Addicted to Curry
Story. "Addicted to Curry" is the story of Sonezaki Yui, a schoolgirl, whose father is the owner of Curry House Cooking Ganesha. Yui, who frequently adopts strays and starving animals she finds on the street, one day finds a young man lying in the road and, out of her good nature, wants to give him something to eat. She trips and hits him in the face with a soda can, and runs away. The young man, Koenji Makito, follows her curry scent back to the restaurant. At first, Yui thinks that Koenji is going to kill her  for throwing food at him, but it turns out that he's a nice guy who knew and was looking for Yui's father, Souichirou. Yui tells Makito that the restaurant is going out of business and that her father Souichiro has left on a journey with the goal of improving his cooking abilities, pretty much leaving her alone with the restaurant. Koenji who is in debt to both Yui and her father decides to team up with Yui in order to save the restaurant. Publication. Written and illustrated by Kazuki Funatsu, "Addicted to Curry" was serialized in Shueisha's  Weekly Young Jump magazine between January 2001 and November 29, 2012. The series ended after 534 chapters. The first volume of "Addicted to Curry" was released on July 19, 2001, and the last one was published on January 18, 2013, totalizing forty-nine volumes.