History YMMV / YakitateJapan

* {{Expy}}: Kidd is arguably an expy of Bill Clinton, with Non-StandardCharacterDesign that resembles the former president and a name referencing Clinton's nickname, the Comeback Kid.

* EnsembleDarkhorse "Kid".
* {{Expy}} Kidd is arguably an expy of Bill Clinton

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Kawaichi's {{Flanderization}} from potential rival to Azuma who can only hope to compete with him through hard work and grueling TrainingFromHell to obnoxious ButtMonkey that even his friends are embarrassed to be around can be hard to watch. The manga even offers him one more chance to finally compete with Azuma on his level, only to cruelly snatch it from him for the sake of a gag.

* HilariousInHindsight: In a case of CantUnhearIt, Ryo Kuroyanagi is played by {{Creator/Takehito Koyasu}}, who later played Dio Brando in the 2012 adaptation of ''{{Manga/Jojos Bizarre Adventure}}''. Puts a whole new spin on "How many breads have you eaten in your life," huh?

* MarySue: Kid, PlayedForLaughs though

* MoralEventHorizon: Yuuichi Kirisaki returned home to his starving and dying kids while they were respectively 10 and 5 to eat a large bread right in front of them and denying them to eat any of it, all the while commenting on how delicious it was.

* HilariousInHindsight: In a case of HeyItsThatVoice and CantUnhearIt, Ryo Kuroyanagi is played by {{Creator/Takehito Koyasu}}, who later played Dio Brando in the 2012 adaptation of ''{{Manga/Jojos Bizarre Adventure}}''. Puts a whole new spin on "How many breads have you eaten in your life," huh?

* EsotericHappyEnding: Parodied and {{lampshaded|Trope}}d repeatedly in the Yakitate 25 arc, where Azuma declares any victory a happy ending, ignoring the fact that most of his opponents have [[{{Shapeshifting}} shape-shifted]] with no sign of changing back any time soon, and the occasional bad thing that happens to some other character (like Ken becoming a yazuka leader against his will, or Kuroyanagi suffering severe internal bleeding as a result of a reaction.)

* HilariousInHindsight: In a case of HeyItsThatVoice and CantUnhearIt, Ryo Kuroyanagi is played by {{Creator/Takehito Koyasu}}, who later played Dio Brando in the 2012 adaptation of ''{{Manga/Jojos Bizarre Adventure}}''. Sometimes older anime fans will introduce the anime to their friends as "Dio Brando Eats Food: The Anime".

* HeyItsThatVoice
** [[Anime/ExcelSaga Excel Excel]] as a brown-haired boy wearing a headband.
** [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Yoko Ritona]] as a pink-haired boy genius.
** [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] as a world famous clown and apparently [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]] is also a world class baker.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Parodied and [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] repeatedly in the Yakitate 25 arc, where Azuma declares any victory a happy ending, ignoring the fact that most of his opponents have [[{{Shapeshifting}} shape-shifted]] with no sign of changing back any time soon, and the occasional bad thing that happens to some other character (like Ken becoming a yazuka leader against his will, or Kuroyanagi suffering severe internal bleeding as a result of a reaction.)

** [[GurrenLagann Yoko Ritona]] as a pink-haired boy genius.

** [[FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] as a world famous clown and apparently [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]] is also a world class baker.

* HarsherInHindsight: The last two chapters has, due to usual Yakitate craziness, someone turning into a country, forcing Kawachi to eat bread to have a reaction to save the day, because a sudden new giant land mass displaces water and has sent a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunamigiant tidal wave towards Japan...]]

* CompleteMonster - While Yukino's done any number of truly monstrous things [[spoiler:(up to and including murder just to ensure her KarmaHoudini)]], the one that probably has the most impact for the reader, and certainly the characters, is when she [[spoiler:steals Tsukino's mother's ashes and flings them around at a withered dead tree, cackling with glee and shouting insults while a very young Tsukino sobs and begs her to stop]]. The series picks few bones about the fact that she's a literal psychopath who only finds [[ForTheEvulz joy in the suffering of others]].

* MarySue: Kid, pretty much PlayedForLaughs though

* CompleteMonster - While Yukino's done any number of truly monstrous things ([[spoiler: up to and including murder just to ensure her KarmaHoudini]]), the one that probably has the most impact for the reader, and certainly the characters, is when she [[spoiler: steals Tsukino's mother's ashes and flings them around at a withered dead tree, cackling with glee and shouting insults while a very young Tsukino sobs and begs her to stop]]. The series picks few bones about the fact that she's a literal psychopath who only finds [[ForTheEvulz joy in the suffering of others]].

* EsotericHappyEnding: Parodied and [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] repeatedly in the Yakitate 25 arc, where Azuma declares any victory a happy ending, ignoring the fact that most of his opponents have [[{{Shapeshifting}} shapeshifted]] with no sign of changing back any time soon, and the occasional bad thing that happens to some other character (like Ken becoming a yazuka leader against his will, or Kuroyanagi suffering severe internal bleeding as a result of a reaction.)

** The Indonesian Translations on the other hand use a rather interesting way where the joke is kept and added a translator note. As a bonus, theres several reference to Indonesian culture that is added by the translator.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Parodied and [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] repeatedly in the Yakitate 25 arc, where Azuma declares any victory a happy ending, ignoring the fact that most of his opponents have [[Shapeshifting shapeshifted]] with no sign of changing back any time soon, and the occasional bad thing that happens to some other character (like Ken becoming a yazuka leader against his will, or Kuroyanagi suffering severe internal bleeding as a result of a reaction.)

* EsotericHappyEnding: Regularly parodied and [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] when Azuma declares any victory a happy ending, ignoring any kind of weird things that happened in the process (like Mokoyama transforming into a panda, Ken becoming a yazuka leader against his will, or Kuroyanagi suffering severe internal bleeding as a result of a reaction.)

* EnsembleDarkhorse ("Kid".)