Have you ever seen glowing food? That's why you draw a food-themed anime.

He chuckled, took a sip of tea, and kept looking down.

Until I saw Rou Mei take out the grilled meat, stick an iron skewer into it to draw out the juices, and then put the juices to her lips.

"puff……"

Aoyama was completely dumbfounded.

His hand trembled slightly.

Wait a moment.

Your standards...

Isn't something a little off?

Chapter 98 Isn't this a bit too much? (Part 2)

When Xu Zhou received those two words from Qingshan, he was instantly relieved.

I got up and went to make coffee.

I took a sip of coffee with ice, played on my phone for a while, and replied to a message from Zhang Wanqiu.

[Zhang Wanqiu: Master! We've already started setting up our stall!]

[Zhang Wanqiu: I bought fifty steaks today. The recipe you taught me before cost about fifteen yuan in ingredients, and I plan to sell them for forty-five yuan each at the night market!]

[Zhang Wanqiu: Don't worry, expert. If I make money from the sale, I'll show you the transaction records.]

Then he sent over a picture.

The photo appears to have been taken by a passerby.

Upon seeing this stall, Xu Zhou couldn't help but twitch his lips: "Every genius has a fat friend by their side."

Where is my chubby friend?

He stroked his chin, offered Zhang Wanqiu a few words of encouragement, and then opened the comic artist's backend while drinking coffee.

...

This opens the backstage of comic book artists.

My phone suddenly froze.

I immediately saw the 99+ comment notification, and the entire page was filled with little red dots indicating new comments.

Go in with a little bit.

The entire comic's fanbase went crazy, with some even posting four or five comments.

Holy crap! Little Xu! You're the god of pushing the boundaries! This is seriously exciting!

[Is that...is he really tasting the beef juices?]

[Finally, we've entered the main storyline! All my monthly votes are for you, author! Keep updating! This is the feeling! Awesome!]

What do you mean by "borderline"? Don't talk nonsense! Meat Charm is just tasting beef broth normally.

Please review this. I believe RouMei's actions are normal culinary skills and do not involve any borderline behavior.

The person who shouted the approval message has a very distinctive profile picture.

Xu Zhou glanced at it and immediately remembered it.

A lion head holding a gold ingot, which looks very auspicious at first glance.

The comment section instantly erupted with a flurry of comments, each displaying their unique awesomeness.

Xu Zhou was dumbfounded.

However, when I refreshed the page again, I saw someone mention in the comments that their comic had been posted on the comic artist forum.

"Comic forum?"

Xu Zhou took a look and found it rather novel, so he followed the network cable over.

...

Log in to the comics forum.

Then I saw the latest post.

Why hasn't the manga "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" been banned yet?

The person who posted this message is an anonymous user.

I'm using a level 1 alt account.

His tone was quite indignant.

The editor told me to refresh the anime rankings more often, so I did. I saw that Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma was doing particularly well among the recent new anime, so I watched it out of curiosity. But the level of explicit content shocked me.

What a double standard! This comic is so suggestive, why hasn't it been banned yet?

I got banned.

Xu Zhou watched while drinking coffee.

Not in a hurry at all.

The editor already said so!

The scale is fine!

Thinking about this, still unsure, Xu Zhou took out his phone and checked it for confirmation. When he saw the message Qingshan had sent earlier, "It's okay, it's not a big problem," his heart instantly felt reassured.

That's right! There's nothing wrong with my standards.

...

This post has been up for a little while now.

Quite a few people replied.

[2nd Floor: This is so lewd! Are comics openly lewd these days?! This behavior is outrageous! I'm going to go see just how lewd it is!]

There were several comments following the second floor.

[Comment #2: Are you back, bro?]

[Comment #2: Where are you?]

[Comment #2: This person said to watch Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, it's been ten minutes and you still haven't finished? I told you to take screenshots and nitpick, not to be a reader.]

The person on the second floor never came back.

[3rd floor: I'll go check what's going on on the 2nd floor first, then I'll join him in cursing.]

The third floor is gone forever; they never left a comment there again.

Everyone who entered the post was stunned.

[Comment #3: Hey bro, where are you?]

[Comment #3: Is Food Wars! really that good? Is this a reverse promotion post? You guys have really piqued my interest.]

...

Xu Zhou flipped down.

Shortly before I saw the post.

The second and third floors, which had been missing for a long time, suddenly returned.

The two then left their comments below.

[Reply on post #2: ...I accidentally got hooked and I've already seen the latest episode. Could you guys please delete this post? It's interfering with my viewing of food-themed anime.]

[Reply on post #3: Aren't you guys being ridiculous? It's just a legitimate food-themed anime, are you just jealous of its success?]

A serious food-themed anime?

When Xu Zhou saw these words, he felt inexplicably guilty.

is it?

That doesn't seem very proper.

Seeing their confident tone, Xu Zhou's eyes hardened.

"Correct!"

"That's right! This is a proper gourmet anime!"

I quickly pulled it down.

"This seems kind of familiar."

Xu Zhou looked at it carefully for a few moments and then clicked on the profile picture on the third floor.

"..."

Good guy.

I've seen this profile picture in the comic's comment section.

Isn't this a sign of good fortune?

Xu Zhou burst out laughing.

This forum is fantastic.

Isn't this just promoting your own comics in reverse?

...

And the other side.

Ever since Li Mo heard his friend Jiang Ling'er in the group chat saying she was watching "Food Wars!" and getting thoroughly criticized, Li Mo has been...

night.

Seeing people stirring up trouble on the manga forum, I decided to open "Food Wars!" and take a look.

But once you open it…

As I was looking, I realized I'd reached the last page: [The comic author is still updating...]

"..."

Li Mo remained silent and opened the group chat.

At this moment, apart from the passionate Lao Wang, almost everyone else in the group was discussing the plot of Xu Zhou's latest chapter.

[Jiang Ling'er: Actually, I think the author of this comic, Xiao XU, is quite clever. In the latest chapter's major climax, the small details about the female characters are designed to pique the interest of comic readers.]

[Starry Night Fireworks: His story is so popular, the plot is really good, very tight, and the character design is also very good. The whiteness is just right...]

[Starry Night Fireworks: Actually, the level of explicit content in this food-themed anime isn't that bad. Those who think it's too explicit should watch romance anime. Romance anime are the real frontrunners; things like foot-licking are the least of their worries.]

Li Mo felt a little embarrassed to join the discussion, thinking about his previous comments.

But when I saw them discussing licking feet, I couldn't help but join in the discussion.

[Mo Yue: Can this painting style really increase subscriptions?]

...

The message was sent.

Before Li Mo could say another word, he saw the usually silent Lao Wang in the group start going crazy in the chat.

[Hot-blooded Old Wang: @Moyue, how did you fall into this trap? This kind of borderline trick is so low-class, are you really going to learn it too?]

[Hot-blooded Old Wang: Where's your spirit? We're veteran comic artists, we've achieved something, why should we associate with this kind of artist? Does he even look like he's seriously writing a recipe?!]

The group chat immediately erupted into an argument.

[Jiang Ling'er: What's wrong with their recipe? There's another restaurant in Songnan City that uses this recipe!]

Jiang Ling'er got angry and directly posted the address of Yizhou Izakaya.

Then I took screenshots of the dishes at Xu Zhou's restaurant.

[Jiang Ling'er: Did you see that? If there really was something wrong with the cartoonist Xiao Xu's cooking, no one would have actually copied it, and there would have been so many positive reviews.]