Chubo no Alice (2024)

A love story between Kaji, a genius pâtissière and Mizuki, a former marathon runner / dessert-lover who becomes his taste tester after she starts working at the same hotel.

It's been 6 months since an office lady, Chiharu, transferred from Tokyo to Sapporo. There, she found her place in a small bento shop, "Kumaben." She wandered one day.

On the other hand, cook Yuu is still determined to solve customers' worries with the magic of his bento. An old friend, Shohei, who works for a fashion company, came by to see Yuu. He ordered a bento "Worth to be the last meal of life". By those words, he hides his true intentions... Sensing unusual, Chiharu and Yuu become preoccupied with finding Shohei's true motives.

Takeshi, an Italian restaurant chef, and Ruri could have been lovers, but Takeshi was too comfortable with their current relationship that he chose to stay best friends with her. Now, Ruri is engaged to another man and Takeshi is deep in regret. He runs through the night of Tokyo to tell her his true feelings before it's too late, but right as he stands in front of Ruri, an unfortunate accident takes his life away. However, a twist of fate brings them back together once again in an ironic situation. "Eternal First Love" unfolds as a bittersweet story of an everlasting "first love."

It's been 6 months since an office lady, Chiharu, transferred from Tokyo to Sapporo. There, she found her place in a small bento shop, "Kumaben." She wandered one day.

On the other hand, cook Yuu is still determined to solve customers' worries with the magic of his bento. An old friend, Shohei, who works for a fashion company, came by to see Yuu. He ordered a bento "Worth to be the last meal of life". By those words, he hides his true intentions... Sensing unusual, Chiharu and Yuu become preoccupied with finding Shohei's true motives.

Fukuyoshi Hina, Arare, and Hana are three sisters whose family run Fukuya, a 450-year-old traditional Japanese confectionery shop in Kyoto. This is the story of their individual romances, love of family and sacrifices for the sake of protecting tradition.

Ikeda Yoshimi, a 28-year-old editor of a literary magazine who loves otome games and loves good-looking guys, will be in charge of a gourmet magazine even though she is not good at eating with ultra-small meals. However, she notices that when she eats with good-looking men, her appetite increases, and she pursues "good-looking rice" to improve her small meals.

Orihara Yuka is an artist with savant syndrome, closely protected by her mother and her cousin. When one of her works is entered into a competition and wins first place, she is thrust out into a much wider world. She meets Sawatari Toru, a bitter reporter with a hard past, who treats her as if she were normal.

Alice Yaemori (Mugi Kadowaki) runs the small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Shingo Yaemori (Nao Omori), who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge in chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills is extraordinary and her food always pleases. At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Kazusa Mitsumata. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice Yaemori cooks dishes in the kitchen, Kazusa Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers. One day, a young man named Kosei Sakae (Ren Nagase) appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Alice Yaemori experiences a big change in her life

~~ Adapted from the manga series "Hatsu Koi, Zarari" ( by Zaku Zakuro......................................

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