Yakitate !! Japan

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Yakitate !! Japan ( Japanese焼 き た て !! ジ ャ ぱ ん) is a manga series by the illustrator Takashi Hashiguchi , which was also implemented as an anime . The work can be classified into the genres Comedy , Gourmet and Shōnen .

action

Kazuma Azuma discovered his love for baking bread as a small child. His dream is to bake Japan (pronounced: japan ), a bread that will represent Japan in the world. Because Germany has the rye bread , France the baguette , Great Britain the toast , but Japan does not yet have such bread.

In order to get a little closer to his dream, Kazuma tries to get a job in the main shop of the large back chain Pantasia . To do this, he must first pass an entrance examination. You will quickly notice your “solar hands”, which have a higher body temperature due to increased circulation and are therefore beneficial for kneading bread. Kyousuke Kawachi tries to abuse Kazuma for his own purposes, and Tsukino Azusagawa would like to have him in her own Pantasia store in the south of Tokyo .

Puns

The bread name Japan (ジ ャ ぱ ん) is a play on words, because pan (パ ン, but written with katakana instead of hiragana ) is the Japanese word for “bread”. There are always such ambiguities in the series, which mostly arise from Kazuma misunderstanding a word. For example, he interprets croissant (ク ロ ワ ッ サ ンkurowassan ) as Kurowa-san ( Mr. Kurowa ).

Publications

Manga

Yakitate !! Japan appeared in Japan from 2001 to 2007 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday of the Shogakukan publishing house. These individual chapters were also published in a total of 26 edited volumes.

In German published Egmont Manga and anime to manga in the now-defunct Manga Twister magazine and then eight anthologies for a translation by Vera Gutersohn. The publication was then discontinued.

Anime

Studio Sunrise produced an anime series for the manga , which was broadcast from October 12, 2004 to March 14, 2006 on the Japanese television station TV Tokyo . It is completed with 69 episodes.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Kazuma Azuma Yumiko Kobayashi
Kyōsuke Kawachi Shuhei Sakaguchi
Tsukino Azusagawa Chihiro Ōtsuka
Ken Matsushiro Hiroki Tochi
Kageto Kinoshita Setsuji Satō
Ryō Kuroyanagi Takehito Koyasu
Kai Suwabara Takayuki Sakazume
Shigeru Kanmuri Marina Inoue
Master Kirisaki Shō Hayami
Pierrot Bolneze Tomokazu Seki

In supporting roles are u. a. Nana Mizuki , Hikaru Midorikawa , Katsuyuki Konishi and Rie Kugimiya can be heard.

Awards

Yakitate !! Japan was awarded the 49th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the Shōnen category in 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AnimePro ( memento of August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) about the discontinuation of the publication

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