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The production of a new anime adaptation of “Oishinbo,” titled “Shin Oishinbo” (New Oishinbo), has been announced, drawing a mix of excitement and unease in a thread on 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+). The original manga has run since 1983 and has a long history of controversy over its depictions of food and its characters’ remarks. Thread posters were split over whether the old anime’s practice of skipping certain episodes in reruns would continue, and whether the early series’ sharp-tongued, combative versions of Yuzan Kaibara and Shiro Yamaoka should be preserved this time around. The perennial “what are the three greatest cooking manga” debate also got lively.
9/20 (Sun) 7:01 AM
The announcement of a new TV anime, “Shin Oishinbo,” has fans expressing both joy and confusion. That’s because while the original manga “Oishinbo” is hugely popular, it’s also a work that has stirred up all kinds of controversy.
Serialized for over 30 years since 1983, its depictions of food and cooking have at times been pointed out by experts and media as factually inaccurate. Some characters’ remarks would also be difficult to portray as-is under today’s compliance standards.
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What people said
The fact you can get this furious over a dish is amazing lol
That's just a plain, undeniable point
They'll probably change everything to fit today's standards and ruin what made it great.
What are they even thinking?
> Also, some of the characters' remarks would be difficult to portray as-is under today's compliance standards.
If they're rebooting it knowing full well about all that, I'd rather they just stick to the original.
Shows like Cat's Eye and Ashita no Joe still hold up.
TVK was airing it up until this year, but there were so many skipped episodes the story didn't connect.
Even old anime with content that's inappropriate by today's standards often gets aired unchanged — but apparently this show doesn't get that same leeway.
It's on YouTube and ABEMA.
Oishinbo, Mister Ajikko, and Iron Wok Jan
Runners-up: Ramen Discovery Legend, Shota's Sushi, Cooking Master Boy (Chuka Ichiban), Super Kuishinbo, and Ajihei
What about Cooking Papa?
Go eat your way around town on your own two legs (・∀・)
An anime hosted by a critic who freeloads off sponsored trips and never pays out of pocket isn't just past its prime — it's way beyond that.
A hikikomori YouTuber's ferry-trip food vlog would be a hundred times more worthwhile.
I love Food Wars (Shokugeki no Soma).
Who wants to see those two after they went all warm and fuzzy?
Honestly, I think the edgier tone from the early volumes would land even better with today's audience.
Meanwhile Kurita ironically turns into a demon.
They shouldn't have messed with those three characters' original setups, but that's the fate of any long-running series.
Yuzan being trash and Yamaoka being a mad dog didn't actually last that long.
The "Who made this arai!?" scene is in volume 4, and by volume 5 he's already mellowed out.
That's textbook customer harassment (kasu-hara).
After getting home, Yuzan leaves a nasty review on Tabelog and Google Maps: "This place is garbage."
The restaurant's reply: "Ah, that customer from earlier."
I think changing it was actually the right call, though the final stretch was kind of weak.
Ajikko burned through the source material early and had no choice but to go original.
It's a rare case where the anime ended up more exciting than the manga.
Episodes shelved even in the ABEMA TV reruns:
Ep. 15: Japanese-Style Curry
Ep. 20: The Expanding Dinner Table
Ep. 23: The Taste of Gyunabe
Ep. 25: Memories of the Tongue
Ep. 26: Reasons Not to Eat
Ep. 27: The Great Whale Battle (Part 1)
Ep. 28: The Great Whale Battle (Part 2)
Ep. 36: Soup and Noodles
Ep. 40: Midsummer Ice
Ep. 42: Soybeans and Nigari
Ep. 51: Lemons and Health
Ep. 54: Edokko New Year's Zoni
Ep. 55: The Mystery of Soy Sauce
Ep. 95: Barely Passing Congee
Ep. 123: Ultimate vs. Supreme Showdown!! Spaghetti
Isn't "Reasons Not to Eat" the episode that criticizes microwaves?
Those are all great episodes though?
I actually love "The Expanding Dinner Table," "Edokko Zoni," and "The Mystery of Soy Sauce."
"The Expanding Dinner Table" is basically one of the series' signature episodes.
Sounds like something Nobunaga would say.
The original had lines like "people acting like gourmets, or Kuro-chan showing up," which got changed to "some incomprehensible foreigner" in the anime — but even that got ruled unacceptable.
Can't help it — there's no MSG in it, and that's what dumb palates are used to.
If that were all, it'd have just been his personal opinion, but then he started saying Iron Wok Jan's dishes taste great, and suddenly the whole thing felt fishy.
Nothing beats "Pasta in Its Fifth Year" for sheer unpleasantness.
That's the episode where Shin shows up — beating out the entire Kuriko clan as the biggest scumbag in the series.
Isn't that the one where the guy who kept his master's word loses a cooking duel to the man who broke his promise and stole his daughter away, so he steps aside?
Don't forget the "warmth of the old downtown" bit too!
That one's rough — I felt bad for Kizaki-san…
Background and Talking Points
Oishinbo is a long-running gourmet manga that has been serialized in Big Comic Spirits since 1983, with a TV anime adaptation that aired from 1988 to 1992. The original anime has had multiple episodes skipped during reruns, including “The Taste of Gyunabe” and “Japanese-Style Curry,” both mentioned in the thread. No official reason has been given, but depictions of foreign customers and negative references to specific foods or regions are often cited as likely causes. The manga is also known for drawing criticism as “factually inaccurate,” including social controversy in 2014 over an episode dealing with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that depicted characters reporting ill health. Given this history, the key question for the new anime project will likely be how much of the original’s bite and sharp edges to preserve. The thread showed a split between posters who praised the aggressive early characterizations of Yuzan Kaibara and Shiro Yamaoka, and those wary that compliance concerns will smooth the story over.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “‘Shin Oishinbo’ Anime Adaptation: Things Are Different From 30+ Years Ago — How Should It Preserve the Original’s Charm and Danger?“.
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