#kosuke oden

[mrshobbit]

Live, laugh, Kosuki oden

was there a point to this post? no

[darkershining]

Just watched episode 34 of Delicious Party Pretty Cure, in which a friend of Yui’s grandmother comes to visit, leading to Yui and her friends having to help resolve a conflict between the man and his grandson.

The episode begins with Yui, Rosemary and Kome-Kome making oden stew, with Yui noting she still can’t figure out how to get it to taste the way her grandma made it. They are interrupted when they hear someone at the door, so Yui goes to answer it. It turns out to be a man named Matasaburo Asai, who used to run a restaurant in Oishina Town. He’s an old friend of Yone, and has come to town to visit Yone’s grave, along with his grandson, Kosuke. However, Kosuke seems to be in a bad mood.

Matasaburo makes some oden stew for the group, which Yui notes tastes the way her grandma used to make it. Matasaburo explains that Yone helped him develop the recipe for his restaurant. Rosemary suggests Yui ask him for the recipe, but Matasaburo states that he thinks Yui needs to figure it out on her own if she truly wishes to recreate the flavor. Rosemary apologizes for bringing it up, but Matasaburo doesn’t mind, and instead asks Rosemary if he knows someone named Ginger, having noticed that he dressed in a similar way to Rosemary. Rosemary reveals that Ginger was his old teacher, but has since passed away.

Kosuke still seems to be in a bad mood and hasn’t touched his food. He and his grandfather get into a brief argument before Kosuke runs off. Yui decides to go after him and find out what is bothering him. Kosuke admits he wants to be a baseball player, but feels he can’t be honest with his grandfather about it, since both he and his father seem to expect him to follow in their footsteps and become a chef when he’s older. Yui decides to invite her friends over to play baseball with Kosuke to cheer him up. She invites Matasaburo to join them, but he says he’s not interested.

The girls, Rosemary, Kome-Kome, Takumi and Amane’s brothers all gather to play baseball with Kosuke. Kosuke, having a bit of a crush on Yui, asks Takumi if he and Yui are dating. Panicked, Takumi denies it, with Yui also confirming that they’re just friends. Once Yui is out of earshot, Kosuke challenges Takumi, saying the winner will get to invite Yui on a date. During the game, Matasaburo shows up after all to just watch them play.

After the game ends in a draw, Yui and the others take Kosuke out for hamburgers. While eating, Kosuke remembers that he didn’t eat the oden stew his grandfather prepared earlier. He admits that he does like his grandfather’s cooking, and Yui and Rosemary gently urge him to make sure to express his gratitude to his grandfather. Meanwhile, Takumi talks to Matasaburo, who admits he just wanted to make sure to teach Kosuke how to appreciate food while he can still cook properly. Takumi tells him that while he admires his passion for cooking, he should also listen to what his grandson wants, and Matasaburo realizes he may have been a bit too strict with Kosuke, seeing how happy Kosuke was playing baseball with Yui and the others earlier.

Of course, before the two can talk, Secretor is on the move, and the oden Recipeppi is on her menu today. With the Recipeppi captured, people eating oden forget what they were doing, including Matasaburo and Kosuke, who are both confused. Takumi, still with Matasaburo, realizes what is going on and hurries out to help the Cures, who have already caught up to Secretor. After Secretor summons a Gossori Ubauzo from a now empty container that held udon earlier, Rosemary brings everyone into the Delicious Field and the Cures transform.

The Ubauzo uses various different projectiles, forcing the Cures to stay at a distance. However, Cure Precious charges straight forward. Black Pepper comes to aid her, trying to get her to calm down. One of the Ubauzo’s attacks traps Cure Precious, but fueled by her determination to help Kosuke and Matasaburo to reconcile, as well as her memories of her grandmother’s udon stew, she manages to free herself. She manages to neutralize the monster’s attacks with her Precious Triangle attack, before punching the monster into the ground. Together, the Cures then purify it, freeing the captured Recipeppi.

With things back to normal, Kosuke and Matasaburo apologize to each other and reconcile. Matasaburo decides to make some more oden stew, and invites Yui to cook with him, telling her to observe closely so that she can learn how to make it the way her grandmother made it. Kosuke also decides to join in. Watching Kosuke and his grandfather reminds Yui of how she used to help her grandmother with cooking in the past. The episode ends with the three of them cooking together.

Another good episode! We learned a little bit more about Yone, and learned about another character from the CooKingdom, Ginger, who was Rosemary’s old master. We get a few bittersweet moments of Yui and Rosemary expressing how they can no longer speak to the people they cared about, and Matasaburo reflecting on the two of them having left him. I also noticed that there was a brief reaction from Takumi’s mother when Ginger was brought up. I wonder if it’s because there’s something she knows that we don’t know yet? So, maybe there’s more to Ginger’s role in the story aside from presumably being a deceased mentor of Rosemary’s?

Anyways, I’ll be looking forward to the next episode!

[tsuki-sennin]

Hey there, everybody! Happy Halloween~!

Of course, our Halloween special was last episode, so we have to resort to something very scary.

Oden. The story of a certain Don Momotaro and Sonoza of Ideon in that other Toei superhero team show I'm currently obsessed with features this Japanese culinary delight prominently. This food certainly brought smiles for them, but how will it fare in this adventure with our good friends in Oishi-Na Town? With baseball apparently!

Spoilers, I guess...

-Yuin, good morning!

-Ah... your grandma made a mean Oden, huh?

-Ah, so Matsaburo-san is... not your grandpa, gotcha.

-...still a GILF.

-Kosuke-kun.

-Ohhhhhh, I see.

-Come to think of it, I don't think Takumicchi was in the Halloween episode. That must've stung, forgot to invite the poor lad.

-C'mon, hit me with the deep oden lore!

-Mari-chan is... mostly at a loss for words!

-The secret flavor.

-Oh hey, Takumicchi's home!

-100 years of intense SHEF POWER!

-I wonder if

-GINGER

-Hot damn, do ALL the people who know Takumi and his dad have history with the CooKingdom? That boy is a magnet for culinary wizardry!

-Catboy confirmed

-Ah... I see.

-Ah, here we go, the conflict of the episode!

-Wanna play ball, but gotta become shef

-Takumicchi! My man!

-...does Yuin's jersey say 13 or 15? I think it's 15?

-Awww, fairy cheers :)

-How long do you reckon it took Amane to braid all that hair?

-Damn, everybody's here!

-I believe in you, Ranchi! Koko-neechan... well, she's definitely got the spirit, at least.

-Okay, I'm gonna be quite honest, I don't know an awful lot about Japanese baseball. I know that there're several bats in OFF named after famous players, and there was this one episode of Jimmy Neutron where Jimmy invented equipment that let him and his friends cheat their way to the major league only to get turbo curbstomped in the World Series when they decide to finally play fair because they never practiced a minute of it. It was a favorite of mine when I was a kid lol

-By the way Sheen, the Japanese word for "ambulance" is "Kyūkyūsha".

-Ahhhhhh, Takumicchi! Lad's got you pegged! Quick, deny it as vehemently as you can! You can't let this youngster know you think a girl is cute! What if spilling your secret releases the goblins who hide underground eating peeled grapes and peanut butter bacon banana sandwiches, waiting for the perfect chance to make fun of a teenage boy's feelings!?

-You may not realize it, but Black-Pep is an essential part of Yuin's PreCure Polycule. The PolyCure!

-I'd just like to clarify, I just find this whole thing extremely funny and don't really have any strong opinions on romantic relationships in this season. But, y'know, there might be a war involving Yui as the centerpiece in the shipping side of the fandom that is happening in the astral plane no mortal eye can see, I wouldn't know.

-YUI LJHKM.NJM

-Girl was like "Yep, but he DOES have a girlfriend in Canada I've never seen!"

-Ahhh, 15! I was right!

-Amane's got quite the arm.

-Going above and beyond for the sake of a gal, huh Kosuke-kun? Y'know, I notice that ladies tend to not recognize these

-Get doubled, Idiot.

-Yeah okay lad, you'd take that fastball right in the face for Yuin.

-Kome-Kome comin' to catch!

-Damn, her tail is strong!

-TAKUMICCHI NO YOU DON'T DO THAT

-...well, if Kosuke's impressed then I suppose that's okay then!

-Spiritoru... you seem so dead inside, buddy.

-That was fun!

-Bagaa time!

-Baseball, borger... I wonder what kinda American cartoons he watches?

-Mata-san...

-Miss all your friends, huh Grandpa?

-I didn't expect to feel.

-I was gonna go crazy go stupid over every possible parallel between Yuin and Tarou but now I'm just really invested in this story.

-Don't know what you've got until it's gone.

-Yeah, let's go!

-Getting lectured by Takumi, you have really fallen.

-Oh fuck, we're interrupting lunch at an oden stand.

-You don't fuck with the oden, Seccy! You have officially gone too far!

-Sally forth, companions! Our delicious party festival has begun!

-Wahahahaha! Matsuri da, matsuri da!

-Curve balls! Suppose it is fitting for the baseball theme of this episode.

-Damn, Spicy's real pinned down.

-Yum-Yum do a run

-Smooth moves, Don Precious.

-Sono-Pep!

-That Precious oden!

-Hot damn, Precious bounced back real quick! Omoishiroi!

-A transcendent victory for the ages!

-Ei! Ei! Oh!

-The bonds strengthened by oden have returned to their strength!

-Yeah well have you considered paying for oden like a normal person, Seccy?

-We did it! A bond has been preserved! And just as much, a new bond has been formed with Kosuke-kun!

-Oden get.

-Donbura ko, donbura ko DON DON

Yurari yurete

Mezasu wa donna Happy End?

-Y'know, I'm kinda surprised there's not a lot of crossover fics between Donbrothers and Delicious Party. It'd kinda write itself, huh?

-...though to be fair, the Donbrothers are absolute lunatics, I'd imagine it'd be difficult for any writer to leave Oishi-Na Town in one piece after and have it feel natural.

-...y'know what, that's a fantastic challenge. I might have some ideas.

-Next episode!

-AHHHH KOKONE'S MOVING

-Feelings to share now, huh?

-Don't worry folks, Kokone's probably gonna be staying here, but that's not what the episode's all about, right? It's about her relationship with her family, that'd be wonderfully interesting.

-Alright, Happy Halloween again! Later today, I'm going to be talking Don Don Donbrothers! Not entirely sure when, but it will be before nightfall.

-If you'll pardon me, I do believe it is time for me to make my lunch~!