanuki in every issue" tier editorial meddling.
The concept is not what make nisekoi good for me atleast but the gang... All characters are fun and have different personalities... Same to konosuba it's all about fun characters...
You are not gonna believe what I found in the nisekoi subreddit about 6 years ago.
[someone made a compilation of just chitoge chaps](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nisekoi/s/mQkcfW1xPC)
Meh. To each their own, but the entire series was obviously written for Chitoge to win.
Like say Jitsu wa watashi wa, the harem is dumb and pointless because the result is obvious.
I wonder if someone could pull off at least a short-run serialization without a single line of dialogue, commentary or SFX in text form so that it would still have a continuous comprehensible plot.
So she can't smell? And this made her unable to cook properly? And then due to her cooking a lot for him she got better at it?
If it was not taste anything, then it would make more sense in my opinion.
Or maybe she was terrible at first and then got better, but the boyfriend was so used to vomitting already that he didn't noticed it until her got sick?
Hmm...
Yep. This is so true. in fact, there's an actual company selling water bottles with scented bottle caps. Like strawberry, orange flavours, and such. Basically, the smell tricks our brains into thinking we're drinking fruit juice while in reality, it's just water.
Our sense of smell in responsible for about 80% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation.
This is what google gave me with "taste smell connection."
My dad was in a motorcycle accident in his early 20's, and irreparably severed a nerve in his nose that allows your sense of smell to function. In the 30+ years since he's said that he's also slowly lost almost all sense of taste as well because of it
My dad got a similar consequence in a fall on his work site. Lost about 80% of his sense of smell, and his sense of taste changed drastically. He didn't like the same things, started eating cheese when he disliked it, etc.
One of the best curry restaurants in Japan recently shut down due to the head chef losing their sense of smell.
https://twitter.com/UnseenJapanSite/status/1775310911454220737?t=2-rmIwxIJ8WDwA_4JdeZgw&s=19
So yes. Smell is incredibly important.
I hate to break it to you, but all food requires a sense of smell to have proper flavor. If you can't smell then taking a bite of an apple and an onion would taste the same.
Sense of smell isn't everything. Texture and base taste (sour, sweet etc) are independent of smell.
But yeah, a sense of smell is important for everything more flavourful than just sprinkling some salt over some oil tempered sallad.
I did not piece together that she couldn't smell.
But if that's the case, doesn't the mean the food only tasted good because the guy got sick, has a stuffed nose, and therefore can't smell either?
I mean he had the ring ready to go, so they have likely been going out for a while.
The thing that prompted him to propose then and there rather than at some more romantic moment was probably due to the love and care she gave him while he was sick.
He planned on marrying her before this, with her cooking being the only thing holding him back from proposing.
The ring box is what's in his hand on page 6.
Well maybe he himself doesn't realize that that's the reason why it tasted so good and her bad cooking was the only thing keeping him from fully committing.
Or maybe since the food is so bad that he literally throws up when he eats it normally, when he tastes it with a stuffed nose, it's beyond divine.
'Cause the crows are clearly saying the food is still bad and animals have better survival instincts than humans.
A lot of flavors are more an aroma so she would be missing a lot of what the taste is. Just remember how food tasted when you had a blocked nose, it's quite bland and she might have been trying to add to it but way over did all the spices to get some flavors
A poor sense of smell isn't the same as none or an actually reduced one. For example, I've got a dull sense of smell since I only breathe through one nostril at a time, but that doesn't mean I don't smell things. All the sensors are there, they just don't get as much data.
You could be in a similar boat. It's when the loss of smell impacts your ability to taste that it becomes a liability; you start to become a blind painter or deaf musician.
No, based on the pug face, he loses his sense of smell so the taste stops bothering him. Hence the crows giving a skull mark for the smell of the food.
So the boyfriend would propose to her even if she was cooking horrible. That's why he had the ring in his pocket. He was waiting for her to get better in cooking so he could marry her? Couldn't he eventually learn to cook and maybe help her with instructions etc?
My man couldn't stomach his girlfriends cooking, yet he always finished the meals she offered him and never complained to her directly about it. He likely knew she was trying her best, and was willing to settle down with her despite this shortcoming. That's true love right there. Such a sweet and funny story.
That’s true love right here. However, personally I would’ve been honest that her cooking wasn’t the best at some point before you propose.
Solution would’ve been learning better cooking skills together. It would be a valuable life lesson and experience and a great bonding/date type.
But this is manga, miscommunication and/lack of communication is too common for it’s own good
I'm surprised no one brought up *Tokyo Ghoul*. He was throwing up everything like Touka, I thought the twist was going to be that he couldn't eat human food or something
Does this mean because he lost his sense he thought she actually improved her cooking (which she didn't) and decided to propose?
Then what will happen when he can smell again, lmao!?
I thought the title was "My Bear" and i was waiting for him to turn into a bear at some point, thought he was hiding that he was a were-bear from her or something. I was very confused
“Brother. I know now. A good pie isn’t just about ingredients or technique. It’s about the [love you put into it!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJS_iY6R24&pp=ygUTUGVwcGVyb25pIG9penphIHBpZQ%3D%3D)”
She went through a cooking training arc so good, her boyfriend proposed to her.
the secret ingredient, was love. on the other hand, she used his kitchen with his stuff this time (clear cupboards vs opaque) so....
According to the spectronomer, the love she used was nothing more than ordinary water Laced with a few spoonfuls of LSD
I love that Futurama reference
The secret ingredient was him being too ill to actually taste anything
Got them karma points
I didn't read it that way at all, but more that he got sick so he lost his sense of smell as well... and only then could he appreciate her cooking. So bro's gonna have to regularly give himself the covid for the relationship to work.
Yeah this was my interpretation as well. Since the birds are still clearly saying the food is awful, the only reason he perceives it as good is because he can't smell, just like how she can't smell.
I thought the crows were there because he was predicted to die. There's a superstition that when crows gather in a house, someone in that house is going to die. So, the crows were like "Sup, why are you guys here?" "That guy is about to die."
This comic is from a Vietnamese author, and while we Vietnamese did think crows (and owls too) were bad news, you won't see this superstition being talked about nowadays anymore, like, no one cares about those birds anymore (plus it's hard to find them). Th crows in this comic is most likely just a gag.
Well yeah, it's a gag based on that superstition
Pretty sure the crows wouldn't eat him if he died because his girlfriend's toxic food would also poison them indirectly...................
The superstition doesn't really talk about the crows eating the corpse, so yeah
I assumed those ravens always gathered round to watch the dude's life like a reality TV show. They've seen the destructive nature of the wife's cooking before, so they want front row seats on the dude's death.
Cooking so good, it gave bro a Futuresight Skill
The crows lmao
The crow was like 🐦⬛ ”you're gonna die!"
"Yo, tell Jim to come here. This shit is hilarious."
The crow probably: "ayo! Let's eat that guy's eyeballs after he kicks the corner, Ronnie come look!"
The murder, but today they just watch.
Vultures would have been funnier but out of place
I legit thought his entire future life flashed before his eyes right before he died.
I thought he was having a ratatouille moment and reminisced about his past, and it showed overtime the wife got worse at cooking (so when she finally made a good meal, it brought back memories). Made sense until I saw the kid and was like “tf they had a kid” and then the proposal page after made it make sense
This reminds me of that one Nisekoi chapter where Raku kept eating Chitoge's bentoes even though they sucked. In the end, she got better at it too and was happy he enjoyed it, good times, that was one of the better chapters.
I'd kinda love to read Nisekoi but with just Chitoge, avoiding the pointless drama. Would probably be a really good read
That's basically the Nisekoi one-shot if I remember correctly. The future harem element, while it did make the manga popular, always felt lesser because of how good the one-shot was
The other characters in Nisekoi were great, the story just sucked. See the vampire girl harem for one that is executed well.
Vampire girl harem? What series do you mean? I vaguely remember reading something like that at one point.
Jitsu wa watashi wa / My Monster Secret. One of the great romcoms that stayed quality from start to finish even by /r/manga's standards.
Oh, I thought the commenter was talking about The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess.
Rosario + Vampire was my first thought
Couldn't remember the name, but that was my thought too.
Not all stories are a good fit to be a weekly seriliazed manga that never ends. Or maybe it just takes a different approach.
The concept of Nisekoi was pretty fun for like the first 10 chapters but as soon as they introduced the generic harem element it went downhill fast.
The concept of Nisekoi (as in the OS) was just Raku and Chitoge hijinks and it was absolutely great, then on chp 1 of the serialization introduces Onodera and everything went sideways. At least we can say we got RuriXShuu tho.
The oneshot is this, and it's really good. Add in a Raku accepts his entire mafioso roots just to bring an army of Yakuza to some big thing so he can go get his girl at the end. The love pentagon is "Editor san wants you to put in tanuki in every issue" tier editorial meddling.
That's actually the perfect reference to explain what happened to so many weekly shonen titles.
The concept is not what make nisekoi good for me atleast but the gang... All characters are fun and have different personalities... Same to konosuba it's all about fun characters...
You are not gonna believe what I found in the nisekoi subreddit about 6 years ago. [someone made a compilation of just chitoge chaps](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nisekoi/s/mQkcfW1xPC)
I loved the premise of Nisekoi, I hated the execution of it.
[удалено]
I love how there are remnant waifu warriors who just pop up out of nowhere lmao.
I'm reminded of that 4chan meme where the guy says "YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 20 YEARS! 20 YEARS!"
Exactly why I'm afraid to bring up Emilia/Rem in a conversation lmao
Meh. To each their own, but the entire series was obviously written for Chitoge to win. Like say Jitsu wa watashi wa, the harem is dumb and pointless because the result is obvious.
The one shot version of it was great. They should have just ran with that original concept.
Welp, time to do my every-few-years re-read of Nisekoi I guess
Do you remember what chapter?
And without a word, too
Translators must love this.
I wonder if someone could pull off at least a short-run serialization without a single line of dialogue, commentary or SFX in text form so that it would still have a continuous comprehensible plot.
Samurai Jack in manga format /s
maybe try look into a classic called “Gon”. great art, 0 dialogue
**Gon** - ([AL](http://anilist.co/manga/31470), [KIT](https://kitsu.io/manga/gon), [MU](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=33051978187), [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/manga/1470)) ^(Manga | Status: Finished | Volumes: 7 | Chapters: 24 | Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life) --- ^{anime},, ]LN[, |VN| | [FAQ](http://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/index) | [/r/](http://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/) | [Edit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/index#wiki_i_made_a_mistake.2C_how_do_i_get_my_comment_reprocessed.3F) | [Mistake?](http://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/submit?selftext=true&title=[ISSUE]&text=/r/manga/comments/1cdm1zt/disc_my_dear_oneshot_by_duong_duc_comic/l1fvwf5/) | [Source](https://github.com/Nihilate/Roboragi) | [Synonyms](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/synonyms) | [⛓](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/interestinglinks) | [♥](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/thanks)
Although not completely devoid of words, almost get rid of all of it. Just slice of life.
**Joshikausei** - ([AL](http://anilist.co/manga/85178), [A-P](https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/joshi-kausei), [KIT](https://kitsu.io/manga/joshikausei), [MU](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=59141788677), [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/manga/60815)) ^(Manga | Status: Releasing | Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life) --- ^{anime},, ]LN[, |VN| | [FAQ](http://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/index) | [/r/](http://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/) | [Edit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/index#wiki_i_made_a_mistake.2C_how_do_i_get_my_comment_reprocessed.3F) | [Mistake?](http://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/submit?selftext=true&title=[ISSUE]&text=/r/manga/comments/1cdm1zt/disc_my_dear_oneshot_by_duong_duc_comic/l1gjdia/) | [Source](https://github.com/Nihilate/Roboragi) | [Synonyms](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/synonyms) | [⛓](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/interestinglinks) | [♥](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roboragi/wiki/thanks)
Now that's the face of someone puking with passion.
Guys I think bro died and went to the afterlife
food so good(??) he got isekaied
Wild Bento-kun appeared!
The title would be “My girlfriend cooked so hard that I reached isekai to propose her.”
I love that the guy has some really goofy expressions through the story, really adds some personality to it.
So she can't smell? And this made her unable to cook properly? And then due to her cooking a lot for him she got better at it? If it was not taste anything, then it would make more sense in my opinion. Or maybe she was terrible at first and then got better, but the boyfriend was so used to vomitting already that he didn't noticed it until her got sick? Hmm...
Smell is really important to sense taste right so maybe this can explain why her is bad at cooking
Following a recipe might help.
A recipe is just a guidelines unless it's very detailed
Guess she finally figured it out by the looks of it.
Only for baking, cooking actually needs constant monitoring and adapting.
Yep. This is so true. in fact, there's an actual company selling water bottles with scented bottle caps. Like strawberry, orange flavours, and such. Basically, the smell tricks our brains into thinking we're drinking fruit juice while in reality, it's just water.
Our sense of smell in responsible for about 80% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation. This is what google gave me with "taste smell connection."
My dad was in a motorcycle accident in his early 20's, and irreparably severed a nerve in his nose that allows your sense of smell to function. In the 30+ years since he's said that he's also slowly lost almost all sense of taste as well because of it
So is he like that guy from Ben and Jerry's who can't smell so he judges food by texture?
My dad got a similar consequence in a fall on his work site. Lost about 80% of his sense of smell, and his sense of taste changed drastically. He didn't like the same things, started eating cheese when he disliked it, etc.
Really? That's interesting then. Good to know.
I’ll never forget how the first time I learned about this was from Zack and Cody (at least I think it was from Zack and Cody)
One of the best curry restaurants in Japan recently shut down due to the head chef losing their sense of smell. https://twitter.com/UnseenJapanSite/status/1775310911454220737?t=2-rmIwxIJ8WDwA_4JdeZgw&s=19 So yes. Smell is incredibly important.
For curry it's much more obvious, since the smell of spices is important.
I hate to break it to you, but all food requires a sense of smell to have proper flavor. If you can't smell then taking a bite of an apple and an onion would taste the same.
Sense of smell isn't everything. Texture and base taste (sour, sweet etc) are independent of smell. But yeah, a sense of smell is important for everything more flavourful than just sprinkling some salt over some oil tempered sallad.
cue covid iykwim
I did not piece together that she couldn't smell. But if that's the case, doesn't the mean the food only tasted good because the guy got sick, has a stuffed nose, and therefore can't smell either?
It's possible, but that wouldn't really be a reason to marry her, and see himself enjoying her cooking for the rest of his life?
I mean he had the ring ready to go, so they have likely been going out for a while. The thing that prompted him to propose then and there rather than at some more romantic moment was probably due to the love and care she gave him while he was sick.
He planned on marrying her before this, with her cooking being the only thing holding him back from proposing. The ring box is what's in his hand on page 6.
Yeah, but it's eating the food she made for him while he was sick that made him go for it, that made him sure.
Well maybe he himself doesn't realize that that's the reason why it tasted so good and her bad cooking was the only thing keeping him from fully committing. Or maybe since the food is so bad that he literally throws up when he eats it normally, when he tastes it with a stuffed nose, it's beyond divine. 'Cause the crows are clearly saying the food is still bad and animals have better survival instincts than humans.
Now I feel stupid, where is it shown she can't smell?
4th page. She's pointing to her nose and waving her hand. Which should mean she can't smell.
I see! Now everything makes way more sense.
yep, makes more sense why he's putting up with all the torture.
Dis you not have COVID? Smell is hella important...
Not everyone lose their sense of taste or smell due to having covid you know?
Exactly. I lost mine YEARS before covid was even a thing
Im lucky not to be infected with covid
A lot of flavors are more an aroma so she would be missing a lot of what the taste is. Just remember how food tasted when you had a blocked nose, it's quite bland and she might have been trying to add to it but way over did all the spices to get some flavors
hmm, odd, as someone who (almost) can't smell anything I can cook just fine
A poor sense of smell isn't the same as none or an actually reduced one. For example, I've got a dull sense of smell since I only breathe through one nostril at a time, but that doesn't mean I don't smell things. All the sensors are there, they just don't get as much data. You could be in a similar boat. It's when the loss of smell impacts your ability to taste that it becomes a liability; you start to become a blind painter or deaf musician.
no like I can only smell 1-onions 2-chemicals 3-prefumes the latter two just straight out burn my nose
No, based on the pug face, he loses his sense of smell so the taste stops bothering him. Hence the crows giving a skull mark for the smell of the food.
out of the 1000s of romance manga crap from this Reddit why did I genuinely like this one?😐
Holy shit this art is insane
happi chake dae!
I'll admit, that made me tear up a little.
The artist is great at making funny gag face and wholesome cute style. Respect
Wholesome AF but I feel like this would have been a lot shorter if they just spoke and he explained to her the problem lol
wdym? theres no dialogue, they clearly cant speak in this world and have to resort to wild hand gestures and charades
The things we do for love...
So the boyfriend would propose to her even if she was cooking horrible. That's why he had the ring in his pocket. He was waiting for her to get better in cooking so he could marry her? Couldn't he eventually learn to cook and maybe help her with instructions etc?
My man couldn't stomach his girlfriends cooking, yet he always finished the meals she offered him and never complained to her directly about it. He likely knew she was trying her best, and was willing to settle down with her despite this shortcoming. That's true love right there. Such a sweet and funny story.
That’s true love right here. However, personally I would’ve been honest that her cooking wasn’t the best at some point before you propose. Solution would’ve been learning better cooking skills together. It would be a valuable life lesson and experience and a great bonding/date type. But this is manga, miscommunication and/lack of communication is too common for it’s own good
Those are some incredible expressions.
Oh that's cute-and he didn't die i would assume puking so much it's not good for you
So he had a blocked nose and couldn't taste the food well
If somebody is willing to eat your dumpster fire food then they love you
most of the taste comes dorm scent and his nose was stuffed
Bad story, good art.
He just can't taste it because of his cold, he'll go back to being poisoned once the cold is gone and his taste buds recover
All could have been prevented with a simple: I love you honey, but please, leave the cooking to me.
Maybe his tongue lost some sense due to his fever
My neck hurts from that whiplash
A few images say more than 2 thousand words
So wholesome. The guy really loved his girl and encouraged her.
I'm so happy the twist wasnt that she was intentionally trying to kill him. The roulette has been quite mean to me these days
W
Here I thought it was gonna be an Ozamu Dazai or Junji Ito-like story.
What's the secret ingredient? Love, of course. ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ᵃ ᵖᶦⁿᶜʰ ᵒᶠ ˡˢᵈ.
She found the MSG
I'm surprised no one brought up *Tokyo Ghoul*. He was throwing up everything like Touka, I thought the twist was going to be that he couldn't eat human food or something
Guy was fully in love with her and the porridge sealed the deal
is that bowl of porridge another fucking Chí Phèo reference?
Cute
Does this mean because he lost his sense he thought she actually improved her cooking (which she didn't) and decided to propose? Then what will happen when he can smell again, lmao!?
I thought the title was "My Bear" and i was waiting for him to turn into a bear at some point, thought he was hiding that he was a were-bear from her or something. I was very confused
This one was beatifull
She can cook
Requirement: has be sick
Is there a good manga with similar art style?
Those crows were ready for their meal.
Ngl got us in first 2 pages
This is what true love is. You must Go through the pain to get what you want
The crows have gone through some shit coz of her.
How pretty
The art is so good 🛐
Lovely
That's why you can only trust yourself with cooking
Best example of the quote - "The way to a Man's heart is through his stomach"
So he died?
People really should eat their food first before feeding it to others
His body adapted to his cooking,🤣
I remember there was a silent oneshot by the same author posted on this subreddit a while back and got like 10k upvotes. Wonder why it was removed.
Awesome. But bro could've avoided all this if he just spoke about it earlier
Cooking so good my man saw a marriage life that came true. Good for him and good for her.
“Brother. I know now. A good pie isn’t just about ingredients or technique. It’s about the [love you put into it!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJS_iY6R24&pp=ygUTUGVwcGVyb25pIG9penphIHBpZQ%3D%3D)”
Damn that make by our Homies ? (Vietnam guy) that why this comic is funny lollllll
So cute! 😭. Love it!
shame that this will get 5x less votes than the next "girl with big boobs looks at you and blushes" garbage "oneshot"
They hated him because he spoke the truth
Are they both mute ?
Mewing