Utsu Gohan

A collections of sad and depressing experiences involving food.

This is a bizarre manga to say the least. Each chapter revolves around the author trying to enjoy some food, whether it be a soft serve ice cream cone or some fries and cola at McDonald’s. But every story ends in a minor tragedy. 

With the ice cream, he get’s embarrassed about being a grown adult walking around with it, tries to eat it quickly, and then ends up with brain freeze. While carrying his McDonald’s tray upstairs to the eating area, he knocks over his drink and spills cola on his tray, the fries start soaking up the cola, and he spills more cola on his pants as he tries to avoid other customers on the stairs.

Every chapter left me with an undeniable sense of melancholy. It didn’t feel good but in a weird way I was impressed with artist Yuki Shikawa’s ability to make me feel bad…should that be a positive for this book?

I kinda liked this but probably won’t go back and re-read it ever again.

~dakazu