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BQ cooking!




B class food

There is not A class food, is not C class food, too.There is only B class food.Why is it only B class food?There is not the reason. This is because it is delicious.It is record-breaking B class food boom in Japan.Japanese food is B class food.
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Yummy food

The definition of B class food is yummy not delicious.Ramen, Curry rice, Yakisoba, Okonomiyaki, Takoyaki, etc.The comic about such yummy food is “BQ cooking!”.It is a story to cause a revolution with a weapon of B class food in the school where rank was established.
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Soul food

Japanese food was registered with UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.Michelin Guide was sold in Japan.The Japanese food is profounder.I think that the symbol is B class food.You of Japan if come; read “BQ cooking!”, and, please eat B class food.
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Retort pouches revolution




Retort pouches

Asian likes retort pouches.In Japan, retort pouches are one of the important food, and 300,000 tons of retort pouches are produced annually.The home retort pouches were produced for the first time in Japan.They are Japanese foods personally.
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Processing retort pouches

The Japanese processed various things.It is a subject that this comic processes a retort pouch.Curry, beef bowl, pasta source, etc.The man of the chief character processes them deliciously.You want to imitate his processing technique.
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Retort curry kingdom

You will be surprised at the many kinds of the Japanese retort pouch.There are in particular many kinds of the retort curry.There is the person who demands the pleasure of the trip from retort curry.Japan is a retort curry kingdom.
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Totsugeki Ramen

Origin of gourmet comics

This comic is the origin of gourmet comics in Japan.Various gourmet comics were published since this comic was published.Its comic is Totsugeki Ramen.Totsugeki is “charge”.And the subject is the ramen which is the representative of the Japanese food.
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Story

The hero who is a movie star inherits a ramen shop to wreak his father’s grudge.And he fights against the Chinese food cook who drove his father to suicide.He does severe ascetic practices to cook delicious ramen.
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Review

This comic was placed in SHONEN JUMP in 1970.The painting is rougher than modern comics.However, the story and idea are novel in comparison with the modern comics.You should read this comic if you are interested in Japanese comics if you are interested in Japanese ramen.
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Lost love chocolatier

Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is a Christian festival day, but is commercialized too much in Japan on that day.It is a silly practice for non-Christians to send chocolates on St. Valentine’s Day.Because I have not got chocolate on the day, I dislike the day.I like Japanese foods than chocolate.
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Lost love chocolatier

The man that “Lost love chocolatier” is disappointed in love on Valentine’s Day is a chief character.He become top-class chocolatier from experience of Lost love.This comic is typical success stories.
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Cool chocolatier

The chocolatier is an occupation popular in Japan now.I was dating a chocolatier before.She always has sweet fragrance.I love her sweet fragrance.Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I wonder where she has gone.Come Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
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Gokudo no Shokutaku -Yakuza’s meal-




The yakuza

Yakuza is scary.I lived in old days near the office of the greatest yakuza in Japan.It was very heavy in there.However, I had security in some parts.And they were tender.
It is the comic which such a yakuza world and Japanese food was drawn on.
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Tachihara Ayumi

I love the comic which Tachihara Ayumi draws.In particular, I love the comics that are the outlaw whom he draws.He draws that though it is the outlaw world, it is tender and sorrow world.I read them and feel a chest twinges.
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Gokudo no Shokutaku

The similar world is drawn to this comic.The boss of yakuza wants to study and he go to school secretly in the follower.He goes to school at night and does the work of the yakuza at noon.It is a very interesting story.Please read.
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Touhan -Fight meal-




Rakugo

Rakugo can be best described as Japanese sit-down comedy of comic story telling. Just as there is stand-up comedy in the western countries, there is sit-down comedy in Japan. Most obviously, the difference is that the performer sits on his knees when he performs.
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Comic like Rakugo

This time, I introduce Touhan -Fight meal-.It is comic like Rakugo.It do not fight by a meal, it do fight by story telling.A person talking about very delicious Japanese food is the winner.They does in various performance and they stir a person’s imagination.
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Before a meal

I love a meal.But, before a meal, I love the time to decide what I eat.Shall I eat curry today?Shall I eat Ramen today?Shall I eat sushi today?And I imagine it if I eat it how delicious it is.You can do the same experience by this comic.
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Bakumeshi -Gamble dish-




Black Hawk Down

I saw Black Hawk Down yesterday.It is one of my favorite movie.I see it many times.The words that left an impression on me the most is the sergeant’s words whom Eric Bana plays.”Don’t think about anything.”(It was translated so in Japanese.).When you read this comic, it is so.”Don’t think about anything.”.
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Gambler and is a cook

The chief character is a gambler and is a cook.He’s mad on gambling.In the gamble ground of Japan, yummy Japanese food is sold.The Japanese food is “yummy” not “delicious”.They are said to be Class B gourmet.He cooks the Class B gourmet to a G(great) grade gourmet.
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True Japan

Please go to motorboat race ground k or the bicycle race track weekdays if you come to Japan(That has not become a great help if you go to the racetrack.).You can see the sights of true Japan there.Please read this comic if you cannot go there.
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Asameshi mae




The best breakfast in Japan

“Bills” that be the most delicious breakfast in the world is popular in Japan.I would like to try eating that once.The restaurant which I think to be the most delicious breakfast in Japan is in Kobe.There is a coffee shop in the downtown area, but buttered toast is very delicious.It is one of the Japanese food which I want to leave in history.

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This photo is Asameshi mae picture1.

Asameshi mae

This time, I introduce comic about the breakfast.It is “Asameshi mae”.”Asameshi mae” is a meaning called “A piece of cake”, but, by this comic, is a meaning called “before you have breakfast”.I want to eat breakfast even at night when I read breakfast drawn with this comic.

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This photo is Asameshi mae picture2.

Review

I dislike styles of painting by this comic.It is a stale style.However, I am absorbed in reading it because a story is attractive.I am eating breakfast everyday.It is very happy every day if I can eat the breakfast such as this comic.
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Japanese food weekly vol51




God of Ramen death

Do you know Tsukemen?Tsukemen is kinds of the ramen.It is Dipping Noodle.I go to Taishoken if I eat Tsukemen in Japan.There was God of Ramen in Taishoken.His name is Yamagishi Kazuo.He died on April 1.He is a legendary ramen craftsman.May his soul rest in peace.Viva Ramen!Viva Tsukemen!Viva Japanese food!
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refer to http://www.acecook.co.jp/taishoken/profile.html

Apr 1 2015

Uji matcha Yatsuhashi

Long-established store of the Uji, Kyoto tea “Ito Hisaemon” started sale in “Uji matcha Yatsuhashi” on April 2.Matcha jelly is used for it.I recommend this if you buy a souvenir in Kyoto.
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refer to En Tabe

Apr 2 2015

Amano Freeze dry station

A store specializing in freeze dry opens in Tokyo, Marunouchi.It is Amano Freeze dry station.Freeze-dried foods more than 100 kinds are sold.You can purchase products such as miso soup, soup, nyumen.
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refer to http://www.amanofoods.co.jp/antennashop/

Apr 4 2015

Comics Award 2015

Comics Award 2015 Winners Announced in Japan.

1st Kakukaku Shikajika

It is the story that a woman comic artist succeeds in.
Comics Award 2015 1st

2nd Kodomo ha Wakatteagenai

It is a heartwarming story.
Comics Award 2015 2nd

3rd Koe no Katachi

It is drama with the girl of the hearing loss and a lonely boy.
Comics Award 2015 3rd

4th Boku dake ga inai Machi

It is the drama of the man with the ability of the time warp.
Comics Award 2015 4th

5th BLUE GIANT

It is the story that a boy aims at the jazz saxophone player.
Comics Award 2015 5th
refer to http://www.mangataisho.com/

Hocho-nin Ajihei




The first gourmet comics

It seems to be gourmet comics published for the first time in Japan.It is comic such as “Roundhay Garden Scene” in the comics world.Possibly it may be the comics that changed the way of the Japanese food.It is the comics that gave such a shock.
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Hocho-nin Ajihei

This time, I introduce “Hocho-nin Ajihei”.”Hocho-nin” is a chef.”Ajihei” is the name of the chief character.He overrode his father objections, and becomes a cook.He trains himself at the kitchen and he sometimes play Cook Battle.
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Iron chef

It was published serially in “Shonen Jump” (Shueisha) from 1973 through 1977.Many people came under an influence of this comic.This comic is model of the TV program “Iron chef”.I want you to read this comic if you are interested in Japanese gourmet comics.
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Iron Wok Jan




Iron Wok Jan

I read this comic at the age of a undergraduate for the first time.I was shocked very much.The picture is scary.The manga is “Iron Wok Jan”.It is the comic which Chinese food was drawn on.However, I do not matter even if it is Chinese food even if it is Japanese food.The picture is scary.
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Shocking dish

I had bought a weekly magazine “Champion” a week.And that just came all of a sudden.Is this gourmet comics?The chief character of this comic is Jan.He is a Chinese cook.The dish which he cooks is shocking.But I think that I want to eat his dish for some reason.
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Iron Wok Jan is like the bad man.

I think that this comic changed Japanese gourmet comics.The chief character of gourmet comics was an honor student so far.However, chief characters of this comic are different.He becomes more wicked.But the evilness turns into justice finally.It is like the bad man.
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Macanai-kun -Waiter man-




Life that surrounded by women

Surrounded by women, I live.The men has such a dream everybody.However, the reality is not so.If we are surrounded by women, we have a hard time very much.By the comics, the chief character comes through very fun hardships.He cooks by the waiter-like role of women.Japanese food which he cooks seems to be yummy.
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He is a waiter.

This time, the comic which I introduce is “Macanai-kun -Waiter man-“.The life of a young man living together with 3 older cousins is drawn.His nickname is “Macanai-kun”.He prepares a meal for 3 people every day.He is a waiter.
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Masochist comic

Even if the recipe drawn with the comic really cooks it, it is yummy.The well-known cook in Japan praises the comics highly, too.And I think that the comics satisfy the desire of the man who is a masochist.
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Kenca Ramen -Ramen Fight-




Ramen is Japanese food.

“My dream is to have a Ramen shop in the future.”Youths who have such a dream increase in Japan.The ramen is eaten in the United States and Europe.The ramen is one of the Japanese foods on behalf of Japan.The day when a ramen shop unfolding on a global scale appears from Japan may be near.
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Kenca Ramen

This comic is not useful for the person whom a dream wants to have a ramen shop toward.However, this is useful for the people who are interested in Japanese ramen and yakuza.The comic name is “Kenca Ramen”.In Japan, Kenca is fight.
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Yakuza

There are few scenes where a yakuza appears in comics, but the way of life of the chief character is a yakuza.Originally Yakuza is people that must help the weak.Seeing from such a point of view, a chief character of Kenca Ramen is a yakuza.
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Mr. Oto -Oto-yan-




I love sushi.

I went to a moving sushi place yesterday.I enjoyed a moving sushi.I love a moving sushi, but love the sushi which a chef makes in front.The fish are cut in front of the customers by a sushi chef and made into sushi.It is cool.I love sushi the best out of all Japanese food.
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Mr. Oto -Oto-yan-

I don’t know whether it is true or not but in Japan, it is publicized that Japanese foods are popular in the world.They take advantage of the advertising, and gourmet comics of a poor knowledge spread in Japan.Therefore we are hard to find orthodox gourmet comics.However, this comic is orthodox gourmet comicsl.It is “Mr. Oto -Oto-yan-“.
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Mr.Sushi

Japanese craftsman is an outlaw.It is an idea which has been decided upon down the ages.The sushi craftsman is not an exception, too.However, his work is the first class.It is described in this comic faithfully.When you read this comic, you are charmed by the first class work.
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Silver spoon




Family ties

Our child was born several years ago.I think that want to live long whenever I watch the growth of our child.I am sometimes irritated, but it is all my treasure, too.I feel the importance of the family tie.The importance of the family tie is drawn with this comic through a meal of Japan.
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Love from a recipe of mother

Japanese home-cooked food is drawn with this comic.The chief character is a boy of the high school student.He prepares for an everyday meal for a brother in place of hospitalized mother.The meal is based on a recipe of mother.He feels love from a recipe of mother.
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Handmade meal

I was brought up at home of the working together.We can get the family together and not eat.However, my mother prepared for a handmade meal by all means.My family was not able to eat together, but was able to feel a family tie.
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Shoku no Gunshi -Meal’s strategist-




what you eat.

Meal is important.When our life assumes it 70 years old, we will have a meal of approximately 80,000 times.The meal choice by one’s intention in that is approximately 50,000 times.You will have a meal of only approximately 20000 times if you are 50 years old.It is important what you eat.
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Shoku no Gunshi

The chief character of this manga is a man concerned with a meal than anyone else.He goes to various restaurants and demands the combination of ultimate meals.He is troubled seriously whether he shall eat Japanese food whether he shall eat Western food.He is troubled very deeply.And he has a meal looking very yummy.When constipation was totally relieved, it is similar.
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Meal is import.

I neither smokes nor drinks.My pleasure is a meal.Because I assume dinner a family, I cannot choose a meal.Therefore I am at a loss what I shall have in lunch.I can sympathize with the chief character of this manga.Please read this comic if you think a meal to be important.
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Nobushi no Goumet (Wandering samurai life)




Wandering samurai

I have not met Wandering samurai.Sure thing.The samurai does not live in Japan now either.It is great discovery if I can find a samurai.I cannot find a samurai, but can find a person with samurai mind.The man that this manga had the samurai mind is a chief character.
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refer to 5 Wandering samurai Cinem@

Nobushi no Goumet

The samurai does not appear in these comics.A chief character is the man who retired.When he likes it, he eats a favorite thing alone.The just the thing is a free spirit and is a samurai.Such free eating habits are drawn by this manga.
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Plebian restaurant guide book

When I go for a trip, I take a restaurant guidebook.It is pleasure of the lives to eat the local delicious food.Depending on a restaurant guidebook to take, the pleasure may turn into misfortune.I want you to use this manga in substitution for a restaurant guidebook if you come to Japan.Japan becomes delicious.
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Mail order Prince Yoshimi Iida




Mail order

In Japan, there were few people who did shopping by a mail order in old days.The product which has been sent by a mail order is bad, and this is because there were many troubles.When the Internet spread in Japan in the 1990s, people using a mail order increased.Therefore we came to be able to buy a good products by a mail order from all over Japan.
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Delicious food

A chief character of this manga is a man called Yoshimi Iida.He buys delicious food by a mail order from the all over Japan.We can really buy the food introduced here by a mail order.Therefore this manga were made into a live-action version and made a mail order program and collaboration.
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Mail order Prince

I bought a healthy appliance by a mail order in old days.It was different from the product which I imagined.I talked with the person in charge on the telephone many times to return goods.It was very troublesome.However, the Internet spreads, and I can investigate a product to buy by a mail order carefully.I am Mail order Prince now, too.
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Food hunter Souraiden




Adventure and food

I like adventure movies.Indiana Jones series, The Goonies, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, etc.I am full of nervous excitement.I’m always bored with films that have little adventure.Possibly I think that Hollywood may buy the original bill of this manga.
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refe to トゥームレイダー (初回限定版) [DVD]

Hollywood and Food

The manga name is ‘Food hunter Souraiden’.Shanghai where ingredients of the world gather is a stage.Food hunter gathering with the ingredients is a chief character.They solve various barriers all over the world and are a story to win ingredients.Hollywood and Food fusion are realized in this story.
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refer to フードハンター双雷伝(1) (週刊少年マガジン KC)

Good story

This is not a story only for Japanese food.It is a story of food all over the world.When I read this manga, I just remember Tomb Raider.I think that it will be a surefire hit by all means if this manga are filmized.The people concerned of Hollywood thank you for your cooperation.
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Splendid dining table




World’s first

It is world’s first brilliant feat.Such manga may be less likely to be published in future.The manga name is ‘Splendid dining table’.It is called ‘Kareinaru Shokutaku’ in Japan.I expected that very splendid life was described.Okay, when I read it…
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Splendid,karei,Curry

I was surprised to read it.A totally splendid thing is not drawn.’Splendid dining table’ is Curry story.’Splendid’ is called ‘Karei’ in Japan.’Karei’ is ‘Curry’.That’s a joke…I was fooled by the manga.I read it because I have begun to read with much effort.It is very interesting.
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Curry manga

It is the world’s first curry manga.Knowledge about curry and the curry is described in richness.Japanese likes curry very much.I recommend it if you want to know the Japanese curry culture.But, please do not let a child read it.The cause is unclear, but nude is often drawn.
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Gokudo meshi(Meal of gangster)

The gangster food

The gangster is a gourmet.Because executives of the gangland always eat delicious food, they are fat.It is my impressions of the gangster.The Japanese gangster is no exception, too.It is the manga that such a gangster talks about gourmet.
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Delicious food

This manga is drawn about a gangster, but gun battle is not the subject.The food which the gang star ate is the subject.They do a battle to speak who ate delicious food most for a seasonal festival food offered in a prison for New Year holidays.
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A inexpensive meal

A inexpensive meal is drawn with this manga.Those look really delicious.It was a chance to consider whether Japanese food were such delicious again.I am afraid of a real gangster.But I like gangsters drawn on this manga.OK, let’s go to eat now!
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Kodoku no Gourmet




Plebeian Michelin Guide

‘Kodoku no Gourmet’ is a meaning called ‘Lone gourmet’.This manga is like the Michelin Guide.It is plebeian Michelin Guide.The real restaurant in the Kanto district is drawn mainly.All restaurants are drawn with great relish.I live in the Kansai district, but I get on the Shinkansen for 2 hours and am seized with the impulse that I want to go to those restaurants for.
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Japanese food Guide

The chief character is Goro Inokashira.He is a unattached man that manages the trading company.His pleasure is a meal.He eats alone at the place that he went for trade.The sense that he choose restaurant is cool.Goro’s choice restaurant is Cool!!!!
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World wide

“world wide” is exaggerated, but this manga is translated and be published in Italy, French Korea, Spain, Brazil.It was dramatized and was televised until season 3 in Japan.Because they feel hungry when the audience watches this drama, it is called ‘midnight snack terrorism’.
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Glutton !

Competitive eater

It was prevalent to compete for gluttony in Japan since 2001.As for it, a TV program was the beginning.They are called “Food Fighter”.It is so-called Competitive eater.The hot dog-eating contest in the United States is widely known to Japan since these days.
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Eat,Eat,Eat

This manga comes off from past common sense.The past manga introduced Japanese food and Japanese food recipes,Japanese restaurant.”Glutton !” do not introduce them.The chief character eats and eats foods.When I read it, there is the day when an appetite springs out, but there is it on the day when an appetite disappears.
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The pros and cons

There is a pro and con about the eating contest.”This contest is a competition!” and “They waste food!”.Various opinions will be heard.I oppose the eating contest, because I think that they waste food.Therefore I recommend “Glutton !”.
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Sota’s kitchen knife -Study cooking diary in Tokyo/Ginza-

This is manga !!!

Cooking has the power to change our lives.The words are manga to match.”Sota’s kitchen knife Study cooking diary in Tokyo/Ginza”.The chief character has a nice personality very.It is completely opposite to time for my childhood.
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Moral text book

The name of the chief character is Sota.He is a very earnest person.I think that it can be understood if you can watch Sota’s photograph.I want my daughter to read this manga.Or I wish that it is adopted to a moral text book at school.
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Study Japanese food

Japanese food world was very exclusive.It was full of difficulty to study in Japanese food world.I am impressed with him who does his best in such world.When I eat Japanese food since I read this manga, I bow.
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