Crazy Food Truck isn’t the worst manga I’ve read this year, but it’s one of the most disappointing, marred by lazy writing, paper-thin characterizations, and excessive fan service. The most basic problem is that Crazy Food Truck reads more like a rough outline than a fully realized story. The premise doesn’t make much sense, frankly, as its hero tries to scratch out a living by operating a food truck in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which no one has money. In scene after scene, Gordon laments the lack of paying customers, despite abundant evidence that he’s living in a hellscape populated by rogue military officers, exploitative creeps, and downtrodden folk who are veritable serfs; surely someone who’s installed a cannon atop his food truck realizes that ordering a BLT could turn...

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