Tubi has continued to firm up its catalog of titles and now the folks at Nozomi Entertainment have brought over the entire sixty-nine episode anime series Yakitate!! Japan. Nozomi previously released the series on DVD in North America. The show is available to viewers in the US and Canada due to their limited rights for it and you can check it out here in its original Japanese language with English subtitles.
Check out our reviews on the first, second and third collections as the series has been released in full on DVD.
The show originally was broadcast back in 2004 through 2006 and is based on the gag comedy manga of the same name by Takashi Hashiguchi. The anime adaptation is directed by Yasunao Aoki and features animation by Sunrise.
Plot concept: Kazuma Azuma wants to make bread. Not just any kind of bread, though. He wants to make a bread that represents Japan itself and can stand toe-to-toe with rice as a national food. Thanks to his legendary “Hands of the Sun,” unnaturally warm hands that allow dough to ferment faster, Kazuma’s bread is like a slice of Heaven. And when the Pantasia Rookie Competition arrives, everyone will get a taste of his skill! Along with his friend Kawachi (who’s only in it for the dough), he’ll go up against koala karate masters, Harvard bread scientists, samurai with rolling-pin swords, and more! Can Kazuma create bread like naan other and bake his way to glory, or should he quit before he’s toast?
