Forum - View topicWakako-zake (TV).
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Alan45
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Wakako-zake (TV) Genres: slice of life Plot Summary: 26-year old Wakako drinks different kinds of sake at bars alone every night, searching for her place to belong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Has anyone here checked out Wakakozake? It is a short format series about food and drink in Japan. It is available streaming on Crunchyroll with several episodes already available. The main character makes various food/drink combinations sound utterly delightful even though they are extremely Japanese. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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I've been watching this using fansubs, and it's been pretty good thus far for a series of shorts. I really really wish it had gotten full-length episodes. Stories about working women (who aren't soldiers or thieves) are vanishingly rare in anime - I thoroughly enjoyed the superb Hataraki Man - and when we finally get another one it only has two-minute-long episodes. So disappointing.
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nobahn
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Fist thought: "Where everybody knows your name . . . ."
Second thought: Isn't it true that Japanese society discriminates against women who haven't married by age 25? (I've read that there is similar prejudice in China.....) |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10052 Location: Virginia |
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@nobahn
Thanks for the setup, it should have occurred to me that I was setting up a series thread. My impression was that generally she was going to a different location each episode so I doubt she would have been recognized. However from the size of the establishments, if you went very often they would recognize you. I have seen references to a woman becoming a "Christmas Cake" in the sense that no one wants one after the 25th. However I got the idea that this pertained to marriage chances. I do understand that there is a lot of pressure to leave the work force after marriage and be a homemaker and parent. As a result some young women decide to delay marriage or not get married at all because they don't want the restriction in their lifestyle. |
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12skippy21
 Posts: 785 Location: York, England |
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If she was married she would not get to enjoy those scrumpy looking meals though. She looks like she enjoys the peace.
Watching the show makes me disappointed at the extreme lack of variety of eat outs in my area. Cheap curry, cheap chinese or the chippy. Woopie 
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