Kitchen Princess is a shojo cooking, romance manga series written by Miyuki Kobayashi and illustrated by Natsumi Ando.
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11 Facts About Kitchen Princess
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Kitchen Princess loses her sense of taste out of sorrow, although she quickly recovers it.
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Writer of Kitchen Princess, Miyuki Kobayashi, is a novelist published under Kodansha's X Bunko Teen Heart label.
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Kitchen Princess marked the first time that manga artist Natsumi Ando illustrated a manga that was not written by her.
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Kitchen Princess was well received by English-language readers, with three original volumes and one omnibus volume placing on either BookScan's list of the top twenty bestselling graphic novels, or The New York Times manga bestseller list.
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Kitchen Princess won the Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2006.
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Kitchen Princess disliked the two-dimensional characterization and Ando's illustrations of the characters, although she felt that the food was well-drawn.
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Kitchen Princess enjoyed the plot and recipes, although he wrote that the character designs lacked creativity, and criticized the plot cliches and the antagonists' weak characterization.
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Kitchen Princess had mixed feelings about the fourth volume's emphasis on conventional shojo romance and plot twists at the cost of its cooking aspect.
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Kitchen Princess found the artwork conventional, though able to convey emotion.
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Kitchen Princess wrote that the fifth volume finally balanced the romance and cooking elements, although he disliked the inclusion of a side story, preferring another chapter instead.
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