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Banana Bread no Pudding  
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Description
Now that Ira's older sister is getting married, who will take her to the bathroom after 10 p.m. and sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" outside the bathroom door in order to protect her from the beautiful, androgynous, child-eating clown? Will marrying a closeted gay man help?

Considered by many fans to be Ooshima's best work.

Type
Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
バナナブレッドのプディング
Banana Bread Pudding
Banana Bureddo no Pudingu

Groups Scanlating
HotCakes

Latest Release(s)
v.1 c.5 (end) by HotCakes (1249d ago)
v.1 c.4 by HotCakes (1262d ago)
v.1 c.3 by HotCakes (1335d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 6.6 / 10.0 (71 votes)
Bayesian Average: 6.78 / 10.0
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Last Updated
January 1st 2012, 5:33am PST

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Genre
Comedy  Drama  Psychological  Romance  Shoujo  Slice of Life 
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Author(s)
OOSHIMA Yumiko

Artist(s)
OOSHIMA Yumiko

Year
1978

Original Publisher
Hakusensha (1995)
Kadokawa Shoten (2008)
Media Factory (2009)
Shogakukan (1980)
Shueisha (1978)

Serialized In (magazine)
Monthly Seventeen (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
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Weekly Pos #1011 increased(+426)
Monthly Pos #2814 increased(+190)
3 Month Pos #4388 increased(+672)
6 Month Pos #5857 decreased(-286)

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On 144 wish lists
On 215 completed lists
On 17 unfinished lists
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 Ha!   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Meilee123
January 6th, 2013, 1:58pm
It was really funny. But once I got used to the humour, the characters were more noticeably unreasonable and unrealistic.
The art was okay for an old manga but very undetailed which didnt leave a strong impression on the story. It was hard on the eyes.
If there was symbolism then it wasnt very deep.
And I was really turned off by the amount of dialogue in each page. Most bubbles had like 4 or 5 lines.
In the end, I barely read past the 2nd chapter before I realized that it's not worth my time.

... Last updated on January 6th, 2013, 2:01pm
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 ...   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by shadowwalker
August 21st, 2012, 2:06am
its kind of interesting, kind of weird... readable but not for everyone's tastes. Art is sometimes confusing, too many lines going around from time to time. Main heroine has an illness? i wonder about that.. she seems to be a mild case of schizophrenia but she can usually tell whats real and whats not but the things she can't tell apart are the weird ones.. she seems to me a kid with over active imagination with symptoms of loneliness and a desire to be not left alone but somehow can't find in herself to find friends or even get along with her family.. and her family seems normal too how she ended up that way is in no way explained in anywhere so there is no depth.. its very hard to sympatise with her.. so selfish.. so willfull. its only five chapters but still i don't think you can find a case of mental illness exactly like hers if you search for all the world. still it has some potential if you have time you may take a look its not like gonna take a long time to read it all.
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 weird.   
Rating: 4.0 / 10.0
by countingwounds
June 10th, 2012, 11:43am
i am not sure about the value to it psychologically; i was not looking into it, nor was i inclined to think i should... i just read it, and what i read was plain weird. not quirky. weird. maybe i read it at a bad time, or in the wrong mindset, but i didn't feel an ounce of anything towards any of the characters! except maybe pity at whatever was going on with the main character. it didn't even really explain why she thought what she did, or really what led her to become the way she did...

i don't know, this was a hit for so many people... so maybe i missed something? but i think this was a definite miss for me. i'll give it a little higher rating for its abnormality, which was a little refreshing, but it just did not interest me in the least bit.
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 well done   
Rating: N/A
by gwkimmy
April 19th, 2012, 9:40am
it's really not that hard to figure out the "symbols" and themes in this manga once you think about it a little. just needs a bit of critical analysis. ira was afraid of falling in love and all of the "impure" feelings and emotions that came along with it. she was afraid of growing and maturing into an adult that would have to deal with these new feelings. the manga could have done a better job with the "dealing" part of that, but i think it conveyed the intent and growth pretty well.

she definitely had anxiety problems and might even be schizophrenic. makes me wonder what era this manga was supposed to take place in, since she'll definitely need a bit of help with that. again, the manga doesn't touch upon the "dealing" side of ira's problems much, but i suppose that's for the future of this manga and a different story altogether.

quite a simple story, really. i thought it was well done. i wanted to hear more about the gay soccer player, though. lol.
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 Attempt to write a story: failed   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Meins
April 16th, 2012, 1:10pm
Easy things first: The Art
Low-mediocre at best. Objects are sometimes drawn good, faces and human expressions are bad.
Sometimes the mangaka don't draw face features at all, maybe because it was to difficult for her to draw
a face feature from a side angel or what ever. The drawn characters are static and the movement
is badly shown. The drawn action in the panels is not self-explanatory, you have read the text to understand
what you see (it is little annoying if you at first don't understand WHAT in hell you are seeing and reeding on
the one page and get a explanation not till the next page).

The story:
It's true the manga has a nice setting, a girl whit some serve psychological disorders. This girl need some
professional help by the way and not a play by amateurs like in the manga. She is definitely not "eccentric"
like someone has written. But let it be, it is a "must-be" setting for the story. The story enfolds around
some hard set like the main character fails in love for the girl whit serve psychological disorder, parents who
do nothing to help her (only worrying about what to do) and some more. What is really annoying is that the
biggest turning points in the story happens out of some god given coincidences. These coincidences had
no explanation in the story, they happen because the mangaka wanted the story to move faster(?) so
it could end in one volume or because the mangaka doesn't know how to make it better. What ever the
reason it leave a some what corny feeling of incompleteness.
The psychological part of showing the inner world of the girl is highly romanticised. And the psychoanalysis
aspect exists only as a cloud of some terminology widely thrown at some places in the manga. Or as some
sentence which stands alone because there is no conversation about them, only the proclamation of this "wisdom".
Well the end is corny too. Boy meet girl at the beginning of a manga, guess what is the ending.

So at the end i must say the mangaka tried to write a little more mature story and failed. Maybe she learned after this project how to draw better than at a amateur level, but i doubt it. IF you don't believe me and have to much time, read it. If otherwise, do not touch this manga.
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 Well told and funny   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by Hell_Clues
May 8th, 2011, 1:39am
This manga is funny without being wacky. The humour just comes out so naturally.

The only criticism I have is that the main character's behavior(Ira) is really off. She has issues that would normally come from a stunted childhood, but that doesn't seem to be the case. She also seems fairly intelligent as well. She just ended up with these developmental problems. Maybe she'll have a lifelong battle with this. My issue isn't that she has issues but that don't get her help(especially earlier), though there is always a low chance that might make her life worst. Probably still stronger than the average shoujo heroine.

Despite the year this was made, it's still pretty modern, pretty different. Definitely ahead of its time. One plus about the art is that the problems that shojou art tends to have, its idiosyncracies, are lessen here overall.

Basically this is an amusing manga that's different without being weird. It's humourous by any standard.

... Last updated on May 8th, 2011, 1:42am
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 Want me some banana bread...   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by NightSwan
April 24th, 2011, 8:04am
It's been a while since I wrote a comment or read this manga, but I felt like I should comment on this one.

First of all, I don't think you need to look for symbolism to enjoy this manga.
The center is the characters, not a whole coherent plot, or an achievable goal.
I think the mangaka likes writing about weird people. She incorporated them with the themes that are obviously important to her, like parenthood and sexual identity.
Not everything has to be clear in order to be enjoyed. Not everything or everyone has to be likeable.
Not everything turns out well.
I didn't especially like Ira, but she was an interesting, out of this world kookoo person.
And I do like weird, unconventional characters.

You also don't need to be especially knowledgeable of the psychological themes presented in order to enjoy this story, but why not educate yourself a little on the subject?
All you have to do is get the feel. The feel of a world that's falling a part, one that you're trying to hold on to or create a different reality to keep sane.


Then again, this is one of those hit or miss type things.
You like it or you don't.
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Rating: N/A
by zombiefetishlove
January 20th, 2011, 4:21pm
Yeah, the girl is really annoying and a terrible heroine, i don't mind the occasional crazy character but she was just really annoying. I wanted to slap her. She gives off the vibe that she isn't really 'different' but just trying to be weird for attention.

I didn't understand whatever metaphors or allusions were put in there as im not a psychologist. I guess if you overlook the stupid main character there is a lot of symbolism but the author didn't put it in very well...i mean, it's overly obvious that its supposed to symbolize something and it gets annoying fast. The 'symbolism' didn't even go with the storyline it was completely out of left field.

Storywise this didn't go anywhere and i wouldnt reccomend it unless you like stories with a lot of allusions or something. artwise this was really pretty but plotwise it sucked. The whole thing made no sense. None of the characters made any sense.

... Last updated on January 20th, 2011, 4:26pm
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 Worthy Attempt At Freudian Theories, But Too Vague   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by MightyMaeve
June 6th, 2010, 8:27am
I not even going to pretend I understood the metaphors and symbolisms and psychoanalysis of this tale, but I can sincerely say that I found several moments within the tale compelling, and several sentiments and behaviorism good sounding boards for further discussion. But none of the characters were ever developed enough for me to really "get into" their shoes.

I think it was a little too vague to be meaningful and powerful to me. The characters all seemed a little unapproachable and I didn't really care enough about any of them to want to really re-read the tale over and over to piece it together.

The art itself is fairly typical of the burgeoning new "serious" and "mature" subjects that were being address with shoujo in the 70s. If you like Freudian psychoanalysis and the art and delivery style of the 49-ers, I'd suggest giving this one a try. The sketchy, swirly lines of art are too "small" and "fuzzy" for my preference.

... Last updated on June 6th, 2010, 8:34am
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 Amazing   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by erotikill
April 7th, 2010, 5:43pm
Really character driven shoujo manga-- it doesn't help that the character (Ira) may be a little insane or autistic. None of this is made clear, if it's just a girl turning into a woman, refusing to leave the girl behind or if Ira is slightly unstable. Either way, is raises a good question of why Ira should have to leave the shoujoness behind, or why a mentally unstable girl cannot function relatively well in a safe environment.

To confuse things more, maybe it's Ooshima making a statement on marriage-- Ira's sister get's married, has a baby, and wonder's why she has never seen the wonderful things she guarantees are real. Ira get's "married" to hide and protect gay men, who are either abused or abusive. It just isn't an easy world or an easy manga.

Read it, you won't regret it. It's a type of magical manga I've rarely seen. Don't let all the serious talk fool you, there's some great comedy too.
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