Tokachi Hitoribocchi Nouen

A diary manga by Yuji Yokoyama about moving to Tokachi, Hokkaido and starting a farm to grow vegetables from scratch to make curry to serve other manga artists like Gosho Aoyama and Mitsuru Adachi.

We’ve discussed this on an older episode.

This is one of the only manga I look forward to reading in Weekly Shonen Sunday. I just love the ridiculous set up for this series. Yokoyama’s previous title was an interview manga so the editorial department came up with this crazy project to have him grow vegetables from scratch and make curry as a thanks to the manga artists he got to interview.

It’s a wild idea but also totally hilarious as Yokoyama draws about how he had to buy land, buy a car, and find a place to live before he even begins to try growing vegetables. I love the cute super deformed character art Yokoyama uses because it works so well as he continues to make mistakes over and over. This is a hilarious non-fiction series and I’m surprised it runs in Sunday.

~dakazu