Bambino!

Bambino! (Japanese: バンビーノ!, Hepburn: Banbiino!, lit. "Baby") is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine (aimed at older men) Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 tankōbon of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi.[2]

Bambino!
Cover of Bambino! volume 14 as published by Shogakukan
バンビーノ!
(Banbiino!)
GenreCooking[1]
Manga
Written byTetsuji Sekiya
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBig Comic Spirits
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 6, 2004 – February 23, 2009
Volumes15
Television drama
Directed byMasatoshi Kato
Ken Murase
Chizu Asai
Written byYoshikazu Okada
Music byYugo Kanno
Original networkNippon TV
Original run April 18, 2007 – June 27, 2007
Episodes11
Manga
Bambino! Secondo
Written byTetsuji Sekiya
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBig Comic Spirits
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 6, 2009 – December 17, 2012
Volumes13

Nippon Television broadcast the live-action TV drama[3] 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.

Media

Manga

Bambino! is written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine (aimed at older men) Big Comic Spirits. As of March 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga between March 30, 2005 and December 26, 2008.[4][5]

Volume listing
No. Release date ISBN
1 March 30, 2005[4]978-4-09-187551-8
2 July 29, 2005[6]978-4-09-187552-5
3 January 30, 2006[7]978-4-09-187553-2
4 April 27, 2006[8]978-4-09-180317-7
5 July 28, 2006[9]978-4-09-180567-6
6 October 30, 2006[10]978-4-09-180779-3
7 February 28, 2007[11]978-4-09-181070-0
8 April 6, 2007[12]978-4-09-181165-3
9 July 30, 2007[13]978-4-09-181340-4
10 October 30, 2007[14]978-4-09-181509-5
11 February 2008[15]978-4-09-181743-3
12 March 30, 2008[16]978-4-09-181892-8
13 August 29, 2008[17]978-4-09-182130-0
14 December 26, 2008[5]978-4-09-182249-9

Drama

We Can Make It! by Arashi is the series' opening theme song

Cast

Title listing
No.TitleOriginal air date
1"To work is not easy"
"Shigototte amakunai" (Japanese: 仕事って甘くない)		April 18, 2007 (2007-04-18)
2"I won't lose"
"Makete tamaruka" (Japanese: 負けてたまるか)		April 25, 2007 (2007-04-25)
3"Tears... the last day"
"Namida... saigo no ichinichi" (Japanese: 涙…最後の一日)		May 2, 2007 (2007-05-02)
4"In Hakata... to the future"
"Hakata hen... mirai e" (Japanese: 博多編…未来へ)		May 9, 2007 (2007-05-09)
5"What "work" means"
"Hataraku to iukoto" (Japanese: 働くということ)		May 16, 2007 (2007-05-16)
6"What is love?"
"Ai tte nandarou" (Japanese: 愛って何だろう)		May 23, 2007 (2007-05-23)
7"Pasta showdown for love"
"Koi no pasuta taiketsu" (Japanese: 恋のパスタ対決)		May 30, 2007 (2007-05-30)
8"Magic of desserts"
"Dezāto no mahou" (Japanese: デザートの魔法)		June 6, 2007 (2007-06-06)
9"Doors to the chef!!"
"Ryōrinin e no tobira!!" (Japanese: 料理人への扉!!)		June 13, 2007 (2007-06-13)
10"I can cook!"
"Ryōri ga tsukureru!" (Japanese: 料理が作れる!)		June 20, 2007 (2007-06-20)
11"Teary farewell... good bye Baccanale"
"Namida no wakare... sayonara Bakkanāre" (Japanese: 涙の別れ…さよならバッカナーレ)		June 27, 2007 (2007-06-27)

Soundtrack CD

On March 30, 2007, wint released a soundtrack CD for the Bambino! TV drama.[18]

Reception

The Bambino! manga received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi.[19]

At the 53rd Television Drama Academy Awards, the Bambino! television drama was awarded four prizes. They were: Best Actor (Jun Matsumoto), Supporting Actor (Kitamura Kazuki), Best Director and Special Award.

References
  1. Asaff, Sarabeth (10 April 2014). "Cooking Manga You'll Want to Read". Udemy. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  2. "53rd Shogakukan Manga Award Winners Announced". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  3. "9 J-Dramas for K-Drama Fans to Start Watching | Viu". Viu. 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  4. バンビ~ノ! (1) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  5. バンビ~ノ! (14) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  6. バンビ~ノ! (2) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  7. バンビ~ノ! (3) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  8. バンビ~ノ! (4) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  9. バンビ~ノ! (5) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  10. バンビ~ノ! (6) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  11. バンビ~ノ! (7) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  12. バンビ~ノ! (8) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  13. バンビ~ノ! (9) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  14. バンビ~ノ! (10) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  15. バンビ~ノ! (11) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  16. バンビ~ノ! (12) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  17. バンビ~ノ! (13) (ビッグコミックス) (コミック) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  18. "Bambino! Original Soundtrack". cdjapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  19. 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
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