Satomi U's work "Yakumo-san wants to feed you.", which is serialized in Young Gangan, is a story about a beautiful, busty, widowed woman with glasses who cooks dinner for hungry high school baseball players. This is a gourmet manga and a heartwarming comedy manga, so we've put together 10 charms and highlights of this work!
Top 10 charms of the work! Part 1: "A beautiful, busty widow cooks dinner for you"
All of the home-cooked meals that Yakumo makes are appetizing. Unlike "Solitary Gourmet" and other works, the main focus is not eating at restaurants, but home cooking made by a beautiful, busty widow. It's not a gourmet manga where you make your own food, nor do you explore restaurants to find delicious food, but rather a beautiful older woman makes it for you. I think it's a novel setting that makes you want to read it.
Mental Care Effect
The interaction between Yakumo, who lost her husband, and Yamato, who lives alone and attends a strong high school baseball school, and who has no time to pay attention to everyday life due to his intense training and his original lifestyle, seems to have a big impact on the mental health of both of them. The words "Welcome home" and "I'm home" from these two provide great healing to readers.
Top 10 charms of the work! Part 2: "The pleasure of feeding"
Yamato, a high school baseball player at a strong school, is a man who consumes a lot of energy and eats so much that it goes beyond the level of a growing child. Yakumo's hobby is "feeding," which is healing by making dinner for Yamato and watching him eat. I think many people find healing from feeding their pets and watching them eat, and there is a similar pleasure to that.
Food Destroyed
It's great to watch Yakumo eating the mega-sized menu he worked so hard to make and the rice that fills the rice cooker, as if he's devouring it. I love watching people eat huge amounts of food with relish! I watch a lot of videos like that! I recommend this to people like that.
10 charms of the work! Part 3: "Yakumo-san is cute"
The main character of this work, Yakumo-san, a beautiful, busty widow who makes dinner for the high school baseball boys, is very cute. She is a very attractive character, and if you are attracted to Yakumo-san at first glance, she is a character that is enough to make you enjoy the work.
Yakumo-san is this kind of character
A widow who lost her husband several years ago at the age of 28. She wears glasses, has big breasts, and is a good cook. After losing her husband, she lost interest in cooking, which she used to love. However, when Yakumo saw the life of Yamato Shohei, a high school baseball player who moved in next door, and saw him inhale a rice ball that was shared with her, she began to cook dinner for Yamato every night.
10 charms of the work! Part 4: "Yamato's Growth Story"
Yamato is fed by Yakumo and goes through rigorous training as a high school baseball player, but he can also get irritated by the hierarchical relationships and strict instruction that comes from expectations. In the midst of all this, Yakumo's interactions become the flesh and blood that builds his body, and also work in a positive direction mentally.
Super High School Level Batter
He is a baseball elite who enrolled at a strong school in Tokyo after crossing borders, and his skills are such that he became a regular player despite being a first-year student, and he is highly regarded by his seniors and the coach, and is also noticed by the seniors on the reserves. He is a top prospect who is attracting attention as a professional player, and his growth as such is one of the highlights.
10 charms of the work! Part 5: "Rui Nishihara's reaction act"
Rui Nishihara is a childhood friend of Yamato's and is a beautiful girl who has had a crush on him since they were children, but Yamato keeps rejecting her for the obvious reason that he's too busy with baseball. However, Rui Nishihara refuses to give up and keeps going wild, and her dynamic reaction act makes this work interesting.
Reaction comedian
She is a girl with rich emotional expression, and once she falls in love, she goes for it. Even though she keeps getting rejected, she doesn't have any rivals, but with the appearance of Yakumo-san, dark clouds hang over her position. She also has a strong tendency to be delusional, and feels a sense of crisis, which makes her even more out of control, but her facial expressions and flashy, comical reactions at that time are very interesting to watch and never get boring. She is a beautiful girl with a bit of a pity.
10 charms of the work! Part 6: "Nishihara Rui is a Yakult fan"
Nishihara Rui is a runaway high school girl, but she also has another characteristic. That is, she is a genuine baseball fanatic who is passionate about high school baseball and professional baseball due to her father's influence. The parts where she researches information about the opposing team's ace and gives it to Yamato, and passionately talks about the greatness of high school baseball with shining eyes will surely stimulate the sensibilities of readers who are interested in baseball.
I'm a Yakult fan
In the field of professional baseball, Nishihara Rui's favorite team is the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Moreover, he is such an avid Swallow fan that he regularly visits the farm grounds and heckles them. Yakult fans will have no choice but to like him. In 2019, Yakult's eight-game losing streak was trending, then the next day they achieved nine, then the next day they were trending for ten. They may end up losing 11 games in a row and still extend their record. It's painful.
Top 10 charms of the work! Part 7: "Heartwarming episodes"
This work is not just about Yakumo feeding Yamato, but is filled with heartwarming episodes throughout. It's heartwarming just to have Yakumo say "Welcome home" when you say "I'm home," but the scenes where they go cherry blossom viewing, go to the pool, go to cheer on a game, or even need to go on a diet are heartwarming.
Observation Diary
The scene that warmed my heart the most was the one where Yakumo was keeping an observation diary of Yamato and recording his habits. The illustration is cute, and more than anything, she somehow looks like a bride. Is there no way Rui-chan can win now?
10 charms of the work! Part 8: "The supporting characters are also good"
Not only Yakumo, Yamato, and Rui, but the characters surrounding them are also all fascinating. Yakumo's best friend from her school days, Inagawa Yuri, who has a bold personality, Yakumo's husband, who is deceased but appears in a flashback scene and exudes melancholy, Yamato's reliable sister Sakura, and Yamato's mother, a hard-working career woman, are all unique and fascinating characters.
There are as many dramas as there are characters
Yamato's teammates "Daigo Kawai" and "Kota Maeda" also appear frequently as teammates on the baseball team, and "Ritsuko Nagai", Louis' friend who makes jokes behind Louis' back, is a childhood friend of the aforementioned "Kota Maeda" and has a relationship that is more than friends but not quite lovers, but their relationship seems to have progressed more than Louis', so it looks like she will be the winner. There is such drama too.
10 charms of the work! Part 9: Subliminal Large-portion Menu
Yamato, a member of the baseball team who is growing in appetite, is such an appetite demon that he can finish off a whole pot of rice in one meal and still not be satisfied. Therefore, the menus that are served tend to be large portions. When you see such a large-portion menu, you will instinctively want to eat a large-portion menu without worrying about calories.
Recommended Large-portion Menu
My personal recommendation for a large-portion menu is 1kg of braised pork. If you make braised pork yourself, it will shrink more than you think, and it's a pretty time-consuming dish. It's a menu that you'll feel bad about eating, but this voluminous braised pork is a menu that you'll want to eat without even realizing it.
10 charms of the work! No. 10: "How about making it tomorrow's menu? 』
It is a gourmet manga, and the dishes that appear will make you want to eat them. This work mainly features home cooking, so if you are having trouble deciding what to make, you can refer to it. Nowadays, you can find recipes for various dishes by searching the Internet, so the barrier to entry is low. One way to enjoy it is to make and eat the things that make you want to eat after reading them.
Summary of the 10 charms of the work
Yakumo-san Wants to Feed You, in which a beautiful widow with big breasts cooks dinner for you, can be enjoyed as a gourmet manga or as a heartwarming home comedy. The characters in the story are cute and lively, so I think it's a story that's easy to pick up and accept. Gourmet food, widowed older sister, yakitori... If these words strike a chord with you, you'll definitely enjoy it, so be sure to give it a read.
