Mister Ajikko

ミスター味っ子

Aired: 1987 - 1989

A gourmet anime based on Terasawa Daisuke's cooking manga, produced by Sunrise. The story follows young chef Ajiyoshi Youichi, who inherited his late father's culinary skills and runs the Hinode Shokudo restaurant in Tokyo with his mother, as he takes on numerous cooking battles organized by Ajio Yamaoka, the supreme leader of the Culinary Kingdom of Japan. The show became a major talking point for its flamboyant reaction scenes, in which characters who taste the food are sent flying into outer space or enveloped in light, profoundly influencing later cooking anime and cooking variety shows. By fusing the earnest culinary depictions of the original manga with its own over-the-top theatrical flair, the series stands as a landmark work that pioneered the cooking anime genre itself.