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{{quote|''"There is English bread, German bread, and French bread, but Japan's bread -- [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Ja-pan]] -- does not exist. In that case, there is no choice but to create it. This story is a [[Blatant Lies|serious, biographical ballad]] of a boy who possesses [[Superpower Lottery|Solar Hands]], Kazuma Azuma, who will create a Japanese bread made by and for the Japanese people, which can be presented to the world proudly."''
|''Opening Narration''}}
In the world of '''''Yakitate!! Japan''''', bread is [[Serious Business]]. And no one takes it more seriously than Kazuma Azuma, a teenaged baker whose dream it is to create a national bread for his native country of Japan. It's an uphill battle however, as Japan is a land where rice has always ruled and where bread has never been held in very high regard. But all that is about to change thanks to the efforts of our gastronomically savantish hero, who, with his "solar hands" and ten years of self-study, has become a master of his craft.
The story begins with Kazuma heading to [[Tokyo Is the Center of
...Well ''duh''. This is a [[Shonen]] series, after all...
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* Ryo Kuroyanagi - Hard-assed tournament judge with a talent for making overblown and very elaborate [[Pungeon Master|pun-based reactions]] to anything he tastes. A [[Running Gag]] has Kazuma frequently calling him an "old man" even though he's only 22.
* Spencer Henry Hokō - An Italian-American dude all the way from California and worked at the Nagoya branch of Pantasia. [[But Not Too Foreign|Thinks he is a true-blue Nagoya guy.]] He shows up during the first [[Tournament Arc]] and loses to Kazuma Azuma. He returns in the second [[Tournament Arc]] as a member of Team America.
* Yuuichi Kirisaki- owner and [[Manipulative Bastard]] of St. Pierre's, rival of Pantasia. He looks like Gendō Ikari from [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] and is [[Hey, It's That Voice!|voiced by the guy]] who did the voice of Gendō too. He tries sabotaging Team Japan during the [[Tournament Arc|Monaco Cup]] and hires the members of Team America to defeat them. He starts Yakitate 25!(9 in anime) as an attempt to humiliate Kazuma. {{spoiler|He was the guy that gave Kazuma the inspiration to start Ja-pan, the national bread of Japan.}}
''
This series has [[Yakitate!! Japan (Manga)/WMG|Wild Mass Guessing]].▼
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Tsukino sports some as an elf during an [[Omake]].
* [[Affably Evil]]: Yuichi Kirisaki, who needs to keep up a polite profile in public. Evil, but very smart. {{spoiler|He wasn't always this way though.}}
* [[Anime Accent Absence]]: Heck, Spencer lives in Nagoya so long, he ends up talking in Nagoya-ben.
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* [[Blank White Eyes]]: One of Kazuma's more "dramatic" breads can bring about this effect, with an accompanying [[Near-Death Experience]].
** And Shadow White.
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Kawachi and Azuma when they do the "What the hell?" routine ''a la'' [[Azumanga Daioh
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Meister Silvan and Sophie Balzac Kirisaki.
** S.H. Hokou is an example of an American based in Japan but not too American.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Kageto Kinoshita. The sad thing is that, with his talents and abilities, he could easily become cool and
** Kawachi becomes this later on. His entire role in the manga essentially becomes to be less cool, less respected, and less fantastic than Azuma, Kai, and the others. Even his family starts insulting and looking down on him... that's just cruel.
* [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|But Your Hands Are Beautiful]]: Monica Adenauer, as a master confectioner, has heavily scarred hands due to cutting herself many times on her sugar creations, and is embarassed to let Suwabara see them. When he does, he finds them to be the hands of a dedicated craftswoman and calls them beautiful.
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* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Though he doesn't have any special innate abilities like Azuma has, Kawaichi is eventually able to gain his own version of the Solar Hands (called Solar Gauntlets) as well as superhuman finger dexterity, though grueling physical training.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Pierrot Bolnez's ring.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: A meta example. Some of the early [[Omake]] include the author discussing some of his early work, which included a manga based on ''[[
* [[Combat Commentator]]: Many characters in Yakitate! Japan, usually the Manager Ken Matsushiro and Ryo Kuroyanagi. Their explanations are usually triggered by Kawachi, [[The Idiot From Osaka]], saying that he doesn't understand what's going on.
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: Many, ''many'' manga covers, example [http://www.mangareader.net/334-22924-1/yakitate-japan/chapter-88.html here].
* [[Cooking Duel]]
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** They even [[Lampshade Hanging|mention]] this trope in the Yakitate 25 arc by name after Azuma defeats, "God's Child" in a pizza duel.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Yukino.
* [[Doppelganger Spin]]: A variation, in that Kageto Kinoshita doesn't use it to attack, but rather to make "clones" of himself so he can get his and everybody else's work done. Tournament Judge Pierrot Bolnez also has this talent used to taste all of the submissions at once. Both characters learned this technique while working in the circus, surprisingly.
** The characters catch on to this, saying "Maybe all clowns can create clones of themselves these days." Or words to that effect.
* [[Double Entendre]]: Tsukino subverts this. When Ken convinces Suwabara not to commit seppuku by telling him that Monica was pregnant, Ken says "when a man and a woman are living in the same house alone, there is nothing for them to do except--" She completes the sentence saying "play cards, right, Manager?"
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* [[Eureka Moment]]: Has inspired Kazuma more than a few times.
** Kawachi gets a few as well.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: In an Omake, Tsukino Azusagawa is shown to be receiving a lot of love letters in her shoe box. She's in an all-girls school.
* [[Exploding Calendar]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when the cast notes their month-long [[Training Montage]] only took one page.
* [[Eye Beams]]: Of ''bread''.
* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: {{spoiler|Kirisaki's original personality manages to surface just long enough to reveal himself as the man who inspired Azuma to make bread in the first place and thank him to allowing him to be his true self again before the Devil Bread takes him over entirely.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Kawaichi manages to temporarily fight back the effects of Kirisaki's mind-control go-pan before he can force feed the bread to Azuma.}}
* [[Flanderization]]: Kawachi, quickly morphing from [[Jerk
* [[Flag Bikini]]
* [[Flash Back]]: Nearly every single time someone tastes bread.
** ESPECIALLY with Pierrot Bolneze, who divulges practically all of his life whenever he tastes the Japan representatives' bread.
* [[Four Is Death]]: Azuma's 44th variety of bread has the power to send people to heaven. Unless the person was at the end of their lifespan, however, [[Back
* [[Fumihiko Tachiki]]: Yuuichi Kirisaki .
* [[Funny Afro]]:
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Azuma's math skills and rice knowledge, anyone?
** Suwabara isn't much better, seemingly knowing only two things - bread and swordsmanship.
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* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: Tsubozuka. The language differs depending on what country the manga's published in.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: The hupans are half-human, half-''bread''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]
** [[Excel Saga (
** [[Gurren Lagann|Yoko Ritona]] as a pink-haired boy genius.
** [[Fate/stay
* [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] (Shizuto Narumi {eps. 57-58})
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The match against Norihei essentialy boils down into this, and it got mercilessly lampshaded.
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* [[Informed Ability]]: Kai Suwabara is mentioned from the get-go as being one of the greatest young breadmakers in a generation, having already won a major competition before even applying to work at Pantasia. He's then widely seen as the competitor to beat in the Pantasia rookie tournament. His actual victory count in-series? {{spoiler|One. He only gets the job at the main Pantasia branch because both Kawachi and Azuma drop out. He gets to the semifinals of the rookie tournament because his opponents withdraw; he then loses to Azuma and ties Kawachi in the runner-up match. His bread in the Monaco Cup semifinals isn't tasted, and he loses to Monica in the finals. His final match, against Azuma in 'Yakitate! 25', is once again a loss. The only battle he wins is in the Monaco Cup second preliminary, where he's at a disadvantage due to having to use a huge number of ingredients, but he manages to produce a bread better than the French team's.}}
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: After marrying and divorcing a woman for the sake of a reaction, Kuroyanagi defends his actions by claiming that since the prefecture they're in has the lowest divorce rate in the country, people should get divorced more to get closer to the national average.
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** He also argues that compared to the number of times Kawaichi says [[Catch Phrase|"What do you mean!?"]] in a single day, his divorce means nothing.
* [[Invincible Hero]]: Azuma ties once the entire series. And has an implied loss twice, when people in other brackets (first Koala, then Shadow White) do better than him. He is never out right defeated in a direct competition, though.
** Actually, the tie doesn't really count since Azuma didn't participate in the jam match against Tsutsumi
** Didn't he lose against Miki Norihei in the yakitate 25 in a seaweed bread contest?
** Does that count, since Mr. Norihei is from another dimension?
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Does [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSgaLMkcb8 "Daybreak Symphony"] remind you of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo any other songs with "symphony" in the title], by any chance?
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* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: It's safe to say that if most people reacted to tasting bread the way the people in ''this'' series do, bread would be immediately classified as a Schedule I Controlled Substance.
** It's not just bread. In this series, ''any type of food can produce astounding reactions as long as the chef is good enough''. Let's put it like this; one of the first reactions we saw was a guy bending himself to look like a crescent moon. Fast-forward a few arcs and we have a guy ''[[Time Travel|travelling through time]]''. Fast-forward some more and we have people actually entering "reaction worlds" and ''[[Shapeshifting]]''.
* [[The Muse]]: Kawachi inspires the majority of Azuma's awesome bread ideas. Almost all the other ones come from him already having made it [[Crazy Prepared|before.]]
* [[Naughty Nuns]]: Mako Graham, the nun who taught Kawachi to go afro (sort of), is far from the nice nuns you see around everyday. She even hand-signals as if she was smoking.
* [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]]: Iwashiro Tetsuo from the manga Wild Life {episode 58}
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
** Especially prevalent in the Omake (unless that is to what the above poster referred), ''Takitate! Gohan'', such as when [[Punny Name|Shiro]]yagani excuses the taking of all ten points from almost every entry in the employment competition with it being an Omake (while abusing the trope of '''[[
* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]:
** Yukino.
** [[Manly Gay|Mokoyama.]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Michael Schumacher doing an [[Initial D]] before going to Formula One? Azuma mistaking Lake Iglesia with Julio Iglesias? Kaiser's fans behaving like the Detroit Tigers fans? They're all here.
* [[Non
** And Norihei Miki, being a corporate mascot and all.
* [[One-Note Cook]]: Azuma can make bread and only bread. Luckily, he rarely has to make anything else.
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* [[Perpetual Expression]]: Brad Kidd's face is exactly the same every time he appears.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/334-22886-20/yakitate-japan/chapter-50.html This] [[Omake]] shows Kai Suwabara's German bread giving [[Token
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: CMAP is an invocation, as they were actually trained to become quirky because they were celebrities.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Ryo Kuroyanagi
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* [[Ship Tease]]: Could just be me but [http://www.mangareader.net/334-22869-2/yakitate-japan/chapter-33.html Tsukino] licking her lips while baking an Azuma shaped bread seems like it to me.
** She also licks her hand where Azuma touched her in the 3rd episode.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** One of Kuroyanagi's overblown pun-based reactions to tasting a turtle-shaped dessert has him turning into Gamera, the giant, flying, fire-breathing turtle ''kaiju''.
** Episode 68 appears to be a [[The Lord of the Rings]] parody... with cooking.
** One of the earlier episodes has the manager Matsushiro pulling a Kenshiro (''[[
** The Black Tri-Stars from [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] show up as three expert bakers from St. Pierre's Kyūshū branch. They tasted Kazuma's Black Ja-pan and had a reaction where they fought the Nobel Gundam from [[G Gundam]] which was piloted by Yukino (and had a caption reminding people they were still watching ''Yakitate!! Japan''. ) They quit after the reaction.
** In one episode, Pierrot eats "Alexandria" Egyptian Bread, with Kodaimai Miso flavoring and turns into Detective Conan.
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** Kawachi Kyousuke tries some kelp marinated in soda and turns into Pepmiman, a parody of Pepsiman. He rescues a girl from drowning at sea. He also beats two sharks that tried to eat the girl.
** And there was yet another sequence involving Kawachi as a [[Naruto|blond ninja in bright orange clothes]].
** Then there's [http://www.mangareader.net/334-22959-23/yakitate-japan/chapter-123.html this], done in the style of ''[[
** When Meister Kirisaki decides to train Kawaichi, he talks about making him an iron man, complete with images of Kawaichi dressed as [[Gigantor]] <ref>The original Japanese name for Gigantor is Tetsujin 28, or "Iron Man 28"</ref>
* [[Shown Their Work]]:
** They have a bakery consultant; nearly all of the facts, and the out-there ingredients and techniques used to make the breads are real. There's even a recipe in one of the manga volumes for Kazuma's rice-cooker bread.
** The anime has a little [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|segment at the end of each episode]] dedicated to showing off the research they did.
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* [[Tomokazu Seki]]: Pierrot Bolneze
* [[Trade Your Passion for Glory]]
* [[Training
* [[Tuckerization]]: Kanmuri is named after the author's editor and a minor character (Kanmuri's father) is named after the author himself (and even looks strongly like Hashiguchi).
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Mokoyama's pointed ears give him a devilish appearance.
* [[The Virus]]: {{spoiler|In the manga,it's revealed that Yuuichi Kirisaki was slowly being corrupted by the go-pan he had eaten. Eventually,the bread takes over his body,replacing his eyes with bread,then announces its plans to [[Take Over the World]]. In the next chapter,Bread!Yuuichi tries to make Azuma eat some by... shooting [[Eye Beams]] '''''of bread'''''. [http://www.mangareader.net/334-41235-6/yakitate-japan/chapter-227.html I am most definitely not making this up].}}
* [[Wearing a Flag
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The reveal that {{spoiler|Kirisaki has turned into a half-human, half-bread monster who plans to control the entire world. From there, the entire tournament arc is dropped in favor of an incredibly bizarre save-the-world plot.}}
* [[Who's
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: The various reactions to the dish are based on these.
** E.g., on one of the earlier chapter someone tests their bread by offering it to a horse. Horse sniffs and goes blissfully ばく (common eating onomatopoeia), written as 馬食 ("horse eats"). [[Bilingual Bonus|Guess it's a male horse.]])
* [[Yakuza]]: Ken is eventually elected as the new leader of the yakuza group formerly headed by Kanmuri's father. Though he's reluctant at first, he eventually takes to it.
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