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Live-Action Kodoku no Gourmet Show's 7th Season Premieres on Friday
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TV Tokyo revealed more details on Thursday about the seventh live-action season based on Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi's Kodoku no Gourmet (The Solitary Gourmet) manga. The first episode will feature Gorō Inagashira in Ageo city in Saitama prefecture trying a fried shoulder roast meal set. The first episode will also feature guest stars Hana Kino, Tomoko Tabata, and Kenji Yamagami.
TV Tokyo had announced the new season on February 28. The series will premiere on Friday. Yutaka Matsushige (live-action Death Note, Sukiyaki Western Django, Crows Zero) will once again reprise his role as protagonist Gorō Inagashira.
Both the Kodoku no Gourmet live-action series and original manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local cuisine found on street corners. The live-action show's sixth season premiered last April, and a recent special aired on December 31. The special's final scene was broadcast live.
Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi first serialized the Kodoku no Gourmet manga from 1994 to 1996 in Fusosha's Monthly Panja magazine (now defunct). Kusumi handled the story, and Taniguchi drew the art. Fusosha published the first collected volume in 1997. Kusumi and Fusosha published the manga's second volume in September 2015. Taniguchi passed away in February 2017.
The manga also inspired a net anime that debuted on Production I.G's "Tate Anime" (Vertical Anime) smartphone app on November 29.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
