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Oishinbo

Oishinbo
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The cover of Oishinbo volume 102.
美味しんぼ
Genre Drama, Cooking
Manga
Written by Tetsu Kariya
Illustrated by Akira Hanasaki
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Big Comic Spirits
Original run October 1983 – present
Volumes 111
Anime television series
Directed by Yoshio Takeuchi
Studio Shin-Ei Animation
Original network TV Asahi
Original run 17 October 198817 March 1992
Episodes 136
Anime television film
Oishinbo: Kyūkyoku Tai Shikō, Chōju Ryōri Taiketsu!!
Directed by Iku Suzuki, Yoshio Takeuchi
Studio Shin-Ei Animation
Original network Nippon Television
Released 11 December 1992
Runtime 90 Minutes
Anime television film
Oishinbo: Nichibei Kome Sensō
Directed by Yoshio Takeuchi
Studio Shin-Ei Animation
Original network Nippon Television
Released 3 December 1993
Runtime 89 Minutes
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Oishinbo (美味しんぼ?, lit. "The Gourmet") is a long-running cooking manga written by Tetsu Kariya and drawn by Akira Hanasaki. The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for delicious, oishii, and the word for someone who loves to eat, kuishinbo. The series depicts the adventures of culinary journalist Shirō Yamaoka and his partner (and later wife), Yūko Kurita. It was published by Shogakukan between 1983 and 2008 in Big Comic Spirits, and resumed again on February 23, 2009 only to be put on an indefinite hiatus after the May 12, 2014 edition in the weekly Big Comic Spirits as a response by the publisher to harsh criticism of Oishinbo's treatment of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Before this suspension, Oishinbo was collected in 111 tankōbon volumes, making it the 8th longest manga released. The series was a perennial best-seller, selling 1.2 million copies per volume, for a total of more than 130 million

The series received the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga. It was adapted as a 136-episode anime television series broadcast on TV Asahi from October 17, 1988 to March 17, 1992 plus two sequel anime television specials.

It is licensed in English in North America by Viz Media, which published the first volume January 2009. Seven volumes from the Oishinbo à la Carte (美味しんぼア・ラ・カルト Oishinbo A Ra Karuto?) series were published from January 2009 to January 2010. These editions are thematic compilations (and thus jumping back and forth in continuity), making the English editions effectively a "best-of of a best-of". These volumes are:


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