What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinou Nani Tabeta?) A calm and sweet male couple enjoy their lives and food at the table together. A heartwarming story is here!

2022-03-03

Hana

Hi everyone! It’s Hana from Manga Republic!

Today I will introduce a manga that is famous as a recipe manga in Japan! What kind of food do you like?

For me, it is curry!! I will never have enough curry even if I eat curry 3 times a day, every day!

I love curry because every curry is different depending on the ingredients such as vegetables or meat. Use of different spices or process can also create a unique curry. Someday, I want to try making my own spice mix!

Okay, today, I want to introduce this manga!

What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Kinou Nani Tabeta?

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It is What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinou Nani Tabeta?)

This is created by Yoshinaga Fumi-Sensei. She is the author of Oooku which is a famous manga about the inner palace (reserved for men!!) in the Edo period. The worldview of Oooku is very unique because the gender roles were reversed in the story.

Yoshinaga-Sensei’s story structure is amazing! One of the main characters of What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinou Nani Tabeta?) is a lawyer. She was a law student in the past and her knowledge in the manga made the story development very interesting and precise!

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What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinou Nani Tabeta?) was made into a TV drama in 2019, and also movie with the same cast in 2021. It is very popular series in Japan. There are many cooking and eating scenes in the story and recipes are included. Although it is a BL manga, it is widely accepted and many people love this series!

Okay, now I will talk about the outline of this story!

What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Kinou Nani Tabeta?

Kakei Shirou as Shiro-san and Yabuki Kenji as Kenji are living together at Shiro-san’s house.

Shiro-san is a laywer. He is a disciplined, humble, thrifty, and good looking guy. He is gay, but it is not a public knowledge. A little indecisive.

Kakei Shirou (Shiro-san)

On the other hand, Kenji is telling others that he is gay. He is social, extroverted, and romantic. He loves Shiro-san a lot, but he has had some experience of falling in love with others who had wives before. However, he is also strict with himself.

Yabuki Kenji (Kenji)

Shiro-san did not cook at all while he was young, but he started minding about his shape when he was into his 30s. He lost some weight while he was dating with another guy and cooking for him. Since then he has been into cooking. He goes home right after work and cooks healthy food by himself and eats it with Kenji. That is his joy.

Kenji is not good at cooking at all. He loves any food that Shiro-san cooks and is not a picky eater. As the story progress, Kenji also started cooking. He first tried a simple egg dish, but has increased his cooking repertoire since then. Kenji enjoys cooking with Shiro-san in the kitchen and eating together.

Shiro-san is a little shy and indecisive. He sometimes can’t talk straight. So he couldn’t complain much especially to his former boyfriend. So he ended up feeling stressed.

In case of Kenji, his current boyfriend, he can somehow talk straight. He does not have much stress and he has been comfortable being with Kenji. Kenji loves Shiro-san as well.

Shiro-san goes home straight from work, cooks dinner for Kenji in their kitchen. Then he welcomes Kenji home and has dinner together. If you ask them, “What did you eat yesterday?” they will answer you happily.

Basically each episode is a complete story. Since the main theme is ‘food’ and ‘cooking’, it is easy to read and understand. You get hungry while reading this heartwarming BL manga!

It has a very calm atmosphere. So it is easy to understand why many people love this series!!

It is serialized in Weekly Morning magazine at the pace of once a month. What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinou Nani Tabeta?) has released to volume 19 so far!

Do you want to see the sweet couple’s cooking life? Please check it out!

What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Kinou Nani Tabeta?