There’s a long-time understanding that Japanese anime has an intense love of food. Clips from Studio Ghibli movies make the rounds on social media, where fans gush over the care taken to animate sizzling shrimp, scrambling eggs, or slicing vegetables.
Videogames, even those entirely about simulating cooking, don’t often incite the same fascination. Games like make food beautiful while party games like turn the kitchen into a series of minigames, but it’s the weird that’s assembled the perfect spread of beautiful and interactive cooking that I can’t stop thinking about.
