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Written by
  
Shinji Saijyo

English publisher
  
ComicsOne, DrMaster

Magazine
  
Weekly Shōnen Champion

Originally published
  
March 2000

4.2/5
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Published by
  
Akita Shoten

Demographic
  
Shōnen

Original run
  
June 1995 – March 2000

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Genres
  
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Iron Wok Jan (Japanese: 鉄鍋のジャン, Hepburn: Tetsunabe no Jan!) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shinji Saijyo. The manga was licensed in English by ComicsOne before the license was transferred to DrMaster.

Contents

A sequel, Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations, was also released in Japan by Akita Shoten and in France by Soleil Manga. A spin-off, Tetsupai no Jan!, by Bingo Morihashi, started to be published by Takeshobo in 2015.

Akiyama family

  • Jan Akiyama (秋山 醤, Akiyama Jan) is a 16-year-old talented young chef and the male protagonist of the manga. His grandfather is Kaiichiro Akiyama, the “master of Chinese cuisine”.
  • Kaiichiro Akiyama (秋山 階一郎, Akiyanma Kaiichirō) is known as the “master of Chinese cuisine”. Kaiichiro raised Jan until his tastebuds began to fail, at which point he sent Jan to Gobancho and committed suicide by self-immolation.
  • Minki Tou (桃 明輝, Tō Minki) is Jan's grandmother and Kaiichiro's wife.
  • Baku Akiyama (秋山 爆, Akiyama Baku) is Jan's father and Kaiichiro's son.

    • Gobanchou family

  • Kiriko Gobanchou (五番町 霧子, Gobanchō Kiriko) is one of the best cooks in Gobanchou, her family's Chinese restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo. She is the same age as Jan.
  • Takao Okonogi (小此木 タカオ, Okonogi Takao)
  • Mutsuju Gobanchou (五番町 睦十, Gobanchō Mutsuju)

    • Publication

    Akita Shoten released the 27 tankōbon manga between June 1995 and March 2000. The manga was re-released into 16 kanzenban volumes between December 2004 and September 2007. ComicsOne published the manga's 27 tankōbon between December 15, 2002 and December 28, 2007.

    Akita Shoten started releasing the sequel, Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations (鉄鍋のジャン!R 頂上作戦, Tetsunabe no Jan! R: Choujou Sakusen), on November 9, 2006 and concluded on December 9, 2010 in the Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine. From March 8, 2007 to January 8, 2009, the publisher released ten bound volumes.

    A spin-off series, Tetsupai no Jan! (鉄牌のジャン!), written and illustrated by Bingo Morihashi started its serialization on Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong magazine on August 12, 2015.

    Reception

    Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson comments on the illustrator's use of caricatures to dramatise the manga. Manga Life's Michael Aronson commends the manga for its art and its ability to appeal to audiences. Animefringe.com's Ridwan Khan comments on the "love-hate relationship" between Jan and Kiriko. IGN's A.E. Sparrow comments on the artist's ability to make a cooking competition as compelling to watch "as watching two feudal clans go to war".

    References

    Iron Wok Jan Wikipedia
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