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Cast and Crew
Yuichi Kirisaki, one of the series' main antagonists, bears a striking resemblance to Gendou Ikari of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The two happen to have the same voice actor, Fumihiko Tachiki. The name of Kanmuri's father is actually another way to write out "Takashi Hashiguchi". In this case, Takashi is written in Kanji, as "noble death".
Composition
Japan #44, which is the best Japan made prior to the story, will make anyone who eat it goes to heaven. 44 was read Yonju yon in Japanese, but if we read it number by number as in 4-4, it will read as shi-shi. Shi is a homophone to a same word meaning "death" in Japanese. That's also why number 4 in Japan is considered as a bad luck number, similar to Western number 13. With that taken into account, Japan #44 can be loosely described as "Bread of death that sends people to heaven".
Reference
While the characters might create the most extreme breads, most of them are actually real, or are at least based on real bread. Hashiguchi employed a bakery consultant, Koichi Uchimura (?? ??, Uchimura K?ichi?). Uchimura creates bread similar to the bread in the manga, and some of the bread in the manga are actually his inventions. Uchimura runs a bakery called Pan no Mimi in Kyoto. Along with the Zatch Bell! manga, the series includes references to Hunter X Hunter (Pierrot personage comes after Hisoka), Saiyuki (one of Kawachi's competitors in early series using Hakkai's ball of light techniques in illusionary fight), among others.
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