The eponymous Sota is a kitchen hand at a high-class traditional Japanese restaurant, learning the basics of cooking washoku. Through Sota's training, readers will come to understand the care and forethought that goes into creating Japanese cuisine and which has led to its wide-spread popularity across the world, from ramen to sushi to izakaya fare. Pure-hearted, hard-working, and in love with food, Sota will have readers rooting for him to become the best washoku chef ever. (Source: Media Do International)

Morino, a man who works in agricultural development in developing countries, travels around the world trying to restore the connection between nature and mankind.

The Earth does not belong to humans, it also belongs to animals. Noa's Ark - A Shared World depicts the relationship between mankind and the animal world. It tackles the eternal problem of 'coexistence' and sharing head-on.

A unique combination of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "food"!　Did you know that Kongming made steamed buns? A family of "Three Kingdoms" otaku who run a Chinese restaurant were trying to recreate dishes from "The Annals of the Three Kingdoms" when are transported back to the era of the Three Kingdoms! The book is full of foodie stories about the famed generals and commanders of the period! Recipes for dishes that appear in the work are also included at the end of the book! (Source: usio Publishing, translated)

A defeated soldier in the Meiji era who has given up on life is reborn as a bear hunter in the northern lands of Japan.

Let's take a closer look at the food scenes depicted by national artists, and the pain and joy contained within them! ! The main character, Kawanaka, who is assigned to the Fukagawa bureau of a morning newspaper, proposes a project that uses his hobby of gourmet food to connect literary greats with food. It was an exploration of literary greats such as Natsume Soseki, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Osamu Dazai, which depicted their lives and essence through the many ``foods'' they wrote about. What did the great writers of modern literature think about when they depicted food? Also recommended by Laswell Hosoki! ! Includes a color article “Visiting food related to six great literary figures” and 30 pages of newly written columns! !

On the outside, Soemon Miyamura is a talented chef who is well-regarded in the city, but on the other side, he is a novice covert who works for Minamimachi Magistrate Kagemoto Toyama, and he fights hard in Edo! A variety of troubles, big and small, such as giving cooking instructions at a tempura stand, undercover investigation into cheating suspicions, and cooking meals for the shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi, who suffered from anorexia, are solved with clumsy investigations and masterful knife handling!! "

Ryogoku, Tokyo, a city of history and a city of sumo. Haruno Haru, who came to Tokyo from Hokkaido with the aim of becoming a painter, ends up working at Daimon, a long-established izakaya. What will happen to Haru's new life? A Ryogoku Izakaya story full of delicious food and humanity, drawn by the golden duo who gained great popularity with ``Souta's Kitchen Knife.''

Sota Kitaoka, born in Shizunai, Hokkaido, to a family that ran a restaurant called "Kitaoka", moved to Tokyo for training in order to rebuild his family's run-down restaurant. There, he was discovered by the owner of "Tomikyu," a long-established ryotei restaurant in Ginza, where he underwent rigorous training, eventually becoming the head chef at Tomikyu. After that, he went on a culinary journey until he opened his own restaurant, "Tomikyu Kamui" in Nerima, Tokyo. A few years later, Sota is back at it again, this time to pursue the essence of "Omotenashi" (hospitality), just in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics! The long-awaited revival of the classic culinary manga! (Source: Bunkasha, translated)