Meshibana Keiji Tachibana Koshitsubu Sosa Sen 46 (Tokuma Comics)

[Machine Translation] From *Weekly Asahi Geino*: The 46th installment of the hugely popular gourmet manga series *Detective Tachibana and His Meal Chats*, currently running to great acclaim *The Smooth vs. Chunky Investigation*. Japan is home to a vast and rich culture of anko (sweet red bean paste). This red bean paste is classified into two types: koshi-an (smooth) and tsubu-an (chunky), and Tachibana is pressed by his colleagues to reveal which camp he belongs to. It s said that the eastern part of Japan favors koshi-an, while the west favors tsubu-an; furthermore, 60 percent of Japanese people are said to be in the tsubu-an camp, while 40 percent are in the koshi-an camp. In the title story, Tachibana is forced to confront this agonizing choice through actual foods such as anpan, anmitsu, shiruko, anman, and taiyaki. In addition, he witnesses the moment of the melon revolution," is astonished by a curry junkie" who doesn t eat curry, expresses gratitude for the free miso soup at a gyudon restaurant, and expounds on the royal road" to making mapo noodles a whirlwind of emotion across 12 stories spanning 46 volumes?

『週刊アサヒ芸能』大好評連載中の大ヒットグルメマンガ『めしばな刑事タチバナ』第46弾「こしつぶ捜査線」。日本には、あんこ文化というどでかい大地が広がっている。そのあんこは、こしあんとつぶあんに分類されるが、立花はそのどちら派なのかを同僚から問い詰められた。あんこは東がこしあん派、西がつぶあん派といわれ、また、日本人の6割がつぶあん派で4割がこしあん派といわれている。そんな悩ましい2択を、あんぱん、あんみつ、しるこ、あんまん、たい焼き等々、実際のブツを通して立花に迫る表題作。ほかに、メロン革命の瞬間を目撃し、カレーを食べないカレージャンキーに驚愕し、牛丼屋の無料みそ汁に感謝し、麻婆麺作りの王道を説く、怒涛感動の12編46巻?