Cooking manga

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Cooking manga (Japanese: 料理漫画, Hepburn: ryōri manga), also known as gourmet manga (Japanese: グルメ漫画, Hepburn: gurume manga), is a genre of Japanese manga and anime where food, cooking, eating, or drinking is a central plot element. The genre achieved mainstream popularity in the early 1980s as a result of the "gourmet boom" associated with the Japanese bubble economy.

Characteristics

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photorealistic illustrations of the dish itself;[2] a recipe for the dish is often also included.[4]

Cooking manga is a

multi-genre category,[4] with cooking manga stories that center romance, crime, mystery, and numerous other genres having been produced.[5] The age and gender of a cooking manga's protagonist typically indicates its intended audience, with both men and women forming the audience for the genre;[6] while home food preparation is stereotyped as women's work in Japan as it is in the West, professional cooking and connoisseurship tend to be considered as male activities.[6] Cooking manga is inclusive of stories concerning a variety of world cuisines, and is not limited to stories about Japanese cuisine exclusively.[7]

History

While manga has long contained references to food and cooking,[8] cooking manga would not emerge as a discrete genre until the 1970s. The three manga that are considered forerunners of the modern genre are Totsugeki Ramen (Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1970) by Mikiya Mochizuki, Cake Cake Cake (Nakayoshi, 1970) by Moto Hagio and Aya Ichinoki, and Kitchen Kenpo (Shimbun Akahata, 1970) by Mieko Kamei. The rise in interest in gourmet and cooking manga has been linked to the rise in average family income in the 1970s and the ability of ordinary Japanese families to eat out.[9]

Weekly Shonen Jump from 1973 to 1977, is noted as one of the first cooking manga titles.[2]
Hōchōnin Ajihei established several of the conventions still present in cooking manga today, including the exaggerated reactions of people eating the food as a way to convey its deliciousness to the reader who may have never tasted the pictured ingredients and the cooking battle where a qualified judge describes the taste to the reader.

The genre achieved mainstream popularity in the early 1980s as a result of Japan's "gourmet boom", wherein economic growth associated with the

.

In the early 2000s, cooking manga began to focus more on attainable or everyday foods. Depiction of real restaurants' specialties became common as well as the inclusion of recipes at the end of the manga's chapter or anime's episode, a technique Cooking Papa pioneered. After Oishinbo was put on hiatus in 2014, there was an explosion of narrowly focused food and cooking manga. Themes included everything from

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To date, nearly 1,000 manga series in the cooking genre have been produced.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Schodt 1983, pp. 106.
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  3. Barnes and Noble
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  4. ^ a b Butor, Cindy (30 October 2017). "Buy, Borrow, Bypass: Cooking Manga". BookRiot. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  5. ^ Asaff, Sarabeth (10 April 2014). "Cooking Manga You'll Want to Read". Udemy. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  6. ^ a b c Brau 2010, pp. 111.
  7. ^ Brau 2010, pp. 112.
  8. ^ a b c Brau 2010, pp. 110.
  9. ^ Sugimura, Kei. 50 Years of Gourmet Manga. Seikaisha Shinsho, 2017. ISBN 978-4061386181.
  10. ^ Ashkenazi & Jacob 2003, pp. 26.
  11. ^ Kirshner, Hannah (3 October 2018). "Japan's Father of Cooking Manga". Taste. Retrieved 5 December 2019.

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