Ben-To
FUNimation has added a new series page to their site with Ben-To appearing there. The page doesn’t have much to it but it includes the basic summary, the involvement of people from other FUNimation properties and a breakdown of the technical side, which is that it’s a twelve episode series. The series originally was broadcast in the fall of 2011 with animation produced by David Production. The series is based on the light novels of the same name by Asaura and Kaito Shibano that began back in 2008 which has ten volumes out so far and is still ongoing. A Few spinoff manga series have been produced as well.
Plot concept: 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? From the director of Black Cat comes a very different type of hunger games. Welcome to the world of Ben-To, where chopsticks are lethal weapons, the supermarket is a battleground, and there’s nothing more delicious than a deep-fried win.