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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The 2019 New Year's episode, as well as Seasons 9 and 10 show Japan under the affects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Face masks are prevalent, and during the New Year's episode, Goro internally bemoans the poor business he's had recently, while background conversations in the restaurants he visits mention how few customers have turned up.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The 2019 New Year's episode, as well as Seasons 9 and 10 show Japan under the affects effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Face masks are prevalent, and during the New Year's episode, Goro internally bemoans the poor business he's had recently, while background conversations in the restaurants he visits mention how few customers have turned up.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The 2019 New Year's episode, as well as Seasons 9 and 10 show Japan under the affects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Face masks are prevalent, and during the New Year's episode, he Goro internally bemoans the poor business he's had recently.recently, while background conversations in the restaurants he visits mention how few customers have turned up.
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''Kodoku no Gurume'' ("The (孤独のグルメ, "The Solitary Gourmet") is an ongoing Japanese live-action TV series based on the {{Seinen}} manga series written by Masayuki Qusumi, currently broadcasted on Creator/TVTokyo.
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* InstantWebHit: During the 2022 New Year's special episode, Goro travels cross-country to delivery a crab decoration to a new restaurant. Given the size of the thing, he has to tie it to the top of his car, which winds up catching the attention of passers-by wherever he goes. Despite his consternation at all the people snapping pictures of it, he winds up drumming up interest in the restaurant by people tracking his progress across the internet, leading to an eager crowd waiting at his destination, along with a grateful restaurant owner happy for the impromptu advertising stunt.
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* InstantWebHit: During the 2022 New Year's special episode, Goro travels cross-country to delivery deliver a crab decoration to a new restaurant. Given the size of the thing, he has to tie it to the top of his car, which winds up catching the attention of passers-by wherever he goes. Despite his consternation at all the people snapping pictures of it, he winds up drumming up interest in the restaurant by people tracking his progress across the internet, leading to an eager crowd waiting at his destination, along with a grateful restaurant owner happy for the impromptu advertising stunt.
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* InstantWebHit: During the 2022 New Year's special episode, Goro travels cross-country to delivery a crab decoration to a new restaurant. Given the size of the thing, he has to tie it to the top of his car, which winds up catching the attention of passers-by wherever he goes. Despite his consternation at all the people snapping pictures of it, he winds up drumming up interest in the restaurant by people tracking his progress across the internet, leading to an eager crowd waiting at his destination, along with a grateful restaurant owner happy for the impromptu advertising stunt.
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* RoadTripPlot: In the 2021 New Year's special episode, Goro has to deliver a classic MINI Cooper from Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture to Tokyo, which means driving it cross-country. Naturally, this means an hour and half of trying restaurants along the way.
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** In the 2021 New Year's special episode, Goro has to deliver a classic MINI Cooper from Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture to Tokyo, which means driving it cross-country. Naturally, this means an hour and half of trying restaurants along theway.way.
** The 2022 New Year's special episode is similar, with Goro again driving a MINI Cooper, this time to deliver a crab decoration for a new restaurant.
** In the 2021 New Year's special episode, Goro has to deliver a classic MINI Cooper from Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture to Tokyo, which means driving it cross-country. Naturally, this means an hour and half of trying restaurants along the
** The 2022 New Year's special episode is similar, with Goro again driving a MINI Cooper, this time to deliver a crab decoration for a new restaurant.
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* LongRunner: It began airing at the beginning of 2012, and is still going today at nine seasons.
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''Kodoku no Gurume'' ("The Solitary Gourmet") is an ongoing Japanese live-action TV series based on the {{Seinen}} manga series written by Masayuki Qusumi, currently broadcasted on TV Tokyo.
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* ExactWords: In the 2021 New Year's Eve special, Goro is asked to bring a "mini-size" package back to Tokyo. After agreeing, he finds out that he's actually going to be bringing back a MINI Cooper.
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* RoadTripPlot: In the 2021 New Year's special episode, Goro has to deliver a classic MINI Cooper from Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture to Tokyo, which means driving it cross-country. Naturally, this means an hour and half of trying restaurants along the way.
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* LongRunner: It began airing at the beginning of 2012, and is still going today at over eight seasons.
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* LongRunner: It began airing at the beginning of 2012, and is still going today at over eight nine seasons.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: Certain New Year's Eve episodes run for an hour, and typically Goro visit two different restaurants.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: Certain New Year's Eve episodes run for an hour, and typically Goro visit visits two or more different restaurants.
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--> ''"Go-ro~ (x4) / I-no-ga-shi-ra~!"''
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--> ''"Go-ro~ (x4) (x3) / I-no-ga-shi-ra~!"''
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Understated, but Goro tends to check if his dishes can be accompanied by rice.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Understated, Downplayed, but Goro tends to check if his dishes can be accompanied by rice.
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* MinimalistCast: Goro is the only recurring character in the show, and barring the clients he speaks with every week for a few minutes, everyone else are bit parts.
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* VacationEpisode: More like "Business Trip Episode", but Goro has been to Taiwan and South Korea (and eaten the local food)
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* VacationEpisode: More like "Business Trip Episode", but Goro has been to Taiwan and South Korea (and eaten the local food)food) for his work on different episodes.
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At this point I'm just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing who is going to take stuff off
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That makes me... hungry."'']]
->''"Regardless of time or society, when someone indulges in satisfying his hunger, he will become selfish and liberated for
--> -- '''Opening narration'''
''Kodoku no Gurume'' ("The Solitary
Kodoku no Gurume
Goro Inogashira (portrayed by Yutaka Matsushige) is a travelling salesman and importer. While he happens to be a man of simple tastes, he has one great passion: eating. Every episode follows a similar formula: Following a meeting with a client, Goro's appetite strikes him without fail. After a few minutes exploring the town or city he's visiting, he will chance upon a real restaurant or eatery, where he will spend the remainder of the episode trying out and mentally evaluating the dishes. (And sometimes he has snack breaks preceding, or even following, the main event.)
Afterwards, a smaller segment follows ''Kodoku no Gurume'''s author, Masayuki Qusumi, as he tries out the same eatery himself, while speaking with the actual serving staff.
!! This show provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Surprisingly, yes, even in a foodie show. One of Goro's deliveries was a case with a revolver, and it is unclear whether it is supposed to be a model or real (Japan's gun laws not withstanding). The first thing the recipient does is take the gun out, quote ''Film/DirtyHarry'', and then point it at Goro, who meekly holds up his hands in surrender, before his client laughs it off as a joke. It's likely the Japanese showrunners weren't well-versed in the rules of gun safety, and thought it'd be good for a laugh, but its still a shocking display.
* BigEater: Goro usually has several dishes per meal -- he has to feature the restaurant's offerings, somehow! The appetite Goro has for his thin frame gets {{Lampshaded}} every once in a while, particularly when he shocks a restaurant owner who thought he was asking for the bill and found out he was instead asking for more food.
* TheCameo: Certain episodes cast Japanese celebrities, and the original manga's author, Masayuki Qusumi, also cameos outside of his own segments in various episodes. Goro's trips to South Korea and Taiwan also has him share the screen with the actors who portray his equivalents of those countries' ''Kodoku no Gurume'' adaptations.
* DreamSequence: A few episodes begin with one, including a New Year's episode where his getting burned by hot tea turns out to be his leg straying too close to a nearby heater.
* ExtraLongEpisode: Certain New Year's Eve episodes run for an hour, and typically Goro visit two different restaurants.
* FoodPorn: Very definitely. All of the food and cooking get loving close ups, and then Goro gets to ecstatically describe the pleasure of eating them.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Once, when Goro is eating at a ''katsudon'' restaurant, he gets so taken aback by the size of the cuts that he takes a miniature tape measure he had on him to check the pork's dimensions. One waitress in the background takes one look and has to stifle a laugh.
* GreasySpoon: The show has no restaurant "too unrefined" to show. Goro has visited hole-in-the-wall joints and diners frequented by blue-collar workers and drivers. One, to his amusement, he notes can only be called a restaurant because it has paper napkin holders.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episodes aren't too bizarrely named, but they are consistently titled "<Dish of the week> in <Place in Japan>".
* InternalMonologue: Goro's inner thoughts are made audible, and integrates rather seamlessly with a show about a man who eats by himself.
* {{Iyashikei}}: The show has a calm and relaxing pace, and Goro's problems are, at worst, just comedically troublesome clients he'll deal with for a few minutes. The rest of the episodes involve his complete satisfaction at restaurants filled with polite and friendly staff and patrons.
* JapanesePoliteness: Goro is the quintessential Japanese businessman, who is too polite to voice any objections. Often the show has fun at his expense by putting him in uncomfortable situations he'd like to get out of, but stolidly puts up with smiles, excuses and deflections. On the other hand, when he gets hungry, he can't help but try and rush his way out of a meeting with hurried farewells.
* LimitedLyricsSong: The song that plays during the show's credits consist of two words: the character's name.
--> ''"Go-ro~ (x4) / I-no-ga-shi-ra~!"''
* LongRunner: It began airing at the beginning of 2012, and is still going today at over eight seasons.
* MinimalistCast: Goro is the only recurring character in the show, and barring the clients he speaks with every week for a few minutes, everyone else are bit parts.
* OncePerEpisode: Goro's ruminations after a client meeting will always end with him declaring he's hungry (practically his {{Catchphrase}}), followed by a StaggeredZoom outwards of his recognizable vacant stare. Then he starts running around town in search of a place that matches his desired dish, accompanied by the same leitmotif each time.
* SeriousBusiness: Finding the right restaurant and the right dishes. Goro always makes sure he finds a restaurant that has what he wants, and then looks over the menu for several minutes before ordering, all of it accompanied by his InternalMonologue as he scrutinizes his options.
* SliceOfLife: The everyday life of an ordinary Japanese importer, whose greatest obstacle is finding a good place to eat after work.
* StaggeredZoom: The show could trademark this shot, given how much it uses it. In general, it does three outward shots to mark when Goro's hunger strikes him, though sometimes it is PlayedForLaughs by continuing to zoom out several more times, just to highlight the absurdity of him doing his "hunger pose" in the places he is at.
* StrictlyFormula: The show rarely breaks from formula. Goro visits a client, gets hungry in the same way OncePerEpisode, finds something to eat, and caps it off with Masayuki Qusumi's segment.
* TheTeetotaler: Goro refuses alcohol, and orders tea, even when he's eating at bars. It's an oddity that's even {{Lampshaded}} in-universe, as most assume he would readily order a beer, like most other Japanese white-collar workers do.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Understated, but Goro tends to check if his dishes can be accompanied by rice.
* VacationEpisode: More like "Business Trip Episode", but Goro has been to Taiwan and South Korea (and eaten the local food)
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