Yakitate!! Japan

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Yakitate!! Japan

焼きたて!! ジャぱん (Freshly Baked!! Ja-Pan)
Genre	shōnen, cooking, comedy
Manga
Authored by	Takashi Hashiguchi
Publisher	Shougakukan Delcourt Elex Media Komputindo EMA Ivrea VIZ Media
Serialized in	Shōnen Sunday
Original run	2002 – 2007
No. of volumes	26 (complete)
TV anime
Directed by	Yasunao Aoki
Studio	Sunrise
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 12, 2004 – March 14, 2006
No. of episodes	69

Yakitate!! Japan (焼きたて!! ジャぱん, meaning "Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan"^?) is a manga, authored by Takashi Hashiguchi, serialised in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday, which has been adapted into a television anime series by Sunrise. The manga has spanned 25 tankōbon volumes, as of January, 2007, while the weekly serialization of the manga has recently 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 2004 Shogakukan Manga Prize (小学館漫画賞, Shogakukan Manga Prize^?) for best shōnen Manga. ^[1] The manga series was later licensed by VIZ Media for North American distribution.^[1].

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

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 bread-making 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 Japan has a double meaning. Besides referring to the country of Japan, "pan" is the Japanese word for "bread" (stemming from Portuguese "pão" ^[2]). 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.

Besides the desire to create his Ja-pan, Azuma also possesses the legendary 太陽の手, Solar Hands.(Known as Hands of the Sun in Viz's translation) These hands are warmer than normal human hand temperature, and allow the dough to ferment faster. This gives him some advantage at the beginning of the series, but his innovation and many Ja-pans are his greater talents.

Although the story has baking as its main theme, the parts that generate the most interest are the outrageous puns in the story. Especially notable are the "reaction" based puns made by the judges, who go to great lengths to prove a single point about the bread that they had tasted. The series in general also pokes fun at the shōnen genre's tendency to be melodramatic over mundane tasks.

[edit] Story Arcs

The story starts with Azuma's childhood when he learned how to create a bread that tastes better than rice in order to prove his grandfather wrong. Fast-forward over ten years...

[edit] The Pantasia Entrance Examination Arc

This is the initial arc where Azuma goes to the Pantasia Main Branch Store expecting to get a job only to discover that he has to compete for it in a series of exams. Azuma also starts at a disadvantage as he loses almost all of the ten points he needs to avoid being disqualified. It is in this arc that Azuma meets Kawachi, Kuroyanagi, Tsukino and Suwabara Kai. Shortly after the competition, Azuma and Kawachi get jobs at Pantasia's Southern Tokyo Branch store. A few stories take place there as they meet Ken Matsushiro and Azuma competes against a skilled but pampered baker named Mokoyama.

[edit] The Rookie Tournament Arc

This story arc features a fierce tournament between all of the bakers that were hired by Pantasia that year. When Azuma and Kawachi learn about it, Kawachi declares Azuma his rival and begins intense physical training to gain solar gauntlets, which are sort of artificial solar hands. This arc introduces Tsukino's sisters and reveals that there is a secret animosity between them. Several rivals return and new ones are introduced as Azuma and Kawachi enter the competition. The story climaxes in a bread battle between Harvard Graduate Kanmuri and Azuma.

[edit] The Monaco Cup Arc

Azuma, Kawachi and Suwabara travel to Monaco to take part in an international bread competition which will determine the fate of the Pantasia franchise. There they meet Pierrot, the clown judge, as well as the lion-headed King of Monaco who is holding the competition. However, Pantasia's rival bakery chain St. Pierre is bribing judges and pulling out all the stops to win, including trying to kill Team Japan (Azuma, Kawachi and Suwabara) on more than one occasion. There is also a subplot about Pierrot, who is an orphan looking for his true family.

[edit] The Yakitate!! 25 Arc

Owner of St. Pierre has challenged Pantasia to a final bread-making competition in the form of an Othello-like game for the fate of Pantasia. There the Pantasia gang meet new opponents CMAP (a spoof of popular J-pop band SMAP) and well as a rematch with an old rival. CMAP means Cooking Meal Assemble People. In the anime, the story arc is shortened to Yakitate!! 9, and the gang must win at least 5 out of 9 matches. There are ups and downs in the matches and the Southern Tokyo Branch face a number of matches, including CMAP's other members, Suwabara and Monica, Meister Kirisaki, and Yukino Azusagawa.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main Characters

Kazuma Azuma (東和馬, Azuma Kazuma^?) Voiced by:Yumiko Kobayashi Male protagonist, a bread artisan who dreams of making the perfect Japan. He doesn't seem very bright, but when it comes to bread he's a genius. (He is knowledgeable about rice because of his grandfather.) Azuma also has solar hands, exceptionally warm hands that allow the yeast to ferment faster and better when he is making his bread. Eternally optimistic and cheerful, he never gets upset from challenges faced in baking competitions, but rather from emotional tragedies. He gets his insipirations for his ja-pan from random sources, like other Japanese foods and stories from his experienced but overtalkative grandfather, a rice farmer. Unexpectedly great at math when he solved a complicated math problem in his head in less than a minute that took Pierrot hours to conceive that was written out in the sand.

Kyousuke Kawachi (河内恭介, Kawachi Kyōsuke^?) - Voiced by:Shūhei Sakaguchi (阪口周平) Coworker and sidekick to Azuma, from the Kansai area. Initially, Kawachi's knowledge is superior to Azuma's, but as the story develops he becomes the fall guy and comedic relief with jokes focused on his incessant cry of "What was that?!" (lit. "Nanyate?!") in every chapter. He considers Azuma to be his rival, but the two develop a dynamic that is more like an older and younger brother, Kawachi being more experienced than Azuma in the world beyond bread. With Tsukino's help, he has obtained "solar gauntlets", solar hands developed through physical training. He is somewhat lazy and perverted, but at desperate times he focuses his effort to create exceptional bread. On one such occasion, he fulfilled the dream of his late father, a diligent but untalented baker, who wanted to make a white bread that was healthy, delicious, and could be eaten everyday. Interesting note about Kawachi is his hair style. Quite possibly the anime character with THE MOST hair style changes throughout the entire series. (A total of 4)

Kai Suwabara (諏訪原戒, Suwabara Kai^?) Voiced by:Takayuki Sakazume (坂詰貴之, Sakazume Takayuki^?) - Kuroyanagi's understudy, a serious bread artisan. A master of the katana who claims to have left the swordsman path of destruction to follow the path of life-giving bread. Despite that, he often becomes very warrior-like and fearsome during baking competitions, which occasionally makes other characters wonder if he is truly focused on the 'life-giving' aspect of his bread. Like Kawachi, he has solar gauntlets and considers Azuma as a rival. On first appearances, he seems cold-hearted and tough, but in the Monaco Cup Final, he falls in love with a rival German baker working for the American team, Monica Adenauer, and shows a more tender side of himself. He has an unexplained fear of heights as shown in the parachuting into the Mexico arena.

Shigeru Kanmuri (冠茂, Kanmuri Shigeru^?) Voiced by:Marina Inoue - An extremely talented Pantasia baker, encountered first during the Pantasia Newcomers' Tournament and discovered to possess the solar hands as well. A Harvard graduate like Kuroyanagi, he looks up to him as a mentor, calling him 'Senpai'(which means Senior). He is considered as a "Harvard Junior Genius", having graduated the prestigious school at a very young age of sixteen. Originally working for Tsukino's evil sister Yukino Azusagawa, Kanmuri defected to the Pantasia's Southern Tokyo store to work with Azuma. He remained to keep the store throughout the Monaco Cup, but rejoined the team for the Yakitate!! 25/Yakitate!! 9 challenge. Recently revealed to be one out of the last two possible heirs to the Hashiguchi Company (the biggest gangster organization in Japan). Although he firmly states that he'd never join the Yakuza, problem sets as the other heir, Tsutsumi Masanobu, Shigeru's half-brother, shares the same sentiments. Tsutsumi is jealous at his half-brother for getting all the attention from their father, thus fueling his own determination to defeat the younger boy in a cooking/baking competition. This problem is promptly settled with a one-on-one battle in Yakitate!!25/Yakitate!! 9 (refer to Episode 62). He is probably named after a Shogakukan editor of the same name.

Tsukino Azusagawa (梓川月乃, Azusagawa Tsukino^?) - Voiced by:Chihiro Otsuka Granddaughter to the owner of the Pantasia chain, and understudy to Ken Matsushiro. Seems to have a crush on Azuma, though it is never explicitly stated. Has difficulty getting along with the rest of the Pantasia-involved Azusagawa family because she is an illegitimate child. She is still very dedicated to the Pantasia chain, seeking out talented new bakers (like Azuma and Kawachi) and has garnered the support of many other characters. While she stay behind the scene for most of the time, she is implied to be talented, as she managed to make it to the third place of a past newcomer's battle (where she only won a backpack)

Ken Matsushiro (松代健, Matsushiro Ken^?) Voiced by:Hiroki Touchi - Manager of Pantasia Southern Tokyo branch. A burly man with an afro and sunglasses. Renowned as the best French-bread artisan in Japan, he seems to have a predeliction with horses and betting on horse-racing. He is Kuroyanagi's former teacher, but early on recognised his outstanding talent as a food critic, and from that point on discouraged his baking, ultimately driving him away. He also likes to tease Kawachi, to whom he was apparently very similar in his youth, occasionally to give him ideas on bread, but mostly just for the hell of it. He also can make Kawachi hallucinate at times.

[edit] Bread Judges

Ryo Kuroyanagi (黒柳亮, Kuroyanagi Ryō^?) Voiced by:Takehito Koyasu - The head at the main Pantasia branch, and a Harvard graduate with a Food Science diploma (There he had a girlfriend named Cathy but they got separated when he needs to go back to Japan). His passion and talent is food tasting, at which he excels. His strait-laced no-nonsense attitude belies his very silly quirk of making strange pun-based reactions to the delicious bread he's eating (He once married an extremely ugly woman just for the sake of a pun. He then got a divorce five minutes later.) He used to be the student of Ken, but Ken drove Ryo away with his behaviour. He is given the opportunity by Yuuichi Kirisaki to fully utilize his skills as a judge for the Yakitate!! 25 competition (Yakitate!! 9 in the anime).

Pierrot Bolnez/Leonhart XV (ピエロ・ボルネーゼ, Piero Borunēze^?) Voiced by:Tomokazu Seki - A world class clown working as a bread judge, aged 22. Can speak 135 languages, divide into over a hundred copies of himself, and do all sorts of amazing things due to being 'world-class' clown. Heir to the throne of Monaco, though he doesn't know it at first until the second Monaco Cup competition. Pierrot learns that he is heir to Monaco only through blood loss, he has an ultra-rare blood type called Bombay blood, which the king of Monaco also has. He became a world class clown so that his parents might find him, who he believed had abandoned him at the circus as an infant. In fact, he was given up to be brought up by ordinary foster parents away from the Royal palace, according to Monaco tradition. But these parents ran away with the money paid to them, leaving Pierrot behind. When they committed suicide, he was pronounced dead, but actually ended up in the Quedam ^[3] circus.

His real mother had died at his birth. The King of Monaco (discovering he shared the same rare blood type with Pierrot) sacrificed himself to donate blood, after one of Pierrot's reactions (Kawachi's Final Victory) turns into 'murder' and he reveals his true background. He is later nicknamed 'Miracle Prince' and both teams decided to make a bread that let him see his parents once again. Azuma's Japan #61 allows him to change history, save his mother and father, and alter his entire life for the better, it seems. Pierrot is the predominant character of the Monaco Cup Arc, who gives the series a fresh aspect, away from just bread-making.

Fatty (Dēbu) Hachiguchi (デーブ橋口, Dēbu Hachiguchi^?) - An exceedingly fat bread judge. The character was a self reference by the author of Takashi Hashiguchi. He used to be a successful manga artist, but he became too successful and gorged himself on only fine foods. That resulted in his excess fat and now he only says, "Busy, busy."

[edit] Antagonists

Yūichi Kirisaki (霧崎雄一, Kirisaki Yūichi^?) Voiced by:Fumihiko Tachiki - Azuma's main antagonist, the owner of St. Pierre, and ironically, the same 'kind old man' who encouraged Azuma and started his baking career in the very first chapter/episode. He is in league with Yukino, who, in her struggle to dominate her sisters for control of Pantasia, betrays the store and allows Kirisaki to buy it out. The reason for Pantasia's involvement in the Monaco Cup is so that Kanmuri can organize the ten billion yen required to protect the company, but in the end, the plot fails. Kirisaki allows the team a final chance in the Yakitate!! 25 (manga) /Yakitate!! 9 (anime) competition to win back Pantasia, but his ulterior motives for this are not yet clear. Yuuichi's brilliant and estranged son Meister Silvan Kirisaki is the general manager of Pantasia, and his daughter Sophie Balzac Kirisaki assists Azuma's team during the Monaco Cup. When he eats Kazuma's bread in the final round of Yakitate!! 9, he experiences a change of heart and explains to Pierrot why he has been so cruel to Kazuma, but when the effect of Kazuma's bread wears off, his original attitude returns and he continues to challenge Azuma. However, the nature of his evil is left ambiguous, since it is implied that he only acts evil in order to push Azuma to improve his skills.

Yukino Azusagawa (梓川雪乃, Azusagawa Yukino^?) Voiced by:Atsuko Yuya (湯屋敦子) - The eldest daughter of Pantasia. Yukino can be quite cruel, such as by placing Tsukino's mother's remains under a tree instead of her proper grave. She had intended to buy up her grandfather's stock but ended up being the president of St. Pierre in a twist. She has a grudge against Pantasia and ended up trying to exhaust Pantasia's 12 billion yen. She seems to have a sexual relationship with Yūichi Kirisaki. This character is another one of Azuma's antagonists and possesses the opposite of Solar hands: Snow Storm Hands

[edit] Rival Bakers

Tsuyoshi Mokoyama (模糊山剛, Mokoyama Tsuyoshi^?) - A contemporary of Ken Matsushiro and a master of sweet breads. He had trained with Ken to receive "solar gauntlets," but after his promotions in St. Pierre, he became lazy and started slacking off. He worked at the St. Pierre main branch in South Tokyo--a store opposite the one managed by Ken and Tsukino. After drawing against Azuma in a nationally televised bread battle, Mokoyama was forced to leave St. Pierre and befriended Mizuno Azusagawa. He joined the Pantasia Newcomer's Battle wearing a Koala mask where he tied Azuma once again. Later, in the Yakitate!! 9/25 arc, this time wearing a "Panda" mask, he lost to Azuma. Further, Azuma's bamboo flavored bread had the effect of transforming him into a real panda. Mokoyama was portrayed as a very effeminate man who was always worried about his complexion and appearance and at St. Pierre he had a harem of male bakers cater to his needs. His specialty is knitting, and he seems to be in love with the manager of Pantasia's southern Tokyo branch. He calls him "Ken-chan" and in a picture Manager had drawn up, Mokoyama was shown peacefully knitting cloth that said "Ken (heart) Moko)."

Mizuno Azusagawa (梓川水乃, Azusagawa Mizuno^?) - Tsukino's little sister. Since Tsukino is a "love child", Mizuno has the support of her father. They have a bit of a rivalry over Azuma, whether for his baking skills or his heart. She is quite competitive, and not very honorable. Once, Azuma told her that if he won against her in the newcomer's competition, then she had to call Tsukino onee-san, as a younger sister should. In exchange, if he lost, he would have to work at her store. Mizuno lost, but at first refused to call Tsukino onee-san. She later consented to it, but also came up with another gamble: if Azuma lost against "Koala-chan," or Mokoyama, then Tsukino would have to give up her rights to owning Pantasia, complete with contract. Azuma and Mokoyama tied, but Mokoyama gave up, making Azuma the winner. As of what happened to the ownership of Pantasia, Mizuno is still going for it. In Yakitate!! 25, she wasn't participate to help Mokoyama, but he resist her appearance for help Yukino, as she just wanted to watch his koala-chan battle against Azuma. And in the end, she went back to join Pantasia with Panda Mokoyama and left Azuma.

[edit] CMAP

CMAP is an English acronym for "Cooking Meal Assemble People". It's also a spoof of the Japanese band, SMAP. CMAP is a group of four celebrity chefs and entertainers.

Takumi Tsubozuka (坪塚拓美, Tsubozuka Takumi^?) voiced by Kenji Nojima- Takumi is the most popular of the CMAP group. He has red hair with an emo haircut and a somewhat sleepy looking eyes. Takumi is admired by lots of people, especially girls. He takes cooking as serious business. Because he has often played foreign roles, he's gotten used to speaking English and Japanese at the same time.
Hiroshi Kaname (要博士, Kaname Hiroshi^?) voiced by Makoto Ishii (井真, Ishii Matoko^?) Hiroshi is the CMAP member with the glasses. He is mainly known to be the trio's main brains, in a sort of way. He also seems to not be too bright, as he had acknowledged Kawachi as the "commander" of Azuma's gang since he was standing out of the match.
Shizuto Narumi (成海静人, Narumi Shizuto^?) voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa Shizuto is the long haired member of CMAP with a habit of saying "I kinda want you to die!" to his opponents.
Gō Chimatsuri (千祭剛, Chimatsuri Gō^?) voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi. Gō is the white haired CMAP member. He possesses the flame arm (Honō no Ute), which surpass the Solar Hands.

[edit] Other Characters

Meister Kirisaki (マイスター霧崎, Meister Kirisaki^?) - Bread judge and Pantasia Main Branch Manager. Real name is Sylvan (シルヴァン). Half-French, son of Yuichi Kirisaki. He seems to have some fan girls, who follow him whenever they could.

Sophie Balzac Kirisaki - Meister's younger sister. She remained in France as a baker. She is the female version of Meister, with the same blonde hair and blue eyes. Voiced by Nana Mizuki.

Sadanao Azusagawa (梓川貞尚, Azusagawa Sadanao^?) - Pantasia's Owner

Spencer Henry Hokō (スペンサー・ヘンリー・ホコー, Nickname: "Sachihoko"^?) - Italian-American newcomer who worked at the Nagoya branch of Pantasia.

Heidi - Heidi is Debu's assistant. Since he can't move on his own, she's the one doing the work for him.

Brad Kidd - A supporting character who was Kuroyanagi's classmate in college. The character is a parody of the do-it-all American. Kidd is used in many instances in the manga and anime as a sort of deus ex machina in reactions or flashbacks from a masseuse to an attorney or the head of a private investigation firm. Sometimes, Brad Kidd is mistaken for Brad Pitt whose appearance is also quite similar to his. However, in the anime, the character is only referred to as Kid, and in one episode was wearing a nametag labelled 'KID' In the tagalog dub he is called "Totoy". Voiced by: Kenyu Horiuchi.

Kageto Kinoshita (木下陰人, Kinoshita Kageto^?) Voiced by:Setsuji Satō 佐藤せつじ - A mushroom like head, he works at Pantasia Southern Tokyo branch. Though all the characters talk about making new kinds of bread, Kinoshita is usually the one who ends up doing all of the work at the store, while everyone else is involved with bread making competitions. At first glance he doesn't stack up to bread makers like Kawachi and Azuma, but Kageto seems to have the strange ability to work so fast it looks like there are several of him at once as well as actually making clones of himself. This is because he was raised up in a family that works in a circus. He can also copy anothers bread making skills 95% as good as the original.

[edit] List of Ja-pan

Ja-pan #1: Soy-milk toast Ja-pan
Ja-pan #2: Suihanja-pan (a Suihanja is any automatic rice-cooker)
Ja-pan #3: Microwave Sesame bread
Ja-pan #8: Colored, candied, slow-baked Turtle Ja-pan
Ja-pan #9: Taiyaki bread
Ja-pan #10: Soaked Millet Ja-pan (Low-carb Diet Ja-pan)
Ja-pan #15: Autodigested Japanese barnyard millet
Ja-pan #15 (variant): Autodigested Nanshõkasei wheat flour (a bread targeting high school girls)
Ja-pan #16: Mt.Fuji Curry Ja-pan (actually Indian "Naan")
Ja-pan #21: Budding Wheat Flour Castella Ja-pan (Castella is a type of sponge cake popular in Japan)
Ja-pan #22: Kamaboko Ja-pan
Ja-pan #24: (presumed to be Hanako-milk (goat's milk) Butter Ja-pan)
Ja-pan #24 (variant): Hanako-milk (goat's milk) Butter French-Ja-pan
Ja-pan #32: Wasabi Table Ja-pan
Ja-pan #43: 324-Layer Croissant Ja-pan
Ja-pan #44: Heavenly Petalite Ja-pan
Ja-pan #51: Garlic Sports bread
Ja-pan #51 Kai (variant): Eel, Nori, Silk and Black-soybeans Sports bread for Racecar Drivers
Ja-pan #55: "Anpan" (Adzuki bean paste filled bread)
Ja-pan #56: Black Ja-pan (abandoned due to ruined dough in the Pantasia Entrance Examination Arc; only shown in episode 29 of the anime series; originally a bread with rice bran, but replaced with a special ash from bamboo charcoal in episode 29 courtesy of Kyousuke, resulting in this product)
Ja-pan #57: Kabukiage Leftover Ja-pan
Ja-pan #58: Sushi-style Melon Ja-pan
Ja-pan #59: Okonomiyaki-sandwich with Yakisoba filling
Ja-pan #60: "Sticky and Stretchy" Vital Gluten Ja-pan
Ja-pan #61: Cannabis Bread Donut

After the Monaco Cup Arc, Azuma ceases to attach numbers to his Ja-pan. The breads he makes in the Yakitate 9 Arc are tied to various areas of Japan, and are named accordingly.

Ōma Ja-pan: Urchin-roe Chawanmushi bread
Saito Ja-pan: Mango Waffle Haniwa (Haniwaffle)
Ōmagari Ja-pan: Bent-leek "Double Fondue" Blanchir (not Fondue)
Uppurui Ja-pan: Remixed Nori Spring Roll Bread
Gero Ja-pan: Triple Bamboo Leaf Buns
Nou (Niigata) Ja-pan: Ultimate Nou-Miso Japan
Tomiura Ja-pan: Preserved Loquat Tart
Ja-pan Man: Ōkuchi Wafuu (Japanese-style) Ja-panMan: Tenobe Man ("Man" is "dumpling" in Japanese, and refers to typical steamed Chinese dumplings. Tenobe is a type of noodle created by manually stretching the dough multiple times, and also refers to the process of making the noodles. Only shown in episode 56 of the anime series, and being one-of-a-kind, there is no numerical attachment)

[edit] Other Breads of Note

(ordered by baker, then appearance)

[edit] Azuma's Non-Ja-pan

Super Vapor Action Margarine Roll

[edit] Kawachi's Bread

Baked Hua-Chuan
Oat-based French Bread
Osaka-style "O-sake" Table Bread
"Super Sunrise Crush" Melonpan (made with Pie dough instead of cookie dough)
Yakisoba-dog (Yakisoba ground into the shape of a hotdog, then placed in a bun)
Moving crab bread
Singing French Bread "Double-crust"
Ultimate White Bread "Victory" (with Croissant-layered crust, abnormally wide shape, and antioxidant-high sobayu)

[edit] Suwabara's Bread

Ultimate 648 layer Super Vapor Action Croissant
"Dancing" super-long French Bread
Lu-pan #5: "Mixed Juice with Almonds and Nuts, Giving it a Crisp Consistency, Spicy Bread" (Pain d'épices)
Lu-pan #6: Red Turtle Sports bread (with Snapper Turtle blood and red wine)
Lu-pan #1: Golden D'loro Crown with Shining Fruit-jewels
Ōmagari "Spiral" Lu-Pan: Bent-leek "Tourner" Blanchir

[edit] Other Bakers

[Tsuyoshi Mokoyama] Kouign Pudding Amann, a super-sweet "butter cake" with low-sugar pudding inside
[Mizuno Azusagawa] Suuuuuuper-sweet Melonpan
[Spencer Henry Hokou "Shachihoko"] Nagoya-style "Kouchinmi" Yakisobapan
["Koala" (Mokoyama)] Woven Dragon Bread with Orange Marmalade Coating and Chocolate Chips
[Shigeru Kanmuri] Pain au algue with Kaiyou yeast
[Shigeru Kanmuri] Pain au rustique with Kaiyou yeast RAS (Resilience Against Salt)
[Edward Kayser] Kouglof au Miel
[American Team] "Balloon Bread" made with a Dragon Hook mixer
[French Team] "Irish Soda Bread" made with yeast instead of baking powder.
[Gran Kayser] "Blue Lagoon" Sports bread with Blueberry Yogurt, Amacha Hydrangea, and "Kan Kyuu Mo" Pearl powder
[Shadow White/Yuuichi Kirisaki] Go-pan #97: Paella bread with rice-flour, seafood, and nutrient extracts
[Monica Adenauer] "Mother's" Rye Bread, with candy rose and 5 different rye flours
[Shachihoko] "Alexandria" Egyptian Bread, with Kodaimai Miso flavoring
[Shadow White/Yuuichi Kirisaki] Go-pan #???: Ultimate "Milky Way" Bagel
[Yuuichi Kirisaki] Go-pan #104: The "Anime Rewriter" (only shown in anime episode #53)
[Takumi Tsubodzuka] Ōma bread: Super Toro Aburi (Toro is fatty tuna sushi, Aburi is "broiled") on the Beehive Pastry
[CMAP w/o Tsubodzuka] Saito bread: CMAP special Mango Curry Bread
["Panda" (Mokoyama)] Triple Alpine Buns
[Meister Kirisaki] Omanta Go-pan
[Yukino Azusagawa] Strawberry Tart (using Inverted Fold)

[edit] Music

Opening

Houki Gumo (『ホウキ雲』) by Rythem (1-29)
Promise by TiA (30-53)
Chiisana Uta (『小さな詩』) by MARIA (54-68)

Ending

Sunday by The Babystars (1-12)
To All Tha Dreamers by SOUL'd OUT (13-29)
Hummingbird (ハミングバード) by little by little (30-42)
Re: START by SURFACE (43-53)
Merry Go Round by Mai Hoshimura (54-62)
Kokoro Biidama (『ココロビーダマ』) by Rythem (63-68)
Houki Gumo (『ホウキ雲』) by Rythem (69)

[edit] Episode List

[edit] Pantasia Newcomers Battle

No.	Title Translation	Original Title
1.	Arrival! The Boy with Solar Hands!	来たぞッ! 太陽の手を持つ少年!
2.	Maharajah! The Day Mount Fuji Fell!	マハラジャッ! 富士山が降ってきた日!
3.	Burnt Black! Is This The Final Kurowa-San!?	黒コゲ! これが究極の黒輪さん!?
4.	Hiihin! Make A Delicious Bread!	ヒヒーン! 馬味（うま）いパンを作れ!
5.	Delicious! A Decisively Ultimate Butter!	美（う）メェ～ッ! 決め手は究極のバター!
6.	It's The Main Store! Dancing Meister!	本店だ! 踊るマイスター!
7.	Hattori Surprise! Transformation With The Secret Sauce!	びっくり服部! 秘密のタレで変身じゃ!
8.	Kawachi Kai! Solar Gauntlets!	河内(改)! 太陽のガントレット!
9.	I Won't Lose! I Challenge You With My Osaka-Pan!	負けへん! 大阪パンで勝負や!
10.	Each One's Opening Curtain! Pantasia Newcomers Battle Begins!	それぞれの開幕! パンタジア新人戦開始!
11.	Garbage And Trash! Kazuma Selected The Worst Possible Butter!	クズカスッ! 和馬が選んだ最低バター!
12.	Kazuma Disqualified!? Resurrection From The Brink Of Death By Ultra C!	和馬失格!? 起死回生のウルトラC!
13.	Sorry For The Wait! Falling down drunk Melon Bread!	ヘイお待ちィ! メロンパンでメロンメロン!
14.	Delicious! The Trap Of The Yakisoba Bread!	美麺（うめーん）～ッ! 焼きそばパンの落とし穴!
15.	The Best Possible Team! We're Going To Win With Onono Komachi-San!	最強チーム! 小野小町さんで勝つんじゃ!
16.	The Green Marvel! It's The Magician Kazuma!	ミドリの奇跡! 魔法使い和馬ッ!
17.	Decisive Battle! Koala's Dragon Vs. Kazuma's Turtle!	大決戦! コアラの竜VS和馬のカメ!
18.	With A Little Prayer! An Oath On The Grave!	祈りをこめて! 墓前の誓い!
19.	Nightmarish Semifinals! Yukino's Despicable Trap!	悪夢の準決勝! 雪乃の卑劣な罠!
20.	Indomitable Fighting Spirit! Use Adversity As A Springboard To Success!	不屈の闘志! 逆境をバネに立ち上がれ!
21.	Experimental, Historical, Supreme Bread! It's Ja-Pan #44!	試作史上最強のパン! ジャぱん44号じゃッ!
22.	Just Before The Finals! The Black Shadow That Approaches Kazuma!	決勝戦直前! 和馬に迫る黒い影
23.	Sticky Showdown! Azuma Kazuma vs. Kanmuri Shigeru!	モチモチ対決! 東和馬VS冠茂!
24.	Meister Flying In The Air! Who Will Be The Winner?!	空飛ぶマイスター! 勝つのはどっち!?
25.	What Was That?! Kawachi, A Man's Hard Training!	なんやてっ! 河内、漢の猛特訓!
26.	Last Match Of The Newcomer's Battle! Singing And Dancing French Breads!	新人戦最終試合! 歌って踊るフランスパン!

[edit] Monaco Cup Arc

No.	Title Translation	Original Title
27.	Let's All Make Bread Together! It's Ja-Pan #2!	レッツみんなでパン作り! ジャぱん2号じゃッ!
28.	The Ten Billion Yen Man!? Pantasia's Life Or Death Crisis!	百億の男!? パンタジア存亡の危機!
29.	Close Attack! The Birth Of The Black Ja-Pan!	迫撃! ブラックジャぱん誕生!
30.	And Now, It's France! Aim For The Monaco Cup!	いざフランス! 目指せモナコカップ!
31.	The Critical Touch-And-Go Situation! The Prohibited Rodin Strategy!	一触即発! 禁断のロダン作戦!
32.	This Is The World Level! The Roulette That Brings Forth A Storm!	これぞ世界レベル! 嵐を呼ぶルーレット!
33.	Snacks At 3 P.M.! It's Ja-Pan #21!	3時のおやつ! ジャぱん21号じゃッ!
34.	Lupan #3! Pain D'epice, Kai-Style	ルパン3号! パン・デ・エピス戒(改)!
35.	The World Pays Attention! The Monaco Cup Finals Begin!	世界が注目! モナコカップ本選スタート!
36.	A Speed Contest! Ping It With That!	スピード勝負! アレでチンしてッ!
37.	Survival! Bakers On An Uninhabited Island!	サバイバル! 無人島のパン職人!
38.	And Now You Must Swim! Tai-Yaki-Kun Of The Southern Island!	いざ泳げ! 南の島のタイ焼きくん!
39.	A Dive Into Hell! A New Scheme!	地獄へのダイブ! 新たなる謀略!
40.	Pierrot's Miscalculation! The Last Supper, How Does It Taste?	ピエロの大誤算! 最後の晩餐、お味はいかが?
41.	The King's Question! Who Must Taste Delicious Bread First?	王様の質問! 美味しそうなパンを最初に食べさせるのは?
42.	Mysterious Brothers! Kayzer's Natural Shape!	奇々怪々! カイザーの正体!
43.	Fully Nutritional! Sports Pan Confrontation!	栄養たっぷり! スポーツパン対決!
44.	The Threat Of The Speed Of Sound! Gopan #97!	音速の脅威! ゴぱん97号!
45.	Nude, Nude, Nude (Ra, Ra, Ra!)! Magnificent Bread Battle!	裸・裸・裸! 華麗なるパン勝負!
46.	Pierrot Arrested?! Bounds Between Love And Bread!	ピエロ護送!? 愛がぎっしり詰まったパン!
47.	Victory! Revolutionizing The Bread Industry!	ヴィクトリー! パン業界に革命を!
48.	Great Detective Pierrot! A Reaction You Can Lay Your Life On!	名探偵ピエロ! 命をかけたリアクション!
49.	Reunion at the VIP Seat! Heaven Again!	VIP席で再開! ヘブン・アゲイン!
50.	I'll Show You The Universe! The Man Who Will Inherit Gopan!	宇宙を魅せる! ゴぱんを継ぐ男!
51.	All The Ultimate Ingredients Collected! The Greatest Finals In All Of History!	集められた究極の食材! 史上最大の決勝戦!
52.	Time travelling Pierrot! To the ends of the Universe Ja-pan?!	時を越えるピエロ! ジャぱん世界の頂点へ!?

[edit] Yakitate! 9 Arc

No.	Title Translation	Original Title
53.	Kirisaki's Challenge!! Start of the New Program "Yakitate! 9"!	霧崎からの挑戦状!! 新番組『焼きたて!9』スタート!
54.	The Bread Battle in Special Localities!! In The End, He's a Pop Idol!	ご当地パン対決!! なんてったってアイドル!
55.	Awaken!! Super Kuroyanagi!	目覚めよ!! スーパー黒柳!
56.	Kuroyanagi in Danger!! The Lost Reactions!	危うし黒柳!! 失われたリアクション!
57.	Ooo, Mango!! CMAP's Big Counterattack!	ウー、マンゴー!! CMAPの大逆襲!
58.	Love Will Rescue Saito As Well!! Solar Hands vs The Flame Arm!	愛は西都も救う!! 太陽の手VS炎の腕!
59.	Nin Nin Nin!! My Way of Ninja!	ニンニンニン!! オレの忍道だってばよ!
60.	I Hate All Things Twisted!! Kai and Monica's Two-Person Tripod!	曲がったことが大キライ!! 戒とモニカの二人三脚!
61.	Kanmuri's Secret!! A Jam Showdown Without Moral Codes!	冠の秘密!! 仁義なきジャム対決!
62.	The Sibling Showdown!! The First-Class Man Chosen By Dad!	兄弟決戦!! 父が選んだ一流の男!
63.	The Seaweed Bread Showdown!! A Really Famous Person Is Going To Appear, You Know!	海苔パン対決!! 超有名人が出るんですよ!
64.	A Traditional Taste!! The Heart That Thinks of Japan Is Just One!	伝統の味!! 日本を思うココロはひとつ!
65.	The Fearful Revenge!! The Panda Man Appears!	恐怖のリベンジ!! パンダ男、現る!
66.	The Miraculous Steamed Bread!! The Day Panda Became a Panda!	奇跡の蒸しパン!! パンダがパンダになった日!
67.	The Sun VS. The Blizzard!! The Ultimate Tart Showdown!	太陽VS吹雪!! 究極のタルト対決!
68.	This is the path I must take!? The Road of the Loquat!	これが私の進む道!? ロード・オブ・ザ・ビワ!
69.	Who is it that you will give truly delicious bread to!? The Japan, forever!	本当に美味いパンを食べさせるのは!? ジャぱんよ、永遠に!

[edit] Trivia

While the characters might create the most extreme breads, most of them are actually real, or are at least based on real bread. Hashiguchi employs a bakery consultant, Kouichi Uchimura (内村浩一 Uchimura Kōichi). Uchimura creates bread similar to the bread in the manga, and some of the bread in the manga are actually his invention. Uchimura runs a bakery called Pan no Mimi in Kyoto. ^[2]

In Episode 25, during Kawachi's afro training, there's a parody of the famous novel, dorama and movie Sekachu, where Kawachi has a reaction and appears on top of a bread whose crust looks a bit like the Ayers Rock (this reasoning is backed up by the fact that there are kangaroos on the crust), shouting "afro no chushin De ai wo sakebi" ("Crying out afro in the center of the world)

Episode 29 includes a Gundam parody, featuring the Black Tri-Stars and their traditional Dom mobile suits, as well as the Nobel Gundam from G-Gundam, piloted by Yukino, who appears to be wearing the uniform of Sayla Mass.

Episode 44 contains an Initial D parody

In episode 47, there is a parody of Detective Conan where Pierrot disguises himself as Conan for his reaction.

In episode 51, there is a parody of Galaxy Express 999 when Pierrot goes to outer space for his reaction.

In episode 55, there is a parody of Dragonball Z where Kuroyanagi becomes Super Kuroyanagi (super saiyan) as a reaction from trying Takumi Tsubozuka's Super Toro Aburi bread. He then later turns into Super Kuroyanagi two and Super Kuroyanagi three after trying Azuma's Urchin-roe Chawanmushi bread.

In episode 56, there is a parody of One Piece where Kuroyanagi turns into a "Tenobi Man" as a reaction from trying Azuma's Japanese-Style Ja-pan dumpling. To this effect, he dons a straw hat and starts stretching his arms like rubber to unbelievable lengths a la Monkey D. Luffy.