Hashiguchi Takashi - Yakitatte Japan, vol. 01 (Eng. trans.)
Sun, Dec. 31st, 2006 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterThis is so, so, so on crack. It's a take off the standard sports manga, in which our hero discovers that he is very talented at [sport] and intends to take things to the top, but encounters many adversaries and must work very hard along the way.
Except it's about baking bread.
Yes! It is awesome! Also, it's apparently very punny in the Japanese. The hero keeps wanting to make Ja-pan, the national bread of Japan ("pan" means "bread" in Japanese). He makes bread that looks like Mt. Fuji. He makes bread that tastes good with rice and other Japanese food. He makes naan, which inspires a great bit in which someone keeps asking what it is ("Nan da?") and he keeps misunderstanding why they don't get it ("Naan da!" means "It's naan").
The humor is a little juvenille and the art isn't great, and I suspect a lot of the puns didn't get translated across. But it's an interesting take on the sports manga genre, and it's about baking!
Except it's about baking bread.
Yes! It is awesome! Also, it's apparently very punny in the Japanese. The hero keeps wanting to make Ja-pan, the national bread of Japan ("pan" means "bread" in Japanese). He makes bread that looks like Mt. Fuji. He makes bread that tastes good with rice and other Japanese food. He makes naan, which inspires a great bit in which someone keeps asking what it is ("Nan da?") and he keeps misunderstanding why they don't get it ("Naan da!" means "It's naan").
The humor is a little juvenille and the art isn't great, and I suspect a lot of the puns didn't get translated across. But it's an interesting take on the sports manga genre, and it's about baking!
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