Yakitate Ja-Pan !!, Tome 20

焼きたてジャぱん [Yakitate!! Japan] #20

by Takashi Hashiguchi, Tamako Kageyama (Traduction)

Le pire porc de l'histoire revient sur le devant de la scène, puisant sa force dans les conseils d'un mentor maléfique (Kirisaki) et du fameux cochon mystique. Katsuo est ressuscité ! Qu'on le pende par les pieds pour en faire du boudin !! En avant pour le coup de grâce Ja-panistique !

Genres: Manga, Cooking, Comics, Food, Shonen, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 2005

About the author

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

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read October 31, 2015

"Don't hug me so much, we might make another baby!!"

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm skipping to Volume 20 from Volume 3 because, frankly, it's almost impossible to find these anymore without special ordering them (and my list of books to special order is growing literally by the day). I haven't really missed anything important, though, since the anime fairly faithfully covers the entire run (as far as I'm aware).

This volume is in the middle of the "Yakitate!! 25" contest, covering one "episode" (theme: pork, specifically tonkatsu sandwiches) and the start of the next one (theme: pancakes). It's a bit beyond absurd, even for what passes as "normal" in the series, given both Katsuo and how the "judging" is determined. I'm also not entirely convinced that Kuroyanagi doesn't have SOME kind of magic, given his reactions and how they affect the people around him.

It's a fun volume, but it's probably too silly for readers who like their slice-of-life to be slice of REAL life. The wordplay also doesn't translate as well as maybe it could, but... language. Oh, well, the translators tried.

[D E N Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably one of the yummiest volumes yet! This volume covered the characters making katsu sando then pancakes.

I have to admit, when I first started reading this, I read a bunch of comments saying NOT to read beyond the Monaco Cup. Thank goodness I DID NOT listen because so far Yakitate 25 is way way waaaaaaaaaaay better than the Monaco Cup. Super excited to see what else they will have to create more on the upcoming volumes :)

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 😂👌❤️

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the more normal story line (if it can even be called "normal") and the return of Kai/Monica and their continuing courtship. Would have like to have seen more Tsukino, though.

[Earl · Rating 4 out of 5]

And now we continue with Yakitate!! 25, this time with a relative of Monika Adenauer who can't seem to understand what it means to be a bread artisan like Kazuma.