Anime · MBS
Ben-To
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Hiro Shimono
You Satou (voice)
12 eps
Mariya Ise
Sen Yarizui (voice)
12 eps
Emiri Kato
Ayame Shaga (voice)
12 eps
Aoi Yuuki
Hana Oshiroi (voice)
12 eps
Ai Kayano
Ume Shiraume (voice)
12 eps
Mamoru Miyano
Yuu Kaneshiro (voice)
12 eps
Ayana Taketatsu
Asebi Inoue (voice)
12 eps
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Ren Nikaidou (voice)
12 eps
Yukari Tamura
Kyou Sawagi (voice)
12 eps
Yui Horie
Kyou Sawagi (voice)
12 eps
Tomoyuki Higuchi
Agohige (voice)
12 eps
Ryokichi Takahashi
Bouzu (voice)
12 eps
Eriko Nakamura
Chapatsu (voice)
12 eps
Sayaka Ohara
Kiku Matsuba (voice)
12 eps
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Tomoaki Yamahara (voice)
12 eps
Yuichi Iguchi
Hiroaki Uchimoto (voice)
12 eps
Akira Ishida
Le club d'Hercules (voice)
12 eps
Nobuaki Kanemitsu
Kami Abura (voice)
12 eps
Atsushi Ono
Kenji Dandou (voice)
12 eps
Hiroki Yasumoto
Tadaaki Endou (voice)
12 eps
Kimiko Saito
Ooinoshishi (voice)
12 eps
Shouto Kashii
Jiji-sama (voice)
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Ben-To actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Ben-To reads strongest on Bingeability, Spectacle and Humour.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Every day an epic struggle rages in grocery stores across Japan - the battle for half-priced bento boxes! Once the discount stickers go on, ravenous brawlers start throwing punches in a knockdown, drag-out war over who gets to take home the cheap eats. When a young, broke high school student named Sato joins the Half-Priced Food Lovers Club, he proves to be a rising talent in the world of insane food fights. But does he have what it takes to become the king of clearance cuisine?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E07
Bosomelet Bento 752kcal and Loco Moco Bulging Bento 1100kcal
The Half-Pricers Club gets free tickets to a Hawaii-themed water park, so it's excursion time! While there, Yo learns that supermarkets aren't the only places where bento brawls occur.
S01E02
Mackerel Boiled in Miso Bento 674kcal
Yo and Hana join the Half-Pricers Club. Its leader, Sen, teaches them the ropes, then sends them out into the wild to fend for themselves. There's a lot to learn, but it looks like Yo might turn out to be a successful wolf after all.
S01E03
Large Cheese Pork Cutlet Curry Rice 1080kcal
The kendo club at school has their own ideas about how to acquire half-price bentos, and its captain makes a tempting offer to entice Yo into their fold. The time has come for Yo to ask himself what his motivation is for being a wolf.
S01E05
Hokkaido Salmon Fish Soup 326kcal
Yo inadvertently finds himself caught up in a brewing turf war between wolves from the east and west sides of town. Wolves generally do their own thing, but this time they might need to work together to defend what belongs to them.
- Directed by Yasufumi Soejima
S01E12
Domestic Eel Bento 790kcal
The old nemesis of Orthros shows up in town to undermine them once again. With Sen still sick with a cold, it will be up to Yo to figure out a way to rebalance the playing field for all the wolves, as they vie for seasonal eel bentos.
S01E11
Pocari Sweat 125kcal
A certain supermarket puts fresh eel bentos on sale one day each summer, and this is sure to attract plenty of wolves. But to make it there, first Sen will have to recover from a cold, and Orthros will have to overcome the specter of their painful past.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Takashi TakanoProducer
Direction
- Yasufumi SoejimaDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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