Food, which everyone does not refuse, often appears in various styles of anime, and there are also many dramas that deliberately use food as the theme.
However, compared with works such as "China Little Boss", which is well known to post-80s and post-90s comic fans, today's food is more and more focused on expressing other elements.
For example, "Spirit Eater", which aired in 2015. This anime does have a lot of depictions of cooking scenes, but because of the many cute heroines and the yan yi that appears from it. The focus of the audience's discussion was all on them.
In addition, there is also a food-themed drama that is very similar to the situation of "Spirit of the Eater" - "Rough Snack War".
Rough Snack War is a manga adaptation created by Qinshan. The original was not very long, and since its launch in 2014, it has only been serialized for four years before it was completed.
However, unlike the shorter ones, the popularity of this work is not low at all, and there are not a few related fan works. In particular, the heroine of it, Zhi Weeping, was remembered by fans because of the large number of books long before the animation (even the original author drew it).
In terms of plot, it can also be seen from the title "Rough Snack War" that the story mainly revolves around rough snacks, that is, small snacks.
In fact, such small snacks as in bulk that appear in this work were still very common in the 1980s and 1990s and the early 21st century. There will be some small snack shops in the streets, especially near the school.
However, in today's era, their figure has long been replaced by supermarkets and online shopping. Not to mention that like the protagonists, they take a coin to the store to buy a few delicious bars and chocolates, and just seeing it can make people find childhood memories.
In order to fit this retro setting, the background of the game also takes place in the remote countryside far from the city.
The male protagonist of the story is named Shikada Jiu, a first-year high school student. The family runs a small snack shop. And the male owner often helps to stay at home to watch the store during the holidays.
At the beginning of the anime, there is a strange guest in the shop. The other party's short lilac hair and headdress with black flowers are very similar to the characters in the comics that the male protagonist is drawing.
And the beautiful girl in front of her is also the heroine of the work, named Zhi Weeping Firefly. She is the daughter of the president of a well-known rough snack company. This time I came to such a remote country, not to play, but to invite the father of the male protagonist to join her company.
Unfortunately, Dad is usually busy running the store and can't leave immediately. And the male protagonist, because he is bent on becoming a cartoonist, is not willing to inherit the dim sum shop.
Such a situation is obviously unwilling for the weeping firefly who dreams of building the world's first snack factory.
Therefore, in order to let the male owner inherit the shop to poach her father, she began to live in the town temporarily, and visited the store on time every day to try to persuade the male owner.
The overall style of Rough Snack War is biased towards the everyday. Unlike many works on the subject of food, although this work does not introduce the methods of dim sum and cooking, it has a detailed description of how to eat. And there are often some nostalgic small toys.
As for the heroine of it, she belongs to a somewhat natural type in terms of personality.
The reason why it is so popular with painters is that it is inseparable from looks and figures, mainly because of the portrayal in animation. Especially when eating snacks without hesitation, it is very attractive no matter how you look at it.
If you have not seen this animation, you can take the time to make up for it