Takashi Hashiguchi (橋口 たかし) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his manga series Yakitate!! Japan, for which he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 2004. Hashiguchi won a newcomer's award in 1987 (published in a magazine), and Combat Teacher debuted the following year in the same magazine.
A prevailing theme seen throughout his manga is the realization of childhood dreams, such as making bread in Yakitate!! Japan or becoming a yo-yo master in Super Yo-Yo (Chousoku Spinner). Hashiguchi mainly focuses on unusual occupations or sports.
He enjoys comedy as well, and took a brief interlude from drawing to try his luck as a comedian. Source: Wikipedia
The FIRST loss of the main character, and truly for a bizarre little technicality on a subjective level. And while the game continues, their next opponent, to the surprise of nobody, is an expert in that field of cooking, so the uphill struggle is real. But what's also been the case, this particular opponent is from the protagonists' past (1st arc!). The funny thing is that I never really considered that there would be a difference in the actual chemical composition of baked & steamed breads, despite my people being world-renowned for their steamed buns. Also subtly the Chinese theming made sense for why the opponent changed bear outfits from koala to panda. The story that ended the book had nothing to do with the ongoing competition, but was a great little break-the-haughty story since spoiled brat went on a full-on Matrix -esque trip to learn the value of money & hard work. DO NOT MOCK THE POWER OF BREAD! XD
This is a pretty decent cooking manga, it was really good and interesting at the beginning but got bored the second half probably because it’s solely just about bread 😂👌❤️