Yakitate!! Japan

"This is great!"

Like to eat various kind of bread? Or like to make cakes, cookies, and bread? Then you can check this anime out.. I bet you will love it.

Yakitate!! Japan 焼きたて!! ジャぱん is a manga created by Takashi Hashiguchi. It serialized in Shogakugan's Shonen Sunday since 2002. 25 tankobons have been released, and for your information, this series won the 2004 Shogakugan Manga Award for best shonen manga. A completed series of anime has been released, produced by Sunrise and being broadcast in TV Tokyo.

Yakitate!! Japan follows Azuma Kazuma, a 16-year-old teenager who likes to make and innovate bread. He has high creativity and special ability, Solar Hands (the hands are warmer than body temperature), which allow him to ferment bread dough faster. He wants to make Ja-pan, bread that represent Japan's culture and cuisine, and even replace rice in Japan. In order for his creation to be known by people, he applies to Pantasia Main Branch store. This is the first stepping stone his great journey to be a great bread artisan.

By entering the serious world of competition and bakery industry, Azuma meets a lot of other artisan, like Kawachi Kyousuke from Kansai who is comical and cause a lot of laughs throughout the series, Azusagawa Tsukino the owner of Pantasia Southern Tokyo where Azuma and Kawachi work , Suwabara Kai a samurai who also a skillful bread artisan, and a lot more.

Will Azuma's creation become well known by others? Can he be a great artisan? Read the manga, and watch the anime!

Yakitate!! Japan is very fresh anime. This anime features a lot of humor, mouth-watering breads, techniques to make delicious bread (this might be important for you who like to make bread), comedic reactions when eating the breads, which are very entertaining to watch, to release stress and increase your mood meter to happy :D

(+) Delicious, mouth-watering bread, yummy..

(+) Contains a lot dose of humor

(+) Nice artwork

(-) Too melodramatic

(-) Too many characters (in my opinion)

(-) Sometimes the humor are more annoying than entertaining

Story = 3.5/5

Artwork = 4/5

Animation and color = 4/5

Character development = 3/5

Soundtrack = 3.5/5

Overall rating = 3.5/5

Genre = cooking, comedy, action, drama, romance

Demographic = shonen

Original creator = Takashi Hashiguchi

Director = Yasunao Aoki

Seiyuu = Yumiko Kobayashi (Azuma), Shuuhei Sakaguchi (Kawachi), Takayuki Sakazume (Suwabara), Chihiro Otsuka (Tsukino), etc.. full credits is here