Bambino!

Bambino!
Cover of Bambino! volume 14 as published by Shogakukan
バンビーノ! (Banbiino!)
Genre	Cooking
Manga
Written by	Tetsuji Sekiya
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Original run	December 6, 2004 – February 23, 2009
Volumes	15
Television drama
Directed by	Masatoshi Kato Ken Murase Chizu Asai
Written by	Yoshikazu Okada
Music by	Yugo Kanno
Original network	NTV
Original run	April 18, 2007 – June 27, 2007
Episodes	11
Manga
Bambino! Secondo
Written by	Tetsuji Sekiya
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Original run	April 6, 2009 – December 17, 2012
Volumes	13

Bambino! (Japanese: バンビーノ!, Hepburn: Banbiino!^?, lit. "Baby") is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine (aimed at older men) Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 tankōbon of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi.

NTV broadcast the live-action TV drama from April 18, 2007 to June 27, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by TV Japan, an affiliate of NHK, from January to March 2008.

Bambino! is written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine (aimed at older men) Big Comic Spirits. As of March 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga between March 30, 2005 and December 26, 2008.