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Set It and Forget It

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My personal feeling towards this manga is delightful. Perfect flow from the beginning to finish. However, the ending feels rushed, I don't know what happened in the production studio but it feels like they just said, "Yeah we finished and don't want to continue." Or maybe that's just me, I don't know. But hey, it's worth the read tho because the illustration is magnificent. I love every single panel of this manga.

If you're Indonesian, I can perfectly summarize this for you with this sentence; Kumpulan cerpen seorang wanita muda membuat makanan yang simple dengan Rice Cooker.
The plot itself really straightforward and very engaging with the ... viewer, because in every last panel of the chapter they provide the recipe for the food featured in that chapter.

The illustrations for the manga are insanely good. I can't fathom how gorgeous all the characters in this manga.

Overall I don't have any criticism towards this manga except it ended so fast.
My score for this manga 8.5/10

Set it and Forget it is a short manga series which is nothing but wholesomeness overload. Every chapter is a feel good chapter and it entertains you every time you read it, just don't read it on an empty stomach.

The art is solid. It is not special or anything, but it does not need to be. For what it is the art is really good and there are no weird inconsistancies or mistakes. The character designs are cute and unique and the food looks delicious.

The story is episodic. Each chapter is relatively similair to the last, but it doesn't get repetative because of the limited ... amount of chapters. The conclusion can't really be called a conclusion as it could just have been an ending to a chapter with a new one coming, but it is satisfactory.

I cannot reccomend this series enough. It is fun, cute and more fun. It leaves you wanting for more each chapter even after the final chapter. All in all it is a amazing little series that is definetly worth your time.

A short manga series tends to communicate that the series wasn't getting the attention neccessary to prolong its serialization. Not with this case, since the intention for this series was to be shorter than most titles being simultaneously published on the Manga Plus app.

The series in question is "Set It and Forget It', a fun and wholesome series about a single female office lady and her versatile electric and programmable rice cooker.

Ordinary people tend to use their rice cookers for one thing: to cook rice. But Fuko has hacked the functionality settings of her rice cooker, which she nicknamed "RC-kun", to be able to cook ... dishes along with the rice.

These are real recipes one can prepare with their rice cooker along with the rice. The recipes are included with every chapter and written in a simple and straightforward manner that one could imagine it would be an easy dish to prepare if one were to follow the steps.

The recipes are the key to this series. The story and art are good. The female character designs are cute and pleasing to look at. But those alone with put this story at a rating of 7 at the max. Rating both the story and recipes included would push the rating to 8 or 9.

So, a short run is not an indictment of the quality of the manga. In this case, a short run can allow the creators involved to prepare for longer running series in the future. The artist especially has the very useful skill of drawing cute and pretty female characters.

This manga is actually a cook book for a specific type of rice cooker produced in Japan. Each chapter contained a different unique recipe that could be cooked in a rice cooker. Even though that aspect of the manga had no bearing on my life due to allergies and such, I thought it was clever and it showed me what the author and editor(s) thought could be interesting recipes for young people starting to cook for themselves. The characters in the series were cute and the story kind of flat, but the fact they were accoutrements to the recipes worked well for the type of ... manga this turned out to be. I looked forward to each chapter. It was a nice palate cleanser (hur hur) between more dramatic series I was reading when reading this one.

I think it'd be neat to see other cook book themed manga. I really enjoyed this one.