Tanuki's Forest Feast

Ella Hoshiko was a world-renowned, half-Japanese, half-Scottish master chef at the absolute peak of her career. But during the final round of a massive, televised cooking championship, a ruthless rival sabotaged her by swapping a prime ingredient with poorly prepared, lethal pufferfish. One professional taste-test was all it took to end her life on live television.

Instead of eternal rest, Aila wakes up in a strange, magical world devoid of humans-reincarnated as a rare, pristine white vixen-tanuki. Armed with a preserved inventory called an Item Box, an unassailable lie-detection radar, and a legendary culinary mind, she is taken in by a warm, struggling family of white bear beast-kin who mistake her for a helpless forest pet. Named "Yuki" by the young mother, Aila resolves to use her master-chef skills and secret gifts to protect her new family, quietly transforming their sparse winter pantry into a legendary forest feast.