The official website for the Iron Wok Jan! (Tetsunabe no Jan!) television anime — based on Shinji Saijyo‘s cooking manga — has released an “alternate” version of the series’ main promotional video alongside a new key visual. The video introduces a new cast member and previews the ending theme song “Naita Akuma” (The Devil Who Cried), performed by singer EMUNIMINI.
The alternate PV puts food critic Nichido Otani — a character described as having Japan’s most refined palate and worst personality — front and center, delivering an animated commentary on protagonist Jan’s cooking.
New Cast Member
Tomokazu Sugita joins the cast as Ryūji Bitō, a wandering Chinese cuisine chef who travels from restaurant to restaurant challenging other chefs to cooking competitions. He goes by the nickname “XO Sauce Ryū.”
Story
The original manga follows Jan Akiyama, a brilliantly talented young chef working at a top-class restaurant, where he constantly butts heads with Kiriko Gobanchō, the owner’s granddaughter and a formidable chef in her own right. Their rivalry is rooted in a fundamental clash of philosophy: Kiriko believes food should be made with the customer’s happiness in mind, while Jan sees cooking purely as a means of competition.
Full Cast
- Kikunosuke Toya — Jan Akiyama
- Ikumi Hasegawa — Kiriko Gobanchō
- Kōhei Amasaki — Takao Okonogi
- Kenjirō Tsuda — Narrator
- Masuo Amada — Nichido Otani
- M.A.O — Celene Yang
- Takahiro Sakurai — Kei Sawada
- Taishi Murata — Tomohide Jun
- Yūsuke Kobayashi — Yuji Kawahara
- Tomokazu Sugita — Ryūji Bitō
Staff
- Director: Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero) at studio TROYCA
- Series Scripts: Makoto Uezu (Akame ga KILL!, Assassination Classroom, KonoSuba)
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Masako Matsumoto (Aldnoah.Zero, Overtake!)
- Music: Tomoki Kikuya (Bocchi the Rock!, Oblivion Battery)
- Opening Theme: “Hien” (Fire Banquet) by seven-member dance vocal group “Genin wa Jibun ni Aru.”
- Ending Theme: “Naita Akuma” by EMUNIMINI
- Cuisine Animation Directors: Atsushi Okuda, Chihiro Hanamura
- Action Animator: Ryūichi Makino
- Art Director: Ken Naitō
- Color Key Artist: Mariko Shinohara
- Compositing Director of Photography: Ryosuke Tsuda
- CG Director: Mitsutaka Iguchi
- Editing: Shota Migiyama
- Cuisine Supervision and Coordinator: Takako Satō
- Cooking Science Supervision: Naoya Higuchi
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Sound Effects: Masami Baba
Broadcast and Streaming
The anime premieres on July 5 and will air every Sunday at 5:30 p.m. JST on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. Streaming in Japan begins the same day at 6:00 p.m. JST via Anime Times, ABEMA, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai.
Manga Background
Saijyo serialized the original manga in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion from 1995 to 2000, spanning 27 compiled volumes. A sequel series, Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations, ran for 10 volumes, and a spinoff, Tetsupai no Jan!, ran in Takeshobo’s Kindai Mahjong magazine from August 2015 through March 2018 (7 volumes). A further successor series, Iron Wok Jan! 2nd, launched in 2017 and concluded with its seventh volume in 2020. The franchise has over 10 million copies in circulation.
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