Kodoku no Gourmet Season 7 Japanese Television Drama Overview

Solitary Gourmet Season 7 (Japanese: 孤独のグルメ Season 7, Romaji: Kodoku no Gurume Season 7) is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on TV Tokyo. The seventh season of the long-running adaptation aired a total of 12 episodes between April 6 and June 29, 2018, occupying the network's Friday 24:12 to 24:52 time slot.

Background and Source Material

The television series is based on the manga series Kodoku no Gourmet, written by Masayuki Qusumi and illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi. The original manga was serialized between 1994 and 1996 in Monthly PANJA magazine. In the broadcast schedule of TV Tokyo, Season 7 took over the Friday late-night slot previously held by Oh My Jump and was followed in July 2018 by Giver: Revenge's Giver.

Cast and Production Credits

The series stars actor Yutaka Matsushige in the primary role of Goro Inogashira. Directing duties for the season were handled by Kenji Mizoguchi, with scripts written by Yoshihiro Taguchi and Yoriko Kodama alongside source contributions from Masayuki Qusumi and Jiro Taniguchi. The guest cast featured across the twelve episodes includes Tomoko Tabata, Hana Kino, Yoko Ishino, Baku Owada, Gota Watabe, Ellie Toyota, Junki Tozuka, Sogen Tanaka, Bokuzo Masana, Shinobu Nakayama, Yoshinori Okada, Ryo Fukawa, Yojin Hino, Katsunobu Ito, Takeo Nakahara, Akihiro Kakuta, Saki Fujimoto, Tetsuya Chiba, Park Jung-Ah, Sung Si-Kyung, Kim Kyu-Jong, Yukio Ueno, Asako Kobayashi, Yumiko Fujita, Kohei Otomo, Takuzo Kadono, and Oolong ta Yoshida.

Broadcast Franchise Context

Solitary Gourmet Season 7 is part of an extensive television and film franchise. Televised seasons span multiple years, beginning with the first season in 2012 and extending through later installments including Season 8 (2019), Season 9 (2021), Season 10 (2022), Sorezore no Kodoku no Gourmet (2024), and Season 11 (2026). Additionally, the franchise expanded into feature-length cinematic releases with the film Gekieiga Kodoku no Gourmet in 2025.