"Takashi Hashiguchi : The Real Owner of Pantasia and St. Pierre..."

Yakitate!! Japan

"Takashi Hashiguchi : The Real Owner of Pantasia and St. Pierre..."

Takashi Hashiguchi (橋口 たかし, born June 2, 1967 in Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his manga series Yakitate!! Japan for which he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 2004. Hashiguchi won a newcomer's award in 1987 (published in a magazine), and Combat Teacher debuted the following year in the same magazine.

Takashi Hashiguchi self - portrait. (I can't find true pic of him.)

A prevailing theme seen throughout his manga is the realization of childhood dreams, such as making bread in Yakitate!! Japan or becoming a yo-yo master in Super Yo-Yo (Chousoku Spinner). Hashiguchi mainly focuses on unusual occupations or sports.

He enjoys comedy as well, and took a brief interlude from drawing to try his luck as a comedian.

source: Wikipedia.org (Article and Picture of Takashi Hashigushi) and Yahoo Image Search (Picture).

"Yakitate!! Japan! : Let's Bake!"

"Yakitate!! Japan! : Let's Bake!"

Pantasia South Tokyo Branch Bakers

Yakitate!! Japan (焼きたて!! ジャぱん) is a manga, authored by Takashi Hashiguchi, serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday, which has been adapted into a television anime series by Sunrise. The manga has spanned 25 tankōbon volumes, as of January, 2007, while the weekly serialization of the manga has ended as of January 10, 2007. The anime series, broadcast on TV Tokyo and other local stations from October 2004 to March 2006, spanned a total of 69 episodes. The series won the 2004 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga. The manga series was later licensed by VIZ Media for North American distribution.

"This is when the Bread was Baked..."

Azuma Kazuma Baking...

Azuma become obsessed with bread when he was six years old. His sister yelled that their family should start having bread for breakfast sometimes, but their grandfather refused to even consider it, as he would only eat natto, miso soup, and rice for breakfast. Kazuma agreed, saying he didn`t like bread, but his sister kidnaps him and takes him to a bread store to show him the wonders of fresh-baked bread. Not only is Kazuma converted, but the owner discovers that Kazuma has the magical "Hands of the Sun" whose warmth makes them particularly suited to making bread.The owner packs up shop and goes to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of making Japan, but Kazuma continues his bread-baking dream as well, and ends up going to Tokyo himself when he`s sixteen, to compete for a spot at the foremost bread store in Japan - Pantasia!

source: Wikipedia.org and MyAnimeList.net (Article), Google Image Search (Pictures).