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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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Cooking manga is a
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]
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
To date, nearly 1,000 manga series in the cooking genre have been produced.[11]
See also
References
- ^ Schodt 1983, pp. 106.
- ^ ISBN 978-0345485908.
- Barnes and Noble. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Asaff, Sarabeth (10 April 2014). "Cooking Manga You'll Want to Read". Udemy. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ a b c Brau 2010, pp. 111.
- ^ Brau 2010, pp. 112.
- ^ a b c Brau 2010, pp. 110.
- ^ Sugimura, Kei. 50 Years of Gourmet Manga. Seikaisha Shinsho, 2017. ISBN 978-4061386181.
- ^ Ashkenazi & Jacob 2003, pp. 26.
- ^ Kirshner, Hannah (3 October 2018). "Japan's Father of Cooking Manga". Taste. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
Works cited
- Ashkenazi, Michael; Jacob, Jeanne (2003). Food Culture in Japan. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0313324383.
- Brau, Lorie (2010). Johnson-Woods, Toni (ed.). "Oishinbo's Adventures in Eating: Food, Communication, and Culture in Japanese Comics". Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. Continuum: 109–127.
- ISBN 978-1568364766.
Further reading
- Kei Sugimura, 50 Years of Gourmet Manga. Kodansha, 2017. ISBN 978-4061386181