Yakitate! JA-PAN

Kazuma Azuma isn't the brightest 16-year-old around, but when it comes to baking bread, he's a genius gifted with the legendary solar hands, a warm pair of hands that makes dough ferment faster.

It is Azuma's dream to invent Japan's very own national bread—bread the Japanese will love as much as their rice. So when he gets offered the chance to work in Pantasia, one of the biggest bread store chain in Tokyo, Azuma immediately sets out from his home town on the road to discovering his dream.

Get ready for some of the most gastronomically outrageous bread-making competitions ever, as Azuma and his friends from Pantasia persevere against all odds to put Japan on the map of bread-loving nations!

Based on Takashi Hashiguchi's immensely popular manga series, Yakitate! Ja-pan is a hilarious culinary comedy that will have you rolling with laughter this month, only on Animax.

© Hashiguchi Takashi/Shogakukan . PANTASIA . TV Tokyo