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“Kazuma moves to Tokyo to enter Pantasia bakery school, aiming to revolutionize bread-making despite tough competition.”
Yakitate!! Japan
焼きたて!! ジャぱん
7.56
2,833 rank · 13,450 readers · 277 favorites
Shounen
Parody
Award Winning
Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Gourmet
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Synopsis
Kazuma moves to Tokyo to enter Pantasia bakery school, aiming to revolutionize bread-making despite tough competition.
The stakes are high and the competition is fierce, but Kazuma won't let anything prevent him from achieving his nation-changing, freshly baked goal. Relocating to Tokyo, Kazuma seeks to further his studies at Pantasia, a famous bakery chain. But will he rise to the challenge and pass the entrance examination, or will his best intentions fall flat? (Source: VIZ Media)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
6.7
/10
What 9 readers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 4
σ 1.89
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.89 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.33
Running avg · May 2008 → Mar 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Okay so.... if I can summarize my thoughts on this ENTIRE manga series, I would liken it to riding a roller coaster. As I was reading the first arc, I felt like I was going up with the cuteness and...”
- 8 “Yakitate!! Japan is one of those series where I can not even begin to guess what was going on in the author's mind as the series progressed. It's obvious that the initial pitch was a comedy food...”
- 8 “Yakitate Japan is manga about making bread. For me, this was my first experience with cooking related manga right after Cooking Master Boy. What is different is that Yakitate Japan is solely about...”
Verbosity
Short · 44%
Medium · 22%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 242 × 26 ch × vol
- Total read 32h 16m approx
- Published Mar 2002 – Jan 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0622 catalog