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A 60-year-old man fresh out of retirement and not much idea of what to do with his newfound free time enjoys daily little adventures that involve food and eating out - and sees visions/fantasies of an Edo-period wandering samurai who is a lot less held back by social compunctions than he is!
I enjoyed the series for the most part. Despite himself, Kasumi is self-conscious and timid, but the visions of the samurai push him to be just a little less constrained, even if he still struggles to push back against rudeness. I liked watching him start to take advantage of his new freedom while looking back fondly on past meals and the emotional connections they held. Each episode has food porn of often fairly everyday meals. (A lot of those shots didn't do it for me, but I don't eat meat or fish and don't like Kasumi's favorite drink, beer.) The one sour note was episode two, which felt racist towards Chinese people.
Language-wise: the characters sometimes speak quite quickly. The flashbacks feature archaic language, often spoken roughly. Lots of food terms, of course. Netflix has accurate subtitles.