Manga plates turn your food into comics

Francesco sez, "In my blog on Wired.it I posted a new series of wonderful 'manga inspired' plates created by the Japanese designer Mika Tsutai. Positioning the food in the right way Geek Chefs can tell a story or almost make the food more fun! Each plate costs 2980 Yen and for now is available only in Japanese design stores."

La cucina invasa dai manga!! (Thanks, Francesco!)

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Where’s the fanservice plates?
creesto

This! ERMA Gherr…<>
gwailo_joe

suki. But at about 40 bucks US per….kaimasen.

(OK…yes, I want the crying eye for wasabi and various chilis…)
eldritch

Technically, manga plates turn your food into food on top of plates. *wink*

Another triumph for commerical “art”, I suppose. Because someone, somewhere will buy them, and for great amounts of money, as proven by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. *shrug*

Can’t say I dislike it? Just that I don’t understand it? I like certain decorative plates. These are technically decorative plates. I just don’t know why someone would want to decorate their plates in this manner?
- gwailo_joe
  
  Sure, you don’t have to like it.
  
  I’m a manga geek from way back, so…it appeals to me. But art-y plates are kind of funny.
  
  If I bought a $30 mail order plate of three wolves howling at the moon or ‘Native American warrior embraces the Great Spirit by the Grand Canyon’…would I want to eat my warmed over tikka masala on one?
  
  No, most likely not. These are interesting partly for the conceit they can actually be used: and of course I imagine they can.
  
  But a mere four plates is a hundred sixty bucks…I’d hate to chip one in the sink.
Cory Trevor

more and more dishes to wash