Yakitate!! Japan
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Dimwitted Azuma Kazuma is a young man with a dream -- to create a bread worthy of the name "Japan", made by the Japanese people, for the Japanese people! With hefty bread-making skills, hands that have an uncanny warmth to help dough ferment, and will power like no other, Kazuma must put his delicious creations to the test as he struggles to become employed at the prestigious Pantasia bakery, for fame and glory! Yeast, beware... Kazuma is in the kitchen!
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Hikaru no Go
While examining an old Go board in his grandfather's basement, twelve-year-old Shindo Hikaru is possessed by the restless spirit of Sai, an ancient Go master who has waited for over one thousand years to play the Hand of God: the perfect move. Sai convinces Hikaru to act as a vessel for making his moves, but it is soon clear that Hikaru also enjoys Go and wants to play his own games. Moreover, the rules of Go have changed since Sai's time, and Go players from all over the world are now much stronger, having had the benefit of hundreds of years of evolution and experimentation by the masters before them. Can this unlikely pair form a successful partnership and rise to the top of Japan's Go community, and can Sai finally play the Hand of God and find some peace?
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add recIf you enjoy a story where the hero is on a quest for constant improvement, like Azuma Kazuma in Yakitate! Japan, then you should definitely give Hikaru no Go a try. Both anime are about relatively obscure topics (breadmaking and the board game of Go), and both try very hard to breathe life into an otherwise pretty dull topic. Yakitate! Japan is clearly aimed toward a younger and less discerning audience, whereas Hikaru no Go was created with a more mature crowd in mind. As such, you will probably find Hikaru no Go more philosophical near the end, and a better finished product, but not as light-hearted as Yakitate! Japan. Give it a try!
Both Hikaru no Go and Yakitate show the road to success by someone who is willing to try, and who does an outstanding job at it. They are also kind of funny and also serious in another way. I'm sure you'll like one if you liked the other.
Both Yakitate and HnG offer generally uninteresting topics that turn into an amusingly entertaining storyline, which ends up hooking you and doesn't let go until the very end. With elements of comedy, drama, and action there is plenty of content to make up for the lengthy episode list.
Both series take an ordinary activity and stretch it to the extreme, with one making the game Go seem like an extreme sport, and the other making people who've eaten the main character's bread feel like they've gone to heaven.
Both are about learning about your strengths as a person while you try your hardest to obtain your goal. you do not have to know anything about the particular sport or activity the character is partaking in because you are engaged with the charcater battles between themselves abnd their rivals.
These animes are very alike, even though they deal with board games and baking. They are both tournament style and rivalry is a big theme. Each anime has it's rivals that reoccur and new ones appear as they go.
Both Hikaru and Azuma gain fame, they both become better and strive to learn about their passions.
They both have their "ultimate" goals: Hikaru to master Go, and Azuma to master/create Ja-pan.
If you liked Hikaru no Go, you'll LOVE Yakitate!! Japan, but give it two episodes before you naysay it.
If you love cheering for the up and coming hero, Yakitate and Hikaru will appeal massively. Although both seem to have a strange subject matter (baking bread and a board game) that on the surface will not last the distance, you find yourself hooked from the start!
The excitement and team spirit is apparent in both shows, and if you enjoyed that in one of these shows, you will love the other.
Both anime portrait the effort of a young boy trying to be the best of his kind, starting from the very bottom. They have different plots, so its a inch, because you can find the same emotions, only in very different subjects.
Cooking Master Boy
Alt titles: Chuuka Ichiban!
Mao is an aspiring young chef trying to live up to the legacy left by his mother - a nationally-recognized, culinary genius. Leaving his home as the successful winner of a successor cook-off, the inspirational boy travels the length and breadth of China to expand his sizzling repertoire. In addition to meeting a wide range of personalities with varying gourmet skills, Mao must use every skill his mother left him to become a legendary chef in his own right.
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add recIf you like absurd cooking battles, weird humor and really strange imagery that tries to show you how good something tastes, then you need to see Yakitate and Cooking Master Boy.
Both Cooking Master Boy and Yakitate!! Japan feature a young genius who strives in the culinary battles in order to reach his goals. The geniuses' creative ideas mixed with the "super" judges add lots of excitement to the competitions. If you like Yakitate!! Japan, you will most definitely like Cooking Master Boy.
Jumping on the bandwagon here, I know fans of Yakitate and CMB are going to love the other show.
Both have almost exactly the same story (a young chef struggling to overcome his peers preconceptions to become the best cook in the world), his friends are very similar and the comedy reactions of people eating the food.
The ensuing cooking battles are some must see anime entertainment. Even if the premise sounds amazingly dull, I think more people should give them a try.
the obvious dictates why you'll like these two series: both are about FOOD and some young cook/pastry chef who is great in preparing it.
they also follow the same formula: endless tournaments with varying rules and opponents. good cooking/baking techniques. a bunch of supporting characters. and lot of good uncomplicated humor.
One Piece
- TV (426+ eps)
- 1999 - ?
Long ago the infamous Gol D. Roger was the strongest and most powerful pirate on the seas. As he was about to be executed he revealed that he hid all of his wealth, including the legendary treasure known as One Piece, on an island at the end of the Grand Line - a treacherous and truly unpredictable sea. Monkey D. Luffy is a spirited, energetic and somewhat dim-witted young man with a very big dream: to find One Piece and become the Pirate King! However Luffy is no ordinary boy, as when he was younger he ate one of the Devil's Fruits and gained its power to become a Rubber Man. Now in this grand age of pirates Luffy sets out to gather a crew and sail to the most dangerous sea in the world so that he can fulfill his dream... and maybe even his appetite!
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add recBoth Yakitate and One Piece have constant humor which is basically over the top and ridiculous, but very funny at the same time. Even though the stories, genres, and characters are completely different due to the comedy, you can enjoy both.
In both anime, there is a team fighting with all they have towards a life goal. A young, amazing guy that sticks them together. I has great team spirit, and in some point, there are a lot of resemblenses in it.
Also, both have the same hilarious comedy along with the nostalgic drama.
School Rumble
Tsukamoto Tenma is young, bright, and smitten with the school hottie Karasuma Ooji. She's desperate for his attention, which is unfortunate considering he barely gives her the time of day! Throw Harima Kenji, the school delinquent with a crush on Tsukamoto into the mix and you've got one twisted love triangle of unrequited proportions! Can love find the trio happiness before their attention-grabbing stunts end up hurting more than their egos?
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add recThough School Rumble is actually fairly different from Yakitate, i still think they appeal the same people. SR is a harem comedy that surpasses the clichés despite using typical stuff. Yakitate does somewhat the same; it's an anime where you expect exaggerations, and yet it pulls it off very nicely and differs itself from the typical anime in the genre.
Both series revolve around a silly and obsessive premise: in YJ it's the creation of the "bread of Japan", while in SR it's confessing to the one you love. Because of this set-up, hilarity and awkwardness ensues!
Muteki Kanban Musume
Alt titles: Noodle Fighter Miki
- TV (12 eps)
- 2006
- Summer 2006
Miki is an endearingly psychotic mascot/waitress/delivery girl working at her equally frightening but somewhat less adorable mother's ramen restaurant. Both survivor and instigator of years of ruthless, no-holds-barred domestic violence, Miki has a capacity for destruction usually found only in people with things like "the Impaler" added to their name. Yet, she also has a kind side to her and is often found going implausible distances out of her way to rescue both proverbial and literal lost kittens, though some malignant souls might misconstrue this as merely ditching her work...
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add recIf you liked Muteki Kanban Musume and would like more focus on the actual food part, without losing too much slapstick and gaining some extra character development, Yakitate!! Japan would be a nice follow up. If you on the other hand like Yakitate!! Japan, but are looking for a somewhat similar concept with some more slapstick, I can recommend you Muteki Kanban Musume as well.
Both these animes center around the food industry. They are both humorous with a sarcastic portrayal of adults and competition. If you thought one was amusing, you will laugh through the other as well.
