Oishinbo
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Key facts
- Animanga/Header.name
- Oishinbo
- Animanga/Header.image
- Oishinbo.jpg
- Animanga/Header.caption
- 102nd tankōbon volume cover, featuring Shirō Yamaoka (top right), Yūzan Kaibara (top left), and Yūko Kurita (center bottom)
- Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
- 美味しんぼ
- Animanga/Print.type
- manga
- Animanga/Print.author
- Tetsu Kariya
- Animanga/Print.publisher
- Shogakukan
- Animanga/Print.magazine
- Big Comic Spirits
- Animanga/Print.first
- October 1983
- Animanga/Print.last
- May 12, 2014 (indefinite hiatus)
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 111
- Animanga/Video.type
- live film
- Animanga/Video.director
- Azuma Morisaki
- Animanga/Video.producer
- Shigehiro NakagawaRenji TazawaJunichirō HisaitaKatsuhiko TakemasaOsamu KameiHisaomi Saitō
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Toshiharu MaruuchiMasao Kajiura
- Animanga/Video.music
- Takayuki Inoue
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Shochiku
- Animanga/Video.network
- NNS (NTV)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Characters
- Media
- Manga
- Volumes
- Anime
- Video games
- North American release
- Reception
- Controversy regarding Fukushima episodes
- Notes
- References
- External links
is a long-running Japanese cooking manga series written by Tetsu Kariya and drawn by . The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for "delicious", , and the word for someone who loves to eat, . The series depicts the adventures of culinary journalist Shirō Yamaoka and his partner (and later wife), Yūko Kurita. It was published by Shogakukan between 1983 and 2008 in Big Comic Spirits, and resumed again on February 23, 2009, only to be put on an indefinite hiatus after the May 12, 2014, edition in the weekly Big Comic Spirits, following harsh criticism of Oishinbos treatment of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
Before this suspension, Oishinbo was collected in 111 tankōbon volumes, making it the 18th longest manga released and among the best-selling manga series in history. The series was a perennial best-seller, selling 1.2 million copies per volume, for a total of more than 135 million copies sold.
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