Yakitate!! Japan: Difference between revisions

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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.}}

* 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.}}

''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' is notable for being a [[The Parody|parody]] of the shonen fighting anime genre, skewering many of the traditional ''shonen'' character archetypes, and the [[Mundane Made Awesome|overblown way]] in which even the most mundane turns of the plot are depicted. It's a fun--and at times, educational--action series. Watch it, and you'll never again think bread is ''boring''.

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* [[Bishonen]]: Tsubozuka and Kanmuri. Kanmuri was featured in an omake where it was revealed that you can't tell him from Tsukino if you zoom in enough.

* [[Biting the Handkerchief]]

* [[Blank White Eyes]]: One of Kazuma's more "dramatic" breads can bring about this effect, with an accompanying [[Near Death Experience]].

* [[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 (Manga)|Tomo]].

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* [[Contemptible Cover]]: Many, ''many'' manga covers, example [http://www.mangareader.net/334-22924-1/yakitate-japan/chapter-88.html here].

* [[Cooking Duel]]

* [[Cross Dressing Voices]]: Yumiko Kobayashi voicing Kazuma Azuma and Marina Inoue voicing Shigeru Kanmuri.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Yumiko Kobayashi voicing Kazuma Azuma and Marina Inoue voicing Shigeru Kanmuri.

* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]

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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]]

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]

** [[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Excel]] as a brown-haired boy wearing a headband.

** [[Gurren Lagann|Yoko Ritona]] as a pink-haired boy genius.

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* [[Ho Yay]]: Ken-chan & Mokoyama, Kanmuri & Kuroyanagi-sempai.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] (Leonhart XIV and Maetal)

** Duh! Mokoyama and [[Bratty Half Pint|Miz]]u[[Morality Pet|no]].

** Duh! Mokoyama and [[Bratty Half-Pint|Miz]]u[[Morality Pet|no]].

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Barely a chapter goes by without some horrendous pun, many of which are lost entirely in the English translations. Even the series title is a pun: "pan" is Japanese for "bread", so "Ja-pan" can be read as "Japanese bread", which plays on the names of other varieties of bread like "furansu pan" (lit. "French bread"), etc.

* [[Idiot Hair]]: Kazuma and Monica Adenauer.

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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]]:

* [[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 [[Lord of the Rings]] parody... with cooking.

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* [[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 On Your Head]]: Monica Adenauer wears a two-piece bikini with American Flag Print in episodes 45-46.

* [[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.}}

* [[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 On First?]]: One dialogue sequence involves ''naan'' bread, which just happens to sound like the Japanese for "what"; another involves "croissant" being mistaken for a name ending in the honorific ''-san''.

* [[Worldwide Punomenon]]: The various reactions to the dish are based on these.