Oishinbo - Vol. 33 Ch. 305 - A Home Without A Kitchen Knife

[MangaDex]

 

[CosmicWitch]

Kind of a weird chapter. I don't really understand the ultimate point besides "don't eat pre-packaged convenience food," which sure. Lawsons can only do so much.

I do like that Kurita doesn't back down with Yamaoka. She loses her polite average girl shyness and is more bold about her opinions to him. She can get sidelined a lot in the narrative but I appreciate the chapters where she's allowed to shine as a professional food writer just like him.

 

[TakesatoKeita]

Kind of a weird chapter. I don't really understand the ultimate point besides "don't eat pre-packaged convenience food," which sure. Lawsons can only do so much.

I do like that Kurita doesn't back down with Yamaoka. She loses her polite average girl shyness and is more bold about her opinions to him. She can get sidelined a lot in the narrative but I appreciate the chapters where she's allowed to shine as a professional food writer just like him.

Single chapters like these (whenever they feel like they have to make a grand speech/point/something) do unfortunately come off as weird sometimes, like this one.

Maybe it's the result of Yamaoka's personality and antics rubbing off on her, but I agree with you that Kurita, when she's with Yamaoka, can be bolder and more assertive for herself, and thus can prove her worth and skills as Yamaoka's partner in the project. Overall, just being herself.

This way, I don't have to see her being reduced to this shy, wishy-washy girl who can't stand herself when she's being hounded by our resident romance busybodies, Noriko and Kinue.

 

[d_a_renoir]

Blah blah, nutrition and prep, whatever, but at the same time it doesn't address the issue the glasses woman was bringing up: no time and too much work. Am I gonna just have to assume the "men and women working together" line at the end there implies the husband needs to help the wife pick up the groceries?

This way, I don't have to see her being reduced to this shy, wishy-washy girl who can't stand herself when she's being hounded by our resident romance busybodies, Noriko and Kinue.

I wish she'd have the same backbone towards her "friends" as she does with Yamaoka, like wow, is it so bad to tell those women to shut up?

 

[LavTheBurger]

Blah blah, nutrition and prep, whatever, but at the same time it doesn't address the issue the glasses woman was bringing up: no time and too much work. Am I gonna just have to assume the "men and women working together" line at the end there implies the husband needs to help the wife pick up the groceries?


I wish she'd have the same backbone towards her "friends" as she does with Yamaoka, like wow, is it so bad to tell those women to shut up?

Kariya does have a tendency to go " Eat natural foods " and then not...really covering the fact that....like, dude, some people dont have access to it, either due to range or the fact it keeps worse...and some cases it costs too much to be viable in a daily diet. This feels similar, but its " Ok, you didnt ACTUALLY answer how really busy people cant find the time to cook. You kinda just went " find time to cook though. " (Which IS a real thing that should be talked about)

Like the Rice Companion chapter has him thoroughly against the fact that US rice is treated with carcinogens, and the fact that if Japan faces a issue because USA now has the rights to sell their rice over japanese rice, theyd have no rice to sell. Those are fair concerns

Same issue there though, he doesnt actually answer " Ok, what about the people who have low income and see the Japanese rice is more expensive/and or less readily available, how are you gonna convince them NOT to buy American rice, which IS available and cheaper "

Crickets.

Its not like I even disagree with him, its more that I wish he would be thorough about options.

 

[Diabeetiz]

Most of the time his solution feels so fairytale like despite dealing with real world issues. I feel like the logic in this chapter is incomprehensible. The solution is Pre cut makes things lose nutrition? How does that make any sense? Doesnt resolve the gender issue, doesnt resolve the back breaking labour and the concern of a working mother.
Its like those chapters where he glazes these organic natural produce when the company being glazed are selling them at throat cutting prices. Why dont THEY work for the betterment of humanity and sell them cheaper.

 

[Pleialdebaran]

Clearly the solution is to also normalize stay at home man since both gender are too busy with work

 

[TakesatoKeita]

Most of the time his solution feels so fairytale like despite dealing with real world issues. I feel like the logic in this chapter is incomprehensible. The solution is Pre cut makes things lose nutrition? How does that make any sense? Doesnt resolve the gender issue, doesnt resolve the back breaking labour and the concern of a working mother.

Maybe because Kariya's approach and proposed solution to certain societal issues that he's trying to portray are based on "vibes" rather than asking the real experts on the more sensitive issues, like the gender issue one, his solution only comes off as so fairytale-like and not even tangible/practical at all.

Kariya's heart is definitely in the right place, though, on certain issues (like Japan's past war crimes during WW2 as depicted in this chapter), and I should praise him for that, but on other issues, it's clear that he's out of his depth because of his personal beliefs that can get very preachy at times and his lack of nuanced comprehension on certain things like gender issues that only harm his ability to present more thorough, viable solutions for everyone in his stories.

 

[d_a_renoir]

Kariya does have a tendency to go " Eat natural foods " and then not...really covering the fact that....like, dude, some people dont have access to it, either due to range or the fact it keeps worse...and some cases it costs too much to be viable in a daily diet. This feels similar, but its " Ok, you didnt ACTUALLY answer how really busy people cant find the time to cook. You kinda just went " find time to cook though. " (Which IS a real thing that should be talked about)

Like the Rice Companion chapter has him thoroughly against the fact that US rice is treated with carcinogens, and the fact that if Japan faces a issue because USA now has the rights to sell their rice over japanese rice, theyd have no rice to sell. Those are fair concerns

Same issue there though, he doesnt actually answer " Ok, what about the people who have low income and see the Japanese rice is more expensive/and or less readily available, how are you gonna convince them NOT to buy American rice, which IS available and cheaper "

Crickets.

Its not like I even disagree with him, its more that I wish he would be thorough about options.

You're right, literally my problem here is that he brings up the issue and then still just barrels on with "Must Natural Food" and ignores the problem. That vague "men and women has to help each other to make this work" isn't enough. If he had at least said "the husband should help the wife by finding time to go shopping and buy the good ingredients", then I can tolerate it.