Isekai Izakaya "Nobu"

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Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" is a series about a Japanese Restaurant whose storefront crosses into a medieval European fantasy style city. The work centers on the interplay of Japanese cuisine and dining culture with the citizens of the fantasy city. Initially authored by Natsuya Semikawa, the series was released through the 2010s to the present day, as a light novel, manga, anime, and TV drama.

The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
  • Arranged Marriage: One prompts Shinobu to abscond with Taisho to start their own restaurant.
  • Beergasm: Typical reaction made by townspeople after consuming a whatsontap.
  • Bizarrchitecture: Noticed by the city guards, the rear of the restaurant does not lead to where they would expect, but to modern Japan.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Most of the other world inhabitants initially think little of potatoes, chicken, and eel, primarily because they consume low quality or poorly prepared food.
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The other world is similar to a medieval European culture.
  • Foreign Queasine: Many of the townspeople see dishes as this before they try them, often associating ingredients with low quality food, or consumption of raw fish as a deadly risk.
  • Impossibly Delicious Food: Most dishes are this to the townspeople, especially when it is made with food they otherwise consider to be lower class, such as potato, eel, chicken, or salad.
  • Inn Between the Worlds: The central device of the story.
  • Intimidating Revenue Service: Gernot, as a tax collector
  • Kraken and Leviathan: Feared by Berthold, dismissed entirely by the Restaurant staff.
  • Local Hangout: The restaurant for most of the characters.
  • Shockingly Expensive Bill: Feared by townspeople upon seeing the amount of glass and other indicators of fine dining, averted in that the restaurant is affordable.
  • Training from Hell: Berthold sometimes subjects the guard to this.