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Yakumo-san wa Edzuke ga Shitai. #7
Beauty and the Feast, Vol. 7
A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!
Young, impressionable high school students learn and grow so much from each and every experience! Time has passed in the blink of an eye since Shuko began feeding Yamato in spring, and he’s already much bigger and stronger. The advent of autumn means Shuko must find new ways to satisfy Yamato’s ever-ravenous appetite!
Young, impressionable high school students learn and grow so much from each and every experience! Time has passed in the blink of an eye since Shuko began feeding Yamato in spring, and he’s already much bigger and stronger. The advent of autumn means Shuko must find new ways to satisfy Yamato’s ever-ravenous appetite!
176 pages, Paperback
First published March 25, 2019
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April 18, 2024
How impressed am I that Rui didn't manage to utterly ruin this volume?
March 31, 2023
Shuko still makes the food and poses half-nude! Yamato plays ball and devours it all! Yuri drinks beer and celebrates her year (of birth)! Rui tries to fight fate and secures a date! Also there’s a caterpillar involved, which is sadly where the steam runs right out of my little exercise.
Ah, this is how you change up a long-running series without dropping the fundamental premise or going for wide ranging swings in bizarre new directions. Come at the same topic, but from different angles.
It starts off with Shuko’s terrible, awful, not-so-good day. She has an incredibly awful time of it and her coping mechanism is, yes, watching Yamato destroy food. I like how much she scrutinizes his every move and derives such joy from it.
Basically she exerts herself and expends that rage by making an excess of pot stickers for the bottomless pit that is a teenage boy’s appetite. Yamato turns out to get a lot of ribbing for the amount he eats, but Shuko finds it comforting, which is very cute.
Then Yuri stops by while Yamato is away to celebrate her birthday, which is she and Shuko drinking while eating college staples of cheap and dirty eats. That’s a total nostalgia trip for anybody who has gone back to the crap they used to eat for comfort (I miss you so much, deep fried pepperoni).
It’s a series very close to the top of its game, really. Rui ends up with a voucher for an all-expenses date that she gets Yamato on the hook for and that doesn’t go quite the way she expects it to, but the story doesn’t just dump on her and she’s (for once) not being annoying enough to dump on.
Her even more annoying sister is deployed for one panel and gets one joke and, in fact, it’s a good one. There’s just excellent use of all these characters through the entire thing.
When Shuko adopts a yuzu plant, she ends up with a hitchhiker and this hungry little caterpillar gets its own mini-arc that comes down to, yep, food, but from a whole other direction and also winds up drowning Shuko in eggs (trust me, it makes sense).
Plus, Yamato keeps on trying to adult and, despite his own self-criticism that he doesn’t speak well, there’s an obvious, but subtle, shift that shows he is growing older as the story has gone on, becoming more mature than he was at the start and thinking more about his actions.
And, yes, we don’t need this much fanservice of Shuko - literally every chapter title page is her in less and less - but the story itself remains pretty tame, minus the odd encounter here and there. I could really have done without that last bonus chapter with Yuri, mind you, which feels like pandering. And the ongoing nonsense about Shuko’s weight, since the story doesn’t seem to care much when it needs her for cheesecake.
The art is also, well, a lot wobblier than it used to be. I’m not sure if this is a result of the mangaka’s chronic illness, so it’s not fair to give it too much grief, but it definitely doesn’t reach the high marks of the earlier volumes for whatever reason.
Shuko loves to cook and she loves to share it with others, not just Yamato, although the two have an incredibly sweet bond together. That joy of feeding somebody, whether human or not, is spread throughout and it was nice to see the story stay true while mixing it up some.
4 stars - a very, very strong volume of this series. Maybe no “wow” moments, but it moves from strength to strength to strength without skipping a beat, minus a couple of the usual stumbles and a bonus manga I could do without. That’s all I ever want from a series, really.
Ah, this is how you change up a long-running series without dropping the fundamental premise or going for wide ranging swings in bizarre new directions. Come at the same topic, but from different angles.
It starts off with Shuko’s terrible, awful, not-so-good day. She has an incredibly awful time of it and her coping mechanism is, yes, watching Yamato destroy food. I like how much she scrutinizes his every move and derives such joy from it.
Basically she exerts herself and expends that rage by making an excess of pot stickers for the bottomless pit that is a teenage boy’s appetite. Yamato turns out to get a lot of ribbing for the amount he eats, but Shuko finds it comforting, which is very cute.
Then Yuri stops by while Yamato is away to celebrate her birthday, which is she and Shuko drinking while eating college staples of cheap and dirty eats. That’s a total nostalgia trip for anybody who has gone back to the crap they used to eat for comfort (I miss you so much, deep fried pepperoni).
It’s a series very close to the top of its game, really. Rui ends up with a voucher for an all-expenses date that she gets Yamato on the hook for and that doesn’t go quite the way she expects it to, but the story doesn’t just dump on her and she’s (for once) not being annoying enough to dump on.
Her even more annoying sister is deployed for one panel and gets one joke and, in fact, it’s a good one. There’s just excellent use of all these characters through the entire thing.
When Shuko adopts a yuzu plant, she ends up with a hitchhiker and this hungry little caterpillar gets its own mini-arc that comes down to, yep, food, but from a whole other direction and also winds up drowning Shuko in eggs (trust me, it makes sense).
Plus, Yamato keeps on trying to adult and, despite his own self-criticism that he doesn’t speak well, there’s an obvious, but subtle, shift that shows he is growing older as the story has gone on, becoming more mature than he was at the start and thinking more about his actions.
And, yes, we don’t need this much fanservice of Shuko - literally every chapter title page is her in less and less - but the story itself remains pretty tame, minus the odd encounter here and there. I could really have done without that last bonus chapter with Yuri, mind you, which feels like pandering. And the ongoing nonsense about Shuko’s weight, since the story doesn’t seem to care much when it needs her for cheesecake.
The art is also, well, a lot wobblier than it used to be. I’m not sure if this is a result of the mangaka’s chronic illness, so it’s not fair to give it too much grief, but it definitely doesn’t reach the high marks of the earlier volumes for whatever reason.
Shuko loves to cook and she loves to share it with others, not just Yamato, although the two have an incredibly sweet bond together. That joy of feeding somebody, whether human or not, is spread throughout and it was nice to see the story stay true while mixing it up some.
4 stars - a very, very strong volume of this series. Maybe no “wow” moments, but it moves from strength to strength to strength without skipping a beat, minus a couple of the usual stumbles and a bonus manga I could do without. That’s all I ever want from a series, really.
January 22, 2024
This was a really good volume. Yuri and Yakumo have a really sweet chapter reflecting on the past. Rui has a good chapter where she bonds with Yamada. The slice of life stuff was compelling and good with lots of sweetness. The fan service is dialed down a bit with every chapter still having a cover that shows it. I hope the remainder of the series stays this strong and ties things up well. The bonus stuff at the end was also really funny and the insight into the mangaka's life was meaningful.
June 20, 2023
Sweet and Savory
Shuko is a great friend and guardian for Shohei. The chapter drawings for each section depict Shuko as dressing very flirty with her 28 year old self, but this manga has been clean and hilarious at the same time. The drawings of the food is positively addicting to look at!
Shuko is a great friend and guardian for Shohei. The chapter drawings for each section depict Shuko as dressing very flirty with her 28 year old self, but this manga has been clean and hilarious at the same time. The drawings of the food is positively addicting to look at!
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April 27, 2023It’s a weird mix of heartwarming slice of life and massive fanservice. TBH I’m not rooting for them as a couple, though it may be inevitable. I would like it to stay a crush on his part, and her healing through cooking for him.
May 1, 2023
We're doing so well, hardly any fan service or problematic content in this volume, much like last volume. Let's try to keep this momentum going, Satomi U. You're at your best when you deliver the wholesome feels, stick to that.
June 12, 2023
Still the occasional unnecessary racy panels, but I still really enjoy the story and the food looks so tasty! 😋😋😋
May 9, 2025
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July 9, 2025
The cheesecake's starting to wear thin on me, but I do like how these characters are developing, and I do very much like the cooking ideas this series continues to give me.
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