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Yakumo-san wa Edzuke ga Shitai. #10
Beauty and the Feast 10
A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!
It’s the New Year season in Japan, and Shuko invites Shohei to her table for the biggest feast of the year! And with the advent of spring, what changes will the warmer weather bring to their relationship?
It’s the New Year season in Japan, and Shuko invites Shohei to her table for the biggest feast of the year! And with the advent of spring, what changes will the warmer weather bring to their relationship?
176 pages, Paperback
First published October 24, 2020
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September 20, 2023
These books make me so hungry...
September 22, 2023
Shuko has reached the end of her financial rope, which means she’s forced to get out there and get a job. Will this leave time for cooking? And does it really matter if Yamato is about to move into the dorms anyway?
I have to say, I am a sucker for unexpected answers to questions I wasn’t expecting to have answered in the first place, which makes this one of the more enjoyable volumes of this series.
How has Shuko been living all this time? Honestly, I’d assumed it was life insurance or something of that nature, but it turns out to be an altogether more melancholic answer, one that draws her deceased husband back into the story.
This is really some of the best stuff they’ve done with Shuko (which is ironic considering the very first image of her we get when you clear the cover) and I like how she is very grateful for the time she had with her husband, but she isn’t trapped in that past.
No, she knows he would want her to move on, although whether he would want that knowing she was nearly involved with a high school student just shy of half her age? Ehhh, maybe keep that part out of your next visit to the shrine, Shuko.
Still, doing more with Shuko besides drawing her without pants proves to be a lot of fun. Her new part-time job is hard, as is to be expected, but her attitude and some help from Yamato see her through.
And the food is looking very tasty this volume. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted mochi more in my entire life than when I was looking at the new year’s leftovers that Shuko brings with her.
But we only have one more volume left, which means that drama must be had and it comes in the form of Yamato being able to move into the dorms soon, which will ultimately see him taking his meals there as well.
This ends up causing a pile of problems, as Yamato and his sister, Sakura, wind up in a huge fight over him not saying anything about missing Shuko. Plus Rui gets the date of her dreams and couldn’t be more unhappy about it (about what she deserves after last volume).
Which would be awesome if, boy, I had any inkling what the heck they planned to do here. I think largely this is literally going to come down to the last volume. It remains a nice bit of joy at the bond of sharing a meal, but that whole undercurrent of the age gap is poised to switch from subtext to text real soon.
3.5 stars - on its own merits, the food section remains as reliable as it has ever been, the bond between Shuko and Yamato is strong, and Shuko gets some nice fleshing out that doesn’t involve her literal flesh for a change. Not rounding up because I am not confident in that ending, but a step up from the norm.
I have to say, I am a sucker for unexpected answers to questions I wasn’t expecting to have answered in the first place, which makes this one of the more enjoyable volumes of this series.
How has Shuko been living all this time? Honestly, I’d assumed it was life insurance or something of that nature, but it turns out to be an altogether more melancholic answer, one that draws her deceased husband back into the story.
This is really some of the best stuff they’ve done with Shuko (which is ironic considering the very first image of her we get when you clear the cover) and I like how she is very grateful for the time she had with her husband, but she isn’t trapped in that past.
No, she knows he would want her to move on, although whether he would want that knowing she was nearly involved with a high school student just shy of half her age? Ehhh, maybe keep that part out of your next visit to the shrine, Shuko.
Still, doing more with Shuko besides drawing her without pants proves to be a lot of fun. Her new part-time job is hard, as is to be expected, but her attitude and some help from Yamato see her through.
And the food is looking very tasty this volume. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted mochi more in my entire life than when I was looking at the new year’s leftovers that Shuko brings with her.
But we only have one more volume left, which means that drama must be had and it comes in the form of Yamato being able to move into the dorms soon, which will ultimately see him taking his meals there as well.
This ends up causing a pile of problems, as Yamato and his sister, Sakura, wind up in a huge fight over him not saying anything about missing Shuko. Plus Rui gets the date of her dreams and couldn’t be more unhappy about it (about what she deserves after last volume).
Which would be awesome if, boy, I had any inkling what the heck they planned to do here. I think largely this is literally going to come down to the last volume. It remains a nice bit of joy at the bond of sharing a meal, but that whole undercurrent of the age gap is poised to switch from subtext to text real soon.
3.5 stars - on its own merits, the food section remains as reliable as it has ever been, the bond between Shuko and Yamato is strong, and Shuko gets some nice fleshing out that doesn’t involve her literal flesh for a change. Not rounding up because I am not confident in that ending, but a step up from the norm.
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December 27, 2024I assume Yakumo started with a large initial deposit, because there’s no way you’re getting to 3.5m in 1.5 years if you’re depositing 50-80k a month. Even if you’re each depositing that amount. Her bank book didn’t make sense to me, since the “interest” is under expenditures. What kind of interest? Also, if her husband already had 3.5m, where did his money go? I was also puzzled that she moved into the apartment he used to live in alone…did he own it? I don’t think so, but it’s kind of odd that it was still vacant. I mean, he’d been gone a couple of years, but they were also married a couple of years and together for some years before that…
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October 14, 2023
my favorite so far of the whole series
October 25, 2023
3.5/5 Stars
March 8, 2024
3 stars
I really needed a shonen pallet cleanser after the LH marathon.
I really needed a shonen pallet cleanser after the LH marathon.
March 9, 2024
Okay, it feels like NOTHING happened in this volume! Just me?
March 16, 2024
Finally, we get some answers.
July 12, 2025
Here's some of that character development I've been hungry for.
October 11, 2023
I love this series so much, the food always looks amazing. It’s also funny but cute at the same time
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