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Iron Wok Jan! Anime Reveals More Cast, July 5 Debut in Main Promo Video
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the television anime of Shinji Saijyo's cooking manga Iron Wok Jan! (Tetsunabe no Jan!) unveiled the anime's main promotional video, more cast, July 5 debut, and opening theme song artist on Friday.
The seven-member dance vocal group "Genin wa Jibun ni Aru." is performing the opening theme song "Hien" (Fire Banquet).
The new cast includes:
- Masuo Amada as Nichido Otani
- M.A.O as Celene Yang
- Takahiro Sakurai as Kei Sawada
- Taishi Murata as Tomohide Jun
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Yuji Kawahara
The anime will debut on July 5 and will air on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. JST on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.
The anime will star:
- Kikunosuke Toya as Jan Akiyama
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Kiriko Gobanchō
- Kōhei Amasaki as Takao Okonogi
- Kenjirō Tsuda as narrator
Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero, Girls Bravo, Wandering Son) is directing the anime at TROYCA. Makoto Uezu (Akame ga KILL!, Assassination Classroom, Scum's Wish, KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!!) is in charge of the series scripts. Masako Matsumoto (Aldnoah.Zero, Overtake!) is designing the characters and also serving as the chief animation director. Tomoki Kikuya (Bocchi the Rock!, Oblivion Battery) is composing the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Cuisine Animation Directors: Atsushi Okuda, Chihiro Hanamura
- Action Animator: Ryūichi Makino
- Art Director: Ken Naitō
- Color Key Artist: Mariko Shinohara
- Compositing Director of Photography: Ryosuke Tsuda
- CG Director: Mitsutaka Iguchi
- Editing: Shota Migiyama
- Cuisine Supervision and Coordinator: Takako Satō
- Cooking Science Supervision: Naoya Higuchi
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Sound Effects: Masami Baba
The original Iron Wok Jan! manga centers on a brilliant young chef named Jan Akiyama, who works at a top class restaurant where he is constantly challenging Kiriko Gobanchō, the granddaughter of the restaurant's owner and a great chef in her own right. While Kiriko believes that food should be made with the customer in mind, Jan believes that cooking should be used for competition.
Saijyo ran the original manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1995 to 2000, and Akita Shoten published 27 volumes for the series. ComicsOne published the first 13 volumes of the series in English from 2002 to 2005, before DrMaster acquired the license and published the remaining volumes from 2005 to 2007.
Saijyo also published the Tetsunabe no Jan! R: Chōjō Sakusen (Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations) manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion, and Akita Shoten published 10 compiled book volumes for the series. Saijyo launched the Tetsupai no Jan! spinoff manga in Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong magazine in August 2015. Bingo Morihashi is credited for the spinoff manga's script. Takeshobo published the manga's seventh and final compiled book volume in March 2018. Saijyo launched the successor manga Tetsunabe no Jan!! 2nd (Iron Wok Jan! 2nd) in 2017, and ended it with its seventh volume in 2020.
The manga franchise has over 10 million copies in circulation.
Sources: Iron Wok Jan! anime's website, Music Natalie
