TV animation "An English Family Eats Japan" to start on NHK in April!　Gourmet travel comedy about Japanese food

The TV animation "An English Family Eats Japan" will start on NHK in April.

This anime is based on the non-fiction food walking essay "An English Family Eats Japan" by Michael Booth (translation by Nobuko Teranishi). It is a gourmet travelogue comedy about a British food writer and his family who happen to stay in Japan for about 100 days, and introduces "Japanese food" that is attracting worldwide attention along with the unusual journey of the family who visit various places from Hokkaido to Okinawa to eat all Japanese cuisine. Character design and direction are by Rareco, and animation is produced by Fanworks. The same tag-team that produced NHK's "How to Eat," "Moteamono Yolk: When to Eat?" which focuses on "how to eat.

The program will air on NHK General from April 16, every Thursday from 0:40 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. (rebroadcast every Tuesday from 4:05 p.m. to 4:25 p.m.) and on NHK World TV as "Sushi and Beyond" from April 12, every Sunday from 9:10 to 9:30 p.m. / every Monday from 1:10 to 1:30 a.m. / 5:10 to 5:30 p.m: Sushi and Beyond" will be broadcast on NHK World TV every Sunday from April 12.

<Story
One day, food writer Michael Booth, who was undergoing serious culinary training at a prestigious culinary school in Paris for a story he was covering, comes across a book on Japanese cuisine and is completely fascinated by it. Michael, who needed to taste the real thing for himself, impulsively hopped on a plane to Japan with his wife Lisn and their two children, Asgar and Emil.
On their first night in Japan, they head for Shinjuku's "Omoide Yokocho". There, Michael bites into his first "yakisoba" (fried noodle), which tastes like a "blanched worm," and thinks to himself, "I'm addicted to this flavor.... He was overwhelmed by the scale of chanko at a sumo wrestling parlor, addicted to the texture of crab in Hokkaido, and shocked by the umami taste of dashi broth at a high-end restaurant.
Saba sushi, tofu, okonomiyaki, takoyaki, ramen, wasabi, soy sauce, miso, sake... The British family devours every Japanese dish and ingredient!