In order to cheer up Pierrot, who was grief-stricken over his father’s death,
Azuma Kazuma promised him that he would make a bread
delicious enough to send him to heaven at the final match of the Monaco Cup.
Japan #61.
And it’s called... Cannabis Japan!
I’ll be sure to transport you to heaven.
So, be sure to meet your father once again.
When I think that I’ll be able to meet both my mother and father...
I can’t keep my happiness in check.
Mother?!
That’s right!
Azuma’s opponent, Shadow White, has promised to send me to the other end of the universe,
where I’ll be able to meet my mother who’s become a star.
The third round of the Monaco Cup finals.
Finally, the battle is about to begin!
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.
All the ultimate ingredients collected!!
The greatest finals in all of history!
All the ultimate ingredients collected!!
The greatest finals in all of history!
This is it, Leol-sama.
Th-This is my mother?
Yes.
23 years ago, while giving birth to you, she passed away in exchange for your life.
The Queen of Monaco, Lady Maetel Leonhart.
Mother...
The name Maetel comes from Greek, and apparently it means “mother.”
But tragically, in the end, Maetel-sama was not able to embrace you, her beloved son.
What’s this book?
It was her favorite book.
It is “Night on the Galactic Railroad,”
Note: Miyazawa Kenji (宮沢 賢治) – For more information on his works go to http://www.kenji-world.net/english/
by Japan’s exemplary poet and author of fairy tales, Miyazawa Kenji.
Mother was reading the original text?
Yes. I guess she must have really liked it.
I’m sure it was her wish to read it to you, Leol-sama.
Mother.
I wanted to meet you just once.
I wanted to listen to you reading me Miyazawa Kenji.
Tournament Hall of the 3rd Round of the Monaco Cup Finals Grand Casino
Sorry for the wait, everyone.
And now we’ll have the third round of the finals of the Second Monaco Cup.
Azuma Kazuma, the Japanese representative.
Pierrot is floating.
And his opponent is Shadow White, the American representative.
The theme of the third round is a bread that best expresses the taste of your homeland.
So, they must make breads that express the taste of Japan and America respectively.
The judge and referee is me,
one-time criminal, to be crowned as King of Monaco tomorrow...
Pierrot!
Pierrot! Criminal! Pierrot! Floating!
He’s really popular.
Yeah, you said it.
So, then...
Begin the match!
Whoa!
What amazing handling of the dough!
He’s right!
That’s the technique of a super veteran baker!
The bread that Shadow is making is probably... a bagel!
A bagel?!
In regular breads like butter rolls, you have 70 parts of water for 100 parts of flour.
But, in hard breads like bagels,
you have 50 parts of water for 100 parts of flour,
so it’s very hard to knead.
To be able to knead it at that speed...
It’s impossible for an ordinary human being.
How can this be?!
Can Azuma win against that kind of monster?
Did you see that?
This is the #1 technique in the world.
And I copied it 100% to make it my technique.
Oh?!
Azuma seems to be adding in a white liquid.
That’s the liquid extract of cannabis seeds, also known as cannabis milk, right?
Huh? Oh, that’s right.
Cannabis milk is extracted from cannabis seeds and therefore falls in the vegetable food category.
It has a natural sweetness and refreshing taste to it.
You can drink it at Restaurant Asa in Shimokitazawa.
So, you guys should try going there sometime.
Let’s go Shimokitazawa!
And so Shimokitazawa becomes famous worldwide...
Azuma is great...
You’re naive!
Look at Shadow.
He’s about to start with an even greater trick, Kawachi-san.
What was that?!
T-This is...
Rice?
But, it doesn’t seem to be regular rice...
What in the world is...?
To think that the great Pierrot doesn’t know... Pathetic.
Hey, Ryou!
I heard that!
How dare you insult the king?!
If you don’t even know what that rice is...
you’re being presumptuous in calling yourself the King of Monaco,
who’s supposed to be an expert on ingredients from around the world.
Oh?
Everyone! It seems this guy here wants to explain it instead of your king.
Very well.
I’ll explain instead of your worthless king.
That rice is metzuru.
The legendary sticky rice that’s a specialty of Sakata city in Yamagata prefecture.
What’s metzuru?
What’s a legendary sticky rice?
He got us good.
To think that he’d bring out metzuru...
Yeah...
It possesses a luster like silk...
It’s soft, yet firm.
Note: daifuku = sticky rice cakes stuffed with red bean paste
The sekihan and daifuku made from it are considered to be among the best in the world.
But, it is hard to cultivate.
Since it doesn’t grow anywhere except on the soil found at the outskirts of Ennouji in Sakata city...
it’s not found very much around the world.
Oh I see...
To think that we’d get to see Japan’s legendary sticky rice in Monaco...
That’s wonderful!
But, Shadow...
This theme requires you to make a bread that expresses the taste of your homeland.
No matter how delicious it is,
if you use rice only found in Japan, I really can’t accept it.
That’s right!
That sticky rice can only be used for a Japan.
Don’t worry.
Instead of water, I’ll be using this.
This is an ingredient developed in America!
Rice Dream!
Rice Dream?
It’s not well-known in Japan, but...
It’s a health drink that became a big hit in America.
It’s a low-fat drink made from unmilled rice.
It has safflower oil and sea salt added to it.
It has a refreshing taste.
Since Americans face a battle with obesity,
I saw a lot of them drinking it when I was studying there.
America is a country of immigrants.
If doesn’t have a long history, nor does it have foods that can be called traditional.
Most things can be traced back to England, Germany, Italy and even Japan.
Thus, I’m at a big disadvantage with this theme.
I understand that quite well.
But, the origins of the bagel are in New York.
It is, without doubt, an original bread that represents America perfectly.
Okay, very well!
I will accept your bagel, made with Rice Dream, as being representative of your home country.
Thank you.
I thought that we could make use of his weakness there, but I guess it didn’t work.
That stuff that Azuma is mixing in seems to be some sort of seasoning...
I guess this is what I was looking for...
Is that salt or something?
That’s the signal fire of Azuma’s counterattack.
All right. This is where things really start.
Shadow just put his bagel into a boiling pot!
Why are you so surprised?
You normally boil bagels in water.
In tea!
In tea?!
And this fragrance...
Sniff sniff...
This tea is...
This is the legendary traditional English tea,
Quality Season.
Made by picking the best tea leaves in the best season.
A legendary tea that involves the revival of a manufacturing process from the Victorian era.
The refined fragrance and mild flavor of this tea are considered to be the best in the world.
If I’m to boil the dough in this tea,
the world’s best fragrance and the world’s best flavor will be absorbed,
making the world’s best bagel.
I’m really surprised.
Yeah? To think that he’s boiling it in tea...
No, Shadow can talk even when he’s not imitating people!
Oh that.
All right. The last step now.
With this, I’ll be winning effortlessly.
Whoa!
This time Shadow is deep-frying the bagel!
What’s he doing?!
I’d understand if it’s a doughnut, but why in the world would he deep-fry a bagel?
It’s in order to bring out the flavor of the metzuru.
If you bake breads that have sticky rice like metzuru kneaded in,
the bread will end up becoming very hard, like a roasted rice cake.
That’s why Shadow...
No, Kirisaki must have disliked that,
and came up with a way of bringing * out the texture of the metzuru itself.
And he must have chosen to deep-fry it after boiling it.
Done.
He’s already done?
Compared to him, Azuma has just begun to bake it in the oven.
Is he going to be all right?
What’s wrong, Kawachi-san?
T-This is my intuition as a person from Kansai, and not a baker.
I can tell.
That bagel will produce an incredible reaction!
Come, King Pierrot!
Please judge this Gopan bagel!
And fly off to the ends of the universe!
Please go and meet your mother who has become a star...
If I can meet Mother after eating the Gopan bagel...
Gulp.
I couldn’t be happier.
Okay...
Chuga-chug-chug.
Blow away the unripe walnuts.
Blow away the sour quince as well.
You are...?
My name is hard to pronounce.
Note: Campanella is a character from “Night on the Galactic Railroad” by Miyazawa Kenji. He is reciting a song called “Kaze no Uta,” theme song for “Kaze no Matasaburou,” another novel by Miyazawa Kenji.
It’s Campanella.
Campanella?
Yeah, it’s really hard to pronounce.
Let’s go, shall we?
Go? Where?
To the other end of the universe.
By getting onto that galactic railway.
Without losing to the rain...
And without losing to the wind...
And without losing to the snow, or to the heat of summer.
Hey, is this...?
Night on the Galactic Railroad
This is the world of Miyazawa Kenji.
It certainly is not the world of 999.
Is that so?
This is the world of Miyazawa Kenji that my mother liked so much.
Thank goodness it’s not ripped off another anime.
Next, we come to the Southern Cross. Southern Cross.
We’ll be stopping there for 15 minutes.
Note: Coalsack is a dark nebula, one of the nearest to Earth, which appears in the southern Milky Way.
Ahh, that’s Coalsack.
It’s an opening in the sky.
That is where the real heaven is.
And that over there is your mother.
Campanella, let’s go together, okay?
Huh? Where did you go?
Whom are you looking for, Pierrot?
No, Leol...
Wh-Who’s there?
Could it be you, Mother?
That’s right, Leol.
I am your mother.
Maetel Leonhart.
M-Mother?
But, where are you?
I’m right here.
Down below.
Huh?
Down?
Welcome, Leol.
There’s so many mothers!
Could it be that this whole star is made of you, Mother?
Yeah, that’s right.
Because after dying, I became a star.
More importantly, since this is the first time we’ve met, tell me about yourself.
O-Okay.
I wonder what happened to Pierrot-san?
He stopped moving the moment he ate the Gopan bagel.
It’s happened exactly as I feared it would.
And so, because the Gopan bagel was so very delicious, I was able to come here.
Hmm?
What was that?
Tell your mother here, too.
So, like I said... The Gopan bagel was...
Hmm? Huh?
What was that?
Tell your mother here, too.
So, like I said...
Hmm? Huh?
What was that?
So, like I said...
Hmm? Huh?
What was that?
So, like I said...
Hmm? Huh? What was that?
So, like I said...
Exactly how many times do I need to repeat the same story?
50,000 times.
So many?!
Because there’s 50,000 of me on this star.
50,000?!
50,000 mothers...
50,000 Maetels...
Note: go man (五万) = 50,000
Go man Maetel!
Just now, King Pierrot ate the Gopan bagel and met with 50,000 of his mothers.
That is, with 50,000 Maetels...
Just as I thought!
Go man Maetel...
Goman bagel...
Gopan bagel!
It’s a reaction...
Welcome back.
How was your journey through space to visit your mother?
Amazing.
Just one mother would have been fine, but there were 50,000 of them!
This Gopan bagel is an amazing bread!
Rice Dream, made from unmilled rice, heightens the compatibility of the metzuru and bread.
The refined fragrance of the traditional English tea, Quality Season, invites your appetite.
And the crispy texture of the fried bagel gave me ultimate satisfaction.
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that
this is an ultimate flavor that humanity has yet to experience.
I’ve never eaten a bread better than this.
This bread is so good that you get a 100% score, hands down.
And so, the map of Spain...
Spain, huh? Hey!
We can run away at any time.
That’s true, but...!
Shadow just received the highest score possible!
We can’t possibly win now, can we?
That may be.
But we’ll still have time, after watching to see how Azuma’s doughnut does.
That’s true, but...
Doughnut?!
Azuma was making a doughnut?!
All right. It’s almost time.
The time he’s taking to bake it...
Could it be that...
It’s me.
I was watching.
So, I guess we’ve won, huh?
I wanted to see their mortified faces in person over there as well.
Yukino-kun...
Please start up that plan of ours faster than we’d decided on.
Why?
Don’t talk back to me.
Or did you turn chicken?
D-Don’t make fun of me.
Then, I leave it to you.
Azuma Kazuma, huh?
Azuma was making a doughnut?
While we’re calling it a doughnut, it’s a “bread-doughnut” leavened with yeast.
Whoa. Azuma is deep-frying his doughnut as well.
Yahoo! We’re not losing either!
But, if it’s a doughnut, it’s obvious to deep-fry it.
But, isn’t it odd that he’s frying it after baking it?
Don’t you know?!
Normally, if you’re making fried doughnuts,
they’re definitely more delicious if fried after being baked.
Oh, is that so?
If you fry the raw dough without baking it, then the dough will absorb a lot of oil.
But once it’s baked, the amount of oil absorbed is reduced.
Oh...
But, he’s not doing something that simple.
Sniff sniff.
This oil is no regular oil, right?
I can tell by its fragrance.
Cannabis oil is mixed in it, right?!
That’s right.
I extracted it using an oil press this morning.
The ignition temperature of cannabis oil is lower,
so I blended it with sesame oil.
So, I got an oil that’s healthy for you.
That’s pretty cool, Azuma.
With this, beating Shadow is...
Not quite possible yet.
What was that?!
Unless he has some incredible trick up his sleeve, winning against that Gopan bagel is...
I’m sure that Azuma has a little trick or two up...
I sure hope he does.
Right, Tsukino?
I believe that he does.
Easter Island
It’s fried!
It took quite a while, but looks like it’s finally done...
Then, while it’s still fresh...
Not yet!
You can’t go to heaven yet.
You have to be patient for a little longer.
For how long?
Until I finish baking it.
This bread has to be baked once more after it’s fried.
I was right.
What can Azuma be thinking of?!
Bake, fry, and then bake again.
Is there really going to be something special there after all this work?
Yes there is!
Huh?
The sight of Azuma maturing to become the ultimate baker.
The ultimate baker?
And now, Azuma is sprinkling a mysterious powder onto it.
What in the world could that powder...?
Oh! I know!
This is cannabis flour made from cannabis seeds, right?
And it seems that there’s quite a bit of sugar mixed into this flour.
Am I right?
Just as expected of, you Old Ma...
I mean Mister Pierrot...
Is that what it was?!
Manager, Azuma is going to caramelize it, right?
Exactly!
What do you mean?!
If you lightly bake sugar, it turns into brown caramel, right?
Uh, yeah...
In addition to turning sweeter, it becomes more fragrant and delicious.
This process is called caramelization.
So, you mean that he’s going to do this with cannabis flour?
Then, the bread-doughnut that Azuma-san is making is...
The ultimate bread-doughnut!
Then we won’t be needing these anymore, right?
Yep. Throw ’em away!
But, Manager...
I still think that Shadow’s bread, made with the highest quality ingredients, is better.
I do think that Azuma-san’s doughnut has become something that can be called great.
But not ultimate.
Kanmuri.
The ultimate taste cannot be made with ingredients alone.
Manager...
Looks like the brat’s still trying his best...
But, he’s no match for me,
who collected all those legendary ingredients and used them perfectly.
I’m #1 in the world.
Take that!
All right!
It’s done!
This is the ultimate bread-doughnut.
Japan #61.
Cannabis Japan!
I got tired of waiting, you know...
Come on, eat.
Eat it and you’ll be flying off to heaven!
Gulp.
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
Can Azuma win?!
Let’s believe in him.
It’s all right.
I’m sure...
Show the whole world!
The delicious Japan that will rewrite history!
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Pierrot crosses the sands of time!!
Japan at the apex of the world!?
Pierrot crosses the sands of time!!
Japan at the apex of the world!?
Be sure to watch.
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
The bagel has a history that dates back 300 years.
Bagel
History dates back 300 years
The origin of the word comes from the German word “bügel.”
Origin of Word
Bügel
It refers to the stirrup used on horses.
Stirrup used on horses
If was named so by a late 17th century Polish king who liked horse riding.
Named by Polish King who liked horse riding
Oh?