When Tsukasa Higashino stopped writing, the mapo tofu with all the color and flavor was left on the scratch paper.

This mapo tofu seems to be able to become three-dimensional through the medium of 'paper', which makes people feel like they are talking at a glance.

"That's too wicked." Tsukasa Higashino stopped writing and thought to himself.

That's right, this is too evil, and this dish drawn on paper should not have any smell, but at a glance, Tsukasa Higashino can smell and even taste the taste of mapo tofu.

It's as if you've eaten something in the painting with an empty mouth.

It's the same as 'empathy'.

Tsukasa Higashino's drawings seem to be able to seduce diners' sense of taste and smell.

He even wondered if anyone would eat the scratch paper if it was hung up.

"Probably not, right?" Tsukasa Higashino shook his head.

That's an exaggeration.

But...

Tsukasa Higashino looked at the mapo tofu he had drawn again, and swallowed slightly.

This... It's delicious.

The mouth seems to be tumbling with the hemp aroma of mapo tofu.

He shook his head, didn't read any further, folded the scratch paper and put it in his pocket, and then heard someone next to him 'ouch'.

The voice still sounds unfortunate.

Higashino Tsukasa looked up strangely, only to realize that when he was concentrating on painting just now, a group of people actually gathered around him.

There were male clerks, there were female clerks, and even a few customers stopped by and swallowed their saliva.

They looked at Tsukasa Higashino.

It didn't look like he was looking at a painter.

It's like looking at a chef in an izakaya.

This made Higashino Tsukasa couldn't help but look at them twice.

This 'painting flavor and recognizing shapes' is inevitably too powerful.

It can fascinate so many people.

It's like a certain line, 'It's a special effect, I added a special effect', and the food drawn by Tsukasa Higashino's hand seems to be able to drill out of the plane and soothe everyone's stomach.

He smiled and said hello to the waitress who was licking his lips and swallowing his saliva, returned the ballpoint pen, and then turned away.

When Higashino Tsukasa left, he could even feel the stinging gaze behind him.

"That's really—" Tsukasa Higashino walked back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, taking out the scratch paper with mapo tofu on it as he went.

'Drawing a taste and recognizing shapes' seems to be a skill that can express the smell or taste of something drawn.

Looking at this skill, Higashino couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

Skills that can restore smell or smell naturally can't be applied to horror comics, otherwise people will die at every turn in horror comics, and readers will smell the smell of blood in one hand, and they won't immediately call the police?

But if you don't use this skill, it's a bit too wasteful.

Tsukasa Higashino thought about it, and then an excellent Japanese drama that made Japanese friends and even the audience of the Great Celestial Empire love and hate - "Lonely Gourmet".

"The Lonely Gourmet" tells the story of Goro Inoshi, a grocer who searches for various delicacies between work, and he usually eats alone, hence the title of the Japanese drama "The Lonely Gourmet".

The plot structure of this Japanese drama is actually very simple, it is nothing more than the story of Goro Inokami running around for a living, dealing with troublesome customers at the same time, and finally looking for street food to taste when he is exhausted.

But that's not the highlight of the show.

What's really heartbreaking is that this Japanese drama called "The Lonely Foodie" was released in the middle of the night, and it is a night drama.

Think about it, on the big night, "The Lonely Foodie" plays.

When you look at Goro, a middle-aged man with a wooden personality but a serious attitude towards food, chewing and swallowing the delicacy with an expression as if he had eaten the most delicious thing in the world, and you can only look at the empty hand, but there is nothing that can satisfy your cravings-

This is as cruel as abusing the stomach bag!

The actor's exaggerated performance vividly expresses the 'happiness of eating food'.

So, is there a better work than "The Lonely Gourmet"?

To be honest, this is not clear to Tsukasa Higashino.

After all, there were so many Japanese dramas in the previous life, maybe there will be one or two works that are better than "Lonely Foodie"?

But in 2020, the most popular food Japanese drama among the young generation must have a seat in "Lonely Foodie"!

Eight seasons in a row! As a night drama, it has won 5.1% of the ratings!

You must know that this is the ratings of night dramas, and other night dramas generally only hover around a few percent.

This may also be because everyone is actually a bit masochistic, and they like to toss their stomachs at night.

And Tsukasa Higashino is barely one of them.

What he likes to see the most is the appearance of Goro eating the food with a happy expression.

Because the pursuit of the concept of 'food' is actually universal.

Tsukasa Higashino also heard that "The Lonely Gourmet" in his previous life actually had an original manga.

But in that era of information explosion, Tsukasa Higashino was naturally reluctant to read manga anymore, so he chose the TV series "Lonely Gourmet".

All in all.

If he wanted to show the characteristics of the skill of 'drawing taste and recognizing shapes', Tsukasa Higashino felt that "Lonely Gourmet" was his unique choice.

Even he had already thought of it.

A Japanese friend who has a good life opens the manga of "Lonely Gourmet" in the middle of the night, and looks at the manga with all the colors and flavors, but he can only scratch the itch through the skill of "drawing taste and recognizing shapes", and he can't wait to eat all the manga paper...

This is simply an artifact of poisoning in the middle of the night!

Tsukasa Higashino decided.

After "Midnight Bell" tortured the hearts of Japanese friends, he wanted to use "Lonely Gourmet" to torture the stomachs of Japanese friends!

This is his other goal in addition to "Midnight Bell".

Although I want to talk about painting "Lonely Gourmet", there is still "Midnight Bell" on Higashino's side...

So the serialization of "Lonely Gourmet" is also something that needs to be considered by Tsukasa Higashino.

It's not that Urashima Publishing House has a pact with him and can't draw two manga at the same time, but if he draws two manga at the same time, Tsukasa Higashino will definitely not have enough time.

A "Midnight Bell" is already very difficult for the average comic book author to submit a manuscript once a week, if you open another "Lonely Gourmet"...

"Then you can only submit to the monthly magazine."

Tsukasa Higashino had an idea.

That's right. Monthly manga magazine, that's the choice of Tsukasa Higashino.

Unlike the weekly magazine "Bad Cold", which has to submit a manuscript once a week, the monthly comic magazine belongs to the type of manuscript that is submitted once a month.

This gives me a lot more time.

However, despite the abundance of time, the number of pages in Japanese monthly manga magazines is actually much higher than that of weekly magazines.

A comic like "The Lonely Gourmet" is estimated to be 40 to 50 pages at a time.

"Editor Hosokawa seems to have said that Urashima Publishing seems to be planning to open a new monthly category... If I could..."

Higashino pinched his chin and probably had an idea in his heart.