Itβs pretty new, so that might be why? The first volume was released almost exactly 3 years ago, and 5 volumes have been released so far.
I stumbled across it by accident because I found a free trial when it was freshly released (I immediately fell for the cover).
It truly is! The story is lovely but very very slow most of the time. Sometimes I think the story is just there as an excuse for the author to draw gorgeous landscapes and delicious food 
Ah, you found us out 
We were reading it together, but @Myriaβs Japanese is much better than mine so she could finish it faster. We specifically wanted to read something by this author, and after discovering that ζ²γ§εΎ
γ€ had won the Akutagawa prize, we thought weβd give that one a go in order to be able to tick off an entry of the challenge 