I’m really sorry, everyone.
To think that that woman had bought up all of the super tuna to sabotage you guys...
Don’t worry about it.
It’s not like it’s your fault.
That’s right.
In fact, we think that you’re a good guy.
After all, you’re doing something that feels so very good...
Oh my God, guys...
Why is everyone naked in my office?
What in the world is...?
Tsubodzuka wanted to make up for Yukino’s having bought out all of the tuna
by giving us all acupuncture.
Would you like to join us, Madam President? It feels real good.
I’ll pass.
You’re so impure, Kawachi.
Yeah, what a perverted baldy.
Yeah, but Tsubodzuka...
Yes?
Since we’re all friends now,
it’s gonna be kinda hard to fight it out with you in the next match.
If it’s just that, don’t worry...
I’ve quit being a member of CMAP.
Huh?
By quit, do you mean that you’ve retired?
Well, I remembered something after watching you guys.
I remembered that you can’t make truly delicious food if you’re not having fun making it.
But...
In CMAP, everybody is a rival.
We only pretend to get along on television.
We’re in no state to be enjoying cooking.
That is why I quit.
Oh, I see...
In that case, we don’t have to hold back on crushing CMAP.
But, you can’t relax yet.
If it’s just about skill, they are true professionals.
It won’t be good to let down your guard.
We’re professionals at baking, too,
so we have no complaints about our opponents.
Let’s do this.
Let’s go!
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.
kono koe todoke tai yo, mada chiisana uta dakedo
I want this voice to reach you, even though it’s still a tiny song.
hajimaru yokan ga suru kara
That’s because I have the feeling that something’s gonna start.
Yakitate!! Japan
Translated by: Anime-Empire
hitori de uzukumari, koe shizume nagara otoshita namida wa
As I was cowering, muffling my voice, the tears that I shed
“shinjiru koto wasurekaketeru to” to
probably helped me notice that
kidzukase tekureta no kamo shirenai
I’ve almost forgotten how to believe.
egaita mirai wo
The future that I painted (I will fulfill it)
(kanaerunda)
hareta sora miagete
Looking up to the clear skies,
mouichido hashiri dasu yo. Itsuka ano shiroi sora
I begin to run once again. Someday, I want to dye
watashi iro ni sometai na
that white sky with my colors.
dokomademo tondoyuku yo. Biidama mitai ni hikaru
I’m going to fly as far as possible, shining like a marble,
kono hane wo hirogete
unfolding these wings of mine.
Ooo, mango!!
CMAP’s big counterattack!
Ooo, mango!!
CMAP’s big counterattack!
Jungle Office
I see...
Kaname Hiroshi
It looks like the enemy was strong enough to take down Tsubodzuka-kun...
So, you want all of us to fight in the next match.
Am I right?
That’s right.
Geez, how stupid.
Chimatsuri Gou
Why do the three of us have to get together to fight small fry like that?
I’m going to turn it down as well.
Narumi Shizoto
I mean, if the three of us are going to participate,
there’d be two incompetent people I’d be better off without as they’d just pull me down.
What was that?!
Who you calling an incompetent person you’re better off without ’cause he’s pulling you down?
You perverted narcissist!
Whoa, whoa.
These old-fashioned thugs from the boonies sure are short-tempered.
You little...
You guys are low-class, as always.
Don’t you be starting, too.
It looks like...
You guys get along real well.
That’s one way of putting it.
In reality, surviving in CMAP is much harder than people imagine.
It’s an everyday occurrence for someone to be dragging you down.
Hey, stop right there, four-eyes.
Isn’t it always you who’s dragging us down?
Huh?
It’s you who’s spreading all those ridiculous scandals, isn’t it?!
You?!
How stupid.
There isn’t any advantage for me in doing something like that.
Shut up, you bastard!
Spill it.
Spill it already, will ya?
I... I-I’m against violence!
I can’t take this anymore.
Will the two of you just die already?
Spill it! Spill it! Spill it! Spill it! Spill it! Spill it!
These guys are ridiculous.
Is it really time to be doing this?
Wh-Who’s the old dude?
It’s the Director of St. Pierre, Kirisaki.
Look at that.
Tsubodzuka Takumi! CMAP collapses Crisis!!
Retirement!?
It makes no difference to me whether scum like that loses or retires.
However, we can’t be saying that.
With him having lost, people will think that in reality, CMAP is weak.
Once such rumors spread, the number of our jobs will decrease,
and our popularity will take a dive.
Exactly.
Right now, what you guys need most is a complete victory.
To defeat the enemy completely and mercilessly, by working together.
Don’t you think so?
Fine.
But, there’s no way I’m taking orders from anyone.
How exactly do you want the three of us to get along at this point in time?
There’s no need for you to get along!
When you make bread using a specialty ingredient,
you can break up the tasks into at least three:
choosing the ingredients, preparing the ingredients, and making the bread.
All you need to do is divide these tasks amongst yourselves,
and promise not to interfere with each other.
I see...
It’s true that this way, we can work separately without any problems.
It’s a wonderful idea.
But, choosing the ingredients merely means you have to judge quality, right?
How about I do that?
Huh? Is that okay with you?
In exchange, you can’t use any ingredients but the ones I choose.
In other words,
in the end, it will be me who decides what bread you’ll make.
That’s why you...
Whatever.
What about you?
You want to prepare the ingredients, or make the bread?
Isn’t that obvious?
This is a bread battle, after all, so I choose to make the bread.
No matter what specialty items you choose and how you prepare them...
I’ll knead you a perfect bread...
with this Flame Arm of mine!
And now, we’ll open the panel chosen by the loser from the last round, St. Pierre!
Saito
The match for the third round will be held in Saito.
Saito?
Saito
Saito refers to the city of Saito in Miyazaki prefecture.
It is famous for the Saito plains, which house many ancient tombs.
You should also try making a great bread that, like the tombs,
will be talked about for generations to come.
Saito...
What are its specialty products?
Whoa.
City of Saito, Miyazaki Prefecture
What a huge haniwa!
Note: Haniwa (埴輪): Unglazed earthen objects made in ancient Japan.
Just as you’d expect of Saito, the city of ancient tombs...
But, we can’t really make a bread out of haniwa...
The specialty product of this place is ripe mango.
Ripe...
Mangoes?
These perfectly ripe mangoes are grown in greenhouses.
Just before the plant begins to fruit, it is wrapped in nets.
Then, you wait for the fruit to ripen completely and fall off on its own.
So, these mangoes are cultivated using this special technique.
It’s a high-quality fruit whose elegant aroma and rich sweetness
have led to it being called the Queen of Fruit.
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One look is worth a hundred words.
So, let’s go take a look.
Okay!
3 pieces
Whoa!
7000 yen for just three pieces?!
The Miyazaki prefecture competes for first or second place in the entire country
for the number of good weather days in a single year,
so the fruit cultivated here are high in sugar content and are of extremely high quality.
Thus, while other prefectures also produce perfectly ripe mangoes,
the ones sold here are priced higher.
Well, it’s true that...
Would you like to try some?
Is that okay, Granny?
Yep. Go ahead.
Whoa.
These look really delicious.
I’ll help myself then.
Note: There’s a pun here; “Ooo, mango!” is formed by putting together “umai” (delicious) and “mango.”
Ooo, mango!
C... Could this be...
a reaction to the ripe mango?
Note: kanjuku (完熟) = ripe; kanchou (潅腸) = (giving) an enema
A kanchou mango?!
Ooo, mango!
Kawachi... That’s called a mambo, not a mango.
What in the world was I...?
I don’t believe this.
There’s an idiot having a reaction in this kind of place.
Geez.
If you’re going to have a reaction with just the ingredients,
there isn’t a need to make bread, is there?
Say, Kaname...
Did Tsubodzuka really lose to these idiots?
Well, so it seems.
God, that Tsubodzuka...
He really is scum.
Kinda want him to die, right?
Yeah, and we don’t even know what he means when he uses those foreign words...
Hey, you assholes!
I really can’t appreciate someone who makes fun of a former companion.
Companion?
What an idiot.
You’re standing up for that kinda guy?
Kinda want him to die, right?
I see... Is that what it was?
Tsubodzuka-kun must have lost on purpose to make us look bad.
I see...
That’s why they’re standing up for that kinda guy.
That little piece of shit...
For real?
Now I kinda want Tsubodzuka to die twice over.
Hey, cut the crap, or...
Unforgivable...
Someone like you can’t compare to Tsubodzuka.
I’m going to crush people like you with my Japan!
“I’m going to crush people like you with my Japan,” eh?
I’m so mad...
That damn brat.
Yeah, I really want to kinda kill them all.
Yeah, the very use of a pun like Japan is meaningless.
So, what’re we gonna do, Kaname?
You’re the one choosing ingredients, right?
Of course.
Take a look.
Is this...
Mango curry?!
Exactly.
To know from only giving the recipe a single glance...
you guys really are impressive.
To create high-quality curry with a deep flavor, people often use mangoes.
But, you’re probably never heard of a luxury curry made of ripe mango, correct?
If we fill bread with this, we can present it as a specialty product of Saito.
This is bad...
Just thinking of it makes me drool.
Not too bad.
You know... you’re allowed to live for another five years, I guess.
Well, since there are no complaints about the menu,
let’s make the ultimate mango curry bread,
and let’s educate them on how very harsh, severe and...
how spicy life can be.
Yep.
Let’s kinda have them die on us.
Nakisou
Pantasia Lodgings
Note: Nakisou (奈木荘), when written as 泣きそう, means “about to cry.”
The guesthouse in Ooma was “about to die,” and the guesthouse here is “about to cry,” eh?
If it’s going to be like this every time, then I really might cry.
We have to keep our belts tight,
so please put up with this amount of dirt.
It’s not really the dirt...
I mean, while it may be a city of ancient tombs,
there’s just these weird creepy haniwas all around us.
So, what do you want to do?
All three of them are pretty skilled.
If we don’t have an idea that won’t lose to them...
If we were to process ripe mangoes and put them in bread,
then pudding, jelly, jam...
With something like that, can we win against them?
No, processing them is no good.
This is something that should be eaten in its original state.
In its original state?
Yeah...
It’s a fruit that could get such an amazing reaction out of Kawachi.
So, it’s certain that it will be more delicious if we don’t process it.
But...
Bread is essentially something that you bake or fry.
If you put the fruit in just like that, it’ll get cooked with the bread.
But, it’s not impossible.
What was that?!
I hope you’re not thinking of just adding the mango to bread after baking it, right?
If we do something like that...
Kuro-yan is sure to...
This is not mango-bread!
This is mango and bread!
He’ll say something like that, and we’ll lose in one fell swoop.
Geez...
I wouldn’t do something stupid like that.
Then, what are you going to do?
Freeze it.
Just before we bake it, we just have to freeze it a little.
Freeze it?
Fortunately, mango is quite resilient against being frozen and thawed.
So, it shouldn’t be much of a problem.
Yeah.
I see.
Waffle dough would go well with bread.
So, shall we try making it?
Yeah...
Yep, let’s try it!
All right.
All done.
Its appearance is so-so, I guess.
The question is the taste.
It doesn’t quite feel right.
I wonder what the problem is...
There are probably three big problems.
Firstly, since it has been baked after being frozen,
while it is subtle, some of it has turned liquid, affecting the texture of the waffle negatively.
Secondly, the artificial sweetness of the waffle
does not complement the natural sweetness of the mango at all.
And thirdly...
and this is the biggest problem of all...
It’s really, really bloody hard to eat!
You said it.
Say, Azuma...
Don’t you think it’s a good idea to look for another way?
Regarding the liquification of the fruit...
We just have to use a shock freezer instead of a regular one.
A regular freezer
Shock Freezer
A regular freezer
Shock Freezer
In other words, by flash-freezing the mango,
A regular freezer
Shock Freezer
A regular freezer
Shock Freezer
you can overcome the problem caused when the fruit’s water content freezes,
Freezing
Thawing
causing the cells to expand and lyse, leading to liquification during the thaw cycle.
But the other two problems are a little...
Let’s give up, Azuma.
Okay?
Let’s give up.
It’s you!
That’s it! It’s you!
It has to be you!
Kanmuri, can you really fix the first problem?
Uh, yeah, I guess.
Then, it’s decided.
We’ll crush them with this haniwa...
With Haniwa-Japan.
W-With the haniwa?!
Kawachi, can you get other fruit that can be obtained in the Miyazaki prefecture tomorrow?
Not a problem, but what are you planning to do?
Isn’t it obvious?
We’ll mix them all up and add them to the dough.
I see!
If it’s dough that’s been sweetened with fruit kneaded in,
then it should be compatible with the natural flavor of the mango as well.
So, you mean...
In other words,
we can fix the second problem
of the artificial sweetness of the waffle not being compatible
with the natural sweetness of the mango.
Yep, that’s right.
B... But, the biggest weakness...
What are we going to do about it being bloody hard to eat?
It’s all right.
That problem will be all solved by this haniwa.
The day of the 2nd match
It’s really hot.
As expected of the Miyazaki prefecture,
which competes over first and second place for the number of days with good weather.
Yeah.
At this rate, we could just faint from the heat during the match.
But...
our opponents have to face the same problem.
What’s with him?
It’s hot...
It’s so hot, yet he isn’t even breaking a sweat at all.
What’s wrong, Kanmuri?
That Chimatsuri guy isn’t sweating at...
Sweat?
Well then, we will now begin Yakitate!! 9’s third match here at Saito.
Both teams... Begin!
Manager...
This fragrance...
They’re making...
Yeah. This is...
Curry, right?
Kawachi-san!
Why are you here again?!
I had the all-important task of buying fruit found all over the Miyazaki prefecture.
Gofer.
Yeah, a gofer.
But, you know...
CMAP doesn’t seem to be doing anything special.
Why do you say that?
It’s true that curry made of ripe mangoes should be delicious with a deep flavor...
But, they’ll be using curry powder for their primary flavor,
which is not even made in Miyazaki.
What are you, an idiot?
You think they’re using curry powder for their primary flavor?
Take another whiff of this fragrance.
What is this?
It’s not just the fragrance of curry.
It’s demiglace sauce!
Exactly.
They’re probably using demiglace sauce made from Miyazaki beef.
Miyazaki beef?
If you put watery substances like the curry you eat with rice into bread,
the bread will be completely soaked.
That’s common sense.
That’s why when you make curry bread,
you add in flour or bread crumbs to the curry used for the filling to reduce the water content.
After reducing the water content of the demiglace sauce by simmering it for a long time,
they’ve mixed it with ripe mango curry.
This is what you do to create the curry bread of the highest quality.
B-But...
If you did that, wouldn’t the curry become less spicy?
It’s not like curry gets more delicious with increased spiciness!
What distinguishes good curry from the bad is its flavor!
And, look carefully.
The technique that Narumi guy’s using...
It’s as though he’s painting a picture on water...
He’s mixing it slowly and gently.
That’s the movement of a person who’s mastered western cooking!
It’s known as “Tuning the Iron Pot”!
While it may look simple,
that demiglace sauce has already been boiled down to as low as it can go.
I’m sure you know how difficult it is to do that.
H-How can that be?
Is this CMAP’s...
Is this the true strength of Japan’s best idol-cooking group?
It looks like you’ve finally figured it out.
Wh-What’s with you?
The match is still on.
This time, my job is sort of that of a commander’s.
With my having chosen all the ingredients to be used in the match, my job is done.
Oh, is that so?
Then, it’s the same as my job, huh?
It’s completely different.
Absolutely different.
Oh?
It’s surprising that you are the commander.
But then...
I’m sure that you already know who the winner is going to be.
In addition to Narumi...
the guy kneading the dough right now, Chimatsuri, is a highly talented individual, too.
You guys don’t have any hope of winning.
How stupid.
No matter what talent you fellows may have, you cannot win against Azuma.
He has a natural gift that surpasses even me, a genius of a commander.
A genius of a commander?!
Oh? That guy has such a gift?
You’ll understand after you see him.
Then, let me ask you this.
Do you know that you shouldn’t add fruit juice directly to bread dough?
Of course I do!
If you do something like that,
the proteases in the fruit juice will digest the gluten of the dough,
and you won’t be able to knead it.
Just like what happened to me in the newcomers’ battle,
when Yukino added endoproteases to my dough.
When adding fruit juice to dough, you must boil it first.
That’s common sense.
Just as you’d expect of the commander.
However...
That guy... just added it to the dough.
Fruit juice that hasn’t been boiled at all, straight.
What was that?!
Oh, the dough’s all melted.
onna ji kao wo kurikaeshi te, sekai wa kyou mo mawarundarou
The world will probably go on today, with a repetition of the same faces,
demo wa sureteita koto hitotsu
but there was one thing that I’d forgotten.
ookiku iki wo suikondara, mawari ni michita ai no katachi
If I’m to take a deep breath,
then the shape of the love that permeates my surroundings
mabushii kurai ni kirakira to
will shine so much that it’s blinding.
tooku de dareka ga yondeiru
Someone is calling me from far away...
sono koe taezu kono mune ni hibiku
And that voice constantly echoes in my heart.
chiisana yorokobi wo nosete mawari dasu merry-go-round
So, riding on my small pleasures, the merry-go-round begins to turn...
yoake no konai hi demo kokoro ni akari tomo sou
And even on days when the morning doesn’t come, it shines a light in my heart.
Next Episode
Solar Hands are really not particularly great.
Really kinda want him to die, right?
Let’s crush them into a fine pulp.
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Love will rescue Saito as well!!
The Solar Hands vs. The Flame Arm!
Love will rescue Saito as well!!
The Solar Hands vs. The Flame Arm!
Be sure to watch.
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
The really delicious and beautiful mango is considered to be
Mango
3 best fruits in the world
one of the three best fruits in the world.
The other two are the mangosteen and the cherrymoya.
Mangosteen
Cherrymoya
That’s all.
Oh?!