Fighting Foodons
| Fighting Foodons | |
Cover of the first volume that features Chase, Kayla, Pie-Tin, Oslo, Fried Ricer, Omelet, Hot Doggone-It, and a Burnt Meatball. | |
| 格闘料理伝説ビストロレシピ (Kakutō Ryōri Densetsu Bistro Recipe) | |
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| Genre | Fantasy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shuntarō Ashida |
| Illustrated by | Naoto Tsushima |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Comic BonBon |
| Original run | September 1999 – September 2000 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Video game | |
| Fighting Cooking Legend Bistro Recipe - Wonder Battle Version | |
| Developer | Red Entertainment |
| Publisher | Banpresto |
| Platform | WonderSwan |
| Released | September 30, 1999 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Yasumi |
| Produced by | Eizo Kondo, Wataru Tanaka, Masahiro Kon, Hideki Kama, Masaki Kobayashi |
| Written by | Taku Kadoya |
| Music by | Izumu/Geminiart High Quality |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | NHK-BS2 |
| English network | |
| Original run | December 11, 2001 – June 25, 2002 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Fighting Foodons, known in Japan as Bistro Recipe (格闘料理伝説ビストロレシピ, Kakutō Ryōri Densetsu Bisutoro Reshipi, "Martial Arts Cooking Legend Bistro Recipe"), is a Japanese manga series written by Shuntarō Ashida and illustrated by Naoto Tsushima and serialized in Comic BonBon from September 1999 to September 2000. The story was adapted into an anime television series which aired on NHK-BS2 satellite channel from December 11, 2001, to June 25, 2002. The manga ran simultaneously with a video games series of the same name, two on Game Boy Color are released in 1999 in Japan, as well as a WonderSwan game.
In the United States, the anime was dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment in cooperation with Enoki Films; Enoki Films held the license and contracted the dubbing to 4Kids. This show originally aired on the FoxBox on September 14, 2002, (later known as 4Kids TV) and was discontinued from their lineup on August 30, 2003. The Chinese version was premiered as Kung Fu Snacks (功夫小食神 Gōngfu xiǎo shíshén) and it aired on TVB Jade in Hong Kong. It had also aired on Fairchild TV in Canada starting on May 22, 2005.
The series was released on DVD by Discotek Media on April 25, 2017.
Its English dub's theme song is based on Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.