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 😭

Kitchen princess walked so Yumiero patisserie could run

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._

any good shojo should have a sudden very dark twist. The death of one of the love interests in your love triangle is a bold move, though

Im shocked . I didnt think many people read this manga. The reason why i loved it besides the story was because of the lil cute hand drawn recipes.

I choose to believe that Sora who was done dirty in this story was isekai'd into world where he was the hero! Poor Sora!

i busted out laughing when Sora dies LIKE WAS THERE REALLY A REASON TO KILL HIM OFF OTHER THAN GETTING THE ROMANCE GOING PLS

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 😥

I love the clip you used. "HE'S LITERALLY A GUY! HIT HIM WITH YOUR CAR!" 😂😂😂

I swear I put Kitchen Princess, Yumiero patisserie, Shugo Chara and Gakuen Alice and Kodocha in the same category in my brain.

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!!💕🙀🍮

the sora dying part was so random 😭😭 but I still hope kitchen princess gets an anime one day

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

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

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 😭😭😭

2000s shoujo hits different ngl.

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 remember reading this all in one night and when sora died I had to put my phone down in complete shock and lay in bed for a minute to process it. 😭

As someone who read kitchen princess in middle school , I can confirm Sora getting k-o’d so early created a core memory lmao

Kitchen Princess walk so Full Moon o Sagashite could run 🏃 love my whiplash drama on murder crime mystery love triangle series ❤

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 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

no the shock i had when he just DIED??? i was like what the hell brought this on 😭

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

THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I SAW THE THUMBNAIL-

i thought sora dying was a funny haha joke BUT HE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT UP JUST DIES????

i felt so seen when you spoke about how starving yourself literally messes up your head. i forgot how this manga goes into ed issues...

"The Disney girls could never" 👁👄👁💅

I read this in middle school and promptly never found it again- I had almost given it up as a fever dream before I found this video and recognized the art style in the thumbnail. Pretty much all I remembered of it was the first few chapters and the anorexia plot line, but I remember enjoying the manga. Thanks for unlocking some pleasant middle school memories for me!

The commercial break right when Sora died!!!! I love the commercial breaks you put in but never have I been so tempted to skip forward 😱

Omg it has been years since I read this manga, I really miss the 2000s shojo aesthetic.

I read this a lot in high school, I do hope we get a Kitchen Princess anime.

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 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

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 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).

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 😂

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

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 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.

Just a pointer Arina Tanemura and Natsume Ando always have dark plot twists in their mangas (most of them) This one is by Ando so it’s quite tragic and if you have read Arisa or “We are not ourselves anymore” then it also follows a dark route

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 🥹🥹🥹🥹

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!

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.

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.

My ass read Kitchen Princess from the local library as a kid and went: yup that's it, we're becoming a weeaboo. After that I read so many random shojo manga the library had until I found more "normal" series like Hellsing and Death Note. I could go on and on about all the little mangas I read before those two lol

Man I loved this manga as a teen. This and Skip Beat ruled my heart at 11-12!

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?

I remember reading this in high school!!! They had it in the manga section and i would read it during lunch sometimes

NOOOO NOT THE MINKI MOMO REFERENCE!!!!

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.

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

I remember reading this manga when I was a 13 year old. I remember back then, this manga was just emotionally gripping but now as an adult.. most of the pacing and plot twists are insane indeed! 😭😭

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 🥰🥰🥰

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 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

I read Kitchen Princess when I was a kid. I’m glad this came up in my recommended-very nostalgic!

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.

Book 6 hits hard man, I remember reading it and crying in the bookstore lol

Oh my god someone else knows what this is!!!! My highschool library had the entire collection and I loved it.

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 definitely hallucinated cuz I thought there was an anime for this x'D I suppose I confused it with Yumeiro Patissiere haha

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."

This plot and the character archetypes being presented seem to me like a cooking-centric version of Kirarin Revolution.

An anime for this manga woulda gone crazy

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 ❤

OMGG I REMEMBER THIS ONE!!

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

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

I'm so glad I found this video. Kitchen Princess is one of my favorite series.

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 💀

Omg kitchen princess reappearing in my radar feels like a fever dream... How have I forgotten about this gem

I was obsessed with this manga in Middle School! I remember crying multiple times while reading it.

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.

Only a little bit into the video kind of reminds me of Utena, orphan the ruined dress at a party and everyone mysteriously having a mysterious silver spoon like the rose crest

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

AHHH IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU TO REVIEW THIS, I LOVE THIS MANGA

I remember reading this in highschool and actually making the baking recipes from the manga 😂

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.

SO HAPPY TO SEE SOMEONE TALK ABOUT KITCHEN PRINCESS

it was so exciting for me to get this vid in my recommended i was such a huge fan when the english version came out but all the car/truck jokes are insane i love it

Kitchen Princess was my FAVORITE MANGA growing up!

immediately subbed when i heard "i love the girly things" echoing in my ears ❤

this manga felt like a fever dream to me. my only memory from reading this is the guy liked flan and then died lmaooo. some core memory material here

I remember reading this in 8th grade the yeah the emotional whiplash was ridiculous, but I loved it so much

It was wild to hear the rest of the plot after only reading the first three volumes as a kid

I said, “I’m sorry, WHAT!?” when you said Sora died. Not injured, not in a coma, PERMANENTLY *DIED*. INSANE!

I remember this! You’ve just brought back a memory buried soooo damn deep. Didn’t the author also include recipes in the chapters?! I used to want to try them so much. I was always confused why they tried to convince me it was a mystery to who the guy was. Like girl, they have different hair colours. You don’t remember that?!

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😭

The way I couldn't put this series down in high school loll Loved it so much and still own it all

I would still sell my soul for an anime in this same art style

Omg I read that manga in college I loved it I've always wanted to make the foods

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!

omg omg omg i forgot this existed !!!! i probably read this 10+ years ago when i was like 12. what a throwback

Ight time to re read this master piece

has anyone ever read candy candy? I remember reading it right before kitchen princess back in the day and thinking the plot beats were so similar I was convinced KP was meant to be a remake or a retelling, never seen it mentioned anywhere else tho lol