Yakitate! Japan

I'm currently watching and loving this anime. It's about a young boy, Azuma Kazuma who has "solar hands" and genius talent for making bread. Other countries have bread with their own name like "French bread" but Japan doesn't, so Azuma has a dream of making Japanese's own bread, "Japan" which is tastier than rice. This anime introduces many kinds of exotic bread which will make you drool. And it's so exaggerating that sometimes it's just plain ridiculous. But I guess it's one of the anime's charms. Because there's a limit of how only words can describe the delicious-ness of a bread, I think the overblown graphic reaction of the characters do a better job at showing people how good the bread is. Anyway, despite the anime's prevalent 废-ness, it does a good job at presenting some really touching plots. The main characters like Azuma are also portrayed in depth. Besides that, the characters are well drawn esp. Tsukino (drool drool..) and the anime does a decent job of not ruining the character's appearance as opposed to maybe Naruto and Saiyuki. (Anyway, Yukino is an exceptionally ugly biatch).
Definitely an anime that I recommend. And thanks to BenSen and Limys for introducing me to this anime.