Italy, what are you reading?
Oh, this? It's a record of my combat career.
Germany came to Italy to see the sights.
Is it always this sunny in Italy?
A city full of life...
Singing voices that are occasionally heard...
Now I understand why Goethe wrote many poems about this place.
If only I could drink, laugh, and spend my days in such a beautiful place like this every day...
Hey.
Maybe I'll try to act like an Italian while I'm here for a little while.
A fruit shop, just what I needed!
Thank you! Come again!
Hello.
How much?
O-Okay! Okay! You can have it for free, dammit!
Really?
Thanks!
Italians are so kind!
Man, I love this place!
It's like a paradise on earth!
The son of the Bentou shop owner, Mr. Yoshida, made us an Axis bentou.
Care to try it?
The bentou was created with the triple alliance in mind.
Mine is rice with picked plum on top.
Japan, you're too modest!
So, what does mine look like?
Yours includes pasta, chicken with tomatoes, and zuccotto for dessert.
Wow, that sounds good!
Do I get one too?
Of course!
You're an important part of the team, after all.
This is for you!
Hey Japan, what's for dinner tonight?
Oh. Tonight's menu will be potatoes boiled in broth, and edible wild plants that I picked from the mountains.
I really want to eat that beef stew that was served at England's place.
Please don't be unreasonable!
I can't make something like that!
I'm looking forward to it!
I already finished the potatoes too!
Does my boss really have to be so picky?
But I'm a real Japanese man!
Even if I don't know how to make it, my willpower will make up for it!
The ingredients are beef, potatoes, carrots, and what else...
Konnyaku?
If I recall, the dish was brown, so maybe I need to add some soy sauce?
Oh, and I can't forget sweet sake!
Gosh, the more I put effort into it, the stranger it looks!
I-It's done, sir.
Wow, I knew you could do it!
I apologize if it doesn't suit your tastes.
And this is what came to be known as Nikujaga.
Discovery!
This is--!
Fantastic!
Nikujaga
Awesome! I'm the first to arrive at today's ally meeting! This is rare!
And I'll say...
Aren't you guys a bit late?
...to the guys who come later than me!
I wonder what their reactions will be?
England?!
All right, I'm done.
Italy Germany Japan
This should do the job.
Y-You're the one who always puts those drawings up?
W-What is with these strange drawings?
Someone put us up there, too!
Pickaxe
Who the hell did this?
My beauty isn't expressed in the drawing at all!
They sure messed up my eyebrows...
The ones on the bottom look familiar, though...
If this drawing is supposed to be of me,
I guess I'll just bore a hole through the chalkboard.
Pickaxe
Don't!
Man, what a letdown!
I can't believe there's someone among us that would draw us like that!
With such polished technique with skills that were developed in New York...
Drawings that were expressed so softly with cute American pop art!
How unforgivable!
So it was you...
All right, I guess I'll draw them from now on.
What?! That's you, China?!
Now now Father, how about some sake?
Hello Mother, hello Mother.
I can't forget that taste,
of the nikujaga I ate before!
Draw a circle, and there's Earth!
Look closely, and there's Earth!
Might it be Earth? My name is Japan.
Ah, a fabulous world
that can be seen with a single swipe of a paintbrush.
White rice is the best.
Simply splendid!
Who are you?
I'm Canada.
To be continued...