"Yakitate!! Japan" is an incredibly weird show and one of the most enjoyable anime shows I've ever seen. This is because the subject matter is very dull but the writers inject so much silliness and insanity into it that you cannot help but laugh. This is because they take ordinary things and tell them in the most over-the-top manner you could imagine.
The story is about a young man who isn't very bright but has almost magical hands...called 'hands of the sun'. They are much warmer than usual and when he bakes bread these magical hands help him to make truly amazing bread. How amazing? Well, at times when folks try it, they reach magical heights and hallucinations....and are often left crying, reaching some sort of orgasm or experiencing a near-death situation! It's really ridiculous but is also a way of poking fun at the MANY super-serious fighting animes. In this case, the big fights are cooking competitions and they seem more serious than anything you'll see in "Dragonball", "Yu-Yu Hakusho" or "Naruto"!! Additionally, many of the characters are just nuts...such as a rival who looks like a very buff Satan, a boss with an amazing afro and the actual writer of the anime who is portrayed as a blob who is brought to competitions in a bulldozer! Too weird but also incredibly funny from start to finish. Not to be missed.
The story is about a young man who isn't very bright but has almost magical hands...called 'hands of the sun'. They are much warmer than usual and when he bakes bread these magical hands help him to make truly amazing bread. How amazing? Well, at times when folks try it, they reach magical heights and hallucinations....and are often left crying, reaching some sort of orgasm or experiencing a near-death situation! It's really ridiculous but is also a way of poking fun at the MANY super-serious fighting animes. In this case, the big fights are cooking competitions and they seem more serious than anything you'll see in "Dragonball", "Yu-Yu Hakusho" or "Naruto"!! Additionally, many of the characters are just nuts...such as a rival who looks like a very buff Satan, a boss with an amazing afro and the actual writer of the anime who is portrayed as a blob who is brought to competitions in a bulldozer! Too weird but also incredibly funny from start to finish. Not to be missed.