Drifting Dragons

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jun 24, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English
  ジブリ飯
  Studio Ghibli meal
  まるでナウシカや天空の城ラピュタと同じ世界で生きている人たちのお話を読んでいるような。だからなのか、子供の頃からジブリをよく観ていた自分としては、読みながらどこか懐かしい気持ちになります。でも決してジブリ作品のパクリとかではなく、龍やこの世界の文化の設定など、よく練られていて面白いです。出てくる料理も美味しそう。

  It's like reading stories about people living in the same world as Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky. Maybe that's why, as someone who has been watching Ghibli a lot since I was a kid, I feel somewhat nostalgic while reading it. But it's definitely not Ghibli's Ghibli movie, and the settings for dragons and culture from this world are well thought out and interesting. The food that comes out looks delicious too.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jan 30, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English
  ドラゴンを喰らう！
  Eat dragons!
  定番の異世界×食なのですが、今作の特徴はなんといっても『ドラゴン』がただのモンスターではなく、天災のような圧倒的な存在でありつつ、肉や油を食用にするなど解体して人が利用しているところです。なので龍肉料理は現実世界の他のお肉で代用できそうではあるのですが、でもやっぱり、『龍を捕る』『解体する』『食べる』という一連の工程が丁寧に描かれることで『ここにしかない』料理になっていると思います。今作の魅力はちょっとグロテスクな龍たちと、個性的な『捕龍船』の乗組員たち、それから外国の児童書の挿絵のようなファンタジックかつ繊細な絵で描かれる世界そのものです。龍肉に並々ならぬ執着を持つミカや、新入りのタキタや、ミステリアスなヴァニーなど主要キャラはみんな好きですが、それを支えるベテラン乗組員たちもいい味を出しているし、立ち寄った港で出会う住民やライバルの船の乗組員たちもそれぞれにプライドや信条があって、世界だけでなく考え方も広がりがあります。『捕龍船』の乗組員たちは年齢も経歴もバラバラで、ちょっと訳アリだったりするのですが、危険な龍を捕るという仕事を協力しあって、お互いいい距離感で尊重しあっているのが心地いいです。女性キャラたちもちゃんと前線で戦っているのがいいし、男女同居生活ですが変に性別を強調しすぎず、『仲間』としての関係がちゃんと描かれているのが好きです！

  It's a classic Isekai x Food, but the characteristic of this game is that “Dragon” is not just a monster, and while being an overwhelming presence like a natural disaster, it has been dismantled to make meat and oil edible and used by people. So it seems that dragon meat dishes can be replaced with other meats in the real world, but after all, I think the series of processes of “catching the dragon,” “dismantling,” and “eating” are carefully depicted, making it a dish “only available here.” The appeal of this work is the slightly grotesque dragons, the unique “Dragon Trap” crew members, and the world itself depicted with fantastic and delicate pictures like illustrations from foreign children's books. Everyone likes the main characters, such as Mika, who has an extraordinary obsession with dragon meat, the newcomer Takita, and the mysterious Vanny, but the veteran crew members who support them also have good taste, and the residents and rival ship crew members they meet at the port they stop by each have their own pride and beliefs, and not only the world but also their way of thinking is expanding. The crew members of the “Dragon Trap” are of different ages and backgrounds, and the translation is a bit strange, but it's comfortable that they cooperate with the work of catching dangerous dragons and respect each other with a good sense of distance. It's nice that the female characters are also fighting properly on the front lines, and although men and women live together, they don't strangely emphasize gender too much, and I like that their relationships as “friends” are properly depicted!

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  May 04, 2025 (PST) | Translate to English
  作品の世界観がとてもいい
  The world view of the work is very nice
  アニメから入りました。設定、作品の世界観がとても好みで漫画も気になって読み始めたのですがやっぱり原作は最高によかった。一人一人の登場人物の設定がしっかりされていて読んでいてどんどんハマる作品です。

  I started with anime. I really liked the setting and the worldview of the work, and I was curious about comics, so I started reading them, but after all, the original was really good. Each character is well set up, and it's a work that makes me more and more addicted to it as I read it.

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