Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Cooking Master Boy Japanese: 中華一番
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Type: TV
Episodes: 52
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 27, 1997 to Sep 13, 1998
Duration:
23 min. per episode Rating:
PG - Children
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Popularity: #2177
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SynopsisThe story takes place in 19th century China during the Qing Dynasty, where the Emperor was weakened and the country was close to chaos. It is also during a fictitious era called "The Era of the Cooking Wars". It was an era in which top chefs with different cooking styles tried their best to improve their skills and to become the best chef in China. It is a country where insulting a high-grade chef or fooling around with cooking could land a person in a jail, and impersonating a top-chef is as good as usurpation of authority. Chefs compete with each other in order to gain respect and even power, but also with the risks of losing everything.
The country of China has four major regions: Beijing, Szechuan, Shanghai, and Guangdong.
The beginning of the story takes place in Szechuan, Mao's birthplace.
After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before he takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.
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zeru02
28 of 39 people found this review helpful
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52 of 52 episodes seen
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9 |
| Story |
9 |
| Animation |
9 |
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| Character |
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First chinese dubbed anime that I just finished watching, so the story's still fresh in my mind. I've seen bits of this anime in our local channel, back then it was already pretty interesting but I haven't been able to catch it always on tv. The plot is very interesting, centering around a 13 year old boy who has a magical touch when it comes to cooking. Like his mom, Mao believes cooking should be used to bring happiness to people, and this is the theme the story revolves in. One can't help but cheer for Mao as he goes through several tough cooking competitions. Ever watch the Ironchef Master show in Japan? This is the anime version. Man, I can't help but crave dimsums, fried rice, & other chinese food while watching this. What's interesting is that the show offers lots and lots of trivias about food -- I never realized till I watched it that there are lots of food that can actually improves our health! The characters are very well done, all of them are likeable and its more effective since it uses the bad-guy-turned-good-guy style, making us like the other characters that we thought annoying at first. The phasing of the series is great as well -- with each event getting more and more interesting as one watches. The parts I definitely like is the Super Chef competition. The Dark Society of the cooking chefs and the quest for the legendary utensils added that suspense factor, making it not just an ordinary cooking competition. The only thing that lessens the enjoyment a bit is the ending -- I was thinking there must be another chapter to this but its the end, apparently this is the case wherein the audience is left to imagine that Mao's group defeated their enemies, him accepting top chef position and finding all the legendary utensils. Its too bad since if they had just made it a bit longer, the ending would definitely be a happy ever after read more
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KokoaKuroba
3 of 10 people found this review helpful
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52 of 52 episodes seen
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| Overall |
7 |
| Story |
7 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
6 |
| Character |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
I remembered when I was a kid, I've watched like 2-5 episodes of this on TV and thought that I want to Completely watch it. My first impression of it was something like making Yakitate Japan into a cooking anime set in 19th century China. Watching it completely right now, I saw that this was really an enjoyable series. The story was alright (though they say the manga was better), It was not predictable(unlike other shounen anime were you already know how the MC will win),it also made good cliffhangers and twists which was truly unexpected, and the animation is good for an 80's show. I think I can't say anything bad about the show except that they should have made Liu Mao Shing more older. I know the show is titled Cooking Master "BOY" but come on I don't think a 13 year old boy would have fell in love or travelled all over China. I think they should've made him
older like 15. But other than that, it was ton of fun watching this and I hope you do as well. read more
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Cooking Master Boy is also an anime featuring food competitions, but instead of bread it deals with Chinese cuisine.
similarly., they're both about cooking!!!`~
Both involve child prodigies in the kitchen with exaggerated techniques and high-stake culinary showdowns.
Both these animes are about cooking. The cooking style & spirit and moreover the judge's reactions after testing the food are kinda similar. Though 'Yakitate!! Japan' locates in Japan 'Cooking master boy' is in China. In both cases a boy targets to become the best chef/cook in the world.
Both about cooking. One uses everthing ingredient in the world. The other is restricted to one medium. Both comedy with drama, good fun.
Both are about cooking, they both have competitions and both of them want to make people happy when they eat their creations.
If you liked Yakitate!! Japan, you will probably enjoy this. Just keep in mind that whilst both shows are about cooking, they do have a different atmosphere. For one thing, Yakitate!! Japan is more light hearted and focuses more on the comedy than plot. Cooking master boy is more serious, but still very enjoyable.
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Both anime talk about cooking.
Both have motivation to learn more of cooking.
CMB is more like travel to learn different food of china and its old anime.
YP is more focus on school life and learn cooking and have learn different kind of dessert.
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Opening Theme#1: "空 (Sora)" by Maki Ohguro (eps 1-18) #2: "息もできない (Iki mo Dekinai) ~Now I can breath~" by ZARD (eps 19-36) #3: "君さえいれば (Kimi Sae Ireba)" by DEEN (eps 37-52)
Ending Theme#1: "青い空に出逢えた (Aoi Sora ni Deaeta)" by Arisa Tsujio (eps 1-20) #2: "ミネラル (Mineral)" by Kaori Nanao (eps 21-36) #3: "風のように自由 (Kaze no You ni Jiyuu; Free Like the Wind)" by Keiko Utoku (eps 37-52)
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