Yakitate!! Japan manga review
July 24th 2009 05:14
Yakitate!! Japan is a manga created by Hashiguchi Takahashi. This manga is also adapted into anime. You can read Yakitate!! Japan anime review here.
Genres: action, comedy
Theme: cooking
Synopsis: Azuma Kazuma, an energetic and dense young man, was introduced to the art of bread making when he was six. He decides to take the path of bread-making and become a baker right after graduating from middle school. Through his travels, he encounters many rivals and found work at the branch store of the most famous bread maker brand, the Pantasia.
Source: Anime News Network
Comment:
Well, as much as the storyline is concerned, I find that the storyline is very straightforward so you can understand the whole plot at a glimpse when you read this manga for the first few chapters. Yes, it's hilarious to hear Azuma is calling whatever bread he has created with Japan no. (insert the number here) even though the bread is obviously common to us such as croissant. With his dense attitude, this manga is truly enjoyable to read.
Now, if you have watched cooking-based anime such as Cooking Master Boy, you would expect the same thing in Yakitate! Japan. This is absolutely true because this manga also reveals the baking techniques that Azuma used. Initially, the story is all about the typical bread that we know but as the plot expanded, there will be more unique looking breads as the story progressed. If you're worried that the manga is boring because it only shows you the typical normal bread you've seen in the bakery, fear not because those unique-looking breads will fill your imagination.....and at the same time will make you feel hungry! I have to admit that the reaction shown whenever someone eats the bread can be over-exaggerating, but I think this is normal for this kind of manga to produce that kind of reaction. Those reactions are weird but it's actually giving you clue about the bread itself.
Since this manga is also adapted into an anime, I can only say that most of the storyline follows exactly like the manga but the only difference is that the anime has skipped the a few later chapters so you'll missed a little bit of fun here. It's worth watching the anime but if you love explicit content (not much actually), you can always read the manga to spice things up. What kind of explicit content is something that I don't want to explain here so you can always check this manga yourself.
Finally, the artwork. The artwork is amazingly neat with the nice panels and there are also a self-explanatory of certain jargon somewhere near the panel, I can only say that it's pleasant to my eyes. Take a look at yourself here:
Overall, I love this manga because this manga really expands my knowledge about bread generally (since I don't know the name for the breads I've seen). Besides that, there is also an explanation on how you can make a bread using a rice cooker and most importantly, this manga has a very good and easy to understand a storyline. I have to warn you that you need to read this manga after you had a very heavy meal. Otherwise, you'll wet your mouth because the breads are really appetizing XD.
Theme: cooking
Synopsis: Azuma Kazuma, an energetic and dense young man, was introduced to the art of bread making when he was six. He decides to take the path of bread-making and become a baker right after graduating from middle school. Through his travels, he encounters many rivals and found work at the branch store of the most famous bread maker brand, the Pantasia.
Source: Anime News Network
Comment:
Well, as much as the storyline is concerned, I find that the storyline is very straightforward so you can understand the whole plot at a glimpse when you read this manga for the first few chapters. Yes, it's hilarious to hear Azuma is calling whatever bread he has created with Japan no. (insert the number here) even though the bread is obviously common to us such as croissant. With his dense attitude, this manga is truly enjoyable to read.
Now, if you have watched cooking-based anime such as Cooking Master Boy, you would expect the same thing in Yakitate! Japan. This is absolutely true because this manga also reveals the baking techniques that Azuma used. Initially, the story is all about the typical bread that we know but as the plot expanded, there will be more unique looking breads as the story progressed. If you're worried that the manga is boring because it only shows you the typical normal bread you've seen in the bakery, fear not because those unique-looking breads will fill your imagination.....and at the same time will make you feel hungry! I have to admit that the reaction shown whenever someone eats the bread can be over-exaggerating, but I think this is normal for this kind of manga to produce that kind of reaction. Those reactions are weird but it's actually giving you clue about the bread itself.
Since this manga is also adapted into an anime, I can only say that most of the storyline follows exactly like the manga but the only difference is that the anime has skipped the a few later chapters so you'll missed a little bit of fun here. It's worth watching the anime but if you love explicit content (not much actually), you can always read the manga to spice things up. What kind of explicit content is something that I don't want to explain here so you can always check this manga yourself.
Finally, the artwork. The artwork is amazingly neat with the nice panels and there are also a self-explanatory of certain jargon somewhere near the panel, I can only say that it's pleasant to my eyes. Take a look at yourself here:
Overall, I love this manga because this manga really expands my knowledge about bread generally (since I don't know the name for the breads I've seen). Besides that, there is also an explanation on how you can make a bread using a rice cooker and most importantly, this manga has a very good and easy to understand a storyline. I have to warn you that you need to read this manga after you had a very heavy meal. Otherwise, you'll wet your mouth because the breads are really appetizing XD.
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