Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy

There is a Japanese saying that goes, "Hana yori dango," or "dumplings over flowers." And no one is more of an advocate of this adage than mangaka Y-naga, a woman whose life revolves around her intense work and equally intense sleep schedule. The only thing that can rouse her out of this infernal cycle of deadlines and being dead to the world? Food. As Y-naga and her friends visit restaurants around Tokyo to satisfy their appetites, their individual approaches to food add an extra dimension to t...

Ai ga Nakute mo Kutteyukemasu was published in English as Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy! by Yen Press on December 21, 2010.