Oishinbo - Vol. 9 Ch. 4 - Black Sashimi

[MangaDex]

 

[BippidiBoppetyBoob]

This chapter is quite the departure for how Tomii is usually portrayed. Gives him a bit of character depth that was much needed, imo.

Also, those of you who also grew up in the 90s in the US will doubtless remember the TV show Unsolved Mysteries. Many stories like this one were portrayed on that show, so I could almost hear Robert Stack's narration in my head.

Finally, for those of you into history, I did make a note on the page with regard to Tomii's family returning to Japan. Part of me thinks that it's entirely possible his father's company knew what was going to happen and called him back given the timing, but it's also possible that they were just extraordinarily lucky.

 

[r31ya]

suprisingly deeply emotional chapter and yes, give good depth to Tomii character

also true, depending on his father station/jobs, he might be got early warning and asked to return to safety first when they receive news that soviet army is marching there.

 

[BippidiBoppetyBoob]

suprisingly deeply emotional chapter and yes, give good depth to Tomii character

also true, depending on his father station/jobs, he might be got early warning and asked to return to safety first when they receive news that soviet army is marching there.

Yeah, this chapter is one of the very few we've seen so far that has real emotion behind it. I actually enjoyed doing the TL of this chapter in particular more than most.

Yeah, that was kind of an odd situation given the geopolitical alliances of WWII. The Soviets and the Japanese spent a large chunk of the war fighting each other's allies, but almost none of it fighting each other. Of course, the Soviets had good reason to not to want to fight the Japanese when the agreement was made considering that at that particular point in the war, the Japanese were just steamrolling the British and the Chinese while the Soviets were locked in a brutal fight against the Nazis. The Soviets would not have been able to conduct a two front war. Then, once the Japanese pulled America into the war, the Japanese pretty much had to dedicate everything to trying to knock us back out, because they knew any long campaign would be disastrous for them due to the severe disadvantages in manpower and resources. They were content to leave each other be. Once Stalin got what he wanted from FDR and Churchill at Yalta, he was happy to come in and pick the bones (since the Soviets didn't even invade until after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima)

I'd actually just now written another two large paragraphs on the timeline and what led to certain decisions being made and all that history jazz, but then I thought to myself, "This is a manga about cooking, what are you doing?! No one here wants to read all that!"

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Interesting stuff about the japanese refugees in china, there was another autobiography/daily life/random musing series that touches on this but a bit short, I can only remember the mangaka is old and a legend. Uploaded here on mangadex as well.

 

[throwawaygod]

I've been trying to go back to read previous chapters, why does mangadex have some mugiwara and bippidi separated, it makes it hard to navigate, which chapter is the one with the monkfish liver?

 

[BippidiBoppetyBoob]

I've been trying to go back to read previous chapters, why does mangadex have some mugiwara and bippidi separated, it makes it hard to navigate, which chapter is the one with the monkfish liver?

Because we use a different numbering system for how we do chapters. Mugiwara just counts the chapters in a linear fashion. I’d end up losing count doing that, so I follow the volume chapter numbering.

I think the one you want is Volume 1 Chapter 2.