1 Season
69 Episode
Yakitate!! Japan - Season 1 Episode 1 He Has Arrived!! The Boy Who Possesses Solar Hands!
Azuma Kazuma, the boy with the Solar Hands, comes to Pantasia in Tokyo, Japan to make the #1 bread for his country, ""Japan!"" This episode tells the back-story of how and why Azuma became interested in bread and why he so badly wants to create Japan's own unique bread; a bread that could proudly be shown as ""Japanese Bread"".
- Year: 2006
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Comedy
- Studio: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TSC, TVh
- Keyword: based on manga, anime
- Director: Yasunao Aoki
- Cast: Marina Inoue, Yumiko Kobayashi, Yu Shimaka, Takehito Koyasu, Chigusa Ikeda, Tomokazu Seki