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.
@@gracekim25You 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._
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.
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
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
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 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!!💕🙀🍮
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 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._
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 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."
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 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
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 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 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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 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.
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 😂
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
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.
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!
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😭
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.
Daichi was always more interesting to me than Sora. The main leads are always boring compared to the darker, childish obnoxious second lead. (As long as they’re not abusive!) which is why kyo (furuba) will forever be my guy.
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
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 💀
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 ^^
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?
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
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 😭
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 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.
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
This was one of the earlier shoujo that I remember finishing (cause bless that its actually complete) when I discovered manga many years ago... and oh boy, the one thing that did stick to my memory was how this was that one cooking shoujo where one of the MLs die 😬
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 🥰🥰🥰
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 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!
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Oh my gosh, I forgot that drama in this manga is absolutely insane my jaw literally dropped when I read Sora gets hit by the truck, still a fantastic manga tho ❤
i bought this manga randomly one day at barnes and noble because the cover was extremely cute and omg 😭💖 I became obsessed with it but i seriously wasn’t expecting all those plot twists
This is so goood!!!!! Never heard of this manga before but it's my kind of insane shoujo drama, weird pacing and all. LOVE IT! Your commentary makes it all that much better, I'd love more manga videos!!
My mom used to read this to me in bed every night. The car accident traumatized me and I think about it all the time 😭 I still have photocopies of the recipes since I used to cook them as a kid! I think its why I only really like to make sweets and don’t really like cooking other food 😂 I vividly remember making that rainbow jelly.
omg this gave me huge wave of nostalgia. I think I read a few first volumes someone lends to me in my chilhood and never finishes it. The recipe for rainbow jelly just throws me back to those happy times!
