Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for giving me this eARC to review.

I will say that I read this a while ago but my review seemed to never go through so I am having to give this review trying to remember a lot of what happened but I do remember how I felt about the book.

I did not like this as it felt like it was all over the place.

This is a fun romcom for sure. The story is about a boy who is good at cooking has a crush on his senpai, who apparently is a shape-shifting monster who eats monster (but in our case she wants to eat them in order to protect Makie).
For some hidden reason Makie can attract Monsters to himself (he smells "delicious"). Even the senpai wants to eat him but she is restricting herself from doing that because she wants to protect him. So they start living together, so she won't be away when a monster attacks.
The other element in the story is cooking, food and bento. Makie is a great cook and he loves cooking and his senpai has a huge appetite.
It might be weird for some people, and they won't like it, the pace is real fast and could be annoying for some readers. But I think it'll be a fun anime adaptation 🤔

This manga is the perfect blend of romcom and action. Makie was such a cutie and getting to see his thought process was really sweet. We love to see a tall female with a short boy. I’m really interested in seeing Sachi background story and development. Plus the way this ended? I need to get volume 2 immediately.

Warning for Trypophobia.

This was all over the place, and the more I tried to understand the less sense it seemed to make.


While I finished this book, I couldn't begin to tell you what this book was really about. Just that the first monster left me wishing I never picked it up.

Sachi's Monstrous Appetite somehow reminded me of FLCL. The series starts like a normal school romance and Makie is very much in love with Sachi. Sachi lives next door and is a bit older and taller than Makie and Makie wants to make food for her, since the girl is always hungry. Then the whole thing kind of goes astray in a sense, since Sachi is a shape-shifting watari, a monster that looks a lot like a frog that eats other wataris. Right. All the other wataris want to eat Makie and Sachi loves his smell too. Together they ends up killing other wataris and no, Makie never wonders how and why. He just crushes on the girl and suddenly these two end up in magical places and whatnot. Then we are back to going on a date. The whole thing makes no sense, since things aren't explained and everything moves so fast. The most we get is Makie blushing.

The art looks like straight from the 1990s. It's messy at times, but the wataris are really cool. The humans aren't that cool though. I don't really know what this series wants to be, but seeing this is labeled ecchi I don't wonder why anymore. The potential is there, but monsters, romance and cooking just don't work so well together.

**ARC provided by NetGalley for honest review**

Sachi's Monstrous Appetite Volume 1 by Chomoran was certainly a...strange manga volume. Some of the pages in the copy I had downloaded were missing, so it was a bit confusing, but the basic premise seems to be this: a middle school boy has a crush on a high school girl, but she's actually a monster in disguise that needs his help to fight other monsters because apparently he smells good to them? It's basically a gender-bent Twilight. I don't know, it is sorta charming in a quirky way, but I probably don't care enough to continue in this series.

I've read a lot of manga but this one was one of the weirdest. And not in a good way. The relationship between the kids and the monster girl is weird, the art style makes it hard to follow at times, and overall it's just a setting and a miss.

I feel like I missed something. Like a whole chunk of this manga was missing or something because I am just super confused. Perhaps there was a problem with the eARC download, so take my rating with a grain of salt. I did not enjoy this.

wasn't able to read it on time so I cant talk about it. It seems like an interesting topic but I feel I have seen the monster eating its own trope has been done before.

A fascinating manga. I couldn't stop reading, there was something quite gripping about it, probably because the subject felt so unusual, in a good way. A boy who cooks, a girl who is more than that, always hungry, and monsters everywhere. I really want to know where the idea is going. On the negative side, the connections between scenes was awkward and it often took me a little time to understand where we were at. It felt like some panels were missing each time. I have no idea if that's because of the translation, but it felt too fast and it didn't quite follow right. This made the action scenes very confusing and if I hadn't enjoyed the theme I might not have continued.

The artwork in this book is nice, it's got a very 2000s style design to it. The plot is fun, some of the humor works well and the monsters have nice designs. That said it's really hard for me to rate this as it feels very disjointed. Characters seem to just show up, dialogue starts on some pages as if in the middle of a conversation. It makes me wonder if the copy I was sent was missing pages. As such I'm going with 3/5 stars. It's very fun, but feels incomplete.

This was really an interesting one. I liked the unique premise to be honest and I'm excited to see how this series develops. Although the main boy was pretty bland and void of a personality, I quite like the main girl so I hope they both have their deserved character ARCs. It is hard to judge a manga series based solely off of volume 1- especially as this volume was quite short- however there is definitely a lot of potential here!!

When I first asked to review this manga I genuinely thought the story line would be about a girl who ate alot. However this was not the case. It took me a good 2/3rds of the book to understand the storyline (a girl who is actually a monster who eats other monsters to protect humans) and it really gave me a dislike to the story. However I did like the fact that a romance storyline was added and this made the story appeal more to me. I enjoyed the manga illustration and facial features for certain situations were very funny. Unfortunatly a manga which didnt appeal to me after reading.

DNF'd @ 40%

I was very confused reading this volume. I wasn't sure what was going on with this story and felt very lost. I wasn't a huge fan of the art style and decided to stop instead of giving a poor rating.

The art work definitely reminded me of late 90s early 2000 and it brought a smile to my face since I grew up with that style so I enjoyed seeing it here. Although the story threw me off a bit with the sudden monsters being revealed, it was interesting seeing the main individuals interact and immediately take a liking to each other. I can’t wait for the next volume to read!

I received a copy for an honest review through NetGalley.

This manga wasn't for me. I didn't connect with the art style. The story felt confusing and not explained at all in my opinion. We were thrown into it far too quickly with no prior explanation or thought explanation from the characters. It was very instalove in a way I didn't like or understand. I will not be continuing this series moving forward.

Makie is into Sachi and cooks up special treats for her to show his affection. Little did he expect for a monster to show and and Makie shapeshift into a monster watari and eat it or take it down. Now he's manage to get sucked into her world and help her out with destroying watari's that might otherwise hurt others.

This was a pretty trippy manga. I wasn't sure what I was getting into when first coming across this book since I didn't even read the description. It was actually a pleasant surprise and I found myself sucked into this world for a moment. I can't wait to see more of what happens this was a pretty interesting introduction to the series.

Premise: Machi has had a crush on Sachi for a long time and uses his culinary skills to finally talk to her by offering her a treat. However, Sachi has a secret: she's a shapeshifting watari monster who is drawn to Machi's scent, and others are too. Sachi is determined to protect Machi but will things go too far?

So... the premise of this manga sounded really interesting but I just found myself really confused for most of this.

This next bit will be a mess (and potentially spoilery) but I'm going to attempt to explain what I understood and how I felt (confused mainly...)

I think (think being the main word) that Machi and Sachi ended up working together to go destroy a nest of watari monsters that had formed in the local school but they got trapped. Machi had been creating food for Sachi and there became an underlying focus on how bento boxes are very special and can be a big mystery until you open them because you don't know what's inside which later played a part in the plot. But there also seemed to be some kind of sadness surrounding bento boxes but I don't know if I just interpreted that wrong or if I missed something. Who knows? Anyway, the bento box gets them out of the nest and then there was a complete scene/chapter change and they were going on a date? (literally I don't understand what was going on so I may have somehow missed something). They go for food and then suddenly Sachi shapeshifts and also eats Machi and then the story ends with a random girl turning up and essentially saying 'I told you so' to Sachi.

As you've probably gathered, I'm confused and so I didn't really enjoy this as I spent the majority of my time reading this just questioning what was going on and re-reading sections to try to figure it. I think this was just a me problem (although I've just looked at reviews and saw a few other people saying similiar things) but because of that, I'm rating this one star as I honestly can't say I enjoyed it. I'm sure a lot of other people would enjoy this but for me, it was just a confusing time (which I think is probably coming across in this review) and so I can't rate it any higher as I didn't get the plot of the story.

<i>arc provided by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review</i>

This manga had me so confused from page one until the end and I never fully grasped what was going on. I knew that we followed two characters, a boy and his classmate who is this sort of monster who eats their same kind but beyond that... I was lost.

I never really got a chance to fall in love with this story because the art was confusing and the story went way too quickly. The romance was also so quick and wasn’t believable to me.

Unfortunately, I did not enjoy this manga and won’t be continuing on with this series.

1.5/5 ⭐️

TW: violence.

Alright, this one is on me. If I had read the blurb, I would have none this was absolutely not my type of manga. So, don’t care too much about my note, except if you like and dislike the same thing as me xD
First of all, I was a little thrown off but the proportions of the two main characters: Makie is quite small and frail compared to Sachi who is tall, quite fit and with also quite a pair of boobs. But alright, everyone has different taste. However, their feelings seemed totally fake and forced; the dialogue is supposed to be funny and cute, and okey sometimes it is cute but that would be it. If now, you add some weird monster universe, you lose me. I did not understand this monster aspect of the manga. Maybe the next volume explains it in more details.
So yeah, overall the premise doesn’t sound bad but I think it could have been better executed.
2/5