Akizuki is often portrayed with her cannot afford her meals. (This one also implies that)
Is there any reference for that, or just coincidence??

Cassava said:

Akizuki is often portrayed with her cannot afford her meals. (This one also implies that)
Is there any reference for that, or just coincidence??

Probably because Japan was about to run out of resources during the near end of WW2?

Food was also in short supply towards the end of the war and even the comparatively extravagant IJN had to cut down as much as they could afford on rations.

Akizuki is not the only one that's portrayed this way. Unryuu's chapter in Fubuki Ganbarimasu! (chapter 61) also have her gushing over canned food (as what Akizuki herself did too 10 chapters later) since she's so used to austere meals.

Estavali said:

Food was also in short supply towards the end of the war and even the comparatively extravagant IJN had to cut down as much as they could afford on rations.

Akizuki is not the only one that's portrayed this way. Unryuu's chapter in Fubuki Ganbarimasu! (chapter 61) also have her gushing over canned food (as what Akizuki herself did too 10 chapters later) since she's so used to austere meals.

What about Hotel Yamato? Before Operation Ten-go, but in the closing stages of the war, that is.

NNescio said:

What about Hotel Yamato? Before Operation Ten-go, but in the closing stages of the war, that is.

Not sure about Hotel, but according to the translator (was reading the Chinese scanlations) my impression is that everyone's affected. I believe Yamato would have cuts to her meals as well, though probably still better off compared to the rest of the fleet.

*waits for someone with a real answer to appear =3*

Cassava said:

Akizuki is often portrayed with her cannot afford her meals. (This one also implies that)
Is there any reference for that, or just coincidence??

has something to do with her hourlies, while another kanmusu cooked grand foods, the breakfast, lunch, and dinner that Akizuki cooked is quite pitiful

Found something about the rations the Hotel had on her last trip:

Even late in the war, food on board "Hotel Yamato" still seemed to remain the best in the diminishing Navy. From Russell Spurr's account of the super-battleship on her final mission, A Glorious Way to Die (Newmarket Press, 1981), pages 79, 123, and 125:

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"At least the food was good. Menus changed daily. Eighty cooks worked in the main galleys deep in number 4 deck. Meals were brought up to the mess deck in large stainless steel canteens. The crews ate ample portions of frozen fish, fried beefsteak unobtainable ashore, a variety of vegetables, pickles, and of course plenty of glutinous Japanese rice. The three officers' messes had their own cooks and the pick of the food supplies.

Japanese warships were far from dry. Ratings could draw a ration of rice wine with their dinner, or a bottle of beer ... There were no restrictions on the officers, who frequently caroused when in port. At sea, however, they were more abstemious ...

A steward served Scotch in cut glasses. The whiskey and the glasses were part of the leftover loot from Singapore. The liquor stocks of the captured fortress were so vast that the Japanese Navy was still drinking [them] more than three years after the British surrender. Yamato carried so much liquor, in fact, that her supply staff joked that the fish would be drunk for miles around, if ever she was to sink.

Executive officer Nomura was determined to foil the fish. His final orders of the day were for a monumental party. It might be the last one most of them would ever have. Cooks had already been instructed to break out the best rations for a symbolic last supper ...

The cooks had outdone themselves. Special dishes appeared, suitable for the eve of battle. There was sekihan, made of red bean paste, and okashiratsuki, a kind of sea bream made complete with the head of the fish. And more, lashings more, of the warm rice wine that brought a flush to their faces ..."

As far as I know, sekihan is red rice rather than bean paste. It is made by steaming rice with red beans so that it comes out bright red-pink. Red is a lucky color and this dish is eaten at some celebrations (?) in Japan.

I seem to remember that the recent Japanese film about the last sortie of Yamato gave a glimpse of her galley, as the filmmakers imagined it.

Is it safe to assume that sister battleship Musashi was as well-appointed? While half-sister carrier Shinano might not have. Of course these ships’ accommodations were not typical of the whole IJN which, like the US Navy, nevertheless at least had some benefits of fresh foods in its shipboard refrigerators.

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