EPISODES: 69
DIRECTOR: Yasunao Aoki
STUDIO: Sunrise
AIR DATE: October 12, 2004
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Yakitate!! Japan (”Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan) is a manga by Takashi Hashiguchi and is serialised in Shogakukan’s Shounen Sunday. 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. Azuma possesses the legendary Solar Hands that 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.
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