Yakitate!! Japan, Volume 1 by Takashi Hashiguchi

But what of the island nation of Japan, home to rice and delicacies of the sea? Is there not a doughy, gastronomic delight they can claim as their own? The answer is no.until now! Kazuma Azuma, a 16-year-old-boy blessed with otherworldly baking powers, has taken it upon himself to create Ja-pan, the national bread of the land of the rising sun! What common thread binds these three nations together? Answer: each is famous for producing unique, distinctive, delicious bread. The Comic Shop Locator phone number is 1-888-COMIC BOOK.Are you ready for the Iron Chef of bread?! Manga shall not live by bread alone. Yakitate!! Japan may be a comedy, but in this series, break making ain’t no joke, and neither is the series. However, the rest of the cast, especially Kyosuke Kawachi, Kazuma’s deceitful baking buddy, and Tsukino Azusagawa, the granddaughter of Pantasia’s owner, make this a unique look into a world of highly-skilled professionals. Viewing this through the eyes of series star, Kazuma, Yakitate!! Japan comes across as a card-playing manga with bread as the card deck, and skills are highly prized. Meanwhile, the cast is diverse, eclectic, and downright eccentric. about bread interesting, and, in fact, Drew Williams’ adaptation manages to keep the intrigue, mystery, and skill of bread making high. I find all the facts, history, trivia, etc. Creator Takashi Hashiguchi takes a subject (in this instance, bread making), researches it well, and builds a dramatic structure with it. Yakitate!! Japan is slapstick comedy, but it’s also like a Hollywood high concept film. Now, he only needs to perfect Ja-pan (“pan” being the Japanese word for bread), that special bread Japan can call its every own.

Before long, rivals are colleagues and Kazuma finds that his dreams are coming true, even if in a roundabout sort of way. Unfortunately, Kazuma finds that there are a lot of other young bakers who want to make bread at Pantasia. Years later, now a teenager, Kazuma is in Tokyo, and his goal is to get a job at Pantasia, the famous bakery chain. Pierre by its master baker, a man called “ mister.” One taste and Kazuma is a slave to that baked goodness. That is until his sister introduces him to bread made at the bakery St. There are, however, a sizable population that just loves bread, and young country boy Kazuma Azwna is not one of them. In Japan, rice is the staple, and bread is looked upon by many as a strange foreign food unsuitable for the Japanese diet and unacceptable to the Japanese palate. But this work by mangaka Takashi Hashiguchi is about bread makers, for heaven’s sake! If you bend your mind a little… Considering the unusual and downright weird concepts that pop up in manga, calling Yakitate!! Japan, Vol.

Yakitate!! Japan, Volume 1 by Takashi Hashiguchi