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Heads up, I'm going to be away for a couple of weeks, so my upload schedule's gonna be shifted around a bit. Here's the schedule for the following weeks: APR 19 (Sun) - Regular Chapter APR 22 (Wed) - Regular Chapter APR 23 (Thu) - Early Chapter APR 24 (Fri) - Early Chapter APR 26 (Sun) - No...

True, Japan's shark cuisine is fascinating and something I do respect and am eager to try for myself some day. My mom even made qing zheng shark meat once, I guess cause she found some shark meat and was excited to try cooking it. I distinctly remember it tasting more pungent than regular...

Btw, as a bit of trivia, try rereading Volume 10 Chapter 89 (A Blessing From The Sea Breeze) after this chapter. Ryozo's clapback at Okaboshi's question suddenly makes a lot of sense. Kariya already had some idea of Fuyumi even back then.

While the scene of Okaboshi's proposal was pretty ambiguous in its wording (I am reminded of Soseki Natsume's iconic line on Japanese love being expressed more modestly), he very unambiguously refers to Fuyumi as his wife in a later scene, when Takaragi enters the shop and eats Fuyumi's udon...

We know that Yamaoka doesn't mind an age gap, so maybe...?

What's interesting is that if you put them side by side, you can see that the painting wasn't traced. A lot of the proportions are a bit off. Either Hanasaki had to redraw the entire painting himself, which would be wild to do, or there was some alteration work done on the print to make it more...

Here, I'm using the poetic definition of 'conceit', meaning the underlying idea or notion of something. 'Concept' is also acceptable.

I think Kariya is afraid of letting Kurita improve too quickly. While she's introduced to have a sharp palate, she lacks the intrepidness and boldness that Yamaoka has to just do things without proper planning. Calling Okaboshi for help was a little disappointing, but it was in character for...

Correct. The leaves in question are 'imo no ha', leaves of the sweet potato plant. Where I'm from, they're commonly translated as 'potato leaves', which I should've realised is a careless localisation that leads to misunderstandings for an international audience. (They're one of my favourite...

Your comment really made me think hard about how I feel about the verdict. It's honestly fascinating, and a perspective I hadn't considered much, but I think you're right. The judges being Japanese is apparently an important factor. Catering the food to the judging panel is an element that was...

Just a heads up for anyone rereading the chapter, I did update it to add an additional Gourmet Note, regarding the shop 'Miyako Tofu' that we see in this chapter. It wasn't there before.

I'm gonna reply to this one separately. You're right! Kariya is a very fascinating person, and you can see how his life experiences have shaped his way of thinking through the stories he put to paper. He seems to have drawn upon his own past when he wrote Tomii's past, as he was also born in...

Right, the jazz folks. They don't have any particular dialect in Japanese actually, but I wanted to give each one a little something to make them distinct, since they'd be talking to each other a lot in their debut chapter. I gave Omoto (drummer guy, mud crab guy) a rough, New Yorker-ish accent...

Despite the judges' decision, I think Yamaoka lost this one. Yamaoka drawing against Kaibara because he 'looked at curry as an expression of freedom' feels like such a cop-out, especially when Yamaoka's 'freedom' basically meant 'going back to Japanese curry'. Even Yamaoka recognises it. But of...

And it's done! Hope you all enjoyed the extradited uploads. It'll be a long while before I do this again. My buffer vault is so empty now. My plan is to do the daily upload only if the story arc spans 5 or more chapters. That's about when I feel the wait between chapters gets too much.

It's something I've always respected of Kariya. His manga's content is often based on what he's learned or researched in real life, in a time when information was not readily at our fingertips. The trade-off is that his information is sometimes inaccurate if his sources aren't reliable, but...

Oh my God, thank you so much! Once again, my eyes have failed me. The typo is fixed now.

For this volume specifically, I'm releasing one chapter a day so that we're not stuck on the same story for an entire month. I'll return to my regular two chapter per week schedule once this volume is done.

Thank you! I may not be an official translator but I do respect the work a lot, so I'm always mindful to not detract from it if I can. I want people to enjoy the story the way I enjoyed it (or as close to it as I can reasonably get).

For me at least, I didn't feel any indication that this was Yamaoka's fault. It's just coincidence that Tochikawa was visited by Kaibara. He would've been fine otherwise.