Shin Oishinbo Anime Returns: Classic Food Manga Back on TV

Shin-Ei Animation has announced that Oishinbo, the gourmet manga that introduced generations of readers to Japanese cuisine, is returning to television. The new Shin Oishinbo anime was revealed on September 19 during the studio's 50th anniversary stage at the ABEMA Anime Festival 2026, according to Anime News Network. The reveal came with an ultra-teaser promotional video. A premiere date, broadcast network, cast, and staff lineup have not been announced yet.

That gap in details is notable because the studio behind it is the same one that made the original. The first Oishinbo television series, also produced by Shin-Ei Animation, aired on Nippon Television from October 1988 to March 1992, running 136 episodes, with two television specials following in December 1992 and December 1993. The new Shin Oishinbo anime arrives 34 years after the original series ended, with the same animation company at the helm. The announcement materials present the project as the return of the "ultimate" food anime to its origins.

The reveal was also shared through the series' official social channels on September 19, where fans were shown the new anime's title alongside its key tagline. With no premiere window attached, the announcement gives viewers the shape of the project and little else.

The manga that taught Japan how to eat

Written by Tetsu Kariya and drawn by Akira Hanasaki, Oishinbo has been serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine since October 1983. The series has been on indefinite hiatus since May 2014, and the 111th collected volume was published in December 2014. It is among the best-selling manga of all time and is widely credited with popularizing regional and seasonal Japanese cooking in mainstream culture.

The story follows Shiro Yamaoka, a journalist at the fictional Tozai News newspaper. As part of the celebrations for the paper's 100th anniversary, he is commissioned to create the "Ultimate Menu," a model meal representing the peak of Japanese cuisine. Yamaoka is blunt and unmotivated, but he has a refined palate, an encyclopedic knowledge of food and drink, and real skill in the kitchen. His rival is Yuzan Kaibara, a powerful gourmet assembling a competing "Supreme Menu," and their rivalry plays out across the manga in cooking duels, ingredient hunts, and lessons in culinary history.

The series reached readers well beyond Japan. Viz Media has published it in English under its Viz Signature imprint as Oishinbo A la Carte compilation volumes, each centered on a particular aspect of Japanese cuisine. Beyond the original anime and its two specials, the franchise also produced two anime films from Studio Deen in 1992 and 1993, a live-action film in 1996, and live-action television series, as AniTrendz reported.

Why the announcement is so thin

Anime announcements usually come with something to latch onto: a date, a cast, a studio lineup. This one has almost none of that. As AniTrendz reported, no premiere date, voice cast, or staff had been confirmed for the Shin Oishinbo anime at the time of the announcement. The project was presented with a title and a short teaser and little else.

The occasion explains the timing. The reveal came during a stage celebrating 50 years of Shin-Ei Animation, the company also known for Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan, and the studio used the same event to share new information about Atashin'chi NEXT. An anniversary stage is a natural place to stake a claim on a legacy property and fill in the details later. The title itself sends a signal too: Shin Oishinbo points to a fresh production rather than a continuation, which lets the studio rebuild the series for viewers who were not alive when the first episode aired.

What to expect next

Cooking anime has been doing well with streaming audiences in recent years, and Oishinbo is effectively the founding property of the genre. Bringing back the original at the studio that made it famous, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, makes commercial sense: older viewers get the nostalgia, and a new generation gets a reason to discover a manga that shaped how Japanese pop culture talks about food.

The announcement also lands just ahead of a busy fall season for anime fans. Crunchyroll's fall lineup includes titles such as the Overgeared anime premiering September 27, and our roundup of the Crunchyroll Fall 2026 anime lineup covers what else is on the way. The Shin Oishinbo anime has no confirmed season yet, so the next update will likely be the one that sets a premiere window.

For now, fans have a title, a teaser, and a tagline. The rest of the details are still on their way.