Hey, Mr. Clown.
I’ve finished baking as well.
Oh my!
Your bread is wonderful!
Of course, the rose piercing the bread is beautiful...
but the bread itself looks delicious.
This is truly worthy of the first theme of our clothing, food and shelter topic.
It’s a really artistic bread.
And in stark comparison... What is 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.
Pierrot escorted away!?
The bread packed tightly with love!
Pierrot escorted away!?
The bread packed tightly with love!
Suwabara...
Far from being artistic, your bread is merely burnt black.
There’s no competition at all with this.
To think that a world-level clown such as yourself couldn’t figure this out...
Don’t misunderstand.
All I said was that I was done with the baking.
This is...!
It’s a crown!
I see!
That’s what it was!
What do you mean?
Suwabara made two different doughs.
One of those was croissant dough.
The other was the dough for the pane di oro, which forms the base of that crown.
Pane di oro originated in Italy and means “golden bread.”
The dough is yellow and goopy before baking,
since it uses more egg yolk than castella or brioche.
After baking, it becomes a golden color.
But, if you want to bake a soft bread when the original dough is goopy,
you have to bake it in a mold.
And the surface that’s in contact with the mold will turn brown.
In order to protect against that,
he coated the inner surface of the mold with a thin layer of croissant dough.
That’s kinda... similar to my Japan #43, the 324-layer croissant.
Yeah, the underlying principle is the same.
Moreover, in the case of this bread, since it’s delicate,
this allows him to take it out of the mold without destroying its shape.
But, when did he make the mold?
You remember that he’d been fighting with a log in the middle of the road some time back?
Oh, now that you mention it, it was shaped like a crown.
That’s right.
That was the prototype for the mold.
After that, I had myself introduced to a blacksmith at the Royal Palace.
And I made the mold myself.
By... By yourself?!
I’ve made a sword by myself.
Looks like I may have jumped to conclusions.
As long as you understand that.
But...
that’s not all there is to it!
That’s chocolate!
He’s outlining the fruit with chocolate!
That’s all it is and yet...
it looks like the fruit is floating!
But why do something like that...?
This time, his bread is completely yellow.
He must have thought that without creating those shadows,
the shine of the fruit would be overpowered by the gold of the bread.
Both contestants have shown a wonderful set of strategies.
I can’t really judge their quality now without tasting them.
So, since Monica’s bread was completed first, I’ll start with her...
Uh, time out.
If Samurai Boy would prefer it, I don’t mind you sampling my bread later.
What?
Why say something like that?
No matter what the bread, it’s most delicious when freshly baked.
And she...
I smell something fishy!
Sample Naked Woman’s bread first, Pierrot!
Oh, don’t be like that.
You don’t need to hold back. There’s no need to be distant.
Distant?!
I mean... in a way, we’ve spent “naked time” together, right?
Don’t say things like that!
So what will you do, Suwabara?
Very well.
Sample mine first.
Okay then!
Then, getting right to it...
Something’s strange.
There’s no doubt that Naked Woman’s bread
has something to it that requires time.
But...
A true warrior must defeat his opponent when they are at their strongest.
So, I will accept your challenge head on.
So, regret the fact that you permitted my pane di oro Kai to be eaten while it was still fresh.
Pi~errot.
A box?
That’s silly. It’s really obvious.
What is?
If you’re a person used to reactions, then...
Pane di oro... Pandora... Pandora’s Box. It’s obvious where he’s going.
Pane di oro
Pan di ora
Pandora
Pandora’s Box
Also, it’s written in three languages that the box should absolutely not be opened.
What’s Pandora’s Box?
Don’t you know?
Long ago, God had locked all the world’s miseries into a box.
And he’d ordered that the box should not be opened at any cost.
Miseries
What are miseries?
Geez, you don’t even know that?
It refers to the calamities and misfortunes that befall a person.
And, since a girl called Pandora broke the order and opened the box,
all the miseries were let out into the human world.
It’s a Greek myth.
So, if we open that, will those “miseries” things fly out at us?
Now that you mention it... That’s true...
Hey, Naked Woman.
Help me open this.
It’s pretty heavy.
My name is not Naked Woman.
It’s Monica. Monica.
Who cares about your name?!
Either way, unless we open this, the judging won’t go anywhere.
All right.
D-Don’t do that, Suwabara!
Heave-ho.
Th... This is...?
Note: yakusai (厄災) = miseries; hakusai (白菜) = Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage?
Chinese cabbages flew out from Pandora’s Box?
Hakusai. Hakusai. Hakusai. Hakusai. Hakusai.
Yakusai.
Yakusai
Yakusai!
Hakusai
So, Chinese cabbages came out from Pandora’s Box instead of miseries?!
Miseries
Chinese Cabbage
Wanna eat?
Would you like to eat?
What are these?!
Miseries are upon us!
Buy some stock?
Let’s make some money.
Suwabara!
I believe that according to the legend, after all the miseries had been released,
Pandora found hope in the box in the end.
And thus, I believe that hope was left behind in the human world.
I’m sure that Pierrot is thinking-along the same lines.
Find that hope quickly!
Roger!
What’s wrong?
Hurry up.
This is...
I’m not sure if this is hope...
I think this is a burdock root.
Why is a burdock root...?
Gobou. Gobou. Gobou. Gobou. Gobou. Gobou.
Gobou
Kibou
Kibou?!
Note: gobou (牛蒡) = burdock root; kibou (希望) = hope
Kibou!
Geez, do something about this already.
Pierrot?!
It was you after all!
All the Chinese cabbages went back into the box.
Once you’re a world-level clown,
you have to learn to use various wild beasts just as you use your limbs.
So, controlling a few Chinese cabbages is a piece of cake.
Chinese cabbages are wild beasts, huh?
More importantly, how do all those Chinese cabbages fit into a box like that?
Nevertheless, Suwabara’s bread was amazing.
His strategy of using croissant dough on the surface,
thus ensuring that the inner dough would remain unburnt and golden...
Also, his strategy to create those shadows...
And his strategy regarding the fruit.
It was truly spectacular.
I believe that many of you must have noticed, but...
The fruits that Suwabara used were shining like jewels, right?
Now that he mentions it...
He used a special honey for that!
Right, Suwabara?
Impressive as always, Pierrot.
But, you’ve made one mistake.
The honey I used was not special.
It was just regular honey!
Huh?
After Being defeated by Azuma in the Pantasia newcomers’ battle, I began to create Lupan.
In order to steal breadmaking techniques from around the world,
I studied with all I had every day.
No! No! No!
Far from defeating Azuma,
I can’t even defeat strong people around the world with just these techniques.
Kai!
This time, upon losing in your battle with the bread, you’re taking it out on the books?!
You even sliced the library card!
Hiromi-chan, the librarian, will get mad at me again.
Master.
Listen up, Kai.
I did tell you to steal bread techniques.
But, it’s not just techniques relating to bread that you must steal.
The true swordsman concerns himself with
the beauty of the sheath and the hilt, in addition to that of the sword.
I believe that bread is the same.
In addition to bread, you must study more about
the processing of foods like fruit, hams and cheeses that go with it.
Only then will you be a true bread artisan, right?
The processing of foods?
Once he helped me realize that, I once again applied myself to study.
And I came across a certain book.
A German book.
German?
That’s my country!
That book had this written in it.
Germany has a custom of storing dry fruit in honey for
long periods of time at the end of the year, and then eating them.
On doing that, the flavor becomes richer and very delicious.
W-Wait a moment.
It’s true that Germany has such a custom.
But the fruit doesn’t shine all that much.
That’s true.
But, I mixed already smashed fruit with honey,
added color to the honey itself, and added even more fruit.
With this, the color of the fruit was deepened.
And thanks to the luster of the colored honey, the fruit shone like jewels.
After that, I just applied croissant dough to the surface of the mold,
and attached the fruit on the inside.
In this way, I could arrange them in any manner I wanted.
I’ve eaten dry fruit preserved in honey
many a time with Mama and Papa at the year-end celebrations.
But, I never came up with such a strategy.
You’re pretty good, Samurai Boy.
But... it’s not like I don’t have a great trick of my own up my sleeve.
But, that’s an amazing technique Suwabara’s stolen there.
It’s amazing.
Our victory is a sure thing now.
No, we still don’t know who’ll win the match.
And what’s truly amazing is...
the fact that you haven’t noticed how far your wig has slipped.
All right.
I’ll start with sampling Monica’s bread now.
Oh?
This is...?
The flower has blossomed!!
What?!
What was that?!
H-How can that be?!
Monica, she...
By mixing a little starch syrup with the solution she used to glue the petals together,
she worked it so that the petals would bloom because of the heat and gravity.
Is that even possible?!
Yeah.
The temperature of this room, the heat given off by the dough,
the heat produced due to the illumination provided by the overhead lights...
When putting all three together, it’s possible to soften the starch syrup portion.
But...
the risk of this technique failing is quite high.
Unless you have absolute confidence in yourself,
you can’t use such a laborious technique in the all-important finals.
She’s fearsome. Monica Adenauer.
Just as expected of the patisserie world champion!
Bang.
That was sly!
Because you had this trick set up, you wanted me to go first, right?
Yep!
This woman...
It seems that she’s really not just an ordinary naked woman.
Interesting.
Let’s see all that you have.
Oh, that was an amazing trick, Monica.
Also, even though quite some time has passed, this bread is still hot.
You have more tricks up your sleeve, don’t you?
Of course!
In fact, this is where the fun really starts.
Oh, I’m looking forward to that.
Then, right away, let’s...
I can’t call myself a top baker in the world yet.
But...
I believe that this bread should at least do well at the world level.
After all, it’s packed with my mother’s love.
I... I don’t believe it!
It’s world-level unbelievable.
This is the first time I’ve ever eaten such a wonderful bread!
What?!
Operator, please connect this mic to the outside.
What number would you like to dial?
Number 17.
Huh? He seems to be telephoning someplace...
Note: The Japanese 110 is equivalent to the American 911, the emergency number.
Number 17 is equivalent to the Japanese 110.
In other words, it’s the police.
Police?!
Monaco Police
This is the Monaco Police Department.
Is something the matter?
You see, actually I’ve been agitating Chinese cabbages.
N-No way!
But, we’re right in the middle of the finals of a world tournament.
Old Man Pierrot has been arrested...
and has been escorted away.
He was escorted away.
Escorted away?!
I see!
Hey, what in the world is happening?!
What’s happened to the judging of my bread?!
Don’t panic.
He’s a world-level examiner.
I’m sure that his being convoyed away is part of some plan.
I’m sure that if we wait for a while, the judging will be carried out.
I wonder...
Pierrot has just been arrested for the crime of agitating the Chinese cabbages,
which goes against Monaco’s laws concerning prevention of public annoyance.
While it may be his first crime,
he won’t be coming back home today at the very least.
Huh?!
Then, what are we supposed to do?!
You have no choice but to go and visit him.
Visit him?
I’m sorry about having you come all the way here.
More importantly, please get on with the judging.
Yeah!
You haven’t assessed my bread at all after eating it!
Okiedokie.
Say, Kuro-yan...
Why don’t we go in as well?
Yeah.
I want to see the inside of a police station at least once.
No!
Why not?
You want to see your friend lose?
I lose?!
From times immemorial,
the combination of sour rye bread with sweet candy has been considered good.
Up until there, it’s pretty ordinary.
But, Monica’s bread had a trick to it that nobody could have imagined.
What do you mean?!
Here, look closely at the spot that I’ve bitten into.
The... The dough has...
Five layers you say?!
Yeah.
During the match,
Monica had made five doughs with varying amounts of rye and wheat flour, right?
She probably glued those together with candy,
and piled them on top of each other like a sandwich to make a five-layered bread.
1
2
3
4
5
Layers
D-Don’t tell me that’s why Pierrot...
Yeah, there’s no doubt about it.
That’s why Pierrot...
Note: gosou (五層) = five-layered; gosou (護送) = convoy
5 Layered
Convoy
allowed himself to be convoyed!
What an examiner!
To think that he’d get himself arrested for a reaction?!
I guess you would not understand this, but...
that’s the kind of person a judge is.
What kind of person is that?
Leaving that aside,
what’s so special about having five layers glued together by candy?
Yeah?
Well, firstly...
It’s heat retention.
Candy gets hot more easily than bread.
If candy is integrated inside, the heat retention capacity of the bread is heightened.
And the bread won’t cool down,
even during the time it takes for the candy rose sculpture to bloom.
Also, in terms of the display...
The bread looks like the strata of the Earth.
And the candy within looks like ground water.
It looks like the rose really is absorbing water, which is just cute.
Wh... What does it taste like?
That’s just superb.
Hamburger buns are split at a ratio of 4:6, right?
I’ll explain it in more detail in the seed of knowledge section.
You’re going to leave it for the seed of knowledge section again?
Monica also adjusted the appropriate ratios into the layers of the bread.
The five-layered bread has been constructed as shown here.
By controlling the ratio of the rye flour, which is heavier than wheat flour,
she has set up a miraculous balance here.
Also, she’s made the second layer quite light, while the first layer is heavy.
This is probably the result of testing various possibilities.
She probably figured that it would taste better
if the first layer was heavy, as it would form the outer crust.
As expected of a world-level examiner.
That’s exactly right.
And no matter what, you just don’t get tired of this bread.
After all, there are five different tastes to this bread.
You just don’t get tired of it.
I’m sorry, Suwabara.
Your bread was also wonderful, but...
This bread had a trick to it such that you never get sick of it.
It surpasses the strategy applied to your bread,
as it made me feel something like a deep love.
I’ve lost completely.
Oh stop that.
There’s no need to be depressed.
You’re a samurai, right?
Actually, it was my mother who came up with the idea of the five layers.
I was tired of eating the same thing every day,
and this was what she came up with to make me eat nutritious food.
This is the fruit of my mother’s love.
So, my win this time is thanks to my mother.
I had no hope of winning with just my skill.
After fighting with you, I understood this.
As a baker, your skill is impressive.
So, you should be confident in that.
Doesn’t get any worse than this.
To think that I’m being comforted by a girl.
But, it’s the truth!
What? You don’t know what a handshake is?
I thought that a handshake was a universal custom.
But...
I just wish to engrave upon this hand that I fought with a marvelous artisan.
That’s not really necessary.
Just give me your hand already.
I guess this is pretty surprising, right?
These hands...
The hands of a candymaker, who tends to mold candy melted at high temperatures...
are usually scarred.
B... Beautiful!
What beautiful hands!
These are truly the hands of a devoted artisan!
I’ve never seen a woman with such beautiful hands!
Huh?
You’re kidding, right?
You’re the first person to have thought of my hands in that manner.
Samurai Boy...
I get the feeling that something may be starting here.
And I get the feeling...
that this is where visiting hours end.
Time’s up.
Let’s go.
boku no te wo nigire issho ni minaikai
Grab on to my hand. Would you like to see it together?
kesshiteraku janai ga saikou no sekai
By no means is it easy, but it’s the best kind of world.
souzoushite mitanda jibun de egaita rakugaki no
I tried imagining it by standing on my future map
mirai no chizu ni tatte soshite kimi to waraerukatte
which I had doodled out,
and wondered if you’d be laughing with me there.
kentou wa tsuitenda ashiato darake no michi wo
I’ve guessed it. That if I were to just follow along
tada aruiterunja itsumademo tadoritsukeyashinainda
this road already full of footprints, I’d never ever reach there.
sore ga iyada to iu nara
And if I don’t like that...
heion nante antai wa kono sai yamemashouka
I guess I should take this opportunity
and stop seeking the peace that comes with security.
kanawanaitte akirameta yume wo sutezu tsumiagete
I’ll pile up the dreams I thought couldn’t be fulfilled
without throwing them away
mucha de mubou na teppen ni aru
and become the foundation stone for the dream
yume wo tsukamu ishizue ni nare
that stands at the peak of the absurd and the reckless.
boku no te wo nigire issho ni minaikai
Grab on to my hand. Would you like to see it together?
kesshiteraku janai ga saikou no sekai
By no means is it easy, but it’s the best kind of world.
kesshiteraku janai ga saikou no sekai
By no means is it easy, but it’s the best kind of world.
Next Episode
No way!
If I lose, then the Japanese team will lose!
I really just want to run away.
You dumb chicken!
M-Manager?!
We’ve arrived in Monaco, dumbass!
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Victory!!
Revolutionizing the bread industry!
Victory!!
Revolutionizing the bread industry!!
Be sure to watch.
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
Hamburger Buns
Hamburger buns.
Perfect ratio of thickness
The perfect ratio of their thickness is 4:6.
The lower jaw of a human is stronger than the upper jaw.
So, if you make a sandwich at this ratio, it’s easy to eat.
This ratio is easy to eat !
Oh?!