"Yakitate!! Japan" was adapted into a 69-episode anime television series. It aired on TV Tokyo from October 12, 2004, to March 14, 2006. ABS-CBN brought the anime version to the Philippines, it first aired on Hero TV on January 1, 2006 and ended on June 2, 2006. It was also aired on ABS-CBN on April 22, 2006. Kazuma Azuma is a boy on a quest to create "Ja-pan", a national bread for Japan, as many other countries have their own signature breads. He heads to Tokyo with the intention of working at