The Way of the Househusband
Summary
The Way of the Househusbandis an anime and manga serial by Kousuke Oono about a retired Yakuza who now conk about living as an average ' house husband , ' doing thing like cooking , cleansing , and shopping . Much of the humor is educe from the acute path that the protagonist , Tatsu , survive about action these twenty-four hour period - to - day labor , and the serial itself does contain some full advice on housekeeping .
Related to the series is a new account book , The Way of the Househusband : The Gangster ’s Guide to Housekeeping , which takes that introductory advice on homemaking and brings it to the next stratum with recipes , cleaning bakshis , crafty task , and more . Screen Rant sat down with the author ofThe Gangster ’s Guide to Housekeeping , Laurie Ulster and Victoria Rosenthal , to find out how this Koran came to be , what all go into the book , and some preferred formula and sections within .
Writers Laurie Ulster and Victoria Rosenthal onThe Gangster’s Guide to Housekeeping
Screen Rant :
Lovely to converge you both . I really love learn the ledger , and felt that it made some topics that can otherwise , you know , be a footling routine , much more interesting .
Laurie :
That ’s great . Thank you .
Yeah , I ’ve definitely put some thing in the book to work on already , so it has been helpful to me . But I ’m peculiar , but what made you think of create a guidebook like this fromWay of the Househusband ?
Victoria , I ’m gon na throw that one to you .
Victoria :
Yeah , so it honestly all depart with an editor from Viz , contacting myself , and it was originally like , we ’re just discourse what other Zanzibar copal and manga I ’m interested in . And then at some point , she was like , ' Oh , we are going to be travel ahead with the Way of the Househusband , and we saw that it was on your list . ' And I ’m a recipe writer , I write formula , and all that fun stuff . She ’s like , ' Oh , do you know housework ? ' Like , no . Not exactly . So that ’s where Laurie come in . And I was like , Okay , thoroughgoing . But it was such an soft labor to wish , exploit on because it ’s like , I love the series , and there ’s a lot of food in it , so it was light to pull a bunch of recipe to put together for this .
Yeah , and I was hired after that to do the other piece of it . Because I ’ve like written a lot of , you roll in the hay , life-style content and hooey like that . And then it was just … Yep , examine to see it all through the eyes of this character and approach everything in that special way .
Yeah , I ’d say you wangle to entrance the tone of the serial quite well , in the book , to the point where I was reading it in my drumhead in Tatsu ’s vocalization . How did you go about capture the voices of the quality so efficaciously ?
I imply , for me , it was just really engulf myself in the pages that I was read and understanding who he is . And then once you do that , it ’s just it ’s mental imagery after that , and just trying to see the world through his eye and how he would do each thing and how he would think about it and how it relates to his past experience .
Interesting . One thing that I did prize while I was looking through the leger is that you maintained a lot of the Japanese ethnic elements that you see in the serial , and you brought that into the book , like the Haiku penning and the Ikebana , heyday arranging . Were there any difficulties that play this work over from another culture posed to you in this peculiar book ?
I mean , for me , I would say like it was just , there were a few things that definitely were not initially familiar to me . Like the case I keep giving us , the ' washables Browning automatic rifle , ' which is not something that I was at all intimate with . But then it ’s just , you have sex , you just do research and get the information and seek to make sense of it . I mean , for Victoria , I ’m sure it was different because she ’s dealing with really creating recipes .
Right , there was a lot of enquiry behind it and visiting local restaurants and Nipponese markets , kind of talking to some of either the owners of the place and being like , ' Oh , this ingredient , do you have any recommendations of how I could get it where I could get it , how I ’m suppose to ferment with it ? ' I ’ve larn over the years , the estimable source of like just getting information is asking people and asking people who turn at restaurants , what they ’re using it for , and just kind of being social . It helps sometimes for figuring out how to use an ingredient that I ’ve never used before .
I did note as I was reading through this as well , that the book covers a mountain of different topic , from clean to baking to self - defense . How was the scope of the record book decided ? Like , some things that you know you involve to have in the book versus some things that you peradventure did n’t expect to put in the book of account , but ended up in there anyway ?
I make out for myself with the recipes , I was told ' We have this many pages , this many slots . Go ahead and make a leaning of which recipes you would like to go through . ' So I read through the manga again , and then kind of like made a note of every formula that was in there . And actually one that got added near the death was from some chapter that were n’t translated yet , at the point when I was working on this book a twelvemonth ago . I think the 10th volume was n’t out yet at that compass point . And the editor was like , here ’s the chapter . It ’s the one where they go and harvest a crowd of bamboo . And then I was like , ' Oh , that ’s a really full chapter . ' But I , I did n’t know it existed . So that was one that was added by petition to be like , ' Oh , can we add this one into the list ? '
Yeah , and for me , I was given an schema of like , here are all the things he talks about and tries to do , and then pageboy numbers to look at . But there was definitely some flexibility after that to attend and be like , ' I do n’t think this is pass to process , But maybe this , this will work . ' But it was really all from , or still had to come from the pageboy of the manga . Like that ’s the origin of everything .
Yeah , there certainly is a wide smorgasbord of thing that happen in the manga . So I could see how you ended up with such a large variety in the Good Book . Are there any favorite plane section that you had , as you ’re writing the book ? Or perhaps favored recipe for you , Victoria ?
the easy answer , like , for me , it ’s the love lemon chicken sandwich . two times , because I managed to get my husband to delight the serial two by having him watch the Netflix series , and then that got him reading the book . He was like , ' Oh , this is great . ' But I know the moment that that recipe showed up in the anime , he was like , ' can you make that ? ' and this was before I had the project . And I was like , ' mayhap one 24-hour interval , ' because urinate deep-fried food is a turn of a weighty rhytidoplasty . And it ’s not the best affair for you to have . So when I got the project , I was like , ' it ’s eventually time , we get to have this sandwich ! '
And for me , I mean , my favorite things that he did , were by all odds like babysitting and taking care of pets , and things like that , that were just fun and funny to imagine him doing . And then as a author , it was fun to sort of combine my own experience with his and hear it . You cognise , I ’m a female parent and I have teen , and to attempt to meld some of the matter I ’ve learned and some of my experience with his to come up with something sort of new and fun , like Halloween costumes , or like how to use your neighborhood on-line group and you recognize , things like that .
Is there anything in particular , that led you to working on a project that purpose at such a particular demographic of mass who , perhaps , are sometimes stereotyped as not being the best at some of these domesticated thing ?
I mean , I was n’t aware , I ’m certainly not aware of those stereotype in exceptional , but I am well versed in fandom in general , like I ’m a big Star Trek sports fan , and I save about it , and I question people and I do all of those things . And that comes with its own legal opinion . So I make no judgments , because I ’m conversant with being on the receiving end of them .
Yeah , I know . I think of , the main reason I started what ’s now my career writing recipes , was for video biz buff that rule the kitchen kind of intimidating . And I realize that , the kitchen can be intimidate . There ’s a lot of like tool that you have to use , and a bunch of dissimilar ingredients . How do you blend all these things ? And my magnanimous outlook was , ' well , if I combine my love for TV game and all the food that ’s in there , perhaps that ’ll convince a fistful of people to part making formula and peradventure adventure into the kitchen . ' And I have take in a lot of people go ' wow , I ’ve never cooked this , ' or I ’ve had parent come to me , ' Oh , my child was never concerned in cookery , but project these recipes and were like , oh , I require to prepare this recipe from this game or now this manga . ' It gets them in the kitchen , and that always makes me so excited that I ’m giving someone a piddling bit of a get-up-and-go to start that adventure .
And for sure I will say , doing the tip in Tatsu ’s voice makes it seem like it ’ll be more fun to do a crew of these undertaking .
AboutWay of the HousehusbandandThe Gangster’s Guide to Housekeeping
The Way of the Househusbandby Kousuke Oono is a long - go comedic manga series about Tatsu , a former Yakuza who now moderate the life of a homemaker , yet still speaks and behaves like a Yakuza would . He faces down routine tasks and old rivals while going at everything before him with an strength that few can match . The fashion of the Househusbandreceived a Netflix animeusing a circumscribed animation vogue that has run for two time of year .
The Gangster ’s Guide to Housekeepingtakes brainchild from Tatsu ’s adventures in housekeeping and his rough manner of speech to make a guidebook that ’s quite unlike any other on the food market . It contains everything from recipe to cleaning advice to ego - defense , providing readers with a encompassing array of skills to tackle the variety of problem that both they and Tatsu face in their daily lives . The Gangster ’s Guide to Housekeepingis set for release by Viz Media on July 25 , 2023 .
