Food Wars: Starting with Collecting Ingredients Across the Universe

I read a little over one chapter of this novel and then stopped. Let me explain why. This book would be great as a comic, but it feels strange as a novel. For example, writing SpongeBob SquarePants as a novel feels odd. If it were set in a more conventional background and then gradually moved into space, it would feel better.

1. The food and its function don't match at all; it lacks logic. Initially, the takoyaki's effect was random, so it's perfectly reasonable to use an ingredient with random attributes that would result in different flavors. Later, the wooden bucket rice was used to fill in the gaps, and mushrooms were used for the memory function… 2. There are too many battle scenes.

The game started off this badly... I really don't want to think about what will happen later.

This book is a scam. It's about food, but it only appears in the beginning and doesn't seem to have much to do with food later on. The entire thing, before and after its release, is just battle, battle, battle! The protagonist spends most of his time thinking about fighting—are you a chef?

I'd rather write Toriko fanfiction.