Zange Meshi

A food manga where a husband cooks meals for repentance whenever he angers his wife.

This manga is alright. I would be remise not to mention it’s so very clearly a commercial piece of entertainment made to appeal to the male gaze. The wife is an ultra busty woman who cutely pouts when she’s mad but always forgives her husband when he feeds her delicious food. There lots of fan service but I just looked past it and focus on the scrumptious food instead. If anything, the series is thirty chapter in and things are getting stale pretty quick with how the husband keeps messing up something almost every chapter. Hatsumi Kodama focuses some stories on some side characters which helps but they always return to the husband appeasing his wife. I’ll keep reading for now but they could stand to do something to really shake up the formula.

It’s available to read in Japanese online on Comic Days.

~dakazu