Thursday, November 4, 2021

My current favourite manga and atashin'chi

Ahh...as I think about how I came across it, I remembered youtube search and more of ASMR food clips. A new interesting way of watching food. The exaggration​ of way something frying splashes in oil, the OTT way someone enjoys food...One clip led to the other and I came across a japanese cartoon with subtitles. And it had me flabbergasted. I mean its barely 8 to 10 minutes long. It gave you an idea of a modern japanese family, their habits, their daily living, at the same time a through development of individual main characters and a humorous way of telling a story. This cartoon is my store lunch buddy, its my end of the day refreshment buddy or just to relax buddy. This cartoon had a funny egg face shaped momma with a wierd and cute ( remember I am wierd??) voice. she is the creator of errors and total melodrama and since I love her so much, I get absolutely annoyed with her daughter character "Mikan". She is annoying, nitpicking on the momma and absolutely hopeless (in my eyes) girl , a typical lazy,day dreaming, chore avoiding teen who loves making teddybears (which is the only thing I like about her. Its not that I hate her but I can barely tolerate her.On the contrary I LOVE her younger brother. He is a boy of few words, idiosyncratic but at the same time hardworking, and a slicker for orderliness. He is a coinesseur and loves making midnight snacks and sometimes adding a little something to perk up mother's (often) tasteless food. But I get absolutely kick watching the father character.Clad in either a brown suit (he works in govenment), with sparse black hair and john lennon glasses, he is a man of few words and absolutely crude habits. But what I love most is his laughter. Its short and crisp "ahahaha"...thats it. Though as I write now, since I almost done with subtitled atashin'chi (translated :our family), I dont watch it that often. However, whenever I feel like my mood needs uplifting..."ata" is what I watch and will watch