![]() ![]() Now here's my problem with the 2019 reboot. Journeying across 19th Century China during the Qing Dynasty, in the fictitious "Era of the Cooking Wars", split between 4 regions (Beijing, Szechuan, Shanghai, and Guangdong), to not only find rivals and partners to serve as his guidance and stepping stones to be acknowledged as the "youngest chef" to be crowned as Super Chef, but thwarting the evil organization known as the Underground Cooking Society for their own gains to do the same. ![]() But if you don't know what the OG is about, it's about this boy called Liu Maoxing, after the death of his mother, Pai, who was called the 'Goddess of Cuisine', becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. around and served as the continuation (NOT sequel) to the OG, because mangaka Etsushi Ogawa was still publishing the manga back then, so it wouldn't be wise for the OG to surpass Ogawa-sensei in terms of storytelling, so the remaining two-thirds (Episode 19 onwards) served as filler.įast forward 20 years later, we finally got the green-light of the sequel (this time a YES) for Shin Chuuka Ichiban which covers content right after Episode 19 of the OG onward. The reason was, due to a problem in serialization in 1997 (mostly translation errors), the "Shin" (真) part came However, to give a summarized backdrop, the OG series covered only the first third of the insanely long 52-episode series with the relevant manga, so take it as you will about fillers. Shokugeki no Soma), and it's considered a classic for anyone who wants to get introduced to the cooking gourmet genre. The original 1997-1998 Chuuka Ichiban! series can be said as the OG to cooking shows like the commons we all see with similar shows pop up and got popular in their own right (i.e. ![]()
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