Diner

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Japanese: DINER ダイナー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Aug 3, 2017 to ?

Genre: Suspense

Theme: Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Tonari no Young Jump

Authors: Kawai, Takanori (Art), Hirayama, Yumeaki (Story)

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Score: 6.77¹ (scored by 869 users)

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Ranked: #12394²

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Popularity: #6181

Members: 3,380

Favorites: 27

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MangaTonari no Young JumpKawai, Takanori (Art), Hirayama, Yumeaki (Story)

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Synopsis

Kanako Ooba is a naive girl who works a menial, low-paying job. Hoping to make more money, she accepts the task of transporting an anonymous duo. Unbeknownst to her, the pair has stolen from a notorious yakuza group—resulting in the three being captured by the group members. Although Kanako always believed that she was living at rock bottom and would never escape it, this desperate situation makes her realize that she wants to live her life to the fullest.

As Kanako is about to be buried alive, an unnamed buyer swoops in and saves her from certain death. When she awakens in a small restaurant named Canteen, her savior turns out to be Bonbello, the manager of the establishment that caters to a customer base of murderers. Since Bonbello desperately needs a new waitress after his old one was killed, Kanako becomes the ninth to work at his diner.

While Bonbello is ruthlessly cold toward Kanako, the rotating cast of criminals is more than enough to keep her on her toes. With each customer she serves, she cannot help but see the small bits of humanity that remain in these murderers—especially when Bonbello's cooking can magically change the atmosphere.

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Background

Diner won the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Grand Prize in 2009 and the Haruhiko Oyabu Award in 2011.

A live-action film based on the series was released in Japan on July 5, 2019.

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Characters

Bonbello

Main

Ooba, Kanako

Main

Skin

Supporting

Gideon

Supporting

Polon

Supporting

Kid

Supporting

Honomayu

Supporting

Reviews

Jul 5, 2019

TmorTV

Recommended

Preliminary (34/? eps)

The story is based on a woman with a sense of dumb justice, she always wants to help others and ends up getting very bad and almost dying because of this, then because of a job of a driver's job that she took to earn more money, something went wrong and she got involved with the mafia, when she was going to be killed someone bought her, that someone was the owner of an exclusive restaurant for assassins, there we see several types of murderers which makes the story very interesting, but again the main character with his sense of justice even there wants ...

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Dec 6, 2019

minachan24

Not Recommended

Preliminary (44/? eps)

What is worse than a bad manga? A manga that starts off brilliantly, and then flushes its brilliance down the toilet just as it starts getting good.

This is Diner in a nutshell. It starts off as this wickedly funny manga about a ditz named Ooba Kanako who is kind of drifting through life. She's sort of like a female Eikichi Onizuka (GTO), when he is whining in the beginning about how he has no real future prospects. When we first meet her, she is drowning in self pity and all but given up on life. Then, as fate would have it, she accidentally becomes a ...