

Bambino!
2007-04-18 · 48 min / episode · ★ 6.8
Bambino! is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi. NTV broadcast the live-action TV drama from April 18, 2007 to June 27, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by TV Japan, an affiliate of NHK, from January to March 2008.
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- Nippon Television Network Corporation
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- Japan
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- Ended
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Jun MatsumotoBan Shogo
KarinaAsuka Hibino
Ryuta SatoKatori Nozomi
Yuki UchidaMiyuki Shishido
Kuranosuke SasakiAtsushi Kuwabara
Kazuki KitamuraTsukasa Yonamine
Masachika IchimuraTekkan Shishido
Osamu MukaiMasashi Senoo
Ayaka KomatsuKozue Minakawa
Kei YamamotoSusumu Endo
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