A technically gifted but undisciplined young cook gets fired from a mediocre izakaya and lands a stage at Shio — Osaka's most austere 12-seat omakase, run by the legendary and reclusive Chef Tanaka Reiko. Over a year of washing daikon, finding fish, running the pass, and learning that restraint is the hardest ingredient, Kenji Mori becomes someone worth watching. Quiet, precise, earned. No villain arc. No power-ups. Just the slow violence of becoming good at something.