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.
Bambino! (Season 1)
Work Is Not That Easy (Episode 1)
Air date: 2007-04-18
Runtime: 48 min
I Don't Want To Lose (Episode 2)
Air date: 2007-04-25
Runtime: 48 min
Tears... Last Day (Episode 3)
Air date: 2007-05-02
Runtime: 48 min
The path that must be taken (Episode 4)
Air date: 2007-05-09
Runtime: 48 min
What's that about love? (Episode 5)
Air date: 2007-05-16
Runtime: 48 min
Comrades (Episode 6)
Air date: 2007-05-23
Runtime: 48 min
What can I do for another person? (Episode 7)
Air date: 2007-05-30
Runtime: 48 min
Let me do something (Episode 8)
Air date: 2007-06-06
Runtime: 48 min
The door to becoming a chef!! (Episode 9)
Air date: 2007-06-13
Runtime: 48 min
Everyone is a Bambino! (Episode 10)
Air date: 2007-06-20
Runtime: 48 min
Trattoria Baccanale (Episode 11)
Air date: 2007-06-27
Runtime: 48 min
