I’m glad to see that you’re all okay.
Yeah, that was a narrow escape from death.
Yeah.
It’s all thanks to Old... I mean, Mister Pierrot.
You’re back!
Thank goodness.
Wh-What’s that?!
There’s English bread, German bread, and French bread,
but Japan’s bread, Japan, does not exist.
In that case, there’s no choice but to create it.
This story is a serious, biographical ballad of a boy who possesses Solar Hands,
Azuma Kazuma, who will create a Japanese bread made by and for the Japanese people,
which can be presented to the world proudly.
I swore to your shining eyes
kagayaku kimi no hitomi ni chikatta
Yakitate!! Japan
Translated by: Anime-Empire
on an afternoon when the blue sky
chiisana mado kara aozora ga mieta gogo
was visible through a small window
that I no longer wanted to run away.
nigeru koto nante mou shitaku wa nai yo
senaka ni atatakai te no hira o kanjiteiru
I feel a warm hand upon my back.
kizutsuku yori mo tsurai no wa
The only thing more painful than getting hurt is...
ashita wo akiramete jibun ni uso tsukitsuzukeru koto
giving up on tomorrow and continuing to lie to yourself.
daiji na yume wo hitotsu kokoro ni itsudemo
The one precious dream always held in your heart
shinjite mamotte norikoete ikou
Let’s believe it, protect it, and overcome everything.
daiji na yume ga aru kara motto tsuyoku nareru
Because we have a precious dream, we can become stronger
omoiegaita mirai wo dakishimete
holding on to the dream that we imagined and painted
kore kara mo
forevermore.
The King’s Question!!
Who is the first person you feed
your delicious-looking bread to?
The King’s Question!!
Who is the first person you feed your delicious-looking bread to?
It’s good to be alive.
Well then, nature calls...
You there, what insolence!
Do you wish to be shot?!
Stop that.
Put your guns away.
Yes, Sir!
Our deepest apologies, Your Majesty.
Y-Your Majesty?!
Stand back, you insolent fool!
This is the 14th King of Monaco, Leon Hart XIV!
Th-The King of Monaco?!
I had heard that the kings of Monaco
have worn a symbol of rank, the “Lion’s Crown,” for generations...
but I didn’t know that it covered their entire face...
Your Majesty,
I actually have something I wish to report.
Go on.
Both the recent incident concerning the stranding of the Japanese representatives
and the earlier case of the sabotage at the deserted island
appear to have been carried out by Chairman Yulrich Rame of the Management Committee.
Just as I had heard.
You knew?!
Had Your Majesty already heard of this?
As of yesterday, Rame has disappeared.
What?
We believe that he has fled abroad.
Having heard beforehand that you, the secret police, had definite evidence against him,
he took action.
No way...
Hello, Mama?
It’s me. Me.
No, this is not a furikome sagi.
Note: Furikome sagi is the crime of impersonating an acquaintance of the person on the other end of the phone in order to rob them of money.
Leaving that aside...
Mama, please don’t look for me.
If I’m found, I won’t be let off easily.
Therefore...
I’m really sorry to say that
Rame has left behind a statement regretting the trouble he has caused all of your countries,
and has disappeared.
I do not ask that you forgive Rame.
However, I ask that you let bygones be bygones
and continue the tournament as planned.
Henceforth, I will personally take over the proceedings,
and make certain that there are no irregularities.
I pledge upon the honor of our Royal Family that we shall have a fair tournament.
To come here personally, just to atone for the mistakes of one of your subordinates...
The King of Monaco is quite the samurai.
Yeah.
He forgave me, even though I pissed on him, after all...
But we might have been better off if someone like you had just been shot.
Why are you so...!
Hey, Mister Kuroyanagi...
Hmm?
Won’t Old... I mean, Mister Pierrot be kind of lonely having reactions all by himself?
Of course not.
That’s a good thing.
I understand.
It has been decided, Your Majesty.
We have America, China, France and Japan proceeding to the semifinals.
All right!
Then, I will announce the topic of the semifinals for the four countries that were selected.
For the drivers competing in next week’s F1 Grand Prix in Monaco...
you must all make a “sports bread.”
A sports bread?!
Does he mean a bread that does sports?
Maybe...
Like that’s possible!
The matchups and detailed rules will be explained to you after we return to Monaco.
That is all.
With this, we are finished with the quarterfinals.
I heard.
Pantasia Shinjuku Central Branch
So he disappeared, eh?
To place the blame on Rame when it looked like you might have been caught...
You’re really quite good.
Oh, what are you talking about?
You’re cute when you play dumb...
So, what are you going to do about the cockroaches?
At this rate, they’ll just go to the semifinals.
You don’t need to worry.
We just have to make sure that they don’t win.
There are many other ways of doing that.
Is that so?
I guess I’ll relax, then.
I’ll leave Monaco to you.
But...
Cockroaches must be exterminated at the source.
Hey!
The refrigerator’s broken.
Get a new one.
Y-Yes, Maam!
I’ll do things my way here.
In order to crush the nest of those cockroaches, the Southern Tokyo Branch.
What kind of bread must we make to get a sports bread?
A sports bread is like a sports drink.
In other words, you need to make a high-stamina, easily digestible bread.
Oh?
By the way, it seems that the winning bread
will be fed to the F1 racers at the opening ceremony of the Monaco Grand Prix.
It’s a job worthy of a baker.
Yeah.
There are various foods that can provide stamina.
It’s fun just thinking about what ingredients to use.
Yeah.
You don’t seem very interested, Azuma...
That’s not true.
It’s just that I’ve already made something like this.
Japan #51.
Not again...
Moreover, #51 is so good that there really isn’t anything I can do to improve it.
Is that so?
Too bad, eh, Suwabara?
It looks like we don’t have much to do this time, either.
A ha ha ha.
No, that isn’t the case.
For the semifinals, each person makes a different bread.
So as a team, you can make three kinds of bread.
Apparently, the team to make the best bread will win.
So even we can make breads?!
Guys!
Your opponent for the semifinals has been decided.
It’s France.
Your opponent will be the Kaysers.
A playoff against those masked guys, huh?
Interesting!
We’ll settle this!
That’s right.
The totem-pole siblings can’t stand up to us.
If we beat those fakes, your store will do better as well, right?
We’ll take care of it, so leave it to us!
O-Okay.
Hey there,
we’ve come to the semifinals on account of our skill.
So trust in us a little more.
Yeah, leaving Baldy aside,
it’s not possible for me and Azuma to lose.
Don’t worry.
Who you calling Baldy?!
It’s true that you’re strong.
But...
The oldest Kayser, Gran, is special.
There probably isn’t a baker in the world who can compete with him normally.
Do you know why he never talks, and is at the highest position?
Because it’s comfortable?
Because he likes heights!
He’s at the top so that
he never has to use the muscles in his legs or mouth,
since those aren’t used to bake bread.
What do you mean?!
The human brain has various nerves traversing through it.
It’s made such that unused skills atrophy,
and well-used skills are strengthened.
Gran doesn’t speak or walk.
So, only his hands are developed, since they’re needed to make bread.
You understand now, right?
The eldest son Gran’s strength is the real thing.
If you let down your guard, there’s no way you’ll win.
All of you must get together to take him on.
All right.
You’re right.
Understood.
Suwabara, where are you going?
Isn’t it obvious?
I’m going to train, in order to make the bread for the theme.
Azuma.
You, too, should not be satisfied that your bread has no room for change.
You should instead be working hard to take that Japan #51 of yours to even greater heights.
All right.
I’ll do my best, too.
Azuma!
Umm...
Umm... I guess I’ll go train, too.
So, where are we supposed to go?
The trio of Azuma, Suwabara, and Kawachi headed out to train for the semifinals.
But they came back immediately.
What’s with you guys?
We forgot to ask you something.
Forgot to ask me something?
I need a special ingredient for my bread.
So where do I go to get it?
Go to the Monaco Royal Palace in such cases.
Ingredients from all over the world have been collected there.
They will be unconditionally provided to all Monaco Cup participants.
Understood.
See ya.
Later.
And now, the three of them really went off to train...
Hey, get going already!
How do we get to the Royal Palace?
Ask all of the things you wish to know at once!
Aren’t you sad at not being able to do any reactions?
Is the Royal Palace big?
Kuro-yan...
Isn’t Kanmuri smarter than you?
Who are you in love with?
How old are you?!
I’d rather die than tell you!
Just go already!
Man...
I fear for the future.
Sophie Balzac Kirisaki-san.
I am Pyramid Pharaoh, of the Monaco Secret Police.
We have a few questions for you.
Regarding your father.
Your father, Mr. Kirisaki Yuuichi, appears to be behind the disappearance of Mr. Rame.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that demon was responsible for something like that.
Sophie...
Aside from the fact that Mr. Kirisaki Yuuichi is the owner of St. Pierre,
he remains wrapped in mystery.
Anything will do.
Should you know anything about Mr. Kirisaki, won’t you tell us?
Wow! It’s huge!
Sorry about that.
You are the Japanese representatives, right?
We have orders from His Majesty.
Monaco Cup participants may pass.
Ah, thank you.
Hey, wait.
You can’t enter the Royal Palace with a sword.
What?!
This Kaijinmaru is a warrior’s soul.
It has assimilated with my flesh.
Just try and take it from me!
Sorry about that.
Feel free to throw away this sort of thing.
Wait, will you?!
Like hell I will!
You shouldn’t fight, okay?
Wait!
Amazing!
Welcome, Japanese representatives.
Various ingredients gathered from all over the world can be found here.
You can take whatever you like.
Really generous, isn’t he?
Yeah, he is.
Yeah, a real man.
However!
Only if you can answer the question that I ask you.
What was that?!
That man abandoned my mother, my brother and me when we were very young.
I was raised without ever having seen my father’s face,
and then my mother passed away.
After a while, one day...
Sophie, Age 5
Silvan (soon to be Meister Kirisaki), Age 10
That man returned before us when we were starving.
Papa?
It’s Papa, right?
Sophie, Papa’s come back!
You’ve come for us, haven’t you?
Silvan!
When you’ve made an especially delicious-looking bread,
as a baker, who would you feed it to first?
You’ve baked bread for us, haven’t you?
Thank you.
Answer my question.
Huh?
That’s simple.
The answer is “your children,” right?
Incorrect.
The answer is “yourself.”
I’ve come here just to eat that especially delicious bread.
After saying that, he stuffed his face with that bread which looked delicious enough to die for...
and never appeared before us again.
How inhuman!
Kirisaki Yuuichi is a demon.
I’d rather die than forgive that man.
I just can’t forgive him!
So, here is the question.
When you have made an especially delicious-looking bread,
who would you feed it to first?
What is your answer?
Wh-What’s this?
That would depend on the person, right?
Yeah, there can’t be a correct answer for this.
Yourself!
The first one you feed it to is yourself.
Oh, my boy... Why do you say so?
Well, it looks like an especially delicious bread, right?
But, you don’t know whether or not it’s delicious, right?
You can’t feed something like that to someone else.
Obviously, you have to eat it first.
That is correct.
This question teaches you that no matter how delicious-looking a bread you might have made,
you cannot feed it to someone else unless you have tasted it yourself.
It was thought of by the owner of a certain bakery.
I learned from this, and have adopted the policy myself.
The bread from the semifinals will be given to the top F1 racers of the world.
So, make a truly delicious bread that you can be completely satisfied with.
All right.
Feel free to use any of the ingredients collected here from all over the world.
All right!
Oh, this is rare.
I’m helping myself to this.
This is it!
This is what I wanted!
In this manner, after obtaining the ingredients they desired,
the trio of Azuma, Kawachi, and Suwabara left the Royal Palace
and set out on a journey to train for the semifinals of the Monaco Cup.
Or not..
What happened to the training?
Don’t tell me you thought that I was going to seclude myself in the mountains to train, right?
Y-You’re not?!
Of course not!
There’s a limit to nonsense.
If I secluded myself in the mountains,
the ingredients would all rot without a fridge.
And, those who thought that you’d go into the mountains...
Me!
Oh yeah, Kuro-yan...
You’d said that the Monaco Cup participants would receive the ingredients unconditionally.
But that wasn’t the case.
What?
The king asked us a strange question.
“When you have made an especially delicious-looking bread,
who would you feed it to first?”
It was a surprisingly deep question...
The King of Monaco asked you that question?!
I’m sorry...
W-What’s wrong...?
Actually...
You’re kidding!
How can someone do that to their own children?!
What meaning is there in doing something like that?
If that’s the truth, then that Kirisaki Yuuichi guy is no longer human.
I really, really can’t forgive that old man.
Well, it’s probably just a coincidence.
But it just surprised us a little to hear you asking that question.
No. It’s no coincidence.
The king told us that he heard this question from the owner of a certain bakery.
Was he talking about the St. Pierre bakery?
It is probably just as Kawachi-san said.
What do you mean?
Actually, Kirisaki Yuuichi and His Majesty are what I suppose you would call best friends.
The Monaco monarchy has an unusual tradition.
According to the Royal Family Code, Article XIV:
“As the lion does with its cub, the Child must be dropped into a valley 1000 fathoms deep.”
So, for generations,
the children of the Royal Family have been sent to be raised in the homes of the common folk.
According to this rule, the present King of Monaco
was raised as the child of a baker from age 8 to age 13.
At that time, Kirisaki had come here from Japan for training,
and that’s when they seem to have met.
But, Mr. Kirisaki suddenly disappeared
and then returned a few years ago.
Is that why he asked that question...?
Yeah.
His Majesty probably does not have any ill intentions.
But he trusts Kirisaki, and must have asked the question upon his suggestion.
But, why ask such a question?
It’s a warning.
Yeah.
He’s saying, “Even without Rame, I can crush you guys anytime. So be prepared.”
Wait! Why do you think that?
I agree that this Kirisaki Yuuichi person isn’t trustworthy.
But, why does he need to crush the Japanese team?
You don’t need to know that, Kuro-yan.
Even if I were to tell him that Yukino is hand in hand with Kirisaki
in trying to take over Pantasia...
Kuro-yan is from the Main Branch.
He can’t do anything.
We have no choice but to fight it out ourselves.
WHOOSH
Why do I feel so alienated?
WHOOSH
But, Kirisaki Yuuichi is a really fearsome man.
I feel like a demon has grabbed ahold of my heart.
How in the world do we stand up to a man...
who has the King of Monaco on his side?
We just have to bake bread.
Azuma...
No matter how scary he is...
all we have to do is make a delicious bread, as usual.
Yeah.
The world we live in is a battlefield
into which only those who can bake truly good bread can enter.
Bread is a sword.
Only the best swordsmen can stay alive.
No matter what schemes the enemy may come up with,
Azuma and I cannot be cut by such dirty swords!
All we have to do is fight fair and square.
Just wait a moment!
Each and every time...
Why am I never included?!
You’re still here?
Jeez.
Always comparing each and every thing to swords...
Dumb baldy...
Who you calling a baldy?!
You, of course!
Man, don’t fight.
Your hairline is beginning to recede!
Feeling of alienation...
What was that?!
Neither my brother nor I...
No, no baker has ever been able to defeat Kirisaki Yuuichi.
But it’s strange...
The three of you are a bit of a joke,
but you just might be able to defeat that man.
You make me feel that way.
Ah, I got pulled in, too!
Good luck, Japanese representatives!
itsuka wakaru sa kizutsuitari nayanda hibi
Someday you’ll understand.
The days when you were hurt and confused
kagayaki ni kawaru. Dakara tsukamaetete
will turn into something radiant. So, hold on to...
ima wa kurushii kimi wo. Nigenaide kanau made
your present suffering. Don’t run away till your wish comes true.
kodoku wo kakaekomu toki mo
Even at times you embrace loneliness...
kimi wa mada hitori ja nainda
you are not yet alone.
jibun sae shinjirarenai bukiyou na kimi demo
Even if you don’t quite believe it, even the clumsy little you
nandomo kara wo tatakinagara
can knock yourself against your shell many times over,
tobidasu hi wa jibun dake no chikara sa
so that the day you fly out, it will be with your own strength.
tatoe kimi dake ni tsubasa ga nakutemo kitto
Even if it is only you who doesn’t have wings,
utau tori ni natte
become a song bird.
Next Episode
Look. This is the proof that the Kaysers are the number one artisans in the world.
Can you imitate these guys?
Of course not!
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Curiouser and curiouser!!
The truth about the Kaysers!
Curiouser and curiouser!!
The truth about the Kaysers!
Be sure to watch.
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
SPORTS
The word “sports” came to be used in Japan toward the end of the Taisho era.
came to be used toward the end of the Taisho era
The word
At that time, only baseball, tennis, and other games that originated in the West
Baseball Tennis
And other games that originated in the West
were called sports.
Oh?!