{"id":45648,"date":"2018-01-26T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45648"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:49:10","slug":"i-want-to-enjoy-food-as-much-as-kasumi-does-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45648","title":{"rendered":"I want to enjoy food as much as Kasumi does, someday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Going down the Netflix rabbit hole, after I finished watching Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories<\/em>, the immediate suggestion by the algorithm was a show called Samurai Gourmet<\/em>.\u00a0 Upon watching the preview; not like I had any choice, because Netflix forces previews upon you like James Franco\u2019s alleged sexual aggression, I decided to give it a flyer, because I was sad that I had watched all of Midnight Diner and was wanting to get more of that peaceful, slice-of-life feeling that it had provided, and a show about a retired man leisurely seeking food to savor and enjoy seemed like it had some potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as good as Midnight Diner, but Samurai Gourmet has so far been pretty enjoyable as well.\u00a0 Whereas Midnight Diner was more about a centralized location and the people that gravitated to and around it, Samurai Gourmet is conversely centered around a singular person, freely flowing to different locations.\u00a0 However, it does manage to capture that light-hearted feeling and emotions of internal thought processes and the enjoyment of comfort foods in perfect circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like the best analogy for the show is that it\u2019s like Stephen King writing, when he was still in his literary prime.\u00a0 He\u2019d take something like his protagonist going into the kitchen and doing mundane things, and somehow bilk 5,000 words, mostly adjectives to describe every little activity, before the last two paragraphs in the chapter are loose ties to the inevitable aliens\/demons\/monsters\/spiders that the story is supposed to opposed by.\u00a0 Except in Samurai Gourmet, there is no supernatural villain to derail Castle Rock, just protagonist Kasumi\u2019s own imagination of his inner samurai dealing with his fairly minor conflicts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But then all the things that wandering Kasumi eats and indulges in, just bring it all back to earth, because who doesn\u2019t love to watch food and drink being enjoyed in their most relished capacity?\u00a0 Seriously, I feel twinges of envy every time Kasumi eats just about anything, regardless of if they\u2019re things that I like or not, just because the show makes them look so delectable.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, I\u2019ve eaten loads of rice, yakiniku barbecue, ramen and beers in my life, but I can\u2019t really say that I feel like I\u2019ve enjoyed any singular dish like Kasumi does in each varying episode of the show.\u00a0 And I think I have new goals in my life, but then again I\u2019m not retired and I\u2019m not 60 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, Samurai Gourmet is another win for Netflix, as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u00a0 As much as I love to grief all things Japan, due to mockingly nationalistic purposes, I have to say shows like it, and Midnight Diner almost rekindle the Weeaboo that I once was when I was a teenager.\u00a0 I feel like where Korea is great at making complex dramas and telling long-form stories, I think Japanese television has found a niche with the slice-of-life genre and quick and short, self-contained stories.\u00a0 Watching these shows recently makes me want to visit Japan more than I did before, and push it up on the list of destinations I\u2019d like to visit one day, so that I could seek out an actual Midnight Diner and savor the food like Samurai Gourmet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going down the Netflix rabbit hole, after I finished watching Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories, the immediate suggestion by the algorithm was a show called Samurai Gourmet.\u00a0 Upon watching the preview; not like I had any choice, because Netflix forces previews upon you like James Franco\u2019s alleged sexual aggression, I decided to give it a flyer, … Continue reading I want to enjoy food as much as Kasumi does, someday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,83,69],"class_list":["post-45648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-food","tag-observations","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45650,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45648\/revisions\/45650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}