Crazy Food Truck

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TLDR; 90's action movies + road trips + good food = Great manga imo.

This was an extremely nice short manga you can read within a day and enjoy every minute of it. I love the simplicity of the writing where you can enjoy anything and everything with the beautiful backgrounds, the cool and cute characters and with what little information you are told, you can piece together things yourself.

There's a good amount of absurdity to keep you second-guessing, and asking "How will they get through this?!" throughout the chapters, and you know two things are constant;

-"I'm hungry".
-Great food.

So buckle up ... and fire up the grills. Crazy Food Truck is definitely worth your time.

Crazy Food Truck is a manga that follows a food truck driver, Gordon, as he journeys around a post-apocalyptic desert with Arisa, a girl he found sleeping in the middle of the road. Arisa is being hunted by the military, but Gordon isn’t just a normal food truck driver and is more than capable of dealing with them.

The manga is pretty underdeveloped in a lot of ways. It provides the absolute minimum necessary in terms of world building and character background. There are character arcs but they’re very simple and not that important. And just overall there’s nothing too special or unique about the manga. ... Still, the protagonist is cool. The heroine is cute. And the manga is a good blend of action, adventure, comedy, romance and cooking that flows pretty well and at a pretty decent pace. Thus, it was pretty enjoyable most of the way through.

However, the ending I felt was pretty bad. People say that it was axed, and to be honest I don’t know whether it actually was or not, but it didn’t particularly feel like it. There’s a common set of issues with the endings to axed manga, and this didn’t have those. It had a completely different set of issues. Most of the manga is pretty much happy go lucky, but the end suddenly tried to be deep and go for a bittersweet ending. This doesn’t fit the rest of the manga tonally and is thus really disappointing. On top of that, the epilogue makes absolutely no sense plot wise, so it’s not like there was any point to it. It was just altogether unnecessary and unsatisfying.

The art isn’t all that unique, but it’s pretty good quality and the art style fits the story being told. There’s a good sense of flow to the paneling. Character design wise for the most part it’s pretty dull, outside of the main duo. Neither Gordon nor Arisa looks all that special at first glance, but they just work really well in context. The designs of the various post apocalyptic beasts is pretty good too.

tl;dr: A simple but enjoyable manga, other than the ending.

STORY: 3

Meet Gordon Goliath, a man driving a food truck around a post-apocalyptic landscape. He encounters the mysterious Arisa, a character defined by constantly being hungry and flashing her naked body. There’s other characters that are, without exception, stereotypes from the most generic mangas that they are not even worthy talking about.
As for the story, it’s a mix from different genres but all the aspects feel so shallow, and sometimes lazy, that there’s also nothing to care about.


ART: 4

Maybe the weakest point of this tittle. All characters are so generic it feels they were designed by an amateur. There’s a few detailed backgrounds, but maybe ... having most of the story taking place in an empty desert is not a coincidence..


POLITICAL POTENTIAL: 4

Whoa, we are on grounds that are too superficial to talk about politics here. Let’s mention the many casual murders that occurs, and potentially the extinction of a species for the sake of cooking.


FEMINISM: 3

When you open a manga that draws breasts like soccer balls, you know you are in for a low feminist score. Besides cooking food, the other thing happening in the manga is the constant gaze on Arisa, who 'likes' to be naked. This is made worse by the fact that Arisa is behaving like a child and that Gordon looks like he could be her dad.


CONCLUSION: 4

Everything is so shallow in this title that I first thought it was an amateur work. It was actually serialized in Comic Bunch, a big editor, but apparently got axed, which makes sense considering the low quality.
If you are after a very light slice of life manga with young breasts and food, then you could try Crazy Food Truck. Otherwise, these 3 volumes are way too much of your time.