Do you like curry? Well I do and I try to find the best curry restaurants here in the Philippines and eat as much as I can. So far I’ve tasted Indian style curry and Japanese curry (via Teriyaki Boy and UCC) and I have to say I like the Indian style curry better. Japanese curry has that sourness in it that I’m not so crazy about.
Anyway this is not going to be a foodie post. This is actually about one of the manga’s I’m following and it’s title is, you guessed it right, ‘Addicted To Curry’. It’s a funny and serious manga about a genius curry chef (Makito Koenji) who lives and dies for curry. It is a bit ecchi as well and there are some parts where a little nudity is involved.
“Makito Koenji is a curry chef with a mysterious past who helps Yui Sonezaki keep her father’s curry restaurant, Ganesha, open through a lack of customers, a hostile takeover attempt by a huge company, and many other challenges. Get addicted… to Curry.”
The chef is a little perv who peeps on the owner of the restaurant every chance he gets. lol. It also gives an insight on the Japanese’s attitude towards sex. I don’t know japanese culture that well but if this manga is any indication then I kinda like it. 
In some situations, there would be this warning about the chief girl protagonist (Yui Sonezaki) being still in high school and Koenji being an older guy but those around them, including the mother would advice the him to use ‘protection’ which is pretty funny. Koenji readily agrees as if things are certainly bound to happen while Yui is exasperated as hell.
It seems that the thrust of the manga is about learning some lessons after a curry competition just like what happens in another manga, Yakitate Japan. What I like about this manga aside from the funny moments is that after every chapter, they give out recipes for the curry that was cooked in the chapter.
I still have to try and cook curry using their recipes but one of these days I most surely will.
The bad news here is that the last scanlation released for this manga was last November 2009. And so far there have been new chapters yet. Too bad coz it’s really light reading and quite enjoyable. I hope they continue this manga.
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