Yakumo-san wa Ezuke ga Shitai. (Beauty and the Feast)

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Synonyms: Yakumo wants to feed.

Japanese: 八雲さんは餌づけがしたい。

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 11

Chapters: 89

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 4, 2016 to Mar 19, 2021

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Gangan

Authors: Satomi U (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #4599²

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MangaYoung GanganSatomi U (Story & Art)

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Having cooked too much rice one day, 28-year-old widow Shuuko Yakumo decides to share the surplus with her new neighbor, Shouhei Yamato. As an active member of his high school's baseball club, Yamato works up an enormous appetite, and his penchant for eating a lot reminds Yakumo of her late husband. These fond memories reignite her passion for cooking.

Ever since their first meal together, Yakumo has been inviting Yamato over to her home to eat every day, slowly building their friendship through love of food and baseball.

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Yakumo-san wa Ezuke ga Shitai. was published in English as Beauty and the Feast by Square Enix from March 23, 2021 to November 21, 2023.

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Yakumo, Shuuko

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Yamato, Shouhei

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Nishihara, Rui

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Inagawa, Yuri

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Nagai, Ritsuko

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Yamato, Sakura

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Oct 23, 2023

lycheelynne

Recommended

A very comforting, wholesome, feel-good story, perfect for readers who enjoy slice-of-life and food manga.

The main focus of the story is definitely food, so I wouldn't recommend diving into the story specifically looking for romance, ecchi or any dramatic plot. It's simply 89 chapters of Yakumo making food for Yamato.

I binged the whole series in one night and I still go back to it and choose a random chapter to reread purely because every chapter is so comforting. The way that Yakumo is portrayed is so endearing, it just makes me want to sit down and listen to her talk for hours. There is ...

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May 18, 2023

bergars

Mixed Feelings

How simple of an idea, having a warm meal back home. An entire manga made around the idea that you can suffer any level of mundane pain, if there's that meal when you're back.

Dipping my fingers into the slice of life genre, this story does the non-fresh aspect of the story, with slivers of a better story lying behind. The simple dynamic right on the synopsis, unchanging, unmoving, and all about looking at the slowest progression of the bonds we make from the smallest of coincidences. Everything that happens around the story centers around the food that's presented by Yakumo, a widow that's reminded ... of her husband by the very person eating her meals, a neighbor.

The story's as simple as that, days starts, both have problems around that day that stresses them out, they meet, eat a warm meal while bonding, rinse and repeat. The repetitiveness did start to grind at me. This is a series that works as a weekly watch, but not as a read from beginning to end. A pallet cleanser, but not a full course. Maybe the mistake was watching it constantly instead of alternating, but if it fails as a straight watch, it speaks volumes about how it doesn't work on some levels. I was bored constantly at the beginning of the midpoint. I couldn't bare again the same thing again and again without change or interesting moment. Sadly, there were parts that explored the grief, and the concept of toxic replacement, including that age gap the characters share, but it didn't lead anywhere. The great didn't try, and the normal stayed for far too long.

The characters had to be great for this to work, and even with them, the story needs compelling aspects. Only our protagonist shows the layers necessary to carry the story. A widow that longs for connection, and finds it in the people around her neighbor. She's the star, but we required something to foil her dynamic, and it didn't work for me. The minor characters had way better moments than the ones we spend most time in. I wish we had something more to cling to, since the great moments are far in between.

However, the art felt very cozy. Not a perfect feel, not an extremely polished nature, but diverse enough to keep my eyes on the pages. It manages to capture angles, expressions, focusing on the eyes and how they communicate feelings. I enjoyed it, as well as how the expressions on characters spoke more about them than the text itself. Again, there was care put into the ideas, but not enough interest and focus for the rest.

This manga had it all to be an extremely memorable Slice of life. It wasted its potential by focusing on the extremely mundane aspects of the story, and the last conflict wasn't even that interesting, except for the very end. I liked the ending it got, but it wasn't entirely worth it.

6/10, I wish it wasn't that long.

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Aug 25, 2024

red-artist

Not Recommended

Plot
our female MC Yukumo is a widow. She lives alone and is still mourning the death of her husband. When a high school boy (our lead male MC) moves next door alone, she gives him some leftover food. From that day, he comes over daily for food after his baseball practice. The rest of the plot is both of them eating / cooking food.

Good stuff
1. Lots of food. we have everything from live barbecue to leftover curry.
2. nice thicc milf. has plenty of bra shots and them boobies are great.
3. decent art.
4. no stereotypes. Almost all characters are nice people, ...

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