Hey everyone! It’s DaBrenz back with yet
ANOTHER review! You must be really sick of me now, but I hope I can appease you with another manga review! ☺
Today’s review will be on: "
Kitchen Princess"!
Author: Kobayashi Mizuki
Artist: Andou Natsumi
Now, what are the odds of seeing our heroine being able to tell the exact ingredients of a dish? Introducing, our one-in-a-million heroine: optimistic and bubbly
Najika Kazami. Aspiring to be a chef and to find her one childhood love, Najika enrolls into Seika Academy on terms similar to that of a scholarship. After enrolling into the “gifted” class, Class A, Najika meets and befriends
Sora and
Daichi Kitazawa.
In school, the two brothers are the apples of every girl’s eye: Sora with his aesthetic talent and sophisticated aura, Daichi with his athletic abilities and warm, confident aura. That’s right, they’re polar opposites and are
BOTH suitable candidates as Najika’s childhood love, her “Flan Prince”. (Weird name for someone whose supposed to be your childhood sweetheart isn’t it? Well, read the manga and you’ll see why.)
With a talent as different as Najika’s, she is unable to fit in, and she decides to invest her time whilst honing her talent by working in an old, shabby-looking diner in the school compounds. This plays a part whereby numerous love triangles ensue, jealousy burns and also where strong lasting friendships are born.
There really isn’t any manga quite as interesting as Kitchen Princess, whereby it uses food as the main theme of the manga. Not only does the food look good on paper, the food which Najika creates is also provided by the author- making them doable! How cool is that? You learn recipes while reading manga. It is a win-win situation!
In my opinion, this is one of the manga which really explores the growth of people, and we can really see how the characters grow and mature from kids into young adults (not only in terms of physique, but also their mentality towards things and their character). Expect an unprecedented twist to the storyline as well!
The series doesn’t have an anime. However, the manga, which
premiered in 2004, is complete with approximately
50 chapters. You can find the complete series on
MangaFox. It is scanlated by many parties, in fact, too many different parties to mention them all here.
Savour the taste of the sweetness of love, spiciness of revenge, bitterness of jealousy and the sour taste of sorrow.
Next Review: Love a little SciFi and women in combat? You’ll love this next manga then!
DaBrenz, signing off!
In my opinion, this is one of the manga which really explores the growth of people, and we can really see how the characters grow and mature from kids into young adults (not only in terms of physique, but also their mentality towards things and their character). Expect an unprecedented twist to the storyline as well! 
I definitely enjoyed the cooking aspect of this manga! But it was too sad for my taste... Also I didn't like how Najika often had to rely on the two guys to save her! But good review!
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