“Solitary Gourmet” on Youtube

Last night, I scrolled on my YouTube app to find something to watch (I have been working on spending more time at long-form media instead of quick dopamine hits/doomscrolling) when I found that TV Tokyo has been uploading full episodes of “Solitary Gourmet” on YouTube. This series is one of my favorites, and I mentioned it once on this blog as one of the recommendations. I used to watch this series back in Indonesia on the WakuWaku Japan channel. That channel, alongside NHK World, was one of my favorites, and I used to watch it while having lunch with Wira when he was still a baby, hahah. On YouTube, you can choose to have the English-dubbed dialogue or the original Japanese language and have the Closed Captioning (CC) feature active and set to English, which, I did the latter. I always feel that watching series with its original language is the way to go as the dialogue and expressions conveyed better. However, I must inform you that with all other Japanese works, there’s always a…