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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

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 sections
Contents
  • 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oishinbo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.