Anpanman is a Japanese picture book series written by Takashi Yanase, running from 1973 until the author's death in 2013. The series has been adapted into an anime entitled Soreike! Anpanman.

The series follows the adventures of Anpanman, a superhero with an anpan (a bean-jam filled pastry) for a head, who protects the world from an evil anthropomorphic germ named Baikinman (Baikin means germ). Baikinman’s sidekick is a blue girl named Dokin-chan.

The world is populated by all types of little characters made from different types of Japanese breads.

The main character, Anpanman flies around and rescues his fellow friends by offering tem to bite a piece of his head. This sounds very strange but Jam Ojisan (meaning Jam Grandpa) bakes his replacement head everyday.

For a full list of characters please see the following link. http://www.awgosh.com/anpanmanchara.html

You can watch clips and episodes on youtube. It is very colorful and little kids love the show.

We have some of the characters at our store.