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What Did You Eat Yesterday? 1 Paperback – March 25 2014

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From award-winning author Fumi Yoshinaga comes a casual romance between two middle-aged men and the many meals they share together.

A hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table, where they can discuss their troubles, hash out their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals!

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200 pages
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Vertical Comics
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March 25 2014
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14.63 x 1.32 x 20.9 cm
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1939130387
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Over the past decade few female comic artists have been as beloved or as recognized for their work internationally as Fumi Yoshinaga. Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971, Yoshinaga is a graduate of Tokyo's prestigious Keio University. A lifelong comic artist and story teller, she made her professional debut in 1994 with her short series, The Moon and the Sandals, serialized in Houbunsha's monthly Boys Love anthology Hanaoto. Since her debut Yoshinaga has penned more than a dozen, with a good number of them having been adapted into motion pictures and animated TV series. Her work on Antique Bakery sent her into international fame and she has since been nominated in the United States for the Eisner Award for her titles - Flowers of Life and Ooku.

In 2009 she was recognized with the James Tiptree Award for her literary contributions covering the topics of gender in speculative fiction in her title Ooku. Ooku also received the Osamu Tezuka Award and the Shogakukan Manga Award.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vertical Comics; Translation edition (March 25 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939130387
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939130389
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 198 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.63 x 1.32 x 20.9 cm

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Audrey S

A slice of life manga with older gay characters - so good!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 27, 2022

Slice of life mangas are my fave. Slice of life mangas with food? It’s a match made in heaven.

What Did You Eat Yesterday? is the story of Shiro, a cheap, narcissistic in-the-closet lawyer who loves to cook, and his boyfriend Kenji, a laidback hairstylist who is out at his place of work.

What I really enjoyed in this novel was how it addressed different expectations for different characters, like when it discussed the difference between Eastern and Western Culture when it comes to the experience of being gay, and also when it examined the strain of a relationship between someone who is out and someone who is in the closet. While it did tackle some heavier topics, this manga also really highlighted the lovely and soft parts of being a couple - specifically with Shiro taking the time to make food everyday and Kenji sitting down to cut Shiro’s hair.

It’s not a perfect relationship by any means, lots of internalized homophobia, biophobia, and fatphobia are present but not addressed - however, this is the toxic culture that a lot of gay men do face and it does reflect the age of the characters and the year this manga was originally published. There are also a few moments that hit very hard as a queer person and the one that stands out is when Shiro’s friend admitted that she’s okay with him being gay, but that she’s not sure she would feel the same if it was her own daughter. Yoshinaga summed it up in one really impactful line near the end of the manga:

“Just because they know, doesn’t mean they understand.”

I’ve read some of Yoshinaga’s series before and this first volume has most certainly made me want to continue this one as well.

CW: on StoryGraph and GoodReads because of Amazon censoring.

*I received an eARC from Kodansha Comics & NetGalley in exchange for my honest review*

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Ria Saakshi

Fascinating & Charming slice of life/ foodie read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 27, 2014

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The Foodie angle is the biggest appeal of the manga. The recipes are everyday and having made many homestyle Japanese recipes these all work well (if not a little dependent on shop bought bases and stocks - but hey, he is a busy man, I doubt he has time to make his dashi from scratch and then his soup bases...) . If you find yourself roaming through the English version of Cookpad and smiling at the little comments the recipe authors have written - well here is a whole manga dedicated to one home-cooks notes! Even as an experienced cook I have picked up a hint or two, and who does not like eating and reading?

It is also nice to see a gay couple portrayed in manga as just another married couple would be. However I doubt Yoshinaga actually knows any gay couples, either that or there has been some very clunky translating going on because sometimes you have to blink at what is said or done (but this is manga, so what is new?). This said they are not a pretty gay couple being portrayed in a heterosexual style relationship just for the "edification" of the reader, there is a good attempt here to show the relationship and the life in a realistic light.

The fact that the characters are all older is a big draw to. They are well realised adults, and look like they will shape into well rounded characters rather than the cutouts that litter the genre. It is a very charming slice-of-life, nuanced and vastly more realistic than most shonen-ai (though apparently it was shonen-ai written for a seinen audience which explains the toned down romance) and to be honest to me it feels like a very good josei - or just maybe a grown up story for adults? This will appeal to older readers, anyone who likes a good slice of life story and to be honest home-makers, because at the heart of it a character cooking as an expression of love, as a way to build a home and family between him and his partner and as a way to cope with his circumstances, money-wise, in terms of work and in a way emotionally.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 22, 2016

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Wonderful!
I am now up to Volume 10, and I've pre-ordered Volume 11.
It's really difficult to explain the appeal of these lovely books because they are so unique. They are part gentle mm romance, part cookery book, and I don't even cook! Shiro and Kenji are partners who live together, sharing their lives and their dramas, and their meals. These stories are astonishingly real. They just draw you gently in until you feel that you know them personally. I absolutely adore them.
If you like to cook Japanese food, or are interested in Japanese culture, you'll enjoy them even more.

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Garbo

Great!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 1, 2015

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A really good slice of life manga for foodies!

Enric Adroher Saballs

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 17, 2016

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Very good seller. A+++

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Mariage réussi entre bédé culinaire et chronique du quotidien d'un couple gay

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on April 29, 2014

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Shiro Kakei est avocat. Il a choisi de travailler dans un cabinet de taille modeste pour ne pas que sa carrière empiète sur le reste de sa vie. Agé de 43 ans, il conserve une beauté presque dérangeante. Il adore faire la cuisine et, comme il est très radin, il recherche constamment les bonnes affaires au supermarché - allant jusqu'à proposer à une inconnue de partager avec elle une pastèque en promotion. Ses collègues de travail ne sont pas au courant, mais Shiro est homosexuel et vit depuis quelques années déjà avec Kenji Yabuki, un coiffeur ouvertement gay au tempérament beaucoup cool et extraverti que le sien...

Ce manga de Fumi Yoshinaga, à qui l'on devait déjà "Le pavillon des hommes", offre un mariage très réussi entre bédé culinaire et chronique du quotidien d'un couple gay ordinaire. Chaque soir, Shiro prépare quantité de petits plats dont il récite la recette dans sa tête, et lorsque Kenji rentre à la maison, les deux hommes dînent en se chamaillant pour des questions de budget ou de jalousie. Leur relation est globalement bien acceptée; pourtant, Shiro est agacé par les réactions excessives ou maladroites de ses parents auxquels il n'a toujours pas présenté Kenji, et il répugne à dévoiler cette partie de sa vie privée à son entourage professionnel. C'est un héros assez froid et rigide, peu attachant au premier abord, mais on sent que l'auteur va révéler petit à petit les nuances de son caractère et les raisons de son amour pour Kenji - qui est a priori son contraire exact. Un manga plein de sensibilité, d'humour et de gourmandise, dont les tomes suivants vont paraître (en anglais) au rythme d'un tous les 2 mois.

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