Beauty and the Feast

Beauty and the Feast
	First tankōbon volume cover
八雲さんは餌づけがしたい; (Yakumo-san wa Eduke ga Shitai)
Genre	Romantic comedy; Slice of life;
Manga
Written by	Satomi U
Published by	Square Enix
English publisher	NA: Square Enix;
Magazine	Young Gangan
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	March 4, 2016 – March 19, 2021
Volumes	11 (List of volumes)

Beauty and the Feast (Japanese: 八雲さんは餌づけがしたい, Hepburn: Yakumo-san wa Eduke ga Shitai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satomi U. It was serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan from March 2016 to March 2021, and published in eleven volumes.

Plot

28-year-old Shuuko Yakumo is aimlessly living day-to-day life since she lost her husband. She's content to live out her days in peace until a 15-year-old high school student named Shohei Yamato moves next door. Curious about her new neighbor, she soon finds that he lives alone and works himself to the bone as the only scholarship student for his school's baseball team. Not only that, but he's been living off nothing but convenience store food.

Worried for his health, Yakumo invites Yamato to eat dinner at her place from now on so he can perform his best. But after extending this invitation, she soon finds that the high schooler possesses a monstrous appetite, and she has to get creative to keep up with his dietary needs. All the while, Yamato's ability to pack away food brings back memories of Yakumo's husband.

And so begins the story of a lonely widow rediscovering her passion for cooking to feed a very hungry high schooler.

Publication

The series is written and illustrated by Satomi U. It started serialization in Young Gangan on March 4, 2016.^[2] The series ended in Young Gangan on March 19, 2021.^[3] The series was collected into eleven tankōbon volumes.^[4] An autograph session with the author was held to commemorate the release of the final volume.^[5]

In November 2019, Square Enix announced they would publish the manga in English starting in October 2020.^[6] However, it was later delayed to February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[7]

Volume list

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	September 24, 2016^[8]	978-4-75-755110-7	March 23, 2021^[9]	978-1-64-609062-4
2	November 25, 2016^[10]	978-4-75-755164-0	September 28, 2021^[11]	978-1-64-609063-1
3	April 25, 2017^[12]	978-4-75-755334-7	July 19, 2022^[13]	978-1-64-609064-8
4	October 25, 2017^[14]	978-4-75-755509-9	October 11, 2022^[15]	978-1-64-609065-5
5	March 24, 2018^[16]	978-4-75-755672-0	November 22, 2022^[17]	978-1-64-609066-2
6	October 25, 2018^[18]	978-4-75-755892-2	January 24, 2023^[19]	978-1-64-609067-9
7	March 25, 2019^[20]	978-4-75-756028-4	March 28, 2023^[21]	978-1-64-609068-6
8	September 25, 2019^[22]	978-4-75-756315-5	May 23, 2023^[23]	978-1-64-609069-3
9	March 25, 2020^[24]	978-4-75-756575-3	July 25, 2023^[25]	978-1-64-609087-7
10	October 24, 2020^[26]	978-4-75-756912-6	September 19, 2023^[27]	978-1-64-609124-9
11	March 25, 2021^[4]	978-4-75-757167-9	November 21, 2023^[28]	978-1-64-609137-9

Reception

Sean Gaffney from Manga Bookshelf praised the first volume, calling it "sweet".^[29] Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network praised the plot and characters, while criticizing the artwork in some frames.^[30] Like Gaffney, Demelza from Anime UK News also called the series "sweet".^[31]