Maiko Kawai is a first year university student who is afraid to try new things. While she enjoys cooking and wants to try the food around her, she is often thwarted by shyness and hesitation. Unexpectedly, she runs into her elementary school friend, Shinon Ogawa, at her college. Shinon manages to convince her to start […]
While many people are interested in anime for intense action, vivid animation, or cerebral plots, there is a particular group of people that just want to watch something to relax and feel a little better about the world. For these specific people, there is the iyashikei genre of anime. Iyashikei essentially translates to “healing,” and
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The nameless main character is sent to a new world. Kokoro, a girl chosen to be the guardian of her lord, travels to that specific location, told that she would find her lord there. While teaching him of his new world, she meets several other companions and they decide to form a Gourmet Guild in
Anime doesn’t need to be all action and drama in every series. Sure, that is what makes it interesting for some, but sometimes you just want to watch something and set your brain to autopilot. The Japanese even have a special term for these sort of anime series, they call them Iyashikei, or healing shows.
We all know that happy, whole families in anime are rare and more often than not parents are just people the creator can kill for a tragic back story. However, sometimes it is easier to pretend that there are no parents at all by making a teen live completely alone in an anime series. However,
Kokonotsu Shikada has aspirations of becoming a manga artist, but his father wants him to take over their prestigious rural sweets shop that has been in the family for nine generations. Kokonotsu continually refuses until one day the eccentric Hotaru Shidare breezes into town and wants to make his father work for her family’s sweets
There’s just something about food when it is animated that just make it look delicious, even more so than if it were in front of you. And that’s great, because anime actually has a bit of a love affair with food! Maybe its because animators only have a spare moment for a hot meal and
After the death of his wife, high school math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is left to care for his young daughter, Tsumugi. He does his best, but his busy schedule and poor culinary skills limit them to eating convenience store food separately. One day, his daughter expresses an interest to eat together after talking to one
Ever since he was a child, Souma Yukihira helped his father cook in his restaurant, constantly challenging him to cook-offs in anticipation for the day when he would finally win. However, when his father suddenly decides to leave to go on a trip around the world, Souma is sent to the Totsuki Culinary Academy, an
