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Oishinbo, Volume 4 - Fish, Sushi and Sashimi (Oishinbo #4)
R to L (Japanese Style). Fish, Sushi and Sashimi Yamaoka and his father, Kaibara Y zan, have never enjoyed an ideal father-son relationship. In fact, it's about as far from ideal as possible, and when they start arguing about food--which they inevitably do--the sparks really fly. In this volume of
Oishinbo
the subject of dispute is fish, starting with the question of whet...more
Paperback, 258 pages
Published
August 11th 2009
by VIZ Media LLC
(first published July 14th 2009)
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You have to give this manga credit for having one of the most oddly specific and fussy of plot devices ever conceived. A food critic has the job of designing the ultimate menu for Japanese cuisine of all time. Each episode involves the hero, a too cool for school guy in a black suit and tie, solve some dilemma with his knowledge of gourmet sushi, and then they eat. That's it. Repeat.
The caste of characters centers mainly on the hero gourmand Yamaoka, his plucky but demure girlfriend, and his tou...more
The caste of characters centers mainly on the hero gourmand Yamaoka, his plucky but demure girlfriend, and his tou...more
If you've ever wanted to read sixty pages or so with two characters debating the rightness of serving salmon uncooked while everybody else in the room makes periodic emotional outbursts, have I got a comic book for you!
There are plenty of other great stories in this volume of selected episodes from the long-running manga, all of them centered in some way around fish. And though the chapters are cherry-picked out of sequence, the compilation does a good job of giving readers a sense of the relati...more
There are plenty of other great stories in this volume of selected episodes from the long-running manga, all of them centered in some way around fish. And though the chapters are cherry-picked out of sequence, the compilation does a good job of giving readers a sense of the relati...more
I don't think I'll ever been able to eat sushi, sushimi but fish that's cooked maybe. I'm just so terrified of raw fish. Which is a good reason to try it right. I don't know..the discription of a man dieing from parasites isn't encouraging! I still love these books and I have so much respect for the authors. There's a lot to get into almost 300pages, to another culture so they'll feel encouraged to try it for themself. I think it gives plenty of info and the stories are funny at least to me. My...more
Sep 02, 2009
Steven
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4 of 5 stars
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I really enjoyed this volume. Not quite as much as the first, but it still was very, very fun.
There were a few stories that were.. quite dorky but it worked because of the lessons being taught about the food. I've learned so much about raw fish I feel like my head is going to explode!
The salmon story at the end really had me going and now.. well, you'll have to read it yourself to understand.
I'm about halfway through this series now and I've learned that it is much better "digested" if you break...more
There were a few stories that were.. quite dorky but it worked because of the lessons being taught about the food. I've learned so much about raw fish I feel like my head is going to explode!
The salmon story at the end really had me going and now.. well, you'll have to read it yourself to understand.
I'm about halfway through this series now and I've learned that it is much better "digested" if you break...more
These comics are supposed to show a true expertise in Japanese cuisine. I've only read this one book out of the series and was not impressed by the characters. The attitudes are a bit grating. The facts that I learned about fish are quite interesting, but I'm not about to go researching which river a particular fish is caught in before I buy it. I might not be induced to pick fish out of a tank at a restaurant knowing that they spent their last days in an abusive environment rather than being ca...more
So far, my least favorite in the series, mostly because I'm reading these not for character or plot, but for information. And I just listened to an audio book called The Story of Sushi which covered a lot of the same points as this volume of Oishinbo. Also, this book confirmed for me that these stories aren't being told in a chronological fashion either. The Wiki says that it is a "Best of the Best of" compilation; so that explains some of the confusion I was having. I might like the story bette...more
I am in love with this series of manga. The main content is about the intricacies of food preparation and cooking in Japan, as shown in a story about two reporters doing a project called the Ultimate Japanese Meal for their newspaper. The food is really detailed, both in content as well as visually. I generally don't read manga at all, but this is really good and I'm currently plowing through all the books in the series that my library carries!
There is absolutely no plot to this very strange manga on food battles between two magazines. Father and son compete based on common ingredients, a la Iron Chef, and long informative explications on the history and background of the chosen ingredient and its related cooking methods often follow.
This is great light reading, nonetheless, especially if you just treat it as a quasi-non-fiction that provides lots of interesting facts on Japanese food.
This is great light reading, nonetheless, especially if you just treat it as a quasi-non-fiction that provides lots of interesting facts on Japanese food.
More stuffy food battles between father and son with intense accusations of ingesting parasites as part of eating raw salmon. Typically the narratives rotate between cooking one-ups, romantic entanglements reunited by good food, and emperor's new clothes type revelations. Gotta love the rapturous descriptions of dishes I'm sure I would never actually eat - luckily I can eat vicariously through these characters.
My second try at _Oishinbo_, and I liked it much better. The characters and storyline were familiar, so I didn't have to work as hard to place them. And the information was both a little familiar (I watch Scott and my 6 year old son eat sushi) and a lot new (the what, why and how of Japanese fish-based foods).
This was fun Japanese foodie stuff, and I'll keep reading them as Scott brings them home.
This was fun Japanese foodie stuff, and I'll keep reading them as Scott brings them home.
I think I would have enjoyed this one more if I were more familiar with more fish. But it's still really awesome, and I'm enjoying the series. The notes at the back are always good, but it seems these are particularly so, as they explain types of fish and where in Japan they are found.
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Om nom nom! Deliciousness galore. If you are at all interested in learning about sushi, sashimi, or just fish (yes, some of them are cooked), this is great for a fun read!
My first manga. It gets talky for a comic at times, but for my sheer love of food and the little twists this series makes, I wanna read the rest of the series.
This one finally seemed to be more about the people then the food. I loved it just as much as I loved the others, even though fish kind of yucks me out.
Made me crave sushi so much I actually went to get some for lunch one day. I'm kinda sick of the general way each story goes with the antihero but at least there are informational tidbits in each chapter.
Food, drama, competition, sweat drop. The Iron Chef series must have taken notes from this manga.
Made me hungry, so mission accomplished. Very interesting to read as a genre study.
Great book. Had to get used to reading in the opposite direction. Enjoyed learning about the different fishes and their preparation. Made me hungry every time I picked it up to read.
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This made me hungry every time I read it.
Excellent sea-bream recipes.
Funny.
Love it!
I don't like sashimi/sushi, but now I really want to give it another try :)
I love the books, the only thing that bothers me is that the translated stories are grouped by food type and not chronologically. I'm really interested in the progression of the relationship between Yamaoka & Kurita and it is a bit like a yo-yo when they are barely friends in one chapter and then planning their wedding in the next. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...#
Culinarily ahead of it's time. A must for the Nipponophile and food enthusiast.
Very funny stories, easy to get in and get lost.
See review of volume 1
Not as solid of a set as some of the others, but still incredibly informative.
There's a whole chapter about why not to eat raw fish.
There's a whole chapter about why not to eat raw fish.
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Manga writer and essayist extraordinaire Tetsu Kariya graduated from prestigious Tokyo University. Kariya was employed with a major advertising agency before making his debut as a manga writer in 1974, when he teamed up with legendary manga artist Ryoichi Ikegami to create Otoko Gumi (Male Gang). The worlds of food and manga were forever changed in 1983 when Kariya, together with artist Akira Hana...more
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