I felt like there were a few recipes in here that didn't seem like they were actually all that convenient to recreate, even for people who don't have a deadly shellfish allergy like me. It makes sense to tailor a lot of these recipes toward Japanese home-cooking tastes, but then it does feel a bit strange to also include things like crepe-esque handwiches and candy floss/cotton candy. Are those things people typically make at home? I suppose if the audience is children, that might be fun. My favorite part was trip that Coco takes to Kahln with Qifrey to visit the market, where we see some connections of non-witch side-characters and further build out the world and its food culture. I also think Hiromi Sato draws the brushbuddy perhaps even cuter than Shirahama does.

The idea of a savory vegetable and meat broth jelly as a diet food is somewhat unsurprising to me as someone who follows some small amount of Japanese cooking content, and it's an interesting idea to shake things up after previous chapters focused on fried snacks, sweets, etc., but the framing around weight gain may strike others as insensitive, especially since the mainline series is known for having a bit of body diversity and such a generally accepting and open-minded vibe. I also felt somewhat that the way weight management and nutrition was talked about pushes up against what time period the series is supposed to be set in, as it feels very late 20th century and 21st century, but frankly a lot of the food innovations also do that. Perhaps more importantly, is anyone actually going to make a cold jelly of broth and vegetables as a healthy alternative to late night snacking?

Also, there appeared to be either a printing/lettering error or a cutting error on one of the pages, which is a little disappointing, where the full text of a description box seems either cut off at the end or simply not properly filled in.