Japanese traditions are strong, and the most important of them is to borrow foreign elements so skillfully that they become truly Japanese. This is what the young self‑taught baker Kazuya Azuma dreams of: to create a Japanese bread called "Yappan" that can become famous worldwide. It does not matter that the bread remains a foreign dish in Japan – Azuma has the gift of "sunny hands," intuition, years of experimental experience, phenomenal optimism and perseverance. After finishing school without a specialized education but full of enthusiasm, he comes to Tokyo in order to get a job at the bakery of the central store of the country"s largest chain of bakeries, "Pantasia." Ahead lie exams and difficult tasks, new friends and enemies, and of course thousands of recipes for the best bread! Yakitate!! Japan is one of the bright representatives of a relatively new "science‑popular" direction in anime, whose characteristic feature is a plot based on some profession. Here it is the art of baking: the process of creating bread – from proper ingredients to the finished product, all kinds of interesting facts from culinary history, both Japanese and European, cooking secrets, and everything that is in any way related to bread. Another notable feature of this comedy series is hyperbolized humor, reaching the level of surreal and even fantasy, as well as constant wordplay and puns, playing with Japanese realities and anime clichés.
Sunrise Japan