Bambino!

A earnest, kitchen-set underdog story that simmers with quiet pressure and small victories, making craft and camaraderie feel genuinely stirring.

Created by

Ken Murase, Tarō Ōtani

Genres

Drama

Starring

Jun Matsumoto, Karina, Ryuta Sato

Overview

Bambino! is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi. NTV broadcast the live-action TV drama from April 18, 2007 to June 27, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by TV Japan, an affiliate of NHK, from January to March 2008.

How it feels

Earnest, warm and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Work, ambition, coming-of-age, found family

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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