About this season
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.
Episodes (11)
1. Work Is Not That Easy
Aired 18 April 2007 • 48 min
2. I Don't Want To Lose
Aired 25 April 2007 • 48 min
3. Tears... Last Day
Aired 2 May 2007 • 48 min
4. The path that must be taken
Aired 9 May 2007 • 48 min
5. What's that about love?
Aired 16 May 2007 • 48 min
6. Comrades
Aired 23 May 2007 • 48 min
7. What can I do for another person?
Aired 30 May 2007 • 48 min
8. Let me do something
Aired 6 June 2007 • 48 min
9. The door to becoming a chef!!
Aired 13 June 2007 • 48 min
10. Everyone is a Bambino!
Aired 20 June 2007 • 48 min
11. Trattoria Baccanale
Aired 27 June 2007 • 48 min