Gourmet Girl Graffiti
Gourmet Girl Graffiti, known in Japan as Happy Cooking Graffiti, is a four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Makoto Kawai. It was serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Miracle! magazine between the March 2012 and November 2016 issues. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Shaft aired between January and March 2015.
Plot
Ryō Machiko is a second-year middle school girl who has been living by herself since her grandmother died. Despite having exceptional skill in cooking, Ryō has felt her cooking hasn't been tasting good. That is, until she meets her second cousin, Kirin Morino, who comes to stay with her on the weekends to attend cram school in Tokyo and shows her the key to great tasting food: eating together with friends and family.
Characters
;Ryō Machiko
;Kirin Morino
;Shiina
;Yuki Uchiki
;Akira Machiko
;Tsuyuko
;Hina Yamazaki
;Mei Tsuchida
;Misaki Kometani
;Ryō's Grandmother/Grandma
;Watanabe
;Tatsuki
;Shiina's Mother
;Rin Morino/Kirin's Mother
;Mr. Morino/Kirin's Father
;Midori Machiko
Media
Manga
The original four-panel comic strip manga, written and illustrated by Makoto Kawai, was serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Miracle! magazine between the March 2012 and November 2016 issues. Houbunsha published seven tankōbon volumes from January 26, 2013, to September 27, 2016.
Anime
A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Shaft, directed by Naoyuki Tatsuwa, and chief directed by Akiyuki Shinbo aired in Japan between January 9 and March 27, 2015 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The screenplay is by Mari Okada and the music was composed by Kotringo. Kazuya Shiotsuki designed the characters for animation, and served as chief animation director alongside Shinya Nishizawa and Takumi Yokota. Three episodes were outsourced: episode 4 to Mouse; episode 7 to Jumondou; and episode 11 to Drop. The opening theme is "Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitteiru Itsutsu no Hōhō" by Maaya Sakamoto, and the ending theme is "Egao ni Naru" by Rina Satō and Asuka Ōgame. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime in North America.
Video game
Characters from the series appear alongside other Manga Time Kirara characters in the mobile RPG, Kirara Fantasia in 2020.