Yakitate is a series I talked about in its manga form before. It focuses around Azuma who is a teenage boy that's extraordinarily talented, and fixated on, baking bread. His dream is to create the perfect "Japan" which is basically a bread meant to represent Japan that will be loved by all the native Japanese. Each new bread he creates is labeled Japan #1, #2, etc etc. He's not that great with names but the bread is yummy and kick ass and usually incites the most over dramatic reactions from those who eat it.
Anyway! I've been watching the anime the past few days with Michi and strangely enough, instead of finding it utterly silly like I thought she might she's quite amused by it. I'm a fan of cooking manga and anime and I do love myself some funny parodies and Yakitate has all of that in spades.
The baking competitions that Azuma enters as he works for the Pantasia bakery are hilariously epic and so are the villains he faces. There's even a samurai baker and these weird French guys that hide themselves under a cloak to form the body of one person. It's just... freaky and funny. Plus Meister Kirisaki and his trained peacock Coo.
Then there's the ever present Kid, an American friend of the perpetual judge Kuro-yan, who randomly shows up in various characters flashbacks of their lives. He's been a cutthroat lawyer, a masseuse, a corporate shark, a simple college student, it goes on and on. Kid pretty much rocks, that's why I made that icon of him. He rocks that much, people. Icon worthy Kid is. I find his animation especially funny in how he looks strangely typically white guy if such a thing can exist.
Overall I think the humor comes mostly from how damn serious the characters take the process of creating, baking, and eating bread. It's like some sort of religion for all of them which makes me giggle a lot.
Something that surprises me is that no one has made a music video for this series using the song The Baker by The Aquabats. I mean, it suits the series so well with its dramatic sound and funny lyrics. Using the song would make for a pretty damn funny Yakitate music video if you ask me. Oh well. Here's a YouTube clip for part of the first episode for those who are curious about the series and want to give it a look now.
Anyway! I've been watching the anime the past few days with Michi and strangely enough, instead of finding it utterly silly like I thought she might she's quite amused by it. I'm a fan of cooking manga and anime and I do love myself some funny parodies and Yakitate has all of that in spades.
The baking competitions that Azuma enters as he works for the Pantasia bakery are hilariously epic and so are the villains he faces. There's even a samurai baker and these weird French guys that hide themselves under a cloak to form the body of one person. It's just... freaky and funny. Plus Meister Kirisaki and his trained peacock Coo.
Then there's the ever present Kid, an American friend of the perpetual judge Kuro-yan, who randomly shows up in various characters flashbacks of their lives. He's been a cutthroat lawyer, a masseuse, a corporate shark, a simple college student, it goes on and on. Kid pretty much rocks, that's why I made that icon of him. He rocks that much, people. Icon worthy Kid is. I find his animation especially funny in how he looks strangely typically white guy if such a thing can exist.
Overall I think the humor comes mostly from how damn serious the characters take the process of creating, baking, and eating bread. It's like some sort of religion for all of them which makes me giggle a lot.
Something that surprises me is that no one has made a music video for this series using the song The Baker by The Aquabats. I mean, it suits the series so well with its dramatic sound and funny lyrics. Using the song would make for a pretty damn funny Yakitate music video if you ask me. Oh well. Here's a YouTube clip for part of the first episode for those who are curious about the series and want to give it a look now.
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