Alternative TitlesEnglish: Chuuka Ichiban! 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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StatisticsScore: 7.521 (scored by 653 users)
Ranked: #7702
Popularity: #1259
Members: 1,142
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SynopsisAfter the death of Mao's mother, who was called the "Fairy of Cuisine", Mao must strive to become a legendary chef himself, in order to take the title as head chef at his mother's restaurant. To do this, he must travel China to learn the many ways of cooking. During his journey, he meets great friends and also fierce rivals.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Cooking Master Boy
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Cooking Master Boy is also an anime featuring food competitions, but instead of bread it deals with Chinese cuisine.
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.
similarly., they're both about cooking!!!`~
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They are both about cooking... and also the peoples reaction after eating thier food are kinda the same....
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Feb 7, 200852 of 52 episodes seen 11 of 13 people found this review helpful 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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Nov 30, 200852 of 52 episodes seen 0 of 8 people found this review helpful I like it ^__^
I liked the exagerated cooking....
I laughed at the concept of a dark cooking society.....
The anime makes me hungry...
Are there really only 50 (or was it 52?) episodes???
Another make-your-own-ending anime...
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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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