![]() Sushi is sometimes confused with sashimi, a similar dish in Japanese cuisine that consists of thinly sliced raw fish or occasionally meat. Daikon radish or pickled daikon ( takuan) are popular garnishes for the dish. It is often served with pickled ginger ( gari ), wasabi, and soy sauce. It is very often prepared with seafood, such as squid, eel, yellowtail, salmon, tuna or imitation crab meat. Sushi is traditionally made with medium-grain white rice, though it can be prepared with brown rice or short-grain rice. It was the fast food of the chōnin class in the Edo period. The inventor of modern sushi is believed to be Hanaya Yohei, who invented nigiri-zushi, a type of sushi most known today, in which seafood is placed on hand-pressed vinegared rice, around 1824 in the Edo period (1603–1867). ![]() Styles of sushi and its presentation vary widely, but the one key ingredient is "sushi rice", also referred to as shari ( しゃり), or sumeshi ( 酢飯). It wasn't just, "I'm early, better think of a Superman.Sushi ( すし, 寿司, 鮨, 鮓, pronounced or ) is a Japanese dish of prepared vinegared rice ( 鮨飯, sushi-meshi ), usually with some sugar and salt, accompanied by a variety of ingredients ( ねた, neta), such as seafood-often raw-and vegetables. However, One Punch Man actually had a massive art budget and fight scenes that aesthetically looked cool. forget the satire and make a Godzilla spoof because even the show writers realized they were trying to stretch too little material over too long a running time.Ī defender of Sushi Police could point out that One Punch Man is beloved despite basically being the same joke over and over. At 13 episodes that are 3 minutes, this is 40 minutes of the same fucking joke done OVER and OVER until they pretty much However, this would have worked better as a 5 minute SNL sketch. On the surface, this could be a clever, little satire that mocks the growing wave of Japanese nationalism and calls for rationality through comedy. Sushi Police takes thin premise to a whole new level. This is a 13 episode anime entirely based on mocking a stupid quote by a nationalist Japanese politician. After I watched it, cried, self-defecated all over my couch, curled up in a fetal position and I rocked myself to sleep.Ī show or movie based on a very simple premise or pitch is called a "high concept piece". However, what it will encourage is a nice 3-minute nap. It isn't funny, it isn't insightful, and it isn't going to encourage any sort of discussion. Even with those that are aware of the events that surrounded the creation of this anime, the actual product was still drab. It's a show that becomes a self-defecating satirical piece with as much integrity as the Korean BBQ that launched its inception.ĭo I suggest this? No. Sushi Police desperately try to lampoon Japan's nationalistic sense of pride but don't know how to do so without being on-the-nose about everything in the worst way possible. or at least that's what I vaguely remembered when I was picking my nose. This then led to non-comedic hijinks, espionage, and sushi-zilla. The anime turned the real-world incident into a big, dumb, nonsensical spoof that saw these "Sushi Police" do exactly as this proposed idea would suggest: inspect sushi. And like this ludicrous idea that received huge media backlash in 2006, this too was equally panned by the few Those that pass this secret inspection would receive the approval to be listed as "authentic," as well as sponsorship deal on a Japanese government website. Sushi Police was a satirical social commentary that's based on the actions of the Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who, upon eating at a place he deemed unauthentic for serving sushi alongside Korean BBQ, proposed an idea that would see to it that a dispatch unit of undercover inspectors would go around secretly evaluating sushi to determine its authenticity.
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