Iron Wok Jan 15
Posted: August 27, 2008 Filed under: Iron Wok Jan Leave a comment »I’ve got a bunch of stuff to talk about again, including Me and the Devil Blues and After School Nightmare. Both of those deserve more of my attention than I’m going to be able to give tonight, but I don’t have to think too hard about this volume of Iron Wok Jan, and I have only one word for the newest volume of Tenjho Tenge: awesome.
As expected, Kiriko, Celine, and Jan mop the floor with Otani. I mean, it’s not like you weren’t expecting it. They all sort of did it equally… not only did they prepare goose dishes better than his chef, but they prepared awesome goose dishes that Otani had no idea what was in until he tasted them. Sometimes not even tasting could give him the correct ingredient, either.
The television show doesn’t really go anywhere from there, which is sort of disappointing. There’s a chapter or two of in-between stuff, which I felt was kind of wasted since it was mostly about what the four Gobancho chefs were doing to prepare for the upcoming tournament. The tournament prelims start again, and this time there are questions to answer instead of a cooking challenge. All the characters from the first tournament come back, including the kid with all the cooking equipment and the kid with the girls swarming him.
Apparently Jan and the elder Gobancho made a bet about the competition to make it interesting. I have no idea why the elder Gobancho was hassling Jan and calling him a failure (and telling him he had all the scars on his back because he was a poor chef who had to have his mistakes beaten out of him or something – that was pretty cold). The tournament can only end one way now, so… let’s see if that’s how it goes.
