Shin Oishinbo: Classic Gourmet Manga Gets New TV Anime Announced

The manga that defined the gourmet-manga genre is getting a modern TV anime. According to the Manga4Today anime catch-up roundup, Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki's long-running cooking manga Oishinbo is getting a new TV anime adaptation titled Shin Oishinbo ("New Oishinbo"), announced during a stage event at the ABEMA Anime Festival 2026 celebrating Shin-Ei Animation's 50th anniversary.

No premiere date, cast, staff, or animation studio has been confirmed yet — the announcement is still fresh, with details expected to follow. But the project itself is one of the more unexpected revivals in recent anime news, arriving more than a decade after the manga itself went on indefinite hiatus in May 2014.

A Culinary Legend

Oishinbo has run in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits since October 1983, publishing 111 tankobon volumes. The manga follows cynical journalist Yamaoka Shiro as he creates the "Ultimate Menu" — a meal meant to embody the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine — for a newspaper's 100th-anniversary celebration. It essentially invented the gourmet manga genre and remains one of the best-selling manga of all time.

The franchise has a long screen history: Shin-Ei Animation produced a TV series from 1988 to 1992, Studio Deen released two films in 1992 and 1993, and a live-action film arrived in 1996. VIZ Media has published the manga in English as themed Oishinbo A la Carte compilation volumes.

Why Now

A food manga revival in 2026 makes a certain kind of sense. Cooking and food-travel content has never been more popular, and the appetite for prestige anime adaptations of classic manga is at an all-time high. The fact that the announcement came during Shin-Ei Animation's 50th anniversary celebration suggests the project carries real symbolic weight for the industry.

Details are scarce, but the message is clear: after more than a decade of silence, the Ultimate Menu is back on the table. Expect more information on Shin Oishinbo — its staff, studio, and premiere window — in the coming months.

The Announcement in Context

The Shin Oishinbo reveal came during a particularly news-heavy stretch of September announcements. The ABEMA Anime Festival 2026, held September 19-22, produced a wave of reveals: the Shin Oishinbo announcement shared the spotlight with premiere dates for the next arcs of already-airing shonen series, first trailers for a shojo romance and a horror-tinged rom-com, and new details on the next Made in Abyss film. The festival's centerpiece was its celebration of Shin-Ei Animation's 50th anniversary — and announcing a new Oishinbo on that stage was a fitting tribute to one of the studio's defining works.

A Genre the Manga Built

It is hard to overstate Oishinbo's influence. Before it, food in manga was a garnish; after it, gourmet manga was a genre. Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki's series turned cooking into drama, philosophy, and cultural commentary, serialized in Big Comic Spirits since October 1983 across 111 volumes. The story of Yamaoka Shiro — the cynical journalist tasked with creating the "Ultimate Menu" for a newspaper's centennial — became a national conversation in Japan about taste, tradition, and what it means to eat well.

The anime's history mirrors the manga's longevity. Shin-Ei Animation's original TV series ran from 1988 to 1992 — a four-year run that made Oishinbo a household name on television. Now, more than three decades later, a new generation gets its own version. Staff, studio, and premiere details are still to come, but the hardest part — deciding that this story deserves to be told again — is already done.