Nobushi no Gourmet

The stories surrounding each episode aren't particularly interesting but I couldn't help but smile during every episode as this 60 year old man sat down and ate a meal.

I have really fallen in love with the series. It's not food porn at all, which what it first assumed it to be. It's the story of Takeshi Kasumi, recently retired salaryman. After 40 years of never doing anything besides work, he suddenly finds himself thrust into a world without expectations. He's lost at first. But he ventures out, meeting up with an imaginary, unnamed Ronin who gives him lessons in being free. Along the way, he eats a lot.

It's tempting to say it's all about the food, but that's not really the point at all. It's a warm look into someone discovering the simple pleasures of life - food, people, and memories. Kasumi is child-like in every way, but that just adds to his charm. And his expressions are just so over the top comical that you cannot help but be enchanted by him.

It's a slow series, with very little action. But it's so much fun to watch. It's probably not for anyone who needs a lot of action, conflict, changes of scenery, or characters, but it will appeal to those of us who have experienced that slowing the pace of life and appreciating every moment brings happiness.

In Japan, working is involving....anything else stay in second place. When the character wakes up in the day he's retired, he felt lost, walking no destination. Then he realized that there is a completely different world around him...and he like this. Tasting foods of memories he feels pleasure and a reason to life. Very good

The show is pretty simple, and its worth is exactly the highlights it gives to ordinary stuff of life. The attention to the details, the beautiful looks on the food, and the smoothness of the story sustain this great show. Don't expect the episodes to be full of drama and extraordinary stuff. This is just a charming, sometimes comic and, above all, very light and buoyant series.

Well there is no plot so nothing to be spoiled. This series is the visual equivalent of a tone poem. It goes nowhere but it is relaxing and pleasurable. For me very much so. Retirement is an adaptation process. After a lifetime of the self-discipline and regimentation of the salary man, what does one do? Travel? Volunteer? Start a new career or hobby? None of the above in this case. The food and the imaginary samurai are mcguffins. The series explores the exalted state of personal freedom to structure one's day however one wishes.