Gourmet Girl Graffiti
Gourmet Girl Graffiti, known in Japan as , is a four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Makoto Kawai. It was serialized in Houbunsha's "Manga Time Kirara Miracle!" magazine between the March 2012 and November 2016 issues. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Shaft aired between January and March 2015. Plot. Ryō Machiko is a second-year middle school girl who has been living by herself since her grandmother died. Despite having exceptional skill in cooking, Ryō has felt her cooking hasn't been tasting good. That is, until she meets her second  cousin, Kirin Morino, who comes to stay with her on the weekends to attend cram school in Tokyo and shows her the key to great tasting food: eating together with friends and family. Media. Manga. The original four-panel comic strip manga, written and illustrated by Makoto Kawai, was serialized in Houbunsha's "Manga Time Kirara Miracle!" magazine between the March 2012 and November 2016 issues. Houbunsha published seven "tankōbon" volumes from January 26, 2013 to September 27, 2016. Anime. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Shaft and directed by Naoyuki Tatsuwa, aired in Japan between January  9 and March 27, 2015 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The screenplay is by Mari Okada and character designs are by Kazuya Shiotsuki. The opening theme is by Maaya Sakamoto, and the ending theme is by Rina Satō and Asuka Ōgame. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime in North America. Video game. Characters from the series appear alongside other "Manga Time Kirara" characters in the mobile RPG, "Kirara Fantasia" in 2020.