That’s it!
You’re amazing, Kai.
Is that so?
Yeah.
That’s it.
Try bending it a bit more.
Here?
Yeah.
Will you guys cut it out already?
Huh?
I mean, why are you, an American representative, over here?!
My match is already over,
so I can be wherever I want, right?
Exactly.
You moron!
My match isn’t over yet.
I can’t possibly practice next to the enemy.
It’s all right. I have no interest in a baldy, a baldy’s bread or a baldy’s match.
Baldy
Exactly.
It’s not good to be short-tempered, Baldy.
Don’t you just hate a person whose hair and temper are both short?
Exactly.
What’s with them?
Suddenly going out together... you stupid couple!
With this, I can’t concentrate on practicing for the finals.
Where are you going?
Is your work proceeding smoothly?
Kuro-yan?
You see...
The kitchen’s been kinda taken over by two idiots–
Don’t make excuses!
With Suwabara having lost, if you’re to lose now, Japan will lose.
Our fate depends on you.
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.
Victory!!
Revolutionizing the bread industry!!
Revolutionizing the bread industry!
If I’m to lose, then the Japanese team loses.
I know that already.
But, my opponent is that Shachihoko.
He’s not an opponent who I can win against easily in my present state.
But, having said that, I can’t think of a single way to win.
And I don’t have confidence that I can win either.
Why must I carry the burden of everything when we’re hanging precariously off the cliff?
What in the world am I supposed to do?
You great big idiot!
Wh-Wh-Why is the manager here?!
It’s not just the manager, Kawachi-san.
Tsukino!
Kanmuri!
And... Who were you again?
You ungrateful wretch.
But, what are you guys doing here?!
With all of you here, isn’t the store empty?
The store doesn’t matter one tiny bit.
That’s not true, but...
I didn’t think that you’d fallen this low, Kawachi.
You’re close to the all-important match and far from getting ready for it.
All you’re doing is complaining and feeling sorry for yourself.
Th... That’s...
I invited your family to the finals, but something like this would just sadden them.
Th... That’s true...
Wait. What do you mean?!
You invited my family to the finals?!
Exactomundo.
Why did you do something like...
Listen.
To my family, I’m the hero who made it to the Pantasia Main Branch.
In front of the family who thinks that, if I were to lose...
that would make them just as sad, wouldn’t it?
You dumbass.
I don’t even feel like hitting cowardly scum like you.
Kawachi-san.
Open this and see.
That’s what you gave me when I was leaving...
That’s right.
Kawachi Kyou
Kawachi Kyou...
Kawachi Kyou
Kawachi Kyoutarou
tarou?
My father?!
Have you heard the story of this man?
He knew that he didn’t have as much talent at breadmaking as most people.
Nobody passes this time.
Yet, no matter how many times he failed...
See you again next year.
No matter how much shame he had to bear...
He never gave up and never ran away.
Employment Examination Hall
Pantasia Group
That old man is here again.
He acted upon his beliefs and his will.
He was a man who stood up for his dreams time and time again.
Kawachi Kyoutarou.
That’s right.
I’m talking about your father.
Kawachi-san!
It’s true that you made it to the Pantasia Main Branch.
But!
Afraid of losing, you’ve not tried to face up to the pressure,
in order to preserve the image your family has of you.
If Kawachi Kyoutarou were to see you now...
I wonder what he’d think...
Facing your dreams, unafraid of anything.
Right now, you don’t have the will for that at all.
It’s all right for you to disappoint all of us.
But...
Please, just don’t disappoint your splendid father.
What’s wrong, Kyousuke?
You’re looking down in the dumps.
Bread should not be made when you’re suffering.
While making something delicious, you should make it like you’re having fun.
You’re my son.
Can’t be helped if you’re a little clumsy.
But... never give up, no matter what.
Never run away.
Always follow your dreams with everything you’ve got.
Kyoutarou
Dad...
I wonder if this will do it?
He tends to be strongest when he’s cornered.
If you consider how much he’s been slacking lately, he needs to be cornered this much.
Yep.
I think it was worth all of us coming at the expense of shutting down the store suddenly.
Though, I was almost left behind to mind the store.
Now we just have to wait and see how serious Kawachi-san gets.
I’m home.
Wh-What’s this?!
The word “impossible” does not exist in my dictionary.
“Impossible” does not exist.
Ka-Kawachi?
Listen up. And listen well, Japan-freakboy.
As of today, I’m going to revolutionize the bread industry.
Idiot.
Note: kakumei (革命) = revolution; Kakuei (角栄) = name of a former prime minister
Y-You’re going to revive Kakuei?!
Tanaka Kakuei was a former Prime Minister of Japan
That’s impossible!
Even I know that former Prime Minister Tanaka died a long time ago.
That’s not it, you idiot!
I’m going to lead a revolution.
What was that?!
Note: wai no okosu no wa kakumei = I’m going to lead a revolution wai no okusan wa Kakuei = My wife is Kakuei
Your wife is Kakuei?!
A new truth unfolds...
Well, you see...
I don’t know.
You idiot!
Just leave.
Ouch!
Hey, be quiet will you?
Manager?!
So, what in the world did you all come here to do?
Note: monaka = a snack made of jellied anko sandwiched between wafers
We’ve come to eat monaka in Monaco.
And, leaving that aside...
Was there anything different about Kawachi-san?
Come to think of it...
He was saying something about Kakuei.
Kakuei?
It’s probably “kakumei.”
A revolution, huh?
Looks like we can really look forward to this.
If I think about it, after I got info Pantasia’s Main Branch, I didn’t really have an aim.
I’ve been half-assed about things.
I’ve been depending on Azuma and Suwabara entirely during this tournament.
And that’s probably because I’ve not been serious about anything lately.
The Pantasia Main Branch.
That was my objective in order to support my family.
But... if I just wanted to make money, then I didn’t really need to be a baker.
Kawachi Kyoutarou
The reason that I really wanted to become a baker...
It’s because I wanted to become cool like you, Dad.
You caused your family a lot of problems for the sake of your dream.
And in the end, you died.
But...
I always admired you for that.
Listen up, Kyousuke.
Your father believes that dinner bread is the most widely eaten bread in the world.
Right now, I’m still a pathetic baker who’s not capable of getting into Pantasia.
But... someday, when I get into Pantasia...
I want to revolutionize the bread industry by creating the dinner bread amongst dinner breads.
A revolution with a dinner bread amongst dinner breads...
That dream is really cool.
So, this is the latest sample.
Eat it and see?
Yuck.
What is this?!
It really stinks!
Since it’s something you eat every day...
I tried mixing in herbs that are good for your health.
Hey, old man...
I guess I’ll bear poverty a little longer.
Thank you.
Hey, who you calling an old man?!
Sometimes it hurt, though, that the only thing cool about you was your dreams.
Dad, since you died so early...
I couldn’t really learn much from you.
But...
the picture of you always believing in your dreams...
and working hard always...
is still burnt within my eyes.
Listen up.
It seems that I have a little more talent for bread than you did.
So... I will fulfill that dream of yours at this tournament.
A dinner bread to revolutionize the bread industry.
With “Victory”!
The day before the 2nd match of the finals
All right! It’s done.
Note: If you remember, “ears” refers to the crust (especially when formed after scoring the bread).
Let’s start with the ears.
This is...!
This light taste and comforting fragrance...
I feel like I’m flying in the sky!
These ears are amazing.
Before I could stop myself, I had a reaction to my own bread.
But... why had my nose elongated as well?
The problem is the dough inside.
This is pretty bad, even for me.
This time I had a reaction because of how bad it was.
At this rate, the ears are completely wasted.
He seems to be keeping busy with all his reactions.
What could this possibly mean?
How could the insides be awful when the ears are good...
He’s mixing in something other than flour.
This fragrance probably is...
It’s dattan soba.
Dattan soba?
Dattan soba is something that has been eaten by the Yi tribe in China from times immemorial.
It contains over 100 times more of the antioxidant rutin than normal soba.
The theme this time is to make a dinner bread that you’d eat every day.
Kawachi-san is probably frying to make something that’s delicious and good for your health.
And he failed.
Oui.
In order to mix soba flour into bread,
you have to pay attention to the baking time or it tastes bad.
This is probably the first time Kawachi-san is trying this.
So, it’s not surprising for it to not go well.
But, the match is tomorrow.
It might be a good idea to advise him a little...?
Manager?
I can’t advise him!
Why not?
He’s come this far by himself.
I want him to complete it on his own as well.
B-But...
Another failure.
This is no better than Dad’s herb bread.
Dad...
I wonder if this is as far as I can get...
I wonder...
Manager! What are you doing?!
Weren’t you disappointed in scum like me?
I was.
But, if you’re to lose, it would cause problems for us as well.
So, we can’t just afford to let you be.
Especially not if...
you’ve had a change of heart
and turned into someone who’s trying to make something truly spectacular.
Then, you’re going to tell me what I must do in order to make this bread delicious?
No, I won’t!
Then, what did you come here to do?
You’re scum, and a baldy!
I’m shortening it to scaldy!
You always do that and try to depend on others!
That’s why you never mature!
Once, I tried making a bread good for your body by mixing in tea leaves,
and I failed miserably.
But, I figured out how to fix the problem on my own.
Well, a scaldy like you probably wouldn’t understand the heart of that kind of artisan.
Scaldy. Scaldy. Scaldy. Scaldy.
I was planning on figuring it out on my own!
You came here on your own volition!
Scaldy. Scaldy. Scaldy.
If you’re not going to help, then get out.
What’s with him?!
Did he just come here to boast?
Come to think of it...
That old man said something about putting tea leaves into bread and
figuring out how to solve the problem on his own...
What did he mean?
I mean, tea leaves are pretty nasty when eaten.
Usually, you just use them to make tea.
Tea, huh?
That old man put tea into the dough instead of tea leaves.
But...
I’m using soba.
Unlike tea, even on adding water, it won’t...
I see!
I got it!
Nice assist, Manager.
But, didn’t you say something about not advising him?
I wonder what you’re talking about...
All I did was boast about the past.
Watch me, Dad.
I have friends who help me out in times of need.
I’m really blessed when compared to you, since you were always alone.
Looks like I owe them another one.
But...
I’ll be sure to pay off this debt.
I’ll win with my Victory bread.
The day of the 2nd match of the finals
And we’re starting the second match of the finals.
The examiner will be me, Pierrot, now a one-time-offense criminal!
As usual, we don’t have much of an audience.
But, let’s not let that keep us from having fun.
I don’t care about there not being much of an audience.
Because, this time...
my family is here to cheer me on!
Uh... Kyousuke!
Good luck.
Come on, you guys, too.
Hang in there, Bro!
Why can’t you be more energetic like you were yesterday?
But, you’re the same, Mom.
Can’t be helped.
We were all pumped up because we heard that it was a world tournament.
But this... kinda takes the wind out of your sails.
Thanks to my family’s big cheer for me, this hall’s just like a full Koushien Stadium to me.
There’s no way I could lose now.
You think you can win with something like that?
You never change, do you?
In that case, then, there’s a lot more people behind me.
Family ties are strong amongst us Italians.
Since I’m in the finals, my entire family came to watch!
Quality over quantity!
Listen, you’re going to be embarrassed in front of all your family.
But, thank goodness.
Kawachi-san seems to be completely freed from the pressure.
He’s like a different person from before.
That’s to be expected.
In the first place, the pressure was something
he created on his own from the fear that he’d lose.
But, right now, Kawachi has the confidence that chases away his fears
to go along with his excellent capabilities.
His mental state right now is completely different from before.
Oh! Kawachi suddenly threw his flour onto the floor.
What secret plan is this?
Umm... I got a little too excited and it slipped from my hand.
Sorry.
This won’t do.
I must pull myself together and get going.
Oh?! Kawachi is using some yellow fluid instead of water.
Note: sobayu = the hot water that soba is boiled in
It’s sobayu.
Sobayu?!
And it’s not just any sobayu!
It’s filled with rutin...
It’s dattan sobayu!
I see.
This is the trick you’ve applied so that it’s healthy for those who eat it.
He seems to be a different baldy from the semifinals.
At this rate, it won’t be hard to defeat Shachihoko,
who placed third in the American team.
What’s that supposed to mean?
You’re mistaken about something.
Shachihoko was so busy training me, a newbie,
that he didn’t have to time to get ready for the semifinals.
What?
Then, Shachihoko placing third in the semifinals was...
He just wasn’t going with everything he had.
Oh, this is amazing!
Wh-What’s that?!
It looks like a cannon!
This is dough that has been wrapped around a bamboo pole.
This is a traditional Egyptian recipe, right?
I guess your criminal record isn’t for nothing, Pierrot.
But, you’re right.
The slow-food movement that’s popular right now began in Italy.
You could call this the ultimate slow food.
What’s slow food?
To put it simply,
it’s a movement that began to ensure that
delicious traditional foods are not wiped out by fast food and junk food.
Oh?
By the way,
since that bread is in the Egyptian style, you’ll be baking it over an open fire, right?
Yep, that’s right.
But, it’s not just any old open fire.
I’ll be using binchoukan, the best charcoal in the world.
And then, I’ll be sprinkling it with this.
Spencer... you’ve found a terrible ingredient...
Yep, I have.
After losing to Azuma in the newcomers’ battle,
I realized that if I only concentrated on Nagoya,
I wouldn’t be able to win against world-level bakers.
At that time, I learned that movement called slow food
had begun to get popular in my home country, Italy.
This is it!
And then,
I searched among all the slow foods of the world and came upon a wonderful ingredient.
Kawachi, it’s you who’s going to be embarrassed in front of your family.
This ultimate slow-food cannon, Alexandria, will be bellowing!
As expected of Shachihoko.
It’s certain that he’s not an opponent I’d win against easily.
But!
My strategy is not limited to dattan soba!
C-Croissant dough?!
And, this doesn’t look like regular croissant dough!
That croissant dough seems like
it’s been made in a completely different manner from my Lupan.
You seem to be up to something incredible.
Right, Baldy?
Watch me, Dad.
I’ll be starting a revolution!
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
I'll show that clown more than a thing or two with my plain bread!
Hey, what's with that outfit? Are you trying to get this show sued?!
Ladies and gentlemen of the audience, I thank you.
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
The Great Detective Pierrot!! A Reaction you Lay your Life On!
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A reaction you lay your life on!
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Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
Dattan Soba
Dattan soba has more than 100 times the rutin of regular soba.
Rutin
Rutin is also known as Vitamin P and is a variety of porphyrin.
A variety of porphyrin
Helps your blood flow well
It helps your blood flow more easily.
Oh?!