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prime_pm
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Yakitate was one of my favorite manga for a long while. Learning about different breads and such, and so many good laughs. I don't know when and how it got SO BAD. By the time it was over, it was a completely different manga. It's like the author wrote himself into a corner long before it was over and just dragged itself out. Couldn't even come up with a decent ending; it ended with short character summaries and a stupid Street Fighter joke! Lame.
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michizure
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Piacevole is a recent "short attention span theater" entry in the genre (each episode is only a few minutes long).
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FireballDragon
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Would you believe me if I said that one of my brothers became a baker because of Yakitate!! Japan? It's true, he did.
I was the one who introduced it to him (The trick behind the 324-layer croissant was what sold me on the show; it was just so ingenious), but then he quickly became an even bigger fan of it than me, going so far as to take baking classes in college because of YJ. Has anyone else ever been through something like that/know someone who has? |
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jymmy
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While this is true, it totally ignores the fact that Kirakira is actually a cooking show, a pretty misleading omission. It would be like saying Mahou Tsukai involves a "witch" theme with the Precure forms without mentioning that there is an entire magic world and magic school in the show and that Liko is actually a broomstick-flying, spell-chanting witch. The Kirakira Cures incorporate sweets in their Cure names (Cure Whip, Cure Custard, Cure Gelato, Cure Macaron, Cure Chocolat and Cure Parfait) but, most importantly, they also spend most episodes' runtime baking sweets and running a pâtisserie together. The villains' aims mostly revolve around stealing the "kirakiraru" from sweets as a source of energy. They generally make a particular sweet in each episode and there's a post-credit sequence showing you how it's made in real life, with full recipes available on the website. Bringing it up in an article about cooking anime in such a way that sounds as though it's not one seems bizarre to me. |
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Banken
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Omitting Oishinbo from a list of cooking anime is absolutely unforgivable.
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Princess_Irene
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@jymmy
I had much more on PreCure originally that I had to cut, and then a bit more got trimmed in editing. Honestly, I'm particularly interested in comparing this particular PreCure to Tokyo Mew Mew and Yumeiro Patissiere, but that's a whole different article that was threatening to take over this one.   (I also haven't given up my dreams of a real release of the franchise in English, which may or may not be foolish at this point...)
@Banken I own that mistake. |
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Takkun4343
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Not personally, but I read online that this one dude went into law enforcement because of Death Note, which he got into thanks to hearing a certain Maximum the Hormone song in an episode of DBZ Abridged. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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As a foodie I have enjoyed the rise in food related shows. I've always been enamored with cooking and trying new things. Whether it be a new type of dish or a dish from a different country/region. So I always check out food related shows. I think so far Ristorante Paradiso remains my favorite but I need to get back into Food Wars. The over the top foodgasms do get a bit tiring for me personally so I stopped watching at first. Fortunately mgf loves to cook and loves food as well so I can always buy series for her as gifts (Ristorante Paradiso, Antique Bakery, & Yakitate)and enjoy them too. While not cooking per se I would still put Bartender in the genre as it is another aspect of the overall dining experience. Definitely a Healing type food show as well.
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Wanders11
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Very surprised to see no mention of Gin no Saji (Silver Spoon). Philosophical questions about naming animals you will slaughter for food bring this above shows where discussions centered around the amount of crispy that should surround runny.
This pretty well left farmers out of the story of food. Hmmmm. Last edited by Wanders11 on Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:10 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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lebrel
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On the other hand, Sweetness and Lightning, although technically seinen, is that brand of seinen that is quite interested in pulling in a female audience, which has always been more interested in stories about men being domestic. There are many explicitly female-oriented manga which make a point of scenes of single fathers (or male characters acting in loco parentis in general) cooking, even if they're not specifically food manga. And of course there are many female-oriented manga that use food to explicitly consider gender, such as Mixed Vegetables and Otomen. |
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chaccide
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I really liked Cooking Master Boy when I saw it a long time ago. Unfortunately it was never fully subbed so I didn't get to watch the last 10 episodes of so. But what went before that taught me a bit about Chinese food. Is there any way to get a legal copy of this with subs or at least one that's slightly grey because it comes from Singapore or something?
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Banken
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It should probably be mentioned that Oishinbo and Cooking Papa are still running, with 130+ volumes, to the best of my knowledge.
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jymmy
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Princess_Irene: Thanks for the response; it helps clarify a lack of detail that stood out to me upon reading.
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Princess_Irene
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You're welcome, jymmy. It was one of the hardest parts of writing the article.
That goes for my decision not to include either Bartender or Silver Spoon, both of which were on the shortlist and ultimately cut for space. An article including foodie manga would have to be multiple parts - Oishinbo and Cooking Papa could really have their own essays. |
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CrownKlown
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It got a little crazy towards the end, but YJ is easily my favorite cooking manga/anime and one of my favorite period.
While not about cooking but eating, maybe Toriko deserved a mentioned though im not a big fan. |
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