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Hanako Nakamura, apprentice chef who worked at the famous restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown, Manten restaurant, aspires to be number one chef in her village. One day he meets the ghost of a concubine, concubine of Emperor Xuanzong's favorite, who taught her to make delicious fried rice. How is the taste of the fried rice that was created by a concubine who knew her tastes and girl that are always full of spirit?
Ando Natsu, whose dream is to become a patissiere, finds herself jobless after the shop owner's sudden death. She goes to Tokyo in search of another job at a confectionery but the recruiting period has just ended and there are no available positions. This is when she makes her first encounter with the well-established Japanese confectionery "Mangetsudo". It is run by the veteran confectioner Umekichi, Takezo, and Mitsuko, and they happened to be looking for a part-time worker. A number of chance events follow and Natsu starts working at Mangetsudo. Although her job is to serve customers, Natsu becomes interested in the world of Japanese confection. Having only worked in cake shops, everything is new to her and she is gradually drawn into the deepness and profoundness of Japanese confection.
In the picturesque town of Kuraoka in Fukui Prefecture, the Kuraoka Sake Brewery has been making sake since the Edo period. Akane Kamio, who inherited the brewery after her father's sudden death, converted part of the brewery into a small ryokan called "Kura no Yado." (Source: Shukan Manga Times, translated)
A home-life comedy depicting the loving but troublesome relationship between a salaryman and his wife. Kiyoshi Yamamoto, an overweight office worker, is married to Hitomi, a beautiful woman he met as a pen pal, after ten years of dating. However, Hitomi, a career woman, goes away on a five-day business trip just after they get married......! (Source: Shogakukan, translated)
The original author Nishi Yuuji has passed away, but serialization continued with Tone Atsuji (利根敦) taking over the scriptwriter's position.
