Posted in Book, Food, Japan, Manga, Osaka, Tokyo on Apr 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Food manga are not always about gourmet food, even when they are called The Solitary Gourmand (Kodoku no Gurume). For there is not a shred of fancy food in all these stories. Instead, they introduce us to the daily dishes and common eateries of the ordinary Japanese, and that is all the more interesting.
The setting […]
Posted in Animation, Book, Food, Japan, Manga, Nature, Web on Mar 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
As the International Herald tribune reports, foreign minister Komura Masahiko has appointed Doraemon as Japan’s first cartoon ambassador. The robot cat, who is especially popular in Asia, promised:
Through my cartoons, I hope to convey to people abroad what ordinary Japanese people think, our lifestyles and what kind of future we want to build.
Perhaps the […]
Posted in Animation, Food, Manga, Review, Sake on Mar 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
In my search for food-related manga, I came across a very interesting specimen: Moyashimon, by Ishikawa Masayuki, which calls itself “Tales of Agriculture,” but rather is about a hero with the unique ability to see and talk with bacteria and other micro-organisms.
Now this is a nice proposition, because Japanese food culture is after all a […]
Posted in Food, Manga on Feb 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
In a previous post I wrote about the food-addiction of the Japanese. With the culinary passion here running as high as it does, it is not surprising that also among manga comics there is a category of “gourmet manga.” Here is my take on the most famous one: Oishinbo.
Oishinbo (usually translated as “The Gourmet” or […]
