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It has been announced that a new Oishinbo anime, titled New Oishinbo, will air in 2027. It’s the franchise’s first new anime in 34 years, since the 1993 TV special. Yohei Azakami will voice Shiro Yamaoka, and Hitomi Sasaki will voice Yuuko Kurita. The casting of Akio Otsuka as Yuzan Kaibara — taking over the role from his father Chikao Otsuka, who played the character in previous installments — has also become a talking point. On 5channel, reactions mixed anticipation with unease, including worries over the character designs, questions about how a story set in the 1980s will be presented in the Reiwa era, and comparisons to the recent wave of nostalgic manga remakes.
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It has been announced that a new TV anime adaptation of the hit manga Oishinbo, titled New Oishinbo, will air in 2027. This marks the franchise’s first new anime since the 1993 TV special — a gap of 34 years. Alongside the announcement, a teaser visual and the main cast were revealed: Yohei Azakami will play Shiro Yamaoka, Hitomi Sasaki will play Yuuko Kurita, and Akio Otsuka will play Yuzan Kaibara. Otsuka takes over the role from his father, Chikao Otsuka, who voiced the character in the previous series.
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Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
No way that's true
That one's a great City Pop tune
The Pervy Sage outranks Kakashi-sensei
Whoa, this has failure flags written all over it (anime slang for an ominous sign of doom)
The character designs are rough too
Oishinbo's art got way worse right before it got cancelled over the 'Fukushima nosebleed' controversy (the arc where a character got nosebleeds from radiation exposure)
This is actually an improvement over that
If they're calling it a 'true sequel,' they must be planning to show us something different from before, right?
Yes — take a seat in front of your TV in 2027
We'll show you the real Oishinbo
>This one is a true sequel produced by Shin-Ei Animation
Yeah, it does say sequel. I wonder where the original left off — both the manga and the anime.
Never made it to the end of either, so I don't know
Tommy's just been written out of existence….
???: "It's a draaaw!"
It's basically like a Taiga drama (NHK's annual historical epic), right?
It's Japan from half a century ago
Kind of like how the Taisho era must've felt to people in the 1980s?
As for Iron Wok Jan,
it didn't even say 'Bravo' — pretty low-key
For Kinnikuman: Rise of the Perfect Origin arc, episode '0' shockingly used 'Go Fight' as its opening theme
Well yeah, that's because it's a Kinnikuman song
The best-looking woman in all of Oishinbo is Okaboshi's wife
They must be out of ideas on every front
In the end, they have to lean on this generation since it's the biggest demographic bracket
I mean, they even greenlit a Kimengumi remake
Well, the average age in Japan is like 49 now
What worries me is this usually ends with the generation who watched the original — the biggest demographic — writing it off as 'this isn't it'
Once Yuzan goes soft for his grandkid, cue the bonus rush!! (pachinko slang for a hot streak)
I think it's interesting precisely because it's brutal though
Iron Wok Jan is even more brutal and it got a normal anime adaptation
Just use this art style
Probably a lot of 40-to-60-something 'kidults still living with their parents' behind this
The people who were fans as kids grew up and are now the ones greenlighting anime
That's why we get so many 'who even asked for this' remakes
Sailor Moon, Nube, Rurouni Kenshin, Magic Knight Rayearth, Bonobono, Ashibe… I dunno why but they're remaking everything lately! Is there some 'this one finally topped the Heisei version' thing going on?
Nostalgia goggles aside, whether it's the writing or what, the Reiwa versions have lost that little bit of Heisei-era 'poison' they used to have, so there's no real charm left at all
It's like, watered-down but dressed up to look the part, which just makes it taste terrible
If anything, something like Chiikawa — not a remake, but actually born in the Reiwa era — feels fresher precisely because you can still catch a faint whiff of that 'poison'
Tommy's actually the Deputy Department Chief
If you watch his episodes, he's had a pretty rough life
Pyaaah! 🤡
Background and Key Points
Oishinbo began serialization in 1983 and ran as a TV anime from 1988 through 291 episodes, becoming a beloved national franchise. Chikao Otsuka, who voiced Yuzan Kaibara for years, passed away in 2015, and this casting sees his son Akio Otsuka take over his father’s signature role. The ‘Fukushima nosebleed’ mentioned in the thread refers to a 2014 story arc in the original manga depicting the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which sparked major social controversy and a wave of criticism directed at the work and its author. This new series is billed as a ‘true sequel,’ but it hasn’t been officially clarified exactly where the previous story left off, and opinions in the thread were divided on that point. In recent years, Showa-era classics like Kinnikuman, Urusei Yatsura, and Kochikame have all seen remakes or sequels, a trend likely tied to the age of both the production staff and the original fanbase.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Oishinbo New Anime After 34 Years — Yohei Azakami as Shiro Yamaoka, Hitomi Sasaki as Yuuko Kurita, Akio Otsuka Inherits Yuzan Kaibara Role from Father Chikao.”
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