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Iron Wok Jan | |
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鉄鍋のジャン (Tetsunabe no Jan!) | |
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Genre | Cooking, [1] martial arts [2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Shinji Saijyo |
Published by | Akita Shoten |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Champion |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | June 1995 – March 2000 |
Volumes | 27 |
Manga | |
Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations | |
Written by | Shinji Saijyo |
Published by | Akita Shoten |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Champion |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | November 9, 2006 – December 9, 2010 |
Volumes | 10 |
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. [3]
A sequel, Iron Wok Jan! R: The Summit Operations, was also released in Japan by Akita Shoten [4] and in France by Soleil Manga. [5] A spin-off, Tetsupai no Jan!, by Bingo Morihashi, started to be published by Takeshobo in 2015.
Akita Shoten released the 27 tankōbon manga between June 1995 and March 2000. [6] [7] The manga was re-released into 16 kanzenban volumes between December 2004 and September 2007. [8] [9] ComicsOne published the manga's 27 tankōbon between December 15, 2002, and December 28, 2007. [10] [11]
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. [12] [13] From March 8, 2007, to January 8, 2009, the publisher released ten bound volumes. [4] [14]
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. [15] The successor of manga, titled Iron Work Jan 2nd, which was released in January 2017 in the February 2017 issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age. [16]
Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson comments on the illustrator's use of caricatures to dramatise the manga. [17] Manga Life's Michael Aronson commends the manga for its art and its ability to appeal to audiences. [18] Animefringe.com's Ridwan Khan comments on the "love-hate relationship" between Jan and Kiriko. [19] 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". [20]