Japanese Manga Guide

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Ajihei challenges unbelievable battles of cooking.

Ajihei Shiomi, whose father is a first-class chef, works hard on training to be the best chef in the world. He does hard training with a great passion for cooking and wit. However, when Keisuke Daisuke replaced Chef Kitamura’s position, which Ajihei respects, Ajihei gets confused by Keisuke’s way of doing things and gets angry.

Keisuke challenges such Ajihei with “the test of knife”, which is a competition of showing 3 different skills with a knife.

Cutting a cucumber floating in the water, sculpturing ice with a knife and etc… Ajihei improves his skills such unbelievable battles of cooking.

This is a leading comic of cooking comics. The way of battles of cooking bugs me a little, but there is enough momentum and enthusiasm in the story. It is recommended to those of you who get tired of normal gourmet comics.

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Food that my dad cooks is the best in Japan!

Kazumi Araiwa, whose face is a little scary and unsociable, works at Kanamaru Sangyo as a brilliant business man. He has another unknown face, that is of a father who can cooks well and is very sweet. He cooks meals very day in the place of his wife who works hard as a newspaper reporter. He solves various problems like a professional such as his co-workers worries/troubles, and troubles with neighbors and his kids’ friends.
He hides his cooking skills as he gets embarrassed. Only Yumeko Kimura, who is his subordinate and keen to him, knows his cooking skill and his sweet heart.

There are recipes in each episode, which you can enjoy cooking it while reading comics. They become very popular since they are very delicious and easy to cook without any special tools or ingredients. Books of those recipes are published as well.

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Bread that represents Japan.

I will make “Japan bread”!

Kazuma Azumua, who has ideal hands “hands of Sun” for making bread. He used to love rice, but was woken up by the taste of bread that he eats at “San Pierre” when he was six. There is bread which is named after the country, such as German bread, but there was no bread called Japan bread. Kazuma decided to make Japan bread that can be proud to the world.

Ten years has passed and Kazuma graduated from a junior high school. He moves to Tokyo with his Japan bread and started working for “Pantasy”, which is one of the best bakery shops in Tokyo, but…

He pursues to make the best Japan bread in Japan with Kyosuke Kawachi, whom he met at the exam to get into “Pantasy”, Tukino Azusagawa, who is a grand daughter of C.E.O of Pantasy, Ken Matsuhiro, a bread maker whose afro hair and sunglass are his trademarks.

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Why does he keep looking for a very rare wine among a hundred thousand kinds of wines?

“There is no wine that I am looking for.”

Jo Satake, a Japanese sommelier who won at the sommelier contest in France, is a genius sommelier who can tell its brand, the kind of grapes used, and the location of the wine even it is a vintage wine. What he really wants is, however, not fame or honor but only one thing that is a memorial wine that his step mother gave him. Why does he keep looking for a very rare wine among a hundred thousand kinds of wines?

Jo Stake solves other people’s problems and worries by telling stories of wines with his heart for loving wine and for entertaining guest. What is a secret of his birth? Is he able to find his disappeared step mother at the end? What happens to his memorial wine?

This comic was made into a TV drama and it sparked a boom of sommelier.

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Ultimate vs. supreme

Shiro Yamaoka and Yuko Kurita, who work for Tozai Newspaper that is one of the best newspaper companies in Japan, are to create “an ultimate menu” that is a collection of best foods in the world. At the same time, however, their rival company, Teito Newspaper started their project to create “an supreme menu” in cooperated with Yuzan Kaibara, who is a ceramic artist as well as chirographer and famous as living natural treasure, and who also organizes clubs for the best food. Shiro’s family name is his mother’s maiden name and he was in fact Yuzan’s son. Shiro had conflict with his father about his mother’s death and cut his connection with his father. But again, the conflict between father and son is repeated through “an ultimate vs. supreme menu”.

This sparks the buzzword “ultimate” and the boom of gourmet. This is not just a gourmet comic but a social comic which tries to find the basics of Japanese through food by describing the problems of food culture in current Japan