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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: One chapter has Lex use a modified kryptonite Ray that gradually makes Superman shrink gradually over time. Once the initial shock passes, he actually enjoys it because his reduced size means bigger portions.
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Lois is a quiet, meek NiceGirl with an adorable crush on Clark, even asking where he is in the presence of Superman.
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''Superman Vs. Meshi'' is a 2023 manga series written by Satoshi Miyagawa, with illustrations provided by Kai Kitago. The series focuses on Clark Kent, a.k.a. the Man of Steel himself, discovering a Japanese restaurant and going down a rabbit hole of Japanese cuisine and culture. It becomes entrenched in his ordinary life and his everyday dealings, and Superman discovers a lot about Japan along the way.
The manga was published by Kodansha, with partnership with Creator/DCComics. It was published in two volumes and ended at 16 chapters.
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''Superman Vs. Meshi'' is a 2023 manga series written by Satoshi Miyagawa, with illustrations provided Miyagawa and illustrated by Kai Kitago. Kitago, which was serialized in Kodansha's {{seinen}} magazine ''Evening'' (with partnership with Creator/DCComics) from 2021 to 2023 for 23 chapters and compiled into three volumes. The series focuses on [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent, a.k.a. the Man of Steel himself, himself]], discovering a Japanese restaurant and going down a rabbit hole of Japanese cuisine and culture. It becomes entrenched in his ordinary life and his everyday dealings, and Superman discovers a lot about Japan along the way.
The manga was published by Kodansha, with partnership with Creator/DCComics. It was published in two volumes and ended at 16 chapters.
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* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: More like "Wake up, work at the Daily Planet, save the world and then eat at a Japanese restaurant".
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* GrayAndWhiteMorality: As part of it's lighter nature, the manga takes a "fluff fic" look at Superman and his interpersonal relationships, while having a good amount of action expected of a Superman story.
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** Out of Clark's co-workers at the Daily Bugle, Lois, Jimmy and everyone else is white, but one of them is a black woman.
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* XMeetsY: The manga can be described as "Silver Age Superman meets delicous cooking".restauarant".
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* AdaptationalWimp: Played with but not shown in any meaningful capacity. Lex Luthor states that Doomsday is below Darkseid in power when taunting Superman, though we have no way of confirming this since Doomsday and Darkseid never fight and Lex could just be an UnreliableNarrator who didn't really know what he was talking about. But assuming Lex was correct, then Doomsday's status in this story is a far cry from his original comic book counterpart who beat Darkseid to an inch of his life and made him feel fear for the first time ever.
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*MythologyGag: The manga has many references to ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', from the Silver Age-like tone (Reeve's Superman was based on the Silver Age comic incarnation) and his origins being from Kansas.
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**An odd case. This incarnation of Superman heavily resembles Creator/ChristopherReeve. Like Reeve's Superman in the [[Film/SupermanTheMovie 1978 movie]], he rescues Lois from a helicopter and is mentioned to be fromKansas.Kansas.
**Similary, one can make a case for Lois being based on Creator/MargotKidder, her actress in the 1978 movie - hence her long, dark hair and AloofDarkHairedGirl mannerisms.
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* {{Crunchtastic}}:
** A variant. In-universe, "Pixtagrammable" is an adjective.
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''Superman Vs. Meshi'' is a 2023 manga series written by Satoshi Miyagawa, with Kai Kitago providing illustrations. The series focuses on Clark Kent, a.k.a. the Man of Steel himself, discovering a Japanese restaurant and going down a rabbit hole of Japanese cuisine and culture. It becomes entrenched in his ordinary life and his everyday dealings, and Superman discovers a lot about Japan along the way.
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''Superman Vs. Meshi'' is a 2023 manga series written by Satoshi Miyagawa, with illustrations provided by Kai Kitago providing illustrations.Kitago. The series focuses on Clark Kent, a.k.a. the Man of Steel himself, discovering a Japanese restaurant and going down a rabbit hole of Japanese cuisine and culture. It becomes entrenched in his ordinary life and his everyday dealings, and Superman discovers a lot about Japan along the way.
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*AdaptationDeviation: A rare case of Lois having feelings for Clark instead of Superman (even if she's still a {{fangirl}} of him).
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*AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Lois is a quiet, meek NiceGirl with an adorable crush on Clark, even asking where he is in the presence of Superman.
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*GoodIsDumb: Superman is scatterbrained, tends to lose track of time, gets into a petty social media fight with Lex (posting pictures of his food to spite him) and misses Lois' obvious crush on his civilian identity.
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* GrayAndWhiteMorality: As part of it's lighter nature, the manga takes a fluffy lookat Superman and his interpersonal relationships, while keeping in a lot of the action expected of a Superman story.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Superman has eyes as blue as ice, and is a good natured fellow who wants to save the world.
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* GrayAndWhiteMorality: As part of it's lighter nature, the manga takes a fluffy lookat "fluff fic" look at Superman and his interpersonal relationships, while keeping in having a lot good amount of the action expected of a Superman story.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Superman has eyes as blue as ice, and is a good natured fellow who wants tosave protect the world.Earth from threats and win the heart of Lois.
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* TakeThat: When the Justice League is introduced (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg), Green Lantern is noticably absent. This could be because he wasn’t in the Justice League movie.
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**The scene where Superman stares in disbelief as Aquaman talks to his sushi and eats it is possibly a reference to the ''Series/TheBoys2019'' episode where Homelander forces The Deep to eat Timothy.
**When the Justice League is introduced (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg), Green Lantern is noticably absent. This could be because he wasn’t in the Justice League
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''Superman Vs. Meshi'' is a 2023 manga series written by Satoshi Miyagawa, with Kai Kitago providing illustrations. The series focuses on Clark Kent, a.k.a. the Man of Steel himself, discovering a Japanese restaurant and going down a rabbit hole of Japanese cuisine and culture.His It becomes entrenched in his ordinary life and his everyday dealings become dealings, and Superman discovers a backdrop as he's entranced by lot about Japan along the various foods
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The manga was published by Kodansha, with partnership with Creator/DCComics. It was published in two volumes and ended at 16 chapters.
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''Superman Vs. Meshi'' is a 2023 manga series written by Satoshi Miyagawa, with Kai Kitago providing illustrations. The series focuses on Clark Kent, a.k.a. the Man of Steel himself, discovering a Japanese restaurant and going down a rabbit hole of Japanese cuisine and culture.
The manga was published by Kodansha, with partnership with Creator/DCComics. It was published in two volumes and ended at 16 chapters.
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*AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Lois has dark black hair that's straight and very long, whereas in the original comic, she had short hair styled in a perm.
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*AloofDarkHairedGirl: Subverted and inverted with Lois. She has dark black hair in this incarnation (and looks like a proper YamatoNadeshiko), but Clark delibaretely puts her at a distance because of his own worries. However, she secretly wants to spend more time with him, and is hurt by him rejecting her.
*BigEater: Superman goes on a binge any time he's in Japan, and so does whoever he brings along once they get a whiff of the food. The Flash in particular eats so much that he even consumes Superman's portion.
*BigEater: Superman goes on a binge any time he's in Japan, and so does whoever he brings along once they get a whiff of the food. The Flash in particular eats so much that he even consumes Superman's portion.
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* CreatorsCultureCarryover: When Superman is eating the justice bowl, he apologizes to the neopolitan by calling it "Mr. Neopolitan". Referring to inanimate objects as "Mr. [object]" is something unheard of in Western culture, but common for Japanese speakers.
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*TheComicallySerious: Batman, who remains stoic and frowning as Superman poses horizontally so he can fly him to Japan.
* CreatorsCultureCarryover: When Superman iseating at the justice bowl, convenience store, he apologizes to the neopolitan napolitan for pouring eggs over it by calling it "Mr. Neopolitan".Napolitan". Referring to inanimate objects as "Mr. [object]" is something unheard of in Western culture, but common for Japanese speakers.
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* DenserAndWackier: Probably the only Sfuperman Superman story where Superman and Lex Luthor have a social media spat regarding food online, and the whole thing being treated as SeriousBusiness.
*GrayAndWhiteMorality: As part of it's lighter nature, the manga takes a fluffy lookat Superman and his interpersonal relationships, while keeping in a lot of the action expected of a Superman story.
*PhenotypeStereotype: The Japanese characters are often depicted with thin features, pale skin and short black hair. Even Lois can pass as one because of her appearance....if it wasn't for her facial features and wide eyes.
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*SpannerInTheWorks: One day, Superman rescued a food truck in Japan from being thrown by a villain. The old lady who ran the food truck was grateful and offered Superman leftovers as a way of showing thanks. Superman became enamoured with the food and began discovering more Japanese restaurants as a result.
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*AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Aquaman can talk to the sushi served at the restaurant, but in the 2011 New 52 series (by Geoff Johns) he [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_4.png flat out states]] that he doesn't speak to fish.
*AllForNothing: While Superman is eating crunchy noodles, he's suddenly attacked by a Para-demon, so he stops eating to beat him up. When he returns, his food's gone soggy. In an attempt to undo time, Superman tries to turn the Earth backwards on it's axis, but only ends up tired and sweaty as a result. And by then, his noodles are even colder and soggier. Luckily, Superman finds out that the noodles are still delicious despite being cold and soggy, so it's not all bad.
*BlandNameProduct: Lex Luthor and Superman have [[{{pun}} beef]] over the social media site "Pixtagram".[[note]]Which is a parody of Instagram and Snapchat[[/note]]
*AllForNothing: While Superman is eating crunchy noodles, he's suddenly attacked by a Para-demon, so he stops eating to beat him up. When he returns, his food's gone soggy. In an attempt to undo time, Superman tries to turn the Earth backwards on it's axis, but only ends up tired and sweaty as a result. And by then, his noodles are even colder and soggier. Luckily, Superman finds out that the noodles are still delicious despite being cold and soggy, so it's not all bad.
*BlandNameProduct: Lex Luthor and Superman have [[{{pun}} beef]] over the social media site "Pixtagram".[[note]]Which is a parody of Instagram and Snapchat[[/note]]
*{{Crunchtastic}}:
** A variant. In-universe, "Pixtagrammable" is an adjective.
-->'''Clark:''' ''"Lois....as usual, you're the most Pixtagrammable of them all!"''
-->'''Superman:''' ''"I'll show him [Lex Luthor] what truly Pixtagrammable gourmet food is!"''
**Also, Superman says "he's so hungry he could eat a Super-horse."
*CrushBlush: Clark gets light blushes around Lois whenever he's watching her from afar.
*DenserAndWackier: Probably the only Sfuperman story where Superman and Lex Luthor have a social media spat regarding food online, and the whole thing being treated as SeriousBusiness.
** A variant. In-universe, "Pixtagrammable" is an adjective.
-->'''Clark:''' ''"Lois....as usual, you're the most Pixtagrammable of them all!"''
-->'''Superman:''' ''"I'll show him [Lex Luthor] what truly Pixtagrammable gourmet food is!"''
**Also, Superman says "he's so hungry he could eat a Super-horse."
*CrushBlush: Clark gets light blushes around Lois whenever he's watching her from afar.
*DenserAndWackier: Probably the only Sfuperman story where Superman and Lex Luthor have a social media spat regarding food online, and the whole thing being treated as SeriousBusiness.
*EdutainmentShow: The manga is a viewer's guide to Japanese delicacy and foods. It also features some oft-unheard aspects of Japanese culture, like convenience stores doubling as restaurants.
*FoodPorn: SO much, that this could practically be renamed "Food porn: The manga". Each chapter has detailed descriptions and imagery of Japanese cuisine (with Superman's reaction always being that it's delicious)
*FoodPorn: SO much, that this could practically be renamed "Food porn: The manga". Each chapter has detailed descriptions and imagery of Japanese cuisine (with Superman's reaction always being that it's delicious)
*InnocentBlueEyes: Superman has eyes as blue as ice, and is a good natured fellow who wants to save the world.
*NiceGuy: Superman. He's cheery, a bit bashful, caring and has dinner with every member of the Justice League at a restaurant at least once (even footing thr bill).
*PurpleProse: ANY time Superman discusses Japanese food.
-->''But one bite and you'll understand! They're green peas...and yet not...they're green peas pro!''
-->''But one bite and you'll understand! They're green peas...and yet not...they're green peas pro!''
*TakeThat: When the Justice League is introduced (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg), Green Lantern is noticably absent. This could be because he wasn’t in the Justice League movie.
*TokenMinority:
**The African-American Cyborg is the only non-white member of the Justice League.
**Out of Clark's co-workers at the Daily Bugle, Lois, Jimmy and everyone else is white, but one of them is a black woman.
*UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in Japan is fazed at the sight of Superman in the restaurant.
*TokenMinority:
**The African-American Cyborg is the only non-white member of the Justice League.
**Out of Clark's co-workers at the Daily Bugle, Lois, Jimmy and everyone else is white, but one of them is a black woman.
*UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in Japan is fazed at the sight of Superman in the restaurant.
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*AccidentalMisnaming: Superman at one point tries to order the beef bowl, but because he can't read Japanese kanji, he accidentally ends up ordering a pork bowl instead. However, the result is so delicious Superman can't complain.
*CreatorsCultureCarryover: When Superman is eating the justice bowl, he apologizes to the neopolitan by calling it "Mr. Neopolitan". Referring to inanimate objects as "Mr. [object]" is something unheard of in Western culture, but common for Japanese speakers.
*{{Eagleland}}: Superman is from Smallville, Kansas, and his upbringing is mentioned a few times when he's at the restaurant.
*ForeignCultureFetish: Superman gains an obsession with Japanese food in the series, and many times, declares his love for Japan as a country.
*LighterAndSofter: Than most Superman works, and yummier too.
*MutualPining: Clark expresses a desire to take Lois to the restaurant in Japan, but knows he can't without revealing his secret identity. He believes he'll have to keep quiet....until Jimmy informs him that Lois is upset that he doesn't spend much time at work anymore, because she's been wanting to take ''him'' out for lunch.
*OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Para-demons have buglike faces (particularly the netted eyes), but humanoid bodies, and skin as dark as coal.
*PrimaryColorChampion: Discussed. Superman notices that the restaurant sign is bright red and yellow, just like his outfit, and mentions that he feels a sense of solidarity with it.
*WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: More like "Wake up, work at the Daily Bugle, save the world and then eat at a Japanese restauarant".
*XMeetsY: The manga can be described as "Silver Age Superman meets "
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*AccidentalMisnaming: Superman at one point tries to order the beef bowl, but because he can't read Japanese kanji, he accidentally ends up ordering a pork bowl instead. However, the result is so delicious Superman can't complain.
*CreatorsCultureCarryover: When Superman is eating the justice bowl, he apologizes to the neopolitan by calling it "Mr. Neopolitan". Referring to inanimate objects as "Mr. [object]" is something unheard of in Western culture, but common for Japanese speakers.
*{{Eagleland}}: Superman is from Smallville, Kansas, and his upbringing is mentioned a few times when he's at the restaurant.
*ForeignCultureFetish: Superman gains an obsession with Japanese food in the series, and many times, declares his love for Japan as a country.
*LighterAndSofter: Than most Superman works, and yummier too.
*MutualPining: Clark expresses a desire to take Lois to the restaurant in Japan, but knows he can't without revealing his secret identity. He believes he'll have to keep quiet....until Jimmy informs him that Lois is upset that he doesn't spend much time at work anymore, because she's been wanting to take ''him'' out for lunch.
*OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Para-demons have buglike faces (particularly the netted eyes), but humanoid bodies, and skin as dark as coal.
*PrimaryColorChampion: Discussed. Superman notices that the restaurant sign is bright red and yellow, just like his outfit, and mentions that he feels a sense of solidarity with it.
*WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: More like "Wake up, work at the Daily Bugle, save the world and then eat at a Japanese restauarant".
*XMeetsY: The manga can be described as "Silver Age Superman meets "
