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Okay, I've decided that the upcoming Chinese New Year will not impact my regular upload schedule. I will continue to upload a chapter each Sunday and Wednesday. But, once Volume 23 is complete, we will move to Volume 24, the first Oishinbo volume where the entire volume is just one story. As a...

Yeah, there's definitely a bit of disconnect between the consumer and the chef a lot of the time. For many chefs, the 'torture' part isn't torture, it's just another cooking technique. In the case of okizuke, the technique is allowing soy sauce to circulate throughout the squid's body through...

In my experience, it can be pretty distinctly strong, almost musty in a way. But it also feels like the kind of stink that you can get used to, like a stinky cheese. Oishinbo presents it as unanimously undesirable, but there are cultures around the world that enjoy sheep mutton. I'd keep an open...

It's always fun to translate for the Australian characters. They don't present an accent in Japanese, but that just means I have free reign as translator to go as hard as I want on the accent in English.

And I'm back. My schedule should go back to normal this coming Wednesday.

Heh, wouldn't that be fun. They might have joked around with it casually but from public statements at least, the editorial team at Shogakukan holds the author in high regard and is willing to let him write whatever he wants in the manga. It's gotten the magazine in trouble a few times.

Here you go.

That seems about right. Kariya knows that tokoroten is different, but doesn't make clear how it's different. The chapter just treats it like another thing under the umbrella of 'kanten'. Either way, I've updated the Gourmet Notes to reflect the misunderstanding. This is what the Notes are...

Holy shit! I wondered if I may have made a terrible lapse in research, but it turns out...yeah it was probably a lapse in research BUT ALSO, The common idea of what 'tokoroten' is seems to be just kanten cut into strips, like was suggested in the chapter. Kariya likely grew up with this...

Hope you enjoy this sweet little chapter. I'm here to announce my upcoming upload schedule. I'm going to be on vacation a couple weeks from now, during which I will be away from my computer and be unable to upload. One chapter will be affected, so as usual, I will also upload an additional...

I've read Kariya's blog. When it comes to national and international politics, Kariya is very sincere, very outspoken, and very incendiary. It comes through in his manga as well. Any time the characters start going off about these political topics, you can clearly see where Kariya stands on the...

Thank you! I'm glad you picked up on it cause that's exactly what was going through my head when i decided to make Yamaoka a potty mouth. Curse words in English are almost a culture that doesn't translate well to Japanese, but they work remarkably well as indicators of casualness, earnestness...

It's believed that the manga's hiatus was caused directly by its depiction of radiation poisoning in Fukushima during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The chapter depicting it was met with stern admonishment from the mayor of Fukushima, and even from the Prime Minister of the time, Shinzo Abe...

Happy to answer your questions: - The most challenging part is the research, especially when the chapter touches on very specific incidents from its time, or information that's not readily available online, or sometimes just information from a book the author happened to read recently. If we...

The straightforward reading, and the one I went with as the character motivation, is that Kaibara intentionally let Yamaoka win as a charity. Especially after Chiyo explained his situation, Kaibara seems to secretly want Yamaoka to succeed. You could read it some other way too, I've left it a...

And on the transition to a New Year, I upload my 200th(-ish) chapter. It's a little awkward being in the middle of a story, but I think it's still meaningful. So I'd like to explain a bit (a lot) about my translation process. Step 1: Plain Reading Step 2: Script Writing Step 3...

Thanks for the tip! I'll edit that right now. Any minor error is worth correcting if it causes pause while reading.

Here's the first of the New Year bonus chapters. It just so happens this story arc is 3 chapters long, so I'll be uploading one chapter each day.

Yeah, the thing about Kariya's science is that he often has the correct pieces, but jumps to conclusions without sufficient evidence or scientific rigour. Using this chapter as an example, the numbers he lists out are true, and in a qualitative sense, I'd believe that the vegetables from 40...

Yup! I should've made a note somewhere but I'm glad you caught it. I think Kariya calls it nuoc mam out of convenience, since it's largely the same thing, and that's the name he's more familiar with. Minor spoiler but, in a future chapter, Kariya does mention nam pla in line with nuoc mam, so...