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Yakitate!! Japan  
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Description
England. France. Germany. What common thread binds these three nations together? Answer: each is famous for producing unique, distinctive, delicious bread. 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!

Won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category.

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
日式面包王
烘焙王
焼きたて!!ジャぱん
焼きたてジャぱん
Fresh Made Japan
Fresh-baked! Japan
The King of Bread
Vua Bánh Mì

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Franky House
Lemon Tea
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Latest Release(s)
v.26 c.241-242 by Some Scans (641d ago)
v.26 c.236 by Lemon Tea (691d ago)
v.26 c.240 by Some Scans (706d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
26 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol.1, Chap 1

User Reviews
Yakitate!! Japan by Cypher-Khan

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2 topics, 2 posts
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User Rating
Average: 7.8 / 10.0 (471 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.75 / 10.0
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Last Updated
June 17th 2013, 12:00pm PST

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Genre
Comedy  Drama  Fantasy  Shounen 
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Categories

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Recommendations

Author(s)
HASHIGUCHI Takashi

Artist(s)
HASHIGUCHI Takashi

Year
2002

Original Publisher
Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)
Shounen Sunday (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Viz (26 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #930 increased(+307)
Monthly Pos #2294 increased(+21)
3 Month Pos #2994 increased(+408)
6 Month Pos #3682 increased(+120)

List Stats
On 1227 reading lists
On 443 wish lists
On 551 completed lists
On 136 unfinished lists
On 166 custom lists

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Forum Posts
current arc 712 days, 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
last volumes 1290 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes ago

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 Odd, to say the least.   
Rating: 5.8 / 10.0
by Crenshinibon
July 29th, 2009, 2:29am
Yakitate!! Japan is one of the oddest of the long-running shounen manga that has ever competed serialization. Occasionally hilarious, and occasionally drab, but on the whole it does manage to be very unique in many respects, and I'm certain that the author had a decent time writing it.

Basically, it just suffers from inconsistency (though I suppose an argument can be made for this aspect as an intentionality). It's only genuinely funny about 50% of the time, and without a higher percentage it just becomes too difficult to give it full attention. Still, it merits a half-decent rating for the moments that it does get exactly right.
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 Declined towards the end.   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by MondSemmel
September 24th, 2011, 6:05pm
I really enjoyed this manga, about up to the amazing Pierrot arc. But afterwards, the reactions became really quite too insane even for me (i.e. people turning permanently into animals after eating bread) and the jokes either became worse or just repeated too often. Also, the reaction-based puns sadly often don't translate well from Japanese to English.
For the amazing first ~120 chapters (until the end of the Pierrot arc) I give a 9, the rest doesn't really deserve more than a 7. So this manga gets an 8 from me. But really, just read everything until the Pierrot arc and then stop. Or read until then and then continue, aware of the fact that the story gets worse from that point on.
(Also, the ultimate ending is horrible. How could a mangaka that did so much research on breadmaking end up with such a misguided treatment of global warming? I waited forever for the scanlations of the last volume, but after reading it, I'm not surprised it took forever to find someone willing to translate it...)
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Rating: N/A
by Tatyblue
May 20th, 2005, 12:19pm
Always funny, never boring Yaki is something you must taste!!!!
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 MondSemmel sums it up well.   
Rating: N/A
by 2dere
October 21st, 2012, 4:04pm
Read till then end of the Perriot arc. Then stop.
Thats still quite a hard thing to say because, maybe besides Hajime no Ippo and G.T.O. have I laughed so hard throughout a manga. My dad knew when I was reading it because he could hear me laughing in another room. So I have good memories of this manga but yeah, story does decline and its nice to only see something at its best.
I do recommend it to anyone, they can decide if the humor is for them. But I also recommend a stopping point too.
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 Falls apart as it goes along   
Rating: N/A
by luzzz
November 21st, 2009, 5:17pm
I have a great love for bread and pastry so I delved into Yakitate!! Japan with excitement. The first 5/6 volumes a terrific with a great combination of mouthwatering bread, a unique bread tournament and endearing characters. It then fell apart when the team made the trek to the Monaco Cup. I felt that Kawachi had a lot of potential as a character but the author messed it up and reduced him to a mere comical sidekick to Azuma. In fact, a lot of characters were left in the dust as the story progressed. And the main antagonist for the first half of the series fails to provide for sufficient suspense and intrigue. The bread-making techniques also grow more and more fantastic through the series and by the end of Volume 13 I had resigned to myself that there indeed existed a !magical! yeast as well as !Triple!Super!Zion! "solar" hands that could make bread in the space of 1 panel. I recommend for people who are interested in this manga to only read up to the end of the first arc and save yourself from boredom.
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 where is all the volume   
Rating: N/A
by Anonymous
May 24th, 2006, 9:17pm
good
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 meh   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by xxLOVE
April 2nd, 2011, 10:10pm
Wow...What happened?
This manga was so amazing, it should've been ended much earlier than 26 volumes. It starting getting ridiculous especially in the last few volumes.
Spoiler (highlight to view)
BREAD EYES? R U SRS?
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 Fans of eccentric comedy will enjoy this.   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by teniki
July 1st, 2009, 2:39pm
As always some manga just go downhill from what was a normal cooking manga with exaggerated reactions to just...outrageous and unrealistic ones. While this may humour a specific audience, this just didn't work out for me.
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 Stupid a little   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by gekkoh123
July 24th, 2007, 1:57pm
When i've read 1 volome i have thought that this is cool manga. But when it became so unreal it became rather foolish. So 7/10.
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 The best manga ever   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by IceEmerald
June 6th, 2007, 9:10am
This is the best manga ever, you cannot describe it with words.
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