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Bandai Namco Pictures Launches Shinsengumi Kitchen Diary Project With Anime Plans
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Gourmet project about high school girl chef lost in time also has web novel, manga
Bandai Namco Pictures announced on Tuesday that it is producing a new original project titled
Shinsengumi Kitchen Diary (
Shinsengumi Chūbō Roku), with a planned web novel, manga, and anime.
The project s themes are gourmet, time travel, and shinsengumi. The manga centers on Izumi Inaba, a high school girl who has cooking skills rivaling professionals. A bizarre incident leads her to accidentally travel back in time to Japan s Bakumatsu period in the middle of the 19th century. There, she meets Hijikata Toshizō, a famous commander of the shogunate s shinsengumi police, and her top class cooking skills impress Hijikata enough for him to induct Izumi into the shinsengumi.