Yakitate!! Japan

Yakitate!! Japan
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kazuma Azuma
焼きたて!! ジャぱん
Genre
Manga
Written byTakashi Hashiguchi
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runDecember 26, 2001January 10, 2007
Volumes26
Anime television series
Directed byYasunao Aoki
Produced by
  • Norio Yamakawa
  • Hideyuki Tomioka
Written byKatsuyuki Sumisawa
Music byTaku Iwasaki
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run October 12, 2004 March 14, 2006
Episodes69
Manga
Yakitate!! Japan Super Real
Written byKenzo Irie
Illustrated byTakashi Hashiguchi
Published byShogakukan
MagazineLine Manga
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 16, 2019December 17, 2021
Volumes5

Yakitate!! Japan (焼きたて!! ジャぱん; "Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 2001 to January 2007, with its chapters collected in 26 tankōbon volumes.

A 69-episode anime television series adaptation by Sunrise was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2006. In North America, the manga was licensed in English by Viz Media in 2005 and Nozomi Entertainment licensed the anime series in 2014.

In 2004, Yakitate!! Japan won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category.