Just some small updates 🩷 1. I realize that people can lose taste through trauma or sickness, it's just not a common thing. Thank you for sharing your stories! 2. Some people are saying that I said flan wrong?? But I'm from the south and I've only heard it said the way I say it in the video. I tend to exaggerate my vowels. Unfortunate part of being southern ig. 3. THANK YOU for giving this video so much LOVE!! More videos are coming soon!
im still not over the fact that sora straight up just died in the middle of the plot like my girl is not only a orphan, but she gets bullied and picked on by not only students but also adults??!! and then her crush straight up dies and then the grannie had issues which lead her to leave an important competition like GIVE HER A BREAK OH MY GOD 😭
I remember liking the other love interest more than sora when I read it, but then he died and I was heartbroken. I was actually upset she ended up with the guy I wanted her to be with xD this story honestly broke me
@@avengefullgirl95 I was sick of tsunderes ALWAYS being the main romance option so when teen me read Kitchen Princess I was like "OMG FINALLY THE NICE ONE IS THE LE AD!" and then they killed him like that and it hurt so friggin' much. I got so mad I stopped reading right after that.
@@gracekim1998You absolutely should! It's basically this, but the love triangle is actually a reverse harem and it's set in an elite patisserie high school. Also there are little fairy sidekicks. I like the manga better than the anime, though. They start with the same vibe, but the anime kind of just stays childish while the manga seems to mature a bit as the story goes on. I think that's mostly to do with how the fairies are voiced in the anime.
My only access to Kitchen Princess was a few volumes from my local library. Guess what the last volume they had was? That's right... Sora getting isekai'd by truck kun. Haunted me for _years._
I told my friend about this manga and when I said "Oh and one of the main cast dies too" they were all shocked that a COOKING MANGA would have major character death in it
Kids anime were just so extra fucked up?? Like all the stuff that happened in Shugo Chara, many of them being very illegal?????? 😭😭😭 Like no one died but much worse happens
28:57 okay but losing your sense of taste and/or smell could actually happen in real life when a person experience a traumatic moment. It's a PTSD response so Najika being in so much shock after Sora's death and blaming her own skill, her *cooking* ability, so much it can rewired her brain to trigger a traumatic response to protect herself: a.k.a losing her sense of taste Tho of course in real life you need extreme stress to trigger this sort of response 😥
Can confirm. I was in a car accident a few years back. I was lucky to have gotten out with effectively no injuries, though my car was completely totalled. It took a good four or five days before I was able to taste anything after that. Which really sucked, because it happened a couple days before Christmas. Had one of my favorite dishes, too. Might as well have been eating ash.
Why does Kitchen Princess have such an insane body count?! I can't believe they just kicked him off the planet like that AND switched him for a body double. Absolutely wild lol
I remember being absolutely flabbergasted reading this as a kid when they just straight up killed Sora like half way through the manga. kitchen princess was such a trip
I love how 90% of the comments are from people who have already read the manga, like we don’t need a summary of it, we just need a community space to talk about how crazy it is!!💕🙀🍮
Tbh Sora dying pissed me off so badly that I dropped this immediately! Teenage me was sooo mad, like I really liked him out of all the characters at that time 😭😭😭
And then a look alike cousin coming in so there can be a love triangle NO WAY if they had gone with her and Daichi going through grief together and falling in love through it I would have respected it more. But it feels like they just wanted to get Sora out of the way so disrespectful!
I feel like teenage me also would have gotten very angry about this if I’d read it back then too, lmao. As an adult I can look at it and just laugh, but I would have been SORE over it like 12 years ago 😂
I read this entire series in a Barnes and Noble when I was like 14 and had to hide in the bathroom and cry when sora died. I made my first irl dedication fan art to a fictional persons death for Sora
I've actually never heard of Kitchen Princess before. I might go and read it myself. Sidenote: The immediate change of tones actually gave me whiplash. Like, it took me about five minutes to process that Sora got hit by Truck-Kun.
I remembered reading this in the public library during middle school summers. Itd piss me off because someone would rip the recipes out of the back from the book. i remember when sora died, i was so confused because i just didnt believe it
even tho _Full Moon_ started serializing first heheh Ironically enough, have you heard of _Zodiac P.I.?_ It's a pretty fun murder mystery series from the same manga-ka as _Kitchen Princess._
Damn, I remember this manga. I was in shock and also couldn't stop laughing when the guy just up and dies, and his last words was "I'm not the pudding prince"
I read this in middle school and promptly never found it again- I had almost given it up as a fever dream before I found this video and recognized the art style in the thumbnail. Pretty much all I remembered of it was the first few chapters and the anorexia plot line, but I remember enjoying the manga. Thanks for unlocking some pleasant middle school memories for me!
I wanna say that your little commercial breaks bring such a specific overwhelming level of joy I cannot possibly describe. My first anime ever was Shugo Chara and my first manga was Arisa. I was obsessed with both but never connected them so seeing them both appear simultaneously in one ad is so 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Kitchen princess was one of my favorite manga of all time. It had all the tropes and all the drama. I read this when i was pretty young. About 10-12 yrs old. I remember Akane's ED very vividly, and looking back, I can't help but think about how well they implemented it. It was pretty new at the time to talk about eating disorders, especially in reference to entertainers in Hollywood.
Kitchen Princess was the Shoujo manga that defined my Shoujo journey into my teen years (along with my tastes in fictional romances) so to see someone talk about the series after so long hit me with nostalgia hard. It was such a cute and surprisingly well written story (touching on such matters like eating disorders and sensory disassociation due to trauma) . The element that drew me into the manga was the mystery of the story. Favorite aspects were Akane and Seiya's character arcs as well as the slow burn romance between Najika and her love interests. The food illustrations and bonus recipes were the icing on the cake. So yes, I think of KP as a 2000s Shoujo classic and a manga I return to as a comfort series I can return to (even with the whole Sora dying thing midway through).
I remember being a kid and making the onion consume soup recipe i think it was at the back of volume 1 and i was like "wait...this is just french onion soup without enough cheese."
I distinctly remember reading this as one of my first manga ever and being so shocked at Sora’s death, asdfghjkl. Glad to see this manga being acknowledged, it really is charming in that early 2000s shoujo way
Oh My Gosh ! Nakayoshi Comics are important to my pre-teen era , I’m Pampered by Titles such as Gokkun Pucho (( Pixie Pop )) , Tina the Wind Up Toy , Little Angels Milky and Cute , Milk Shake , Cyber Idol Mink , Tokyo Mew Mew , Mermaid Melody , Sugar Sugar Rune , Hopper and Yummy Kitchen , Kamichama Karin , Shugo Chara , 12 Zign of Zodiac and of course Kitchen Princess Oh What a trip to Memory Lane
I had never heard of Kitchen Princess until a few months ago! I found the first Manga in a used bookstore and I thought it looked so cute. I had to pick it up and I’m SO GLAD I did! It’s one of the best manga reads I’ve read in a while! We love seeing kitchen princess talk! 💕🎂 (also Najika reminds me of cure whip XD)
I loved this manga when I was younger, but the part of it that really keeps it as a mainstay on my shelves is the fact that the recipes are amazingly delicious! Every single one I have tried has turned out perfectly. The recipes are fairly easy too. Some are surprisingly inventive and outside the box, which really opened up a world of fun and interesting cooking possibilities for me.
Kitchen Princess was my first manga when I was 8. My library had it in mismatched volumes and I had to beg to be taken to other libraries to find the other volumes. I'm 24 now and reread it every few years for nostalgia sake.
Dude this series traumatised me lololol. I read it expecting a light hearted shoujo when I was younger and the death caught me so off guard,, I was like wth TT
Just a pointer Arina Tanemura and Natsume Ando always have dark plot twists in their mangas (most of them) This one is by Ando so it’s quite tragic and if you have read Arisa or “We are not ourselves anymore” then it also follows a dark route
You just unlocked a childhood memory of mine! I used to check the manga out at the library all the time! They didn't have all the volumes though so I didn't see what happened with Sora 🤯 I started to read them because I thought the art was cute 😂
My school has the omnibus version of the Kitchen Princess manga and despite reading the manga after watching this video, I was still not mentally prepared
Kitchen Princess was one of the first manga I ever read (I got it and Vampire Knight at the middle school book fair.) I remember rereading volume one so many times the pages wore out and I had to replace it. I also liked making the recipes, but I couldn't make all of them as my ingredients were limited as a young'n. I still love this book and bring it up whenever anyone tries to quiz me about manga.
i remember this manga hitting hard for me at the time of me reading it because i was also going through an eating disorder. awesome to see you cover this wonderful manga!
OMG YAY!!! I love how you are making videos over obscure and underrated Shoujo manga! Kitchen princess is one my favorites, and I hope more people give it more love as it deserves.
KITCHEN PRINCESS IN 2024 YESSS I rlly enjoyed the cute cooking with absolute crazy plot lines such a fun treat. I actually really love seiya and akane together even when they r rushed haha. In my head they had a slow burn long distance pining for years before they got together😭
I read the first two volumes at my library and my sister and I loved it. But holy crap I had no idea the plot got that ceazy later on. Childhood me is devistated omg
One of the first manga series I read when I was in middle school. It's such an underrated series that I'm still upset never got an anime series. It's super cute and always gave me the same happy feelings like Kirarin Revolution
tbh when sora got killed i wasn't surprised at all since i found this manga in my mid-late teen years, so i was pretty familiar with tropes already, so "of course they choose the kill off one of the love interest for drama" is the first thing in my head, the pudding reveal though was kinda original i guess, but if they are all going to make such a happy friendship ending, while not keep sora alive, i think make sora be in a coma for a while while mc takes care of him and pair the model girl with daichi would be a better ending
39:09 He reminds me of Bihu Boulle from the 26th issue of Happy Merry-go-Round, Well, they look similar, but he has the number 2 on his T-shirt, and Bihu Boulle has the number 26.
This was such an amazing manga to hear about ^^ I'm glad I got to know more about this story and also with the recipes it was a very nice personal touch ^^ I definitely agree it should have been an anime adaptation ^^ Great video as always ^^
Oh my goodness I can’t believe someone else remembers this manga! This was one of the only mangas in my elementary school besides the Pokemon and Zelda ones! Me and my friends loved to read this one lol.
I have ABSOLUTELY experienced loosing my sense of taste in extreme distress. It’s more like everything tastes dull or like soot. Even sweets taste way too sweet to taste good in an overwhelming sense. Probably not exactly what they were getting at but I definitely understand.
Omg I read Kitchen Princess in the fifth grade, and I was so in love with it, OBSESSED. I remember reading it in the car on the way to my brothers highschool graduation, WHEN SORA DIED. I was so shook, I couldn’t even focus on my brothers ceremony 💀
I was slapped SO HARD with nostalgia when I saw the title Kitchen Princess again, I was obsessed with the few manga I could get my hands on at the local library. Now I'm gonna have to finish reading it (never did back then lmao) As a side, maybe you can poke at Tokyo Mew Mew or Mermaid Melody next?
I can’t believe other people know about this series, I got into it because they had the 3 volumes at the local library. To this day I’m still shocked they killed off sora
OMG i was obsessed with kitchen princess!! I remember crying over it when i was like 9. But i was surprised to see a video about it because people never talk about it anymore 😭
stop cuz this was the very first manga i ever read when i was in 5th grade i was so obsessed with it and got the physical copies and my friend even drew me a kitchen princess bookmark which i still have
Kitchen Princess was my first ever manga that reintroduced me to anime as a middle schooler…I remember reading the series starting at book 2 and being hooked just from the book recap and coming across the car accident
man this takes me back. i used to read this bcs my sister got nakayoshi magazine almost religiously. it felt like a fever dream with just how much the manga pushes the angst and the back and forth whiplash. though the mangaka's pacing has always been an issue for me in multiple titles so it's really not that surprising.
I binged read this in middle school and it had me begging for my girl to have a peaceful day. I’m so happy that so many have experienced one of my fondest mangas.
Only a little bit into the video kind of reminds me of Utena, orphan the ruined dress at a party and everyone mysteriously having a mysterious silver spoon like the rose crest
same here! it’s basically what nanami does to anthy in that one episode and its honestly trippy to remember how normal shoujo utena started out before it became even more of a Surrealist Art Piece
My biggest memory of this manga is reading it in a high school library and being really invested and around 12th grade my teacher was doing a book fair where you traded a book for a book i brought him a couple of my moms books she didnt read around 10 and he said i could get as many books as i wanted sure enough those same 10 kitchen princess books were aviable i took them and theyve been in my collectiom ever since. I love this series being my gateway drug into manga as a kid thanks for coverinf the wacky sheninhans of this book.
it was so exciting for me to get this vid in my recommended i was such a huge fan when the english version came out but all the car/truck jokes are insane i love it
This manga is so special to me. I began reading it at 11 years old, I had recently moved to the U.S. and only knew a few words in English. I would spend my lunch time in the library every day due to social anxiety jaja. In this , I found this series, I learned English fairly quick and these books were a huge part in it. I read many other mangas after this series, but Kitchen Princess is the most special.
Oh my god I'm actually so pleasantly surprised that a lot of people have gathered who read this manga. It was such a big part of my middle school days and I miss this manga so much. Always loved the little recipes in the end, but I never got to make any of them as a kid. This video reminded me that I should make one of thise recipes now that I'm an adult
I remember this! You’ve just brought back a memory buried soooo damn deep. Didn’t the author also include recipes in the chapters?! I used to want to try them so much. I was always confused why they tried to convince me it was a mystery to who the guy was. Like girl, they have different hair colours. You don’t remember that?!
6:02 being an ORPHAN 💀💀💀 This was recommended to me and I watched the whole thing as if I don’t own the whole series. I love seeing others talk about this series, it holds such a special place in my heart 🥰🥰🥰
Its one of the few shoujos i have read as a guy, and man does it get dark for a series aimed at kids/young girls. It has this wonderful blemd of lightheartedness and serious drama, it was a pretty decent read.
I loved stumbling upon this video! I read kitchen princess a few years ago and didn't know how popular it actually was! I love cute and slightly too dramatic shojo, so please more videos like this!
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Just some small updates 🩷
1. I realize that people can lose taste through trauma or sickness, it's just not a common thing. Thank you for sharing your stories!
2. Some people are saying that I said flan wrong?? But I'm from the south and I've only heard it said the way I say it in the video. I tend to exaggerate my vowels. Unfortunate part of being southern ig.
3. THANK YOU for giving this video so much LOVE!! More videos are coming soon!
Can u do a review about peach girl it's kinda similar to this kinda but not really
im still not over the fact that sora straight up just died in the middle of the plot like my girl is not only a orphan, but she gets bullied and picked on by not only students but also adults??!! and then her crush straight up dies and then the grannie had issues which lead her to leave an important competition like GIVE HER A BREAK OH MY GOD 😭
I remember liking the other love interest more than sora when I read it, but then he died and I was heartbroken. I was actually upset she ended up with the guy I wanted her to be with xD this story honestly broke me
It felt like the author needed a reason for the other two to stay together so she killed him off 😢
@@avengefullgirl95 I was sick of tsunderes ALWAYS being the main romance option so when teen me read Kitchen Princess I was like "OMG FINALLY THE NICE ONE IS THE LE AD!" and then they killed him like that and it hurt so friggin' much. I got so mad I stopped reading right after that.
@@avengefullgirl95 For real, I was a Daichi fan from the start but Sora did not deserve to die
This is like a mix between yumeiro patisserie and candy candy wth😭😭
Kitchen princess walked so Yumiero patisserie could run
This!
Ooo sounds like more things i need to check out
@@gracekim1998You absolutely should! It's basically this, but the love triangle is actually a reverse harem and it's set in an elite patisserie high school. Also there are little fairy sidekicks. I like the manga better than the anime, though. They start with the same vibe, but the anime kind of just stays childish while the manga seems to mature a bit as the story goes on. I think that's mostly to do with how the fairies are voiced in the anime.
real
@@BandFairy I agree but it’s still one of my absolutely favorite anime X3
My only access to Kitchen Princess was a few volumes from my local library. Guess what the last volume they had was? That's right... Sora getting isekai'd by truck kun. Haunted me for _years._
oh my god imagine how funny itd be if that really was the end of the series
I seriously thought that’s how it ended
Omggg yes! That’s how I discovered Kitchen Princess as well! Thank god we had all of the volumes though
Same!!! I remember crying my eyes out thinking that was the end and that she never had her happy ending T-T
Same. Me and my friends were so shocked and thought that was how it ended lol
I choose to believe that Sora who was done dirty in this story was isekai'd into world where he was the hero! Poor Sora!
Lotta isekais with a sora
any good shojo should have a sudden very dark twist. The death of one of the love interests in your love triangle is a bold move, though
also that plot rush at the end gives me "ok we want you to finsih the story in the next [x] chapters" vibe
Candy candy
i busted out laughing when Sora dies LIKE WAS THERE REALLY A REASON TO KILL HIM OFF OTHER THAN GETTING THE ROMANCE GOING PLS
Im shocked . I didnt think many people read this manga. The reason why i loved it besides the story was because of the lil cute hand drawn recipes.
My mom once looked up fun manga for my younger sister because she felt left out and found this, she really loved it :)
Same. I remember the recipes that showed on the page as it was presented.
I also loved it for recipes! But my god the story was heart breaking
I swear I put Kitchen Princess, Yumiero patisserie, Shugo Chara and Gakuen Alice and Kodocha in the same category in my brain.
at least in kitchen princess they're high schooler
the others meanwhile are stories about elementary school kids T_T
They are in same category. I love old Manga/Anime art style.
I told my friend about this manga and when I said "Oh and one of the main cast dies too" they were all shocked that a COOKING MANGA would have major character death in it
Kids anime were just so extra fucked up?? Like all the stuff that happened in Shugo Chara, many of them being very illegal?????? 😭😭😭 Like no one died but much worse happens
@@Aros4 wait what??? Tell me what happened I forgot the manga and anime contents
cooking manga/anime is always pretty insane tbh
I love the clip you used.
"HE'S LITERALLY A GUY! HIT HIM WITH YOUR CAR!"
😂😂😂
And then he gets in a car accident 😅
Dying 0_0
gotta love my girl chrissy
28:57 okay but losing your sense of taste and/or smell could actually happen in real life when a person experience a traumatic moment. It's a PTSD response so Najika being in so much shock after Sora's death and blaming her own skill, her *cooking* ability, so much it can rewired her brain to trigger a traumatic response to protect herself: a.k.a losing her sense of taste
Tho of course in real life you need extreme stress to trigger this sort of response 😥
Can confirm. I was in a car accident a few years back. I was lucky to have gotten out with effectively no injuries, though my car was completely totalled. It took a good four or five days before I was able to taste anything after that. Which really sucked, because it happened a couple days before Christmas. Had one of my favorite dishes, too. Might as well have been eating ash.
Why does Kitchen Princess have such an insane body count?! I can't believe they just kicked him off the planet like that AND switched him for a body double. Absolutely wild lol
I remember being absolutely flabbergasted reading this as a kid when they just straight up killed Sora like half way through the manga. kitchen princess was such a trip
It was my first manga as a 9 year old and I was rooting for Sora... when he died I cried for days omg
I love how 90% of the comments are from people who have already read the manga, like we don’t need a summary of it, we just need a community space to talk about how crazy it is!!💕🙀🍮
As someone who read kitchen princess in middle school , I can confirm Sora getting k-o’d so early created a core memory lmao
Tbh Sora dying pissed me off so badly that I dropped this immediately! Teenage me was sooo mad, like I really liked him out of all the characters at that time 😭😭😭
And then a look alike cousin coming in so there can be a love triangle NO WAY if they had gone with her and Daichi going through grief together and falling in love through it I would have respected it more. But it feels like they just wanted to get Sora out of the way so disrespectful!
I feel like teenage me also would have gotten very angry about this if I’d read it back then too, lmao. As an adult I can look at it and just laugh, but I would have been SORE over it like 12 years ago 😂
SAAAAAME I was like what in the daichi agenda is this fjdbdjd
the sora dying part was so random 😭😭 but I still hope kitchen princess gets an anime one day
2000s shoujo hits different ngl.
The 2000s were pretty hardcore
I read this entire series in a Barnes and Noble when I was like 14 and had to hide in the bathroom and cry when sora died. I made my first irl dedication fan art to a fictional persons death for Sora
i thought sora dying was a funny haha joke BUT HE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT UP JUST DIES????
I remember reading this all in one night and when sora died I had to put my phone down in complete shock and lay in bed for a minute to process it. 😭
Kitchen Princess is the LAST manga I'd expect Truck-kun to make an appearance, yet here we are. I'm gobsmacked.
I've actually never heard of Kitchen Princess before. I might go and read it myself.
Sidenote: The immediate change of tones actually gave me whiplash. Like, it took me about five minutes to process that Sora got hit by Truck-Kun.
In another world as a pastry chef
Lmao same. When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was some Yumeiro Patisserie spin off
no the shock i had when he just DIED??? i was like what the hell brought this on 😭
I remembered reading this in the public library during middle school summers. Itd piss me off because someone would rip the recipes out of the back from the book.
i remember when sora died, i was so confused because i just didnt believe it
The ending screams “you’re getting cancelled, wrap it up in 5 chapters”
i felt so seen when you spoke about how starving yourself literally messes up your head. i forgot how this manga goes into ed issues...
Kitchen Princess walk so Full Moon o Sagashite could run 🏃 love my whiplash drama on murder crime mystery love triangle series ❤
even tho _Full Moon_ started serializing first heheh
Ironically enough, have you heard of _Zodiac P.I.?_ It's a pretty fun murder mystery series from the same manga-ka as _Kitchen Princess._
THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I SAW THE THUMBNAIL-
PLSSS NOT 04:28 - GIRLIE U DID NOTTTT-
Damn, I remember this manga. I was in shock and also couldn't stop laughing when the guy just up and dies, and his last words was "I'm not the pudding prince"
I read this in middle school and promptly never found it again- I had almost given it up as a fever dream before I found this video and recognized the art style in the thumbnail. Pretty much all I remembered of it was the first few chapters and the anorexia plot line, but I remember enjoying the manga. Thanks for unlocking some pleasant middle school memories for me!
wait the flashback is literally just revolutionary girl utena’s whole premise
Omg it has been years since I read this manga, I really miss the 2000s shojo aesthetic.
"The Disney girls could never" 👁👄👁💅
The commercial break right when Sora died!!!! I love the commercial breaks you put in but never have I been so tempted to skip forward 😱
I wanna say that your little commercial breaks bring such a specific overwhelming level of joy I cannot possibly describe. My first anime ever was Shugo Chara and my first manga was Arisa. I was obsessed with both but never connected them so seeing them both appear simultaneously in one ad is so 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Kitchen princess was one of my favorite manga of all time. It had all the tropes and all the drama. I read this when i was pretty young. About 10-12 yrs old. I remember Akane's ED very vividly, and looking back, I can't help but think about how well they implemented it. It was pretty new at the time to talk about eating disorders, especially in reference to entertainers in Hollywood.
Kitchen Princess was the Shoujo manga that defined my Shoujo journey into my teen years (along with my tastes in fictional romances) so to see someone talk about the series after so long hit me with nostalgia hard. It was such a cute and surprisingly well written story (touching on such matters like eating disorders and sensory disassociation due to trauma) . The element that drew me into the manga was the mystery of the story. Favorite aspects were Akane and Seiya's character arcs as well as the slow burn romance between Najika and her love interests. The food illustrations and bonus recipes were the icing on the cake. So yes, I think of KP as a 2000s Shoujo classic and a manga I return to as a comfort series I can return to (even with the whole Sora dying thing midway through).
I read this a lot in high school, I do hope we get a Kitchen Princess anime.
this was like the first manga i read and i’m still not over the love interest getting hit by a car
I remember being a kid and making the onion consume soup recipe i think it was at the back of volume 1 and i was like "wait...this is just french onion soup without enough cheese."
I distinctly remember reading this as one of my first manga ever and being so shocked at Sora’s death, asdfghjkl. Glad to see this manga being acknowledged, it really is charming in that early 2000s shoujo way
no way you foreshadowed sora’s death at the beginning of the vid 💀💀
Oh My Gosh ! Nakayoshi Comics are important to my pre-teen era , I’m Pampered by Titles such as Gokkun Pucho (( Pixie Pop )) , Tina the Wind Up Toy , Little Angels Milky and Cute , Milk Shake , Cyber Idol Mink , Tokyo Mew Mew , Mermaid Melody , Sugar Sugar Rune , Hopper and Yummy Kitchen , Kamichama Karin , Shugo Chara , 12 Zign of Zodiac and of course Kitchen Princess
Oh What a trip to Memory Lane
I had never heard of Kitchen Princess until a few months ago! I found the first Manga in a used bookstore and I thought it looked so cute. I had to pick it up and I’m SO GLAD I did! It’s one of the best manga reads I’ve read in a while! We love seeing kitchen princess talk! 💕🎂 (also Najika reminds me of cure whip XD)
I loved this manga when I was younger, but the part of it that really keeps it as a mainstay on my shelves is the fact that the recipes are amazingly delicious! Every single one I have tried has turned out perfectly. The recipes are fairly easy too. Some are surprisingly inventive and outside the box, which really opened up a world of fun and interesting cooking possibilities for me.
Kitchen Princess was my first manga when I was 8. My library had it in mismatched volumes and I had to beg to be taken to other libraries to find the other volumes. I'm 24 now and reread it every few years for nostalgia sake.
Dude this series traumatised me lololol. I read it expecting a light hearted shoujo when I was younger and the death caught me so off guard,, I was like wth TT
Just a pointer Arina Tanemura and Natsume Ando always have dark plot twists in their mangas (most of them)
This one is by Ando so it’s quite tragic and if you have read Arisa or “We are not ourselves anymore” then it also follows a dark route
You just unlocked a childhood memory of mine! I used to check the manga out at the library all the time! They didn't have all the volumes though so I didn't see what happened with Sora 🤯 I started to read them because I thought the art was cute 😂
Man I loved this manga as a teen. This and Skip Beat ruled my heart at 11-12!
My school has the omnibus version of the Kitchen Princess manga and despite reading the manga after watching this video, I was still not mentally prepared
Kitchen Princess was one of the first manga I ever read (I got it and Vampire Knight at the middle school book fair.) I remember rereading volume one so many times the pages wore out and I had to replace it. I also liked making the recipes, but I couldn't make all of them as my ingredients were limited as a young'n. I still love this book and bring it up whenever anyone tries to quiz me about manga.
i remember this manga hitting hard for me at the time of me reading it because i was also going through an eating disorder. awesome to see you cover this wonderful manga!
OMG YAY!!! I love how you are making videos over obscure and underrated Shoujo manga! Kitchen princess is one my favorites, and I hope more people give it more love as it deserves.
Omg kitchen princess reappearing in my radar feels like a fever dream... How have I forgotten about this gem
NOOOO NOT THE MINKI MOMO REFERENCE!!!!
KITCHEN PRINCESS IN 2024 YESSS I rlly enjoyed the cute cooking with absolute crazy plot lines such a fun treat. I actually really love seiya and akane together even when they r rushed haha. In my head they had a slow burn long distance pining for years before they got together😭
I read the first two volumes at my library and my sister and I loved it. But holy crap I had no idea the plot got that ceazy later on. Childhood me is devistated omg
One of the first manga series I read when I was in middle school. It's such an underrated series that I'm still upset never got an anime series. It's super cute and always gave me the same happy feelings like Kirarin Revolution
tbh when sora got killed i wasn't surprised at all since i found this manga in my mid-late teen years, so i was pretty familiar with tropes already, so "of course they choose the kill off one of the love interest for drama" is the first thing in my head, the pudding reveal though was kinda original i guess, but if they are all going to make such a happy friendship ending, while not keep sora alive, i think make sora be in a coma for a while while mc takes care of him and pair the model girl with daichi would be a better ending
39:09 He reminds me of Bihu Boulle from the 26th issue of Happy Merry-go-Round, Well, they look similar, but he has the number 2 on his T-shirt, and Bihu Boulle has the number 26.
I read Kitchen Princess when I was a kid. I’m glad this came up in my recommended-very nostalgic!
This was such an amazing manga to hear about ^^ I'm glad I got to know more about this story and also with the recipes it was a very nice personal touch ^^ I definitely agree it should have been an anime adaptation ^^ Great video as always ^^
Oh my goodness I can’t believe someone else remembers this manga! This was one of the only mangas in my elementary school besides the Pokemon and Zelda ones! Me and my friends loved to read this one lol.
I have ABSOLUTELY experienced loosing my sense of taste in extreme distress. It’s more like everything tastes dull or like soot. Even sweets taste way too sweet to taste good in an overwhelming sense. Probably not exactly what they were getting at but I definitely understand.
Omg I read Kitchen Princess in the fifth grade, and I was so in love with it, OBSESSED. I remember reading it in the car on the way to my brothers highschool graduation, WHEN SORA DIED. I was so shook, I couldn’t even focus on my brothers ceremony 💀
I was slapped SO HARD with nostalgia when I saw the title Kitchen Princess again, I was obsessed with the few manga I could get my hands on at the local library. Now I'm gonna have to finish reading it (never did back then lmao)
As a side, maybe you can poke at Tokyo Mew Mew or Mermaid Melody next?
Book 6 hits hard man, I remember reading it and crying in the bookstore lol
I can’t believe other people know about this series, I got into it because they had the 3 volumes at the local library. To this day I’m still shocked they killed off sora
omg omg omg i forgot this existed !!!! i probably read this 10+ years ago when i was like 12. what a throwback
OMG i was obsessed with kitchen princess!! I remember crying over it when i was like 9. But i was surprised to see a video about it because people never talk about it anymore 😭
stop cuz this was the very first manga i ever read when i was in 5th grade i was so obsessed with it and got the physical copies and my friend even drew me a kitchen princess bookmark which i still have
Kitchen Princess was my first ever manga that reintroduced me to anime as a middle schooler…I remember reading the series starting at book 2 and being hooked just from the book recap and coming across the car accident
A classic. I cried my eyes out at 12 years old lol. This manga artist was my favorite
man this takes me back. i used to read this bcs my sister got nakayoshi magazine almost religiously. it felt like a fever dream with just how much the manga pushes the angst and the back and forth whiplash. though the mangaka's pacing has always been an issue for me in multiple titles so it's really not that surprising.
I binged read this in middle school and it had me begging for my girl to have a peaceful day. I’m so happy that so many have experienced one of my fondest mangas.
AHHH IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU TO REVIEW THIS, I LOVE THIS MANGA
I'm so glad I found this video. Kitchen Princess is one of my favorite series.
So there is a series by Jules Dapper where she recaps the series, if you want more video essays on the series.
The way relieving Kitchen Princess gave me huge, HUGE Full Moon wo Sagashite dejavu in some places, ngl ljsdlkasjda Iconic series, 10/10
I remember reading this in high school!!! They had it in the manga section and i would read it during lunch sometimes
Only a little bit into the video kind of reminds me of Utena, orphan the ruined dress at a party and everyone mysteriously having a mysterious silver spoon like the rose crest
same here! it’s basically what nanami does to anthy in that one episode and its honestly trippy to remember how normal shoujo utena started out before it became even more of a Surrealist Art Piece
Ooo you know about Utena? That the one with the rise maiden right ?
I screamed in delight when I saw this video. Now I have 2 RUclipsrs talking about this manga.
My biggest memory of this manga is reading it in a high school library and being really invested and around 12th grade my teacher was doing a book fair where you traded a book for a book i brought him a couple of my moms books she didnt read around 10 and he said i could get as many books as i wanted sure enough those same 10 kitchen princess books were aviable i took them and theyve been in my collectiom ever since. I love this series being my gateway drug into manga as a kid thanks for coverinf the wacky sheninhans of this book.
Oh my god someone else knows what this is!!!! My highschool library had the entire collection and I loved it.
it was so exciting for me to get this vid in my recommended i was such a huge fan when the english version came out but all the car/truck jokes are insane i love it
I was obsessed with this manga in Middle School! I remember crying multiple times while reading it.
This manga is so special to me. I began reading it at 11 years old, I had recently moved to the U.S. and only knew a few words in English. I would spend my lunch time in the library every day due to social anxiety jaja. In this , I found this series, I learned English fairly quick and these books were a huge part in it. I read many other mangas after this series, but Kitchen Princess is the most special.
The way I couldn't put this series down in high school loll Loved it so much and still own it all
i seriously thought that when you said he died you were just joking!! that is so bizarre for a shoujo manga
This plot and the character archetypes being presented seem to me like a cooking-centric version of Kirarin Revolution.
27:21 "He's literally a guy! Hit him with your car!"
Now that forshadowing 😂
Oh my god I'm actually so pleasantly surprised that a lot of people have gathered who read this manga. It was such a big part of my middle school days and I miss this manga so much. Always loved the little recipes in the end, but I never got to make any of them as a kid. This video reminded me that I should make one of thise recipes now that I'm an adult
I remember this! You’ve just brought back a memory buried soooo damn deep. Didn’t the author also include recipes in the chapters?! I used to want to try them so much. I was always confused why they tried to convince me it was a mystery to who the guy was. Like girl, they have different hair colours. You don’t remember that?!
SO HAPPY TO SEE SOMEONE TALK ABOUT KITCHEN PRINCESS
6:02 being an ORPHAN 💀💀💀
This was recommended to me and I watched the whole thing as if I don’t own the whole series. I love seeing others talk about this series, it holds such a special place in my heart 🥰🥰🥰
Its one of the few shoujos i have read as a guy, and man does it get dark for a series aimed at kids/young girls. It has this wonderful blemd of lightheartedness and serious drama, it was a pretty decent read.
I loved stumbling upon this video! I read kitchen princess a few years ago and didn't know how popular it actually was! I love cute and slightly too dramatic shojo, so please more videos like this!
It was wild to hear the rest of the plot after only reading the first three volumes as a kid