Beauty and the Feast Series

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

A humble dinner table brought a lonely widow and a hungry young baseball player together. But spring brings changes on the wind… Yamato, soon to be a second-year, will move from his apartment into the school dorms, a change that spells the end of his meal arrangement with Shuko.

One night in April, Shuko goes to visit the same blooming cherry blossom tree that she did the year before, only to find someone waiting for her…

In this shocking final volume, the tale of the beauty and the feast comes to a delicious and satisfying conclusion!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

It’s the New Year season in Japan, and Shuko invites Shohei to her table for the biggest feast of the year! And with the advent of spring, what changes will the warmer weather bring to their relationship?

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

December means lots of hardcore training in the basics for the baseball team! Amidst all that, Yamato’s gotten Shuko a birthday cake at the local bakery. But when he has to make a mad dash home with it after practice runs late, will the cake survive intact?!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

With the autumn tournament behind him, Yamato dives headfirst into day after day of baseball practice. The first scrimmage in a while is coming up and Shuko plans to bring him a box packed full of his favorites on game day!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

Young, impressionable high school students learn and grow so much from each and every experience! Time has passed in the blink of an eye since Shuko began feeding Yamato in spring, and he’s already much bigger and stronger. The advent of autumn means Shuko must find new ways to satisfy Yamato’s ever-ravenous appetite!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

A trip home to visit her parents sees Shuko return home with her arms full…of noodles?! Though eating her way through them is usually a challenge, Shuko now has Yamato and his monster appetite to help her out! It’s a good thing too because Yamato’s mom is also looking to shore up Shuko’s pantry with still more food in thanks for feeding her son!
 
Filling his belly, however, might be the least of Shohei’s problems when he loses his house key after a late-night practice and ends up spending the night at Shuko’s! Will he survive the unexpected close quarters with his dignity intact?!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

After a disappointing outing at the qualifiers and dashed Koshien hopes, Yamato is brooding. But he perks up once the team’s former captain entrusts Yamato with his own high school baseball aspirations, motivating the first-year to carry the team to Koshien one day.
 
Yet as one storm fades, another comes crashing in! When a tempestuous typhoon lashes the apartment complex, Shuko reveals one of her culinary secrets!
 

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

As spring turns to summer, the most anticipated high school baseball championship—Koshien—awaits! With their eyes on the prize, Yamato and his team prepare for the qualifiers. And since an army marches on its stomach, Yamato’s lucky to have Shuko and her cooking on his side!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

Ever since widow Shuko Yakumo began secretly feeding meals to her neighbor, high school baseball player Yamato, she’s discovered a new zest for life! But could a fresh face at the apartment complex spell trouble for her little dining arrangement? Yamato’s kid sister drops by his apartment, worried that she hasn’t heard from her brother, only to run into Shuko! But instead of a fight-or-flight response to being confronted with this girl who happens to look just like Yamato, Shuko’s need to feed goes into overdrive!
 

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

Widow Shuko Yakumo has rediscovered her love of cooking and life through her newly acquired pastime of secretly feeding her neighbor, Yamato, a high school baseball player. But when she goes out to the ballpark for the first time in her life to cheer Yamato on in his tournament, Shuko gets more than she bargained for! As a mass of starving players gathers around the lunch she made specially for Yamato, will there be anything left for Shuko’s intended recipient?!

A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!

When her husband passed away, Shuko Yakumo lost her appetite for life, and with it, her love of cooking. But her neighbor Shohei Yamato brings an end to Shuko’s solitary existence. A high school baseball player living on his own, Shohei has a seemingly bottomless stomach…and this presents a challenge that Shuko is only too happy to accept! As her days begin to revolve around her secret hobby of feeding Shohei, will Shuko rediscover the happiness life has to offer?