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Kodoku no Gourmet, Tsuri Baka Nisshi Live-Action Shows to Have Crossover Episodes
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website of the Kodoku no Gourmet television series announced on Friday that both the Tsuri Baka Nisshi and Kodoku no Gourmet live-action shows would have crossovers featuring each other's main character guest starring in an episode.
Gaku Hamada (live-action Space Brothers' Yasushi Furuya, live-action Nobunaga Concerto's Tokugawa Ieyasu) will appear as Tsuri Baka Nisshi's protagonist Densuke Hamasaki in the Kodoku no Gourmet episode airing on Friday. Likewise, Yutaka Matsushige (live-action Death Note, Sukiyaki Western Django, Crows Zero) will appear as Kodoku no Gourmet protagonist Gorō Inagashira in the Tsuri Baka Nisshi episode airing on May 26.
Both the Kodoku no Gourmet live-action series and original manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local cuisine found on street corners. The live-action show's sixth season premiered on April 8.
Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi first serialized the Kodoku no Gourmet manga from 1994 to 1996 in Fusosha's Monthly Panja magazine (now defunct). Kusumi handled the story, and Taniguchi drew the art. Fusosha published the first collected volume in 1997. Kusumi and Fusosha published the manga's second volume in September 2015. Taniguchi passed away in February.
The Tsuri Baka Nisshi show and manga both follow Densuke "Hama-chan" Hamasaki, an unavaricious white-collar worker who does not have any interest in success and self-protection. Even though he incurs the wrath of his superior and stirs ill feelings from his wife, Hama-chan prefers to take things at his own stride and goes fishing. He feels that there are more important things in life than work and enjoys the simple things in life such as fishing. The show's second season premiered on April 21.
Juzo Yamasaki and Kenichi Kitami launched the manga series in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original magazine in 1979. Shogakukan released the 96th compiled book volume on March 30.
Source: Comic Natalie
