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English: Yakitate!! Japan
Synonyms: Fresh-Baked Japan, Freshly-Baked Japan Japanese: 焼きたて!! ジャぱん
Autor:
Hashiguchi, Takashi
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26
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242
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Finished
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2002-03-18 to 2007-01-10
Publicación por entregas:
Shounen Sunday
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Alternativas:
English: Yakitate!! Japan
Synonyms: Fresh-Baked Japan, Freshly-Baked Japan
Japanese: 焼きたて!! ジャぱん
Synonyms: Fresh-Baked Japan, Freshly-Baked Japan
Japanese: 焼きたて!! ジャぱん
Autor:
Hashiguchi, Takashi
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Manga
Volúmenes:
26
Capítulos:
242
Estado:
Finished
Publicar:
2002-03-18 to 2007-01-10
Publicación por entregas:
Shounen Sunday
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Azuma Kazuma isn't terribly clever, but he's got a good heart and great skill—at baking. Since childhood, he's been on a quest to create the perfect bread to represent Japan internationally. Now, he seeks to enter the famous bakery Pantasia, in hopes of reaching his goal. But plots abound...
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Yakitate!! Japan review
It's a great manga at least until the end of world competition in monaco. what next? regression is not an option, so he ventured outside of the premise. It's no longer about bread, but about all food and the heroes will travel to entire part of japan. while the idea is good and refreshing, it's proved to be too overwhelming for the manga. He constantly has keep looking for a new theme and new setting. So he endep using a template and rushed the story.
The opponents are far more interesting and colourful than before, but they always vanish into thin air, they don't reappear, save have an impact onthe story. Eventhough the opponents are the best in the world in their field, Azuma magically always find a recipe to defeat them,. The manga start to make no sense at all, The author seems to make fun no disrespect culinary experts. The gag is repetitive and boring, our heroes always stay at a sstrange inn that seems to be a pun of the place's specialty. |
Yakitate!! Japan review
Okay so.... if I can summarize my thoughts on this ENTIRE manga series, I would liken it to riding a roller coaster. As I was reading the first arc, I felt like I was going up with the cuteness and the light-heartedness of the story. Aside from that, I also enjoyed the breads and the challenges they were having. By the time the first story arc was over, I was really craving for the breads baked and at the same time, extremely excited for the next battle arc. However, as the 2nd story arc started, I felt like the roller coaster was going down and
I found myself showing disinterest to not only the story itself but to the characters as well. As soon as the 2nd story arc was over, I was so glad it was done and I was honestly considering if I should still continue reading the series or drop it. However, I am glad I continued on because the third story arc is probably one of my favorite arcs of the series. It brought back the lightheartedness and the great bread/creations they were making that made me like this series in the first place. The bread/food they were making all throughout this arc were all so good and I also loved how it showed us the different parts of Japan. AAAND I wished the story ended here on such a high note. However for some reason, the author decided to make this series extremely wonky with the (spoiler alert) maou gopan and the global warming arc and honestly IT DID NOT HELP the series one bit. By the time the global warming arc was finished I was left unhappy and unsatisfied instead of the joy I felt when I read the first and third story arc. If anyone here is thinking about reading this I highly recommend y'all stop after the Yakitate 25 arc so that you can at least end this series in a happy note.
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Yakitate!! Japan review
I'm not one to often write a review, so don't take this commentary too seriously.
(I've read everything but for the sake of my mental sanity, for the moment, I'm not taking into account the 70 last chapters that... well you'll see) I understand why some people wouldn't appreciate this manga and the old fashioned humor but as a whole I think it manages to et over the lack of solid story or its weak set of orginal characters. The characters are clearly copy pastes of a lot of similar mangas but honestly they still get their own little characteristic trait permitting them to have their own "mini- development arc" (except Kinoshita-boy, tho he is the real MVP). As for the story, (tho I'm really biased as it was one of the first mangas I read when I was 7 or 8) it's just a blast to see so much goofiness, and I feel like we don't need to care if everything transitions well or if things actually make sense one by one. Because I'm just focused on the page I'm reading, and I'm not gonna lie, I was actually super involved in the dramatics moments even when it just mix into the comedy, the characters are so extremely serious about it, I just get into the story a little too much. The art is really correct and pretty much similar to most of this type of manga of the time, but the breads drawings are super cool and made me actually hungry. So as I said it's a 100Pourcents sure that I have no real objective vision but as I re-read it 10 years later, I still think it's as much fun as I remembered from beginning to... maybe not the end, and a pretty wild ride into another world of "gourmet reactions" type manga. (I actually prefer the type of "reactions" we get in Yakitate ja-pan than what is in food War which get a little old as it doesn't differ a lot, when here... Everytime it just gets better - until chapter ) (WARNING FROM THERE IT'S JUST A TOTAL MESSY RANT TO HELP ME COPE WITH THE ENDING) .... And I would have loved to stop here but... What the heck? I discovered I never read the last volume of the manga when I was a kid and... I honestly never should have. The author was obviously on a cruel rush to finish in a way or another may it be satisfactory or not. I mentioned how I loved the reactions, their originality and "unoriginality" at the same time. Same for every characters that managed to have a specific role throughout the story. But, man, right after that katsuo duel.... Everything went downfall, every character just became unfunny running gag, they lost every flavors that made them appealing and were just ghost of the past struggling to sruvive in the publishing world through incoherent and an even more poorly storyline than ever before. It's not hard to understand what went though the author mind who, more than ever, doesn't hesitate to break the 4rth wall and comment on the bad absurdity he pushed onto his own work. Thing is, it's not like the humor is drastically different, he didn't either brought out a new plotline with brand new characters out of nowhere. No, everything is built over what was alaready presented and developed but... I think the author just stopped caring, and tried to satire his own work. The story was never a seriously thought out, solid one but everything that made it... so refreshing didn't even just disappeared it went straight to the trash. I'm just so sad to me, to discover how one of my now ex-favorite manga ended and collapsed on itself. I just needed to say that, no need to go into the analysis od the"arcs" or "characters in themselves, just read it and it'll speak for itself; nothing to debate honestly. Sorry for the super long review, I have a really complicated relationship with this work.... (and like I said, no need at all to take evrything I said seriously)) |
Yakitate!! Japan review
The manga was great at the beginning. The ideas for different kinds of bread were fresh and interesting. The characters seemed alright. The reactions to the bread were also unique to this manga and provided some comic relief.
After a while, you will notice that the characters have absolutely no development. Most of the characters are in fact reduced to observers, and the MC is an undefeated champion with absolutely no personality. The bread ideas became more and more ridiculous and unreal, to the point of being completely disjointed from reality. And as the funny reactions became more and more ridiculous, they started to seem forced and unnecessary. Near the final chapters, it's apparent that the manga was axed and had to be brought to a sudden and unsatisfactory end. The manga would have greatly benefited from proper planning: it should have been much shorter, the side characters should have been much less passive, and the reactions should have not become the center point of the manga. |
Yakitate!! Japan review
What we have here is truly a manga of a different "flavor"; If you're looking for a story that "rises" to the occasion, you "knead" not look further! (okay, I'll stop... for now.) Obviously, this is a manga about cooking; more specifically, the art of bread-making. How can you make a story centered around making bread, you might ask? Just follow the simple recipe the Japanese use for making "Instant anime material!" (entertaining characters + special "powers" revolving around the subject of the story + drama. Lots and lots of drama.) The result is Yakitate!! Japan.
My rating for the story is a high/low average. The high point is that Yakitate takes such a seemingly-random concept and turns it into an enjoyable and endearing read; besides Addicted to Curry, the field of cooking series remains desolate. (As long as you don't count Fighting Foodons. I sure don't.) You might scoff at first, but a few chapters in and you'll most likely be hooked. It gets even better with the natural shonen style of characters having special powers when it comes to bread-making; The main character, Kazuma Azuma, is blessed with "Solar Gauntlets", unnaturally-warm hands that are a great benefit in his trade. Later on, you see different abilities that rivals bring into play, probably the funniest (and creepiest) being the Goddess Hands. As for the other side of the story; this is a popular shonen. Meaning it drags on for AWHILE. Like, longer than the Naruto manga, minus Shippuden? And, unfortunately, it can't really keep up the pace for the whole thing. Later on, the story gets into a bit of a rut, with the characters participating in enormous tournaments, with not much plot development at all; just one match after another, which also get tiring because the focus shifts to the obscure Japanese pun that results from the "scoring" of either team's culinary creation. Not that these "reactions" aren't entertaining; it's just that you should get used to them... The art style was great at its best, and satisfactory at its lowest. This guy does know how to draw his chicks smokin' hot (and that goes for the guys too, when he feels like giving a rare nod to the ladies), so a bit of fanservice every now and then is greatly appreciated. His style also holds out well when illustrating the increasingly-bizarre "reactions" of the judges, and anyone who unwittingly eats food so good, they bend over backwards, try to strip, or even turn into various animals... The characters were all fairly memorable and endearing. I normally don't feel very attached to the main character of any given series, but Azuma clicked with me fairly well. He had the same ceaseless-motivation-bordering-on-arrogance that's common in protagonists, but pretty much none of the machoism; you might even mistake him for a girl at first, along with almost-androgynous, pink-haired Kanmuri. Fangirls, take note. The minor characters were also great; many make return appearances, or get connected to the main cast in various ways. They're also pretty well-developed; Azuma does have a couple break-downs, despite his optimism, and everyone has their various trials or problems to overcome. Oh, and I can pretty much guarantee you'll hate the main villain's guts. Like, really, really hate her. I've pretty much covered enjoyment in the story section; you'll get hooked at first, but might loose interest farther in. Nevertheless, I still soldiered through it all, and enjoyed 95% of it. It's really just that good. Early on, you'll get a kick out of the reactions, and drama that arises from a simple contest. Oh, and this is one of those manga that *gasp* you might actually learn something about food chemistry! (Or you can just blow past it. Never been into science, myself.) But you'll definitely come away feeling more knowledgeable about different foods than you ever thought. Overall, I'm giving this series a 9, despite it's drawbacks. This manga pretty much took up two weeks of my life, sitting in front of my laptop, blowing through almost 200 chapters. And I plan to invest in the tangible English editions once I get a windfall. Looking for a longer, less-known series to which to sink your teeth into? Something fresh and hot, that sticks together under it's strange crust? (alright, these are getting pretty bad...) Anyhoo, pick this up. It reminds me of Hikaru no Go in alot of ways; unconventional concept, excellent results! Bon appetit~ |