Nobunaga no Chef

Description

Ken is a modern-day chef who wakes up one morning in war-torn 16th century Japan. Faced with an impossible situation, he does what he does best – he cooks. Soon, word of his wonderful food reaches the capital, and the ears of warlord Oda Nobunaga, who immediately orders Ken to cook for him. What will happen to Ken as he finds himself stumbling around in an era he doesn't belong?

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

A Chef of Nobunaga

Kokinya Nobunaga

Le chef de Nobunaga

Nobunaga's Chef

ยอดเชฟของโนบุนางะ (SIC)

信長のシェフ

信長的主廚

노부나가의 셰프

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Latest Release(s)

c.297-310 (end) by SSS Scans 3 months ago

c.288-296 by SSS Scans 3 months ago

c.280-287 by SSS Scans 3 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

37 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8.7 / 10.0 (259 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.45 / 10.0

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Last Updated

April 22nd, 2025 5:47am PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Drama Historical Seinen Supernatural
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Original Publisher

Houbunsha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Manga Times (Houbunsha)

Shuuman Denshi (Niwango)

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English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #744

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Monthly Pos #1669

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3 Month Pos #2846

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6 Month Pos #2369

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Year Pos #2153

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This manga is great

by tiankioo
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It's a shame the translator is so slow and unreliable, but unfortunately at their current pace, this will get dropped again before they ever catch up to the current releases. What's the point? You don't even do 10 chapters a year even when you're active. No one is going to give you donations for such little work after seeing your track record with your projects. Why bother?

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Slow-burning plot

by MaruNeko
4 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

The food and focus on the history of the Warring States Period and times under Noda Nobunaga are great. However, the isekai-ness (not another world, but another time, yet the same feel) MC’s backstory go by painfully slowly. It took about 50 chapters just to see a major detail about his past. It feels like the isekai part is an afterthought, which makes it feel like it shouldn’t be there at all. Having so little that is slowly and poorly written in is worse than having it as a focus entirely and lessens my enjoyment of the manga.

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The loyalty made me tear up a couple of times

by watashiNoChikara
5 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Really worth a read, if only it was scanlated fully.

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Superlative

by PZcolo
5 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

I'm surprised this is not based on a novel to be honest, it's not common to see standalone manga with this quality of narrative and storytelling, superb job by the author. There is an attention to detail on every front and how well the author melds history, cooking and storytelling which is simply great.
The history is as far as I can tell accurate (I have a shallow knowledge and a bad memory) and is told with interesting narrative.
The characters feel both human and majestic, Nobunaga in particular gives that sense of visionary, fair and ruthless all in a package giving way to the several faces that the character has taken in history.
The cooking is interesting too but kept moderate, it takes a nice chunk of the story but never being completely in the first plane, Ken's dishes tip the balance in negotiations and so on but almost always as a part of a scheme by Nobunaga, this is specially interesting because it presents the idea that maybe Ken's actions don't change the future but are a part of it while at the same time giving place to the option that Nobunaga just adapts his scheme based on his present tools, without Ken he would just succeed in some other way, either is interesting and still hasn't been made clear.
And last, the portrayal of the era is very well done, the accepted obsequience of the citizens, the position of women, the socio-political situation of the warring state period and the insertion of the Nanben and Ming culture and products.
All is very well done and the art is quite good too, nothing breath taking but solid, simple to understand and follow and simply looks good. Can't recommend this enough for anyone, specially if they are a fan of historical novels.

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Amazed!

by moonmystery
9 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Wow i really like this series!! The main character is calm and courageous. His stern demeanor also is comically refreshing. Please update!!!!!!

I also really enjoy the portrayal of Oda Nobunaga--the manga humanizes the guy while also recognizing the facts. All the characters are super interesting, and the integration of history and modern food is flawlessly done.

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a fantastic gem

by NightAir
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Cooking manga usually falls into a pithole of repetitive battles in order to demonstrate how good the protagonist is. This manga combines the richness of history of Oda Nobunga (I now want to learn so much holy dang), along with the really great cooking aspect. In all honesty, Nobunga's charisma and purpose really comes off. The time travel part is bunched in nicely; Ken is a very likeable protagonist, and discovering the answers behind his amnesia and who he was helps out a lot.

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Great

by wallyakazukin
11 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Plot wrapped well, there's a lot of mistery I don't know yet, basically because the protagonist himself didn't remember who is he. There's sweet romance flowing naturally (and I love it). The art make me fall into this series at first glance. I love how the author bring me to understand all protagonist feeling and thinking, because I can relate and know more about Nobunaga from his view. It's a good historical culinary manga.

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Good Time Travel Manga

by bull3thole
12 years ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

I love time travel manga like this. I love the challenges the protagonist has to face when being a chef in this time period. You get to learn many ways to cook food when ingredients are made from scratch. The author must have knowledge about cooking to do this manga. He must have done some extensive research to learn how certain ingredients are made from scratch and when ingredients were introduced to Japan.

The cons for this manga is that it's hard to distinguish some of the characters shown because a few of them look the same. Another is the terms used from the Japanese language.You need to know what some of the words mean to really understand about the manga. It can be quite confusing too when you try to match the names of the characters to their faces when they are mentioned because there are so many characters in the manga.

Overall it's quite good. I was surprised with so many cons I typed for the manga because it's still good with all the negative comments I mentioned. If you like time traveling mangas like this, you will like another manga called "Jin" where instead of a chef time slipping, it's a doctor.

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superb!

by bookawkee!
12 years ago

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The plot is enough to make you read this and then the way it is presented is more than enough to make you want more. An amazing example of a historical manga infused with culinary cool.

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NNC

by Trickster o fThieves
12 years ago

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I have to admit, this is one of the best culinary manga I've read, and I've read many. The art is clean, the story interesting but not too complicated so that it interrupts the food aspect, and furthermore the food looks delicious and sounds plausible to make. Great, very great, series.

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