It began serialization online in 2014 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō.

A manga adaptation with art by Kochimo has been serialized online via Hobby Japan's Comic Fire website since 2018.

He encounters Ai Fa, a woman who is a member of a group of people living at the edge of a forest, and teaches the community about the value of well-cooked food using a boar-like animal known as giba.

The light novel series was originally published by EDA as a free-to-read web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2014 and Hobby Japan published the first volume in print with illustrations by Kochimo in October 2015.

[7] Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network gave the first volume a grade of B−, praising its handling of cultural differences and the quality of the English translation.