I just begin to read Yakitate Japan and it always comes down to the same pattern for almost all cooking manga. There are competitions and the principal character will find an impossible recipe to win the competition. Sometimes the mangaka will throw in an tournament. As the stroy goes, the techinique of cooking and recipes will become more and more exagerating. Usually after 5-6 volumes, it's no more a cooking manga, but more like some scien fiction-cooking manga. I need to see a manga that people don't have a face of "wanna-die" after eating the "super delicious" food (if you can call it a food and not imagination).

-- Andy Tsao (nohead88@yahoo.com), October 03, 2004

Answers

hmm...maybe "addicted to curry"?

-- vin (vin_sagi@hotmail.com), October 04, 2004.

well considering its cooking, what else can they have? It'll get pretty boring if is straight cooking without tournements/challenges and the like

btw what are other cooking manga's all i know are yakitate and addicted to curry?

-- Dark_hand (bob_bc@hotmail.com), October 05, 2004.

well, there's cooking master boy and iron wok jan, the latter of which is being distributed in America by...erm...some distributer. Forgot who.

-- Rumoku (rumoku@hotmail.com), October 06, 2004.

I love yakitate not just because I haven't encountered much cooking manga beforehand, but the humor can completely throw you off, the manga got funnier volume 8 and later. Addicted to Curry is a typical cooking manga with some good ecchi, but girls showing skin in that manga just isn't enough to get me enticed enough to read more than 5 volumes of it. Whereas yakitate's jokes are refreshing for a comedy series.

-- ubb (demonreaper73@hotmail.com), October 06, 2004.