“Shy cook Yutaka teaches rice-ball making to brothers Tane and Minoru, forming bonds that stir hidden emotions.”
Our Dining Table
僕らの食卓
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Synopsis
Shy cook Yutaka teaches rice-ball making to brothers Tane and Minoru, forming bonds that stir hidden emotions.
Yutaka Hozumi has always been bad at eating in the company of others, with people complaining that his presence makes mealtimes boring and food taste bad. While eating lunch alone one day, he is suddenly approached by a hungry little boy to whom he hands over the onigiri from his meal. When the boy's older brother shows up, Yutaka is introduced to Tane and Minoru Ueda—a pair of siblings with a significant age gap. When Yutaka meets the brothers again, they ask to learn how to make his special rice balls; little Tane insists that they were the best he had ever eaten. Succumbing to Tane's adorable pleas and his own fear of the intimidating Minoru, Yutaka agrees to become their cooking teacher. As lessons morph into meals, Yutaka and the siblings grow closer—but Tane and Minoru's close bond draws out uncomfortable memories for Yutaka, and there are feelings lurking beneath the surface of these group meals that were not initially apparent.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.63 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 1.67
Running avg · Mar 2019 → Jun 2023
- 10 “This was such a good manga, I was so happy reading this that I almost wanted to cry. It was just so sweet, and even though it was a pretty simple story, it was really well executed. I also liked...”
- 9 “Honestly yall, I normally never say this much about gay manga but this nearly made me friggin emotional!!! I just felt so sorry for the Yutaka character because literally, his adoptive family just...”
- 9 “"Our dining table" is an incredibly cute albeit quite short story about a romance forming due to an unusual relationship. It is a heartwarming story, which beams with wholesomeness and very...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 9 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 12m approx
- Published Nov 2015 – Jan 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M42704 catalog