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真・中華一番!

True Cooking Master Boy

🚪 Often abandoned

The story takes place in 19th century China during the Qing Dynasty, where the Emperor was weakened and the country was close to chaos. It is also during a fictitious era called "The Era of the Cooking Wars". It was an era in which top chefs with different cooking styles tried their best to improve their skills and to become the best chef in China. It is a country where insulting a high-grade chef or fooling around with cooking could land a person in a jail, and impersonating a top-chef is as good as usurpation of authority. Chefs compete with each other in order to gain respect and even power, but also with the risks of losing everything. After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before he takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.

Names

Original真・中華一番! (japanese)
RomajiShin Chuuka Ichiban!
EnglishTrue Cooking Master Boy
Chinese厨神小当家 (simplified · via bangumi)

Facts

FormatTV series · 12 ep · 24 min · 5h total
Aired2019-10-12 → 2019-12-28 (Autumn 2019)
StatusFINISHED
StudioNAS, Production I.G
SourceManga
OriginJapan (Anime)
DemographicShounen
GenresComedy
ThemesFoodShounenForeignHistorical
StreamingCrunchyroll · iQ

Reception

Community score6.15 / 10
Bayesian score6.97 / 10
Composite43.4
On lists4,321
Favourited39 (0.9%)
Completion55.6%
Drop rate24.3%
In backlog38.4%
Score spread σ1.87

Score distribution

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Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
Broadcast seasonAutumn 2019D63 of 86
StudioProduction I.GE221 of 250
Year2019D255 of 339
DemographicShounenE1,098 of 1,219
EraLate 2010sD1,365 of 1,863
Season (all years)AutumnE1,538 of 1,921
LengthSingle-courD1,982 of 2,668
Source materialMangaE2,549 of 3,025
FormatTV seriesD2,610 of 3,322
GenreComedyD2,783 of 3,488
OriginJapanD5,583 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorItsurou Kawasaki
Series compositionItsurou Kawasaki
Character designSaki Hasegawa
Original creatorEtsushi Ogawa

Franchise — 真・中華一番!

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真・中華一番! 2
True Cooking Master Boy Season 2
2021TV series46.8

Related

RelationYearTitle
sequel2021True Cooking Master Boy Season 2

AniList id 107666 · MAL id 39194 · Bangumi 273834 · record updated 2026-08-26