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[Oishinbo] What does it mean to fit so perfectly in despair?

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“` Take a bite of the rice ball in my left hand and the pickled cucumber in my right hand. I munch … It’s another one that goes perfectly with the chilled rice ball! Wow, is a whole pickled cucumber this delicious when bitten into! Munch crunch crunch munch “`

1: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:46

It’s convenient because pickling with rice bran is easy to do.

2: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:47Yeahx47

Is it delicious but hopeless?

6: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:51Yeahx25

>>2It’s not a positive way of eating…
It’s frustrating… but I can’t help but feel it!

87: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)04:57

>>6It is indeed despairing to think that it is being made possible by Yozan…

3: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:48Yeahx3

Poison, huh!

4: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:50Yeahx13

Desperately!?

5: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:51Yeahx7

Have more hope.

7: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:51Yeahx33

Look! My hands got dirty!

37: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:22

>>7Even dirty hands are delicious!!

8: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:52Yeahx12

It means that it’s so delicious that there’s nothing you can do about it, right?
Is that expression really that concerning?

95: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:59Yeahx1

>>8Because it’s not the correct way to use Japanese, nor is it a correct expression, right?

9: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:52Yeahx1

A combination that cuts off hope.

10: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:53Yeahx5

I feel like I’ve been in the protagonist of Battlestar.

39: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:24

>>10After eating
“Thank you for the meal, it was delicious.”
Are you going to shake hands with the person who made it?

11: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:53Yeahx10

It’s nice that the use of “despair” is positive, like the protagonist of Gyrozetter.

12: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:54Yeahx6

Uncut pickled vegetables and cold rice are probably a hopeless combination…

13: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:54Yeahx5

Words like “amazing” or “incredible” are now being used for positive things, so it should be fine to use “despairing” positively too.

14: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:55Yeahx2

I am in despair!

15: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:55Yeahx4

Joy like that of Enoshima

16: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:56Yeahx4

It’s frustrating… but maybe it’s okay to interpret it as feeling that way!

17: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:58Yeahx17

I think it’s reasonable to consider it a higher variation of “incredibly delicious” or “to die for delicious.”

18: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:59Yeahx21

It’s hard to tell whether you’re joking or if you seriously think it’s a funny comeback.

19: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)01:59Yeahx2

It’s like a fucking whatever.

20: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:01

Cold rice balls are delicious, aren’t they?

21: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:05Yeahx7

This can be understood if you know the premise of a middle-aged man who lost confidence due to complexes while living in the West and returned to Japan.
Why do I feel that this is delicious? → My roots are in Japan, and I was able to recognize that! I will go again!
“That’s the story.”

22: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:05

I see.

23: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:09Yeahx1

Nukazuke left whole, the rice still cold.
Even though there’s no manners at all, it’s still this delicious!
Aren’t you expressing that as hopeless?

24: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:10Yeahx1

I don’t really care, but isn’t the usual order pickles → rice balls?

25: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:12Yeahx3

I want to hold the rice ball in my right hand.

26: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:13

Desperately, you are beautiful.

27: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:15Yeahx8

I like the part where Mr. Kinjo happily says, “Why is something so simple like this leaf-wrapped miso so delicious?!”

28: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:17

I’m starting to crave rice balls…

29: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:18

Before this, I had a high-end French meal that Yamaoka presented, and after reacting that it was normally delicious, I had this.

30: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:18Yeahx2

>>29Once again, have you forgotten the essence, Shirou?

32: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:21Yeahx4

>>29If I can eat such delicious French cuisine in Japan, then I don’t need to go back to France! Yeah!

31: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:18

Is it really that easy to get caught up in just a simple emphatic expression?

33: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:21Yeahx3

>>31When considering the developments before and after, it can be understood, but combining the negative word “desperately” with the positive expression “delicious” usually raises some eyebrows.
I’m using it precisely because it gets caught.

48: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:40Yeahx1

>>33Super delicious!

36: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:22Yeahx12

>>31Today’s Japanese people are filled with self-centered mistake-finding.
I think it’s because I’m driven by some very dark passion.

40: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:29Yeahx9

>>36Dark passion!

38: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:24Yeahx3

>>31It’s not just a mere expression of emphasis.
Expressions of mere emphasis include things like “really” or “super.”

34: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:21Yeahx2

I remember reading a manga a long time ago where someone said, “The food here is incredibly delicious,” and another person replied, “Please stop using the word ‘crap’ to describe food.” It made me laugh so hard.

35: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:21Yeahx3

Reading the explanations so far, it raises considerable doubt that it’s simply interpreted as a strong emphasis…

41: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:34Yeahx3

At this time, it’s definitely effective to show a simple way to enjoy white rice deliciously.

42: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:36

I haven’t eaten rice lately, so it works even more.
I want to eat silver rice.

43: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:36Yeahx3

I think it might be questionable to dismiss “despair” as merely an emphasis expression both in terms of its literal meaning and its connotation.
What does it mean to be so delicious that hopes are dashed?

44: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:38

I don’t care, but it’s silent and calm except for the last panel.
Suddenly shouting “Uhoho!” is really emotionally unstable, isn’t it?

46: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:39Yeahx2

>>44I haven’t seen someone make a comment on food manga in a long time.

45: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:39

Let’s take a look.

52: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:42

>>45Is this how the opening of Oishinbo is like?

47: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:40

It’s hopeful, but it’s also a self-serving and convenient kind of hopeful observation…

49: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:41

So delicious it’s to die for!

50: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:41

Shirou, this is despair.
Turn end

51: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:41

It seems like you’re complaining about how much I helped you.

53: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:42Yeahx3

People who don’t realize they’re strange often assert what is normal.

56: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:43Yeahx1

>>53I understood that it got stuck.

68: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:03Yeahx1

>>56What was stuck was something I accidentally messed up myself.

54: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:42Yeahx4

I hate using “crap” for emphasis in a compliment in the first place!! BAM!!

69: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:03

>>54You’re so serious.

55: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:43

It’s a self-centered way of thinking that the left tends to fall into.
Plain white rice and pickles, which don’t try to be anything special, are the best!

57: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:43

I was only eating omelets and sausages, but pickles are good too.

58: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:44

The official channel of Oishinbo is posting way too much of the main content.

59: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:44Yeahx9

>ID:JfZFw88oThis is terrible!

100: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)07:37Yeahx1

>>59Idiot

60: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:44Yeahx5

You’re leaking shit.

61: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:46

This is Vietnam.

62: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:47

It really looks delicious; should I buy some nukazuke at the supermarket tomorrow?

63: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:49

I understand that pickled cucumbers and rice balls stimulate the hearts of Japanese people immensely.

64: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:50

When I do hard physical labor, white rice and pickles taste incredibly delicious…

65: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:51

It was a story that stops a successful designer in France, who is feeling homesick and wants to throw everything away and return to Japan.

66: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)02:57Yeahx3

It’s coming in and out…

67: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:01

The pickles eaten between bites of rice balls are seriously delicious.

70: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:05

Does “desperately fitting” mean that it doesn’t fit at all?

71: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:05Yeahx5

>>70Ah, that’s fine.

72: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:11

Two cucumbers for 96 yen at the nearby supermarket… Should I make pickles?

73: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:14

In English, it doesn’t sound that out of place, even when using “desperately” in a positive way.

74: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:15

English seems to be useful for anything since it has the word “fuck.”

75: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:23

Such a thing is delicious despair…!!

76: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:23

The ultimate vs. the supreme in Oishinbo is a layering of contrarian views.
It was becoming completely stripped of any cover.

77: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:25

Taste can be flipped in many ways just by changing your perspective, so it can’t be helped.

78: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:27

The upcoming season makes me sweat a lot, so nukazuke is delicious.

79: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:27

It feels like an intense desire that can’t be helped, doesn’t it? This hopelessness.

80: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:28

Fucking delicious!

81: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)03:40

Let me know when you have made a nuka bed that doesn’t smell and preserves the taste of the pickled vegetables.

82: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)04:02

I don’t care, but shouldn’t we eat the pickled vegetables first before the rice balls?

83: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)04:11Yeahx1

I wonder if it really is that much, but since this is the only story I know about this page, I’ll keep quiet.

84: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)04:12

Those who have poop on them definitely say things differently.

85: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)04:13

Is it that poop-covered ones are a type of nuka pickles…?

86: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)04:14Yeahx4

>>85I can’t eat that…

88: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)05:51

At first, I was just cursing Sanji.

89: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:07

It must have had a bad reputation.

90: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:10

Enoshima Junko was treated to a meal by Naegi.

91: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:46

Well, this is probably just plain delicious, or rather, there are no bad elements to it.

92: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:48

Poop?

93: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:58

It feels like there was a brief period when the phrase “despairingly” was in fashion.

94: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)06:59Yeahx3

The old man highly evaluated only Yōzan, but what’s also nice is that he sincerely appreciates that Yamaoka treated him to various dishes for his sake.
Because Yamaoka’s sense of defeat will intensify.

96: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)07:03Yeahx3

It was no good.
I have a stomach ache.
I couldn’t stand it.
Because it’s used in the sense of laughing at… here…

102: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)08:20

>>96It’s normal to have a stomach ache when you laugh… Have you never laughed?

97: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)07:14

You are a hopelessly beautiful person.

98: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)07:21

Well, having a stomachache still has a nuance of humor to it, so it’s fine.

99: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)07:34

Eating salted rice balls occasionally makes me go mmm!
Coming back from abroad might be the best!

101: Japan Otaku Reviews25/06/02(Mon)07:46

>>99No, it’s nothing…

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