Umami #2

Umami #2

by J.M. Ken Niimura

Who said cooking was only for nourishing?

Uma is a cheerful and determined girl from a remote village, who always has an amazing dish ready to solve any problem… if only she wasn’t such a disaster.

Ami is the future king’s chef, stickler and extremely proud, whose aim in the kitchen is to achieve the best taste following traditional techniques and recipes.

Despite their many disagreements, together they are an explosive team and no obstacle stands on their way. But how could anybody imagine that the destiny of the entire kingdom would depend on their culinary skills…?

Welcome to the great little adventures of Uma and Ami!

Pay as you want download at http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/umami

35 pages, ebook

Published December 12, 2017

About the author

J.M. Ken Niimura is a Spanish-Japanese cartoonist and illustrator. He has produced work within the Spanish, North American and Japanese comic book markets.
Niimura was born and grew up in Madrid, Spain. He graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Niimura started his career in the early 2000's within the Spanish self-publishing comic scene. His major professional debut however happened in the US in 2009, when he illustrated the series I Kill Giants (Image comics), written by Joe Kelly and adapted into a live-action movie in 2018.
The success of I Kill Giants led Niimura to collaborate with various magazines around the world, such as 'Black' (Italy), 'Mandala' (Japan), 'Popgun' (USA), 'C'est Bon Anthology' (Sweden), 'Spera' (USA) and 'Fluide Glamour' (France). The resulting short stories were collected in the anthology Traveling (2014).
In 2013 Niimura moved to Japan, to work in the manga industry. He serialised the semi-autobiographical diary manga Henshin (2013) in the magazine 'Monthly Ikki' from publisher Shogakukan.
His next major project was the webcomic Umami (2019), about two cooks in a fantastic world. The work won the 2019 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic.

Reviews

[David Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is starting to remind me of another cooking themed comic, a manga called Delicious in Dungeon. This one actually ends on a cliffhanger, so we'll see how it goes. The art is pretty sketchy but in a good way.

[Erick Vieira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entretenido, no tan bueno como el primero. Las protagonistas de meten en nuevos líos.

[shemah · Rating 3 out of 5]

#2023

[NoRa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny. Learning ,ore of Ami's character now.

[Zim · Rating 3 out of 5]

foraging let’s!