Mar 11, 2025
Meshinuma. is a ONA shorts adaption of the manga of the same name and tells the story of business man Iinuma who is often overworked, tired, and most importantly hungry. Iinuma becomes revitalized and captivated by delicious food that injects a hidden soft sided personality into Iinuma who is usually dull and monotonous.
As a random anime to pick up I don’t think many will really like it, but if you have read a couple chapters of the manga I think you will find some type of semi lackluster enjoyment in it. It is very much a slice-of-life short anime about food and nothing more.
Meshinuma.
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consists of 20, 1-2 minute episodes and is a very easy and fast watch. The anime adapts some stories from the first 20 chapters of the manga and a lot of the dialogue is taken verbatim from the chapters it adapts. I highly recommend the manga, while the chapters are short they are a bit more flushed out than the anime and give the series more of a personality.
Meshinuma. aired on Anime Beans, an anime based app by Production I.G, which has been shut down and makes this a semi lost media anime. This makes it very hard to find the ONA, and I found only 1 source that had the raw unsubbed episodes with a majority of the episodes having auto generated JP subs.
Overall score:
If you read the manga barely 6/10
If you haven’t read the manga 5/10
5.5 as an anime in general
TL;DR
Semi lackluster adaptation of the manga, and those with no prior experience with the manga will most likely not enjoy these shorts while those who have would only find slight enjoyment from this adaptation. Would recommend picking up the manga though.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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