Good catch!
- When I first started watching this show, I didn’t really want to label it as ‘food porn’, but now I really can’t describe it as anything else. We just watch Ryo, Kirin, and our two new characters stuff their faces in an extremely erotic way that almost looks disturbing and yet…we can’t look away…
- Now that Kirin has got into the habit of invading Ryo’s personal life every weekend, we can see true enthusiasm on both ends; the pair of them are now officially a couple. There’s no husband and wife; just a cook and…ummm…child-like taster. Ryo’s the mature one and Kirin’s the little kid running around the annual cherry blossom fair going ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’. It won’t be long until Ryo puts lilies around in her apartment and the two of them will be rubbing cheeks. Yes, forbidden love is definitely in the air after episode 2. But in reality, Ryo and Kirin’s relationship, as both friends and family, has already turned adorable to the point of no return. And so the fact that Kirin behaves like a little child when she meets people already close to Ryo and immediately gets jealous and clingy makes the two of them even closer.
- Auntie Akira is, unsurprisingly, no different than any other aunt in any other anime; very clingy to her niece and very much the beer drinker. And also, unsurprisingly, very attached to Ryo’s magical cooking skills. Chewing away at grilled squid with teriyaki sauce to the point where she can’t stop from drooling…Kirin hastily munching at corn-on-the-cob like some ravenous rabbit, but the worst is how Ryo eats her rice balls; it’s a watch-and-see-for-yourself moment.
- Whether SHAFT had the intention of making these girls eat delicious food in a way to make the viewer feel either amused or uncomfortable or…ummm…something else…is…oh come on, this is SHAFT we’re talking about here. Koufuku Graffiti was a 4-koma about girls loving food, and so only our favorite quirky studio could make a almost-harmless slice-of-life manga into a slice-of-food show with slow-motion, close-ups of lips, and yes…you guessed it…
Just to make you remember this is a SHAFT show.
- After more erotic food eating, yuri bonding, sweet family comedy that doesn’t have any hidden messages like other SHAFT shows, even more erotic food eating and the atypical beer-swilling aunt, I’m very eager to watching more of this. Not so much of the eating scenes (although they are somewhat of a reason, if only to laugh at since they can be OTT sometimes), but at the fact that after SHAFT being on a super-psychological overdrive with making the second Monogatari season and the Madoka Magica: Rebellion movie, things have started to quieten down. A deliberate move of course, since I for one don’t want the studio to be seen as a group to make shows/movies that make your mind constantly think and spin. More SHAFT shows that have more of a ‘minimal’ touch to them are fantastic in my books; it shows that they’re not all makers of shows with hidden messages.
