Takashi Hashiguchi

We meet the manager and he is...the crazy uncle with all the bad puns. Just...this volume is 20% bad puns. But! We also meet a strange mystery man and meet our #1 business rival. Huzzah for new characters!

This series has 26 volumes.

One man's dream is passed down to a young boy. The dream to make the best bread in Japan. They call it Ja-pan. (Cause 'pan' means 'bread' in Japanese)

The characters are delightfully goofy yet charming. The plot is believable and interesting.
It's a more classic style of manga.

This series has 26 volumes.

A completely ridiculous, over-the-top manga about baking, centered around the search for Japan's own national bread, or Ja-pan. If you think that pun is bad, there are hundreds much worse.

Somehow I got hooked on the story after two volumes, though, bizarre as it is.

This volume features a cute contest against Pantasia's biggest rivals, St. Pierre. Still a light fluffy read that was highly enjoyable.