Kogepan
Kogepan (こげぱん) is a Japanese character from the company
gairaigo word taken from Portuguese
and meaning bread.
There are a number of other characters (breads) in the panya with Kogepan, including ichigopan (strawberry bread), kireipan (beautifully baked red bean bread), kuriimupan (a burnt cream bread), and Sumipan, a bread even more burnt than Kogepan.
Media
Anime
The
Studio Pierrot and produced by Pony Canyon, consisted of ten 4-minute shorts, the majority of which introduce simple aspects of the character.[2]
Books
There have been three children's picture books published in the Kogepan series, written & drawn by Takahashi Miki:
- Kogepan: Even Among Bread, They Meet One Another (こげぱん:パンにも出会いがあるらしい...)
- Kogepan: Even Among Bread, There Are Many Kinds (こげぱん:パンにもいろいろあるらしい...)
- Kogepan: What Is the Happiness of Bread? (こげぱん:パンのしあわせってなんだろう...)
References
- ISBN 9781317331308.
- ISBN 9781611729092.
External links
- San-X Official Kogepan Page (in Japanese)
- Anime official profile Archived 2015-12-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
- Kogepan (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia