TV series

Kokosei Restaurant

2011 · 1 season

A gentle, earnest drama about second chances and community, with warm character moments and a quiet, hopeful rhythm.

Overview: Muraki Shingo has top notch skills as a chef, but as a culinary arts teacher, he is a novice and inexperienced. A former chef, Muraki has turned around to become a temporary teaching staff at a local high school in order to open a "high school students' restaurant". He encourages students who have no dreams or hope, and matures together with them through the operation of a restaurant and instructions in cooking.
How it feels: Warm, earnest, uplifting and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Found family, coming-of-age, redemption, work
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: found family
coming-of-age
redemption
work
education
Places: school
small town
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none