Week Fourteen Oishinbo

Influence of Anime and Manga in the West.

Oishinbo

 I was all that interested in the manga, other than the fact that I too am a oishinbo. A similar word to that in spanish is comelona or comelon, a person who likes to eat a lot. 
But overly all it doesn't interest me all that much. I'm more interested in comics or manga that have more plot. 

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