Gokudou Meshi is essentially a manga about food nostalgia. Every Christmas Eve in South Naniwa Prison a group of convicts gather around a table and tell a stories about the best dish they have ever eaten, however this is a competition -who ever makes the rest salivate the most wins. The prize: one piece of food from everyone else around the table’s New Year Osechi.
Each chapter focuses on a different convict and the meal they have chosen. After a very promising first chapter which showed how Shunsuke the main character ended up in prison in the first place and set up the plot revolving around
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Oct 2, 2012
Dosei Mansion
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Wanting to take up his fathers career and curious about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, Mitsu takes up a job cleaning the windows of the huge ring like structure orbiting the earth which all humanity now inhabits due to the Earth having been turned into a nature reserve. Mitsu soon finds that his new job enables him to take on an outsiders view on the strange world of Saturn Apartments.
Whilst many parts of the story can’t be argued to be groundbreaking, the way in which Saturn Apartments society is divided holds the story together and makes each new client more interesting. Rather than focusing on ... |
