Iron Wok Jan! Anime Adds Five Cast Members, Sets July 5 Premiere
The July 5 premiere date and full cast reveal confirm that the adaptation of a long-dormant 1990s cooking manga is on track for a summer 2026 release, giving TROYCA its second consecutive anime season after the studio's recent projects.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, The Fandom Post.
The television anime adaptation of Shinji Saijyo's cooking manga "Iron Wok Jan!" has revealed five new cast members, a July 5 premiere date, and a main promotional video. The seven-member dance vocal group Genin wa Jibun ni Aru. performs the opening theme song "Hien" (Fire Banquet). New cast additions include Masuo Amada as Nichido Otani, M.A.O as Celene Yang, Takahiro Sakurai as Kei Sawada, Taishi Murata as Tomohide Jun, and Yusuke Kobayashi as Yuji Kawahara. Previously announced lead cast members are Kikunosuke Toya as Jan Akiyama, Ikumi Hasegawa as Kiriko Gobancho, Kohei Amasaki as Takao Okonogi, and Kenjiro Tsuda as narrator. Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero) directs the series at studio TROYCA, with Makoto Uezu handling series scripts and Masako Matsumoto designing characters. The anime will air Sundays at 5:30 p.m. JST on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. The original manga ran in Weekly Shonen Champion from 1995 to 2000 across 27 volumes, and the franchise has over 10 million copies in circulation.
The new promotional video also reveals additional staff credits. Tomoki Kikuya, known for Bocchi the Rock! and Oblivion Battery, composes the music. Atsushi Okuda and Chihiro Hanamura serve as cuisine animation directors, and Ryuichi Makino is the action animator. Ken Naito is the art director, Mariko Shinohara the color key artist, and Ryosuke Tsuda the compositing director of photography. Mitsutaka Iguchi handles CG direction, Shota Migiyama is the editor, and Jin Aketagawa is the sound director with Masami Baba on sound effects. Takako Sato provides cuisine supervision and coordination, and Naoya Higuchi handles cooking science supervision.
The original manga by Shinji Saijyo ran in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion from 1995 to 2000 across 27 volumes. ComicsOne published the first 13 volumes in English from 2002 to 2005, and DrMaster acquired the license and published the remaining volumes from 2005 to 2007. Saijyo later published a sequel manga, Tetsunabe no Jan! R: Chojo Sakusen, also in Weekly Shonen Champion, collected in 10 volumes. A spinoff titled Tetsupai no Jan! launched in Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong magazine in August 2015, with Bingo Morihashi credited for the script; it ended with its seventh volume in March 2018. Saijyo's successor manga Tetsunabe no Jan!! 2nd ran from 2017 to 2020 across seven volumes.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network Iron Wok Jan! Anime Reveals More Cast, July 5 Debut in Main Promo Video
- The Fandom Post ‘Iron Wok Jan!’ Anime Expands Cast With New Full Promo