Furin Shokudou

A manga about a salaryman who eats local delicacies whenever he goes out on business trips. He always meets a married woman while eating and it leads to them having a steamy one-night affair.

It think this manga is conceptually really gross. It’s one thing to tie food with sexual appetite like Zange Meshi but specifically about this guy who always cheats on his wife every chapter with a different woman? Not something I’m really interested in reading. Later on the creator Masakazu Yamaguchi switches things up by focusing on a newbie salaryman and a career woman but the series formula doesn’t change. A business trip leads to a local meal leads to adultery. However, this series is super popular in Japan. It’s over eighteen volumes long now and there’s even a live-action drama. I can understand the appeal but I don’t personally like it myself.

~dakazu