Introduction
One fateful day, Youtarou Misaki is rescued by a man named Arashi Mutou from drowning in the sea. After getting him to dry land, Arashi wakes Youtarou up and asks for his name. Youtarou's memories quickly surge back, but instead of telling Arashi his name, he decides to lie and act clueless about his past.
Arashi nurses Youtarou and lets him temporarily stay at his diner, Kurage no Shokudou. Despite his hospitality, Youtarou continues to insist that he has no recollection of how he ended up drifting across the sea. How will the fake amnesiac go on with his life now that he has abandoned his family and home?
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Audience reviews
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ItIsIDio
Kurage no Shokudou is a brief 30 minutes story about dealing with the loss of someone significant to you. It is told through a few slow running scenes where up to two, sometimes three, characters interact. The biggest problem I have with the story is that it seems like it is setting up a premise for a story that it wants to start and due to that reason it doesn’t wrap up what it begins. If this was the first episode of an anime series or the first 30 minutes of a movie, this could’ve been a somewhat decent setup for what is to come, but as things are, the story merely presents you that two of the characters have unresolved issues about who they have lost and their situation at large, but doesn’t resolve those plot points because it does not have any time for the pace it has chosen to have.…
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I really struggled with how to rate this one, it had a lot of promise, but it fell way short of what it could have been. The story needed to be elaborated a lot more than what it was, and it felt like nothing was really explained to the audience (N.B. this might be better handled in the Light Novels, but in the OVA it was handled poorly). I feel like if this was a 90-minute movie it would have been better paced. I can get where others were seeing a bit of shonen-ai during this, but since none of the characters were completely fleshed out, it was impossible to know. All in all, it could have been done better, but I have definitely seen worse.
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I will start by saying that this anime has an open ending and I haven't found yet a place to continue reading the light novel it comes from in english, so if you're looking for a conclusion, this OVA is directly not worth the time.
Kurage no Shokudou is based around Misaki, a boy who's found in the beach by Arashi, the owner of a restaurant nearby, called Arashi, decides to take care of him because he says that he can't remember anything.
The story is based around the interactions between both of them and Natsuko, a friend of Arashi, soon drama unfolds while we discover more about why Misaki is there, and we see the situation Arashi and Natsuko are in, sadly, like I mentioned, the anime doesn't finish the story and leaves the viewers with a frustrating open ending just when it picked a g…
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It's very short, but in the span of 20 minutes, you learn a lot about each character, and even catch a glimpse of their dynamics, before the OVA snapshot, and maybe in the future.
The art doesn't get in the way -- it's a bit understated, and so is the music, although I loved the movement.
As for the story - it's a reminder that there are times when all we really need is a bit of reset, and sometimes, people are lucky enough to find kind souls who allow us just that. It wasn't particularly sad, rather, I felt it dealt with loss in a matter-of-fact way, which made it not too draining, but still encourages thinking.
Read at the sourceKeldaron
About a year ago, I saw this while searching for some romance anime. Lured by the cover (a different one, in which he is walking with the female character) and tags, I bookmarked it.
The summary explains you how the story begins, how the main character lost his twin brother and how he fakes amnesia. So far, not the most interesting setting in the world, but not bad either. Little did I know...
Pros:
Although the plot presented in the summary isn't really what's presented, the alternative isn't that bad either, although it tries a bit too hard to be emotional.
(SPOILER AHEAD) Although it's a small detail, after watching the anime, the jellyfish in the tank gains a new meaning (makes you wonder whether that's his brother or not).
Meh:
The art is pretty mediocre. Its obviously better in c…
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