The official website for the live-action series adaptation of Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi’s Kodoku no Gourmet (The Solitary Gourmet) manga revealed that the show will have a television special on December 31 from 10:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The new special is tentatively titled Kodoku no Gourmet 2018 Ōmisoka Special (New Year’s Eve Special).
Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi first serialized the Kodoku no Gourmet manga from 1994 to 1996 in Fusosha’s Monthly Panja magazine (now defunct).
Yutaka Matsushige (live-action Death Note, Sukiyaki Western Django, Crows Zero) will once again reprise his role as protagonist Gorō Inagashira.
Both the Kodoku no Gourmet live-action series and original manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local cuisine found on street corners.