Addicted to Curry (Japanese: 華麗なる食卓, Hepburn: Karēnaru Shokutaku, lit. "The Great Dining Table") is a Japanese cooking manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Funatsu. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from January 2001 to December 2012, with its chapters collected in 49 tankōbon volumes.
Addicted to Curry | |
華麗なる食卓 (Karēnaru Shokutaku) | |
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Genre | Cooking[1][2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Kazuki Funatsu |
Published by | Shueisha |
Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | January 18, 2001 – December 13, 2012 |
Volumes | 49 |
Addicted to Curry is the story of Sonezaki Yui, a schoolgirl whose father is the owner of Curry House Cooking Ganesha. Yui, who frequently adopts strays and starving animals she finds on the street, one day finds a young man lying in the road and, out of her good nature, wants to give him something to eat. She trips and hits him in the face with a soda can, and runs away. The young man, Koenji Makito, follows her curry scent back to the restaurant.
At first, Yui thinks that Koenji is going to kill her for throwing food at him, but it turns out that he is a nice guy who knew and was looking for Yui's father, Sōichiro. Yui tells Makito that the restaurant is going out of business and that her father Sōichiro has left on a journey with the goal of improving his cooking abilities, pretty much leaving her alone with the restaurant. Koenji, who is in debt to both Yui and her father decides to team up with Yui in order to save the restaurant.
Written and illustrated by Kazuki Funatsu , Addicted to Curry was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from January 18, 2001,[a] to December 13, 2012.[6][7] Shueisha collected its 534 chapters in forty-nine tankōbon volumes, released from July 19, 2001,[8] to January 18, 2013.[9]