Yakitate! Japan
| Yakitate!! Ja-pan | |
Cover art of the first Yakitate!! Japan manga volume
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| 焼きたて!! ジャぱん | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Takashi Hashiguchi |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Original run | 2002 – 2007 |
| Volumes | 26 (242 chapters) |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yasunao Aoki |
| Produced by | Norio Yamakawa Hideyuki Tomioka |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Taku Iwasaki |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | October 12, 2004 – March 14, 2006 |
| Episodes | 69 |
Yakitate!! Ja-pan (焼きたて!! ジャぱん?, meaning "Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan", the "pan" also meaning "bread" in Japanese) is a manga, authored by Takashi Hashiguchi, serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday, which has been adapted into an anime television series by Sunrise. The manga has spanned 26 tankōbon volumes, while the weekly serialization of the manga has ended as of January 10, 2007. The anime series, broadcast on TV Tokyo and other local stations from October 2004 to March 2006, spanned a total of 69 episodes. The series won the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga. The manga series was later licensed by Viz Media for North American distribution.
The story focuses on Kazuma Azuma, a boy on his quest to create "Ja-pan", a national bread for Japan itself. He initially heads to Tokyo to expand his horizons at the bread-making chain Pantasia; the story continues with Azuma's exploits with his other coworkers.
The title of this series itself is a play on words; Yakitate translates to "freshly baked", but Ja-pan has a double meaning. Besides referring to the country of Japan, pan is the Japanese word for "bread" (stemming from Portuguese pão). Ja-pan is a pun for this series. This mimics the style of the names of other varieties of bread in Japanese, such as "furansupan" (French Bread), "doitsupan" (German rye-based bread), "itariapan" (Italian bread), etc. The characters cook the bread using sheer anger and the power of their burning passion. This mimics the legendary Kanjitake (河内 恭) cooking style of Hokkaido
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