Anime has had a storied relationship with making food look more appealing than in real life. The most prominent example of this is the legendary Studio Ghibli, which has made a career of putting ...

The creator travels through roughly a century of anime by preparing a defining food from each era. The journey begins with simple rice connected to early Japanese history and moves through bento, ...

Why does anime food look so good? That sentence has become somewhat of a social media cliche, according to knowyourmeme.com, which notes that it’s also recently been used as a bait-and-switch trap, ...