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The story
News that the manga Oishinbo would get a TV anime adaptation broke on 5ch’s Hello! Project board, and the thread lit up with nostalgia. At the same time, plenty of posters raised concerns about whether the original — which by today’s standards is full of discriminatory and politically charged content — could really be adapted as-is. The fact that the voice actor for Yuzan Kaibara has already passed away, and that protagonist Shiro Yamaoka’s canonical age would now put him around 70, also came up, with many worrying the show would end up like recent revivals: watered down and defanged.
What people said
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Let's just leave the memories as they are.
Akio Otsuka could take over the role and it wouldn't feel off at all.
modern audiences just can't handle that.
#1: Yuzan Kaibara
#2: Seiichi Okaboshi
#3: Seiichi Tomii
#4: Yuko Kurita
#5: Shiro Yamaoka
It'll end up bleached out into something bland and flavorless.
People aren't rejecting it out of open-mindedness — the values themselves are just outdated.
That kind of thing feels dated these days.
With Oishinbo it's way more than just a glimpse.
Oishinbo is a story about someone who'd be 70 now, back when he was around 30.
Kazuhiko Inoue, who voices Yamaoka, was born in 1954, so that checks out.
Taken at face value it's just a terrible manga, so animating it seems like it'd cause all kinds of trouble.
Shiro: Ryohei Suzuki
Yuko: Kasumi Arimura
Yuzan: Shinichi Tsutsumi
Something like that.
Come to think of it, women's social status has really changed since then.
Let's get Ryuji to make a cameo. (popular home-cook YouTuber)
Do 40-year-olds even know Oishinbo?
Back in the day the collected volumes were a staple in every neighborhood barbershop's waiting area.
If you're 50 it'd have been more like middle school, wouldn't it.
Kids these days aren't going to watch something like this.
It's just the ego of people who think 'it's a classic, so young people should watch it too.'
Just think of it as the opposite of Zakiyama. (comedian known for loud, flashy outfits)
Background and Key Points of Debate
Oishinbo is a long-running gourmet manga that began serialization in Big Comic Spirits in 1983, and its politically charged episodes — heavily colored by creator Tetsu Kariya’s personal views — have repeatedly sparked controversy. Most notably, a 2014 arc covering the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster depicted characters suffering nosebleeds, triggering a controversy so intense that the episode was ultimately left out of the collected volume. The concerns raised in the thread — about compliance issues and political messaging — appear to stem directly from this history. At the same time, the manga is also highly regarded as a pioneering work exploring Japanese food culture, and that nuance — that its legacy isn’t simply good or bad — went largely unmentioned in the responses.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Oishinbo TV Anime Adaptation Confirmed! ✨.”
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