T-This church is...
This weird twining of the ivy...
It looks just like Manager’s head!
That’s the place that led to you getting that hair style, right?
Those words of Tsukino...
It might just be that there’s some sort of
weird karma between Manager and this church.
Hello.
Do you have any business with St. Andrew’s Church?
Umm... No, I...
Well, well, well, well, well...
Let’s not stand here talking.
Come on inside. Come on.
Come, come, come, come in.
P-P-Please wait.
You find something unsatisfactory?
No, it’s not unsatisfactory, but...
I did come in search of this place, but...
After seeing such a strangely shaped church,
I’ve begun to question whether or not coming here was really a good idea.
Attention!
Be not deceived by what the eyes perceive.
While this church may appear to be of a suspicious nature in your eyes,
that is only because there is a devil twisting
its appearance nested within your heart.
What? I don’t understand what you’re saying at all.
Well, well, well, well...
That and this, and everything will be explained inside at leisure.
W-Wait. Umm...
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.
Somewhere far away, there are people listening carefully.
dokoka tooku de mimi wo sumashiteru hito ga iru
Yakitate!! Japan
Translated by: Anime-Empire
In every place, there are people looking up at the sky.
arayuru basho de sora wo miageteru hito ga iru
Under the night sky, we, who are whistling...
yozora no shita de kuchibue fuiteru bokutachi wa
without words, are just tracing constellations with our fingers.
kotoba mo nai mama yubi de tada seiza wo nazotteru
The dreams of the cold-sensitive... Your cold hands...
samugariya no yume tsumetai kimi no te
The warming magic is to believe in one path.
atatameru mahou wa hitotsu no michi wo shinjiru koto
The single star found on the other side of the comet cloud...
houkigumo no mukou ni mitsuketa hitotsubu no hoshi wa
whether it be a shining or a faint star...
kagayaku hoshi demo kasukana hoshi demo
is the light of only you.
kimi dake no hikari
On the other side of the cloud in your heart,
mune no kumo no mukou ni mienai mama no michishirube
is a sign post that remains unseen.
Now, opening these hands, what will you believe in today?
saa kono te wo hiraite ima nani wo shinjimasuka?
The sticky showdown!!
Azuma Kazuma vs Kanmuri Shigeru!
The sticky showdown!!
Azuma Kazuma vs Kanmuri Shigeru!
Wh-Why are you locking the door?
Okay. With this, we can relax.
Wh-What do you mean relax?
It’s even more suspicious than before. Now it’s even scary!
No, no, no, no, no.
I just wonder how many years it’s been since a believer came here.
O Lord!
I thank thee.
Exactly when did she decide I was a believer?
Come, my lost lamb.
There’s no need to be afraid any more.
You’re the one making me lost and afraid!
The Lord will encompass everything about you.
No...
Well, I don’t really care about God and such things.
Well, well, well, well.
There’s no need to be ashamed of your piety.
You must be honest to your heart.
For now, let’s start with a confession, shall we?
I don’t need it!
Even without that, I will...
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
W-Wait!
Hey! What are you doing?!
All right. Now...
confess all your sins to date.
Wh-What’s with this turn of events...?
Be not afraid of confessing your sins.
Should you truly repent within your heart,
the Lord will forgive this, and that, and even those...
He will forgive all your sins.
Oh, is that so?
But, I haven’t committed any particular sin...
As I thought. You have indeed committed some sin.
But, there is no need to fear.
Humans are sinful beings by nature.
Gather your courage and confess.
The Lord will forgive you for sure.
I don’t really believe in God, but...
If I confess about that time, I might feel a little better.
Hey.
Success! Rolling pin slip plan, bingo!
I stepped on something and fell.
I’m begging you, it’s my life’s request.
If I cannot remain after this exam, I...
My little brother and sister...
Is this guy a moron?
Number 34, Kawachi-kun.
I have decided to recruit you to Pantasia’s main Tokyo store.
Oh...
U-Um...
Actually... When I took the Pantasia recruitment exam...
What was that?!
While it may have been for your family, when you took the exam for that bakery,
in order to flunk a person named Azuma-san,
on top of stepping on and destroying some Japan #56,
you deceived that naive Azuma person and
passed his achievement off as your own?!
Ye... Yeah.
And on top of that,
you’re saying that you’re having this person take your revenge for you?!
Uh. Yeah.
And on TOP of that,
even though you’re not a believer, you deceived me and received a confessional.
And in addition, you come here to ask for
the Church’s help as you cannot win with your own skill. Preposterous!
The verdict is that you are the dregs of humanity.
The dregs?
Even the Lord would not be able to forgive this...
You pig.
P-Pig...?
I’m on the same level as Umino Katsuo?
But, earlier you said that the Lord would forgive anything!
Moreover, I had no intentions of deceiving you!
You mistook me for a believer all by yourself!
But then...
if you were to lose in the third place match,
it’s also a fact that Yukino, an even greater villain than you, will have taken a lead.
It can’t be helped.
I will cooperate with you.
Re-Really?
In that case, let’s get the Father...
Ah, about that...
I have to refuse your request.
Father Graham, whom you wished to see, is...
no longer in this world.
He has risen to the heavens.
Wh... What?!
So, what in the world are you going to do, Azuma-san?
With the petalite board having disappeared...
won’t it be an obstacle for baking the bread in the finals?
No. Actually, this may have been for the best.
What?
Actually, that board was my second one.
When I first had a board made...
Delicious!!
This is a truly delicious bread, Kazuma!
I went to heaven and was having fun there with the ladies!
Really. This is delicious.
I must thank Umasaburou as well.
Yeah!
As long as I have this board, I can make a delicious Japan anytime.
Yeah.
At that time, I really thought so,
and got caught up in the moment.
I depended on the board to make Japan #44 day after day.
How is it? Is it good Grandpa?
It’s good, but...
But... everyone was...
I’m beginning to get tired of having this everyday.
Won’t you make #43 once in a while?
No... No way!
At that time, I realized it.
No matter how delicious something is, you get sick of it if you eat it every day.
So, I have to come up with various tricks, and make all kinds of breads. Right?
I don’t think Dave or Kuroyanagi
would go to heaven again if they were to eat it either.
So...
So, I’ll make a new bread again.
The new Japan #60!
And we take on the finals with that!
You seem to be doing something awesome there, aren’t you?
You developing some kind of chemical weapon?
Of course not.
Taiensei reinforcing yeast.
It’s the Kaiyou yeast RAS.
Taiensei? RAS?
What’s that?
Salt is extremely important in adding taste to all food,
including bread.
But, the yeast used regularly for bread,
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has a very low endurance to salt.
That is, it’s weak against salt content.
When you add salt to the dough, it can no longer work to its full capacity.
But, this new Kaiyou yeast, RAS,
has resilience against salt.
Salt
Against
Resilience
Against
Resilience
Salt
Against
Resilience
As these yeasts were living in sea water,
they’re relatively resistant to salt.
And by further reinforcing this characteristic,
Resilience against salt
Note: “Tai” refers to resilience, “en” refers to salt and “sei” refers to nature. So, Taiensei = resilience against salt.
we have improved the bread yeast so that it can work to 100% capacity,
even if you add salt to the dough. And that’s what it is.
Uh, she’s not there.
Sounds boring.
Are you going to continue?
Uh, no.
I explained only because you asked.
You sow!
Oh, whatever.
Explaining anything more than this to an amateur is no use.
Note: “Inu ni nenbutsu neko ni kona” (犬に念仏 猫に小判) literally means saying prayers to a dog or casting gold before a cat. Both refer to how useless it is. Doing either is a big waste of resources.
It would be like casting pearls before swine.
Either way,
if we were to give bread the ability to ferment and absorb water to 100% capacity,
we would be able to create a dough with
supreme elasticity and strength for the first time.
Note: Mochi (餅) refers to sticky rice cakes. Therefore, the mochi-mochi consistency refers to a sticky consistency like that of a mochi.
A dough with the sticky consistency that the Japanese really like.
Azuma-kun’s petalite board or my Kaiyou yeast RAS.
Let’s see which one is superior at the finals.
Aaah, so busy, so busy!
Manager has gone off somewhere as usual.
In addition, Kawachi-kun has gone off for confession at some church somewhere.
Azuma-kun is busy with research for a bread for the finals.
And to top it off, Tsukino-san is constantly by Azuma-kun’s side.
It’s truly tragic!
Tsukino-san with Azuma-kun...
No! Please! Please stop.
It’s all right this way.
A-Azuma!
Stop. Please stop.
It’s all right.
It’s all right this way.
No!!
What are you doing, Azuma-kun?!
If you do that, the bread will... The bread will...
What are you doing? To my Tsukino-san?
It’s all right.
It’s all right this way.
This is how we’ll make Japan #60.
How we’ll make Japan #60...?
Yeah.
Japan #60 will be a sticky bread.
A sticky bread...?
All right. In 30 minutes, at 10:00 a.m.,
the finals of the 39th Pantasia Newcomers’ Battle will begin!
From the Shinjuku Central Branch, Kanmuri Shigeru!
From the Southern Tokyo Branch, Azuma Kazuma!
Combatants, begin your preparations.
Good luck to both of you!
Make a good bread!
There’s a lot of people...
It’s true that every year the finals draw a big crowd, but...
to think that it would be so many...
This is the reason.
Bread delicious enough to die for
Examiner Kuroyanagi loses consciousness
Judge Dave also swoons
The Bread Industry Promotional Newspaper
Reporters who came to the semifinals put it into an article.
It’s human nature to want to come see a bread that’s delicious enough to die for.
That may be true...
but, Azuma-san no longer has that board.
Should he completely betray the audience’s hopes,
it’ll be a repeat of what happened with Kawachi, huh?
Yes.
In Kawachi’s case, it was because of someone’s interference and manipulation.
If he’d been able to show his skills, he should have been able to make a decent bread.
Anyway, there’s nothing more we can do.
He seems to have thought something up.
For now, we have to just believe in him.
Yes.
Yo.
From that expression, it appears you have nothing to worry about, Azuma-kun?
Is that so?
Is it because of that famous board of yours? That composure of yours...
My famous board?
You don’t have to pretend.
The board you used to make the bread that sent Kuroyanagi-senpai to heaven.
Ah. That...
I’m not going to use that in the finals.
No, I can’t use it.
Because it disappeared.
It disappeared?
Yeah.
After the semifinals,
when I realized that I’d forgotten the board in the oven, I returned to pick it up.
But, at that time, it was no longer...
That was pretty careless of you.
It can’t be!
I told her so much not to interfere with the finals, yet...
That woman!
Oh, calling me pretty. Gee, you’re really good.
To catch an ordinary girl like myself...
Are you done talking?
Anyway, a tall woman took that board away somewhere.
That’s why it disappeared. That’s all.
We have nothing more to discuss with you.
Let’s go, Azuma-san.
Oh well. The culprit is probably my boss.
After all, that’s the only thing we can think of, right?
I told her not to interfere, but...
Is it all right?
For you to make such a thoughtless statement?
I’m not hanging around with that woman because I like it.
Well then, Azuma-kun.
Sadly, that board has disappeared.
And yet, you’re very composed.
Do you have some sort of secret plan?
Of course.
Even if I can’t make Japan #44, I still have Japan #60.
I won’t lose to you.
I feel reassured after hearing that.
I’ll go with all I have as well.
Let’s both do our best.
All right!
Just as you’d expect from the man who’s supposed
to have made a bread delicious enough to die for.
He doesn’t even quiver at losing his board. That’s some amazing confidence.
But... that weird name Japan. I wonder if it means Japan’s bread...
I’ll ask him after the match is over.
What were you talking about with the cockroaches?
A little talk about the nature of society.
The only cockroach here is you.
Oh yeah.
I’ve placed a demolition team on standby at your research facility.
A bomb?!
It’s insurance!
In case you lose, of course.
And should you betray me, you know what will happen...
You understand, right?
In addition to the yeast,
all my research data, second only to my life in importance, is collected there.
No matter what, she’s not going to allow me to go against her.
This sow!
Should I transmit a certain code from this cell phone... Boom!
Bomb voyage.
Hey, Manager.
Why is he on the side of someone that he doesn’t like?
Probably the money.
Money?
Yeast, wheat flour and chemical seasoning.
While the bread may disappear in one bite,
a great deal of funding is required for scientific research.
And an individual can’t come up with that kind of funding by himself.
Research scientists have it pretty hard, huh?
Come to think of it, you were also like that in the past,
Kuroyanagi...
Kuroyanagi-san. It’s almost 10:00 a.m.
Very well.
We now begin the finals of the 39th Pantasia Newcomers’ Battle.
Both of you, step to the counter.
Begin the finals!
Azuma-kun.
I have nothing against you, but...
I can’t afford to lose either.
I’m going to win.
Note: Pan au rustique: A country style white bread with a thick crust.
With the pan au rustique created with these Solar Hands and the Kaiyou yeast RAS.
That’s absurd!
That’s too much water for the amount of flour in there.
It’s not just that.
This is sea water.
Note: Kaiyoushinsousui (海洋深層水) refers to ocean water drawn from a great depth.
It’s Kaiyoushinsousui, a mineral rich water drawn from a depth of greater
than 350 meters in the Pacific Ocean.
The salt content of this sea water would normally reduce the efficiency of yeast.
But, the RAS, which is resilient to salt,
won’t care about this absurd amount of water.
And, this salt-rich water will bestow upon bread
the moist, sticky, spongy consistency that the Japanese love.
It’s physically impossible to create a dough of this level using other techniques.
No matter how much you struggle, you have no chance of winning this...
What’s he doing?!
It’s not just that the water is too much!
He’s washing the dough he’s kneaded with water.
N-No way!
If you do that, the starch of the dough will dissolve and it will break up.
Azuma-kun...
Your earlier confidence. Was that a bluff?
But, wait.
I don’t think that Japan #44 was made like that.
So, what in the world is he making?
He wouldn’t be making fun of us, would he?
Or maybe he’s unwilling to make the bread to die for, saying it’s a trade secret or something?
Don’t mess with us, brat!
We’ve come here to see your Japan #44 dammit!
We don’t want to see you playing at washing some bread!
Yeah. Yeah!
Manager.
It’s turned into the situation we feared after all.
E-Everyone in the audience, calm down!
Please calm down!
Yeah!
Please don’t cause a disturbance!
Exactly. Exactly. That’s the way.
Cause even more of a disturbance.
Beat those filthy cockroaches up completely.
He’s washing the dough.
It seems that Azuma is doing something unexpected again.
Just as expected of my rival.
But, the really unexpected thing is going to happen...
at my end.
Don’t mess with us!
Do this seriously!
It’s all right like this.
Like this...
Azuma Kazuma.
What in... What in the world are you doing?
Now everybody move
Can you get a little somethin'
Got to do
So better believe in
Better believe in
Better believe in yourself
C'mon!
"D-r-e-a-m"
"Dream"
Kono mune ni dekkaku tsuyoku
On this chest, big and strong
Hikari kagayaite makenai manazashi
A look that glitters and doesn't lose.
Tesaguri de sagashita kaze n naka
That's what I searched for, fumbling in the wind.
Kotae nanka mada Un...
The answer for now is...
ima wa mada Chance ukagatte matsu I got shitatakasa
For now, I'll watch the situation and wait for a chance. I got the patience to wait at a distance.
Sakenderu dake no Prisoner ja dame da
A prisoner who just screams is no good.
Just Follow Me! toki ni kata kasu kara
Just Follow Me! I'll lend you my shoulder occasionally.
Yo got
"D-i-g-g-y"
"Step into tha game"
It ain't nothin' nobody can say
'Cuz I neva can let my dream get away un
Kesshite hakanai yume ja nai
It's by no means a fleeting dream.
kono omoi todokeyou Heart to Heart, Soul to Soul
Let this sentiment reach you. Heart to Heart, Soul to Soul.
meguru kisetsu Spring Storm no you ni goukai
The seasons turn. Splendid as a spring storm.
Win Big ga motto
Win Big is the motto.
Some say, "Nothin' lasts forever"
eien no mono wa hatashite aru no darouka?
Does a thing like eternity really exist?
Dakara oretachi wa C'mon
And so we... C'mon.
Sou sa oretachi wa kirameku shunkan wo furu ni ikiteitainda
Yeah, yeah, we live to touch the one shining moment.
With all tha love
1-2 S.O. Cru
Stay true to you
So, what you gonna do? C'mon!
Now everybody move
Can you get a little somethin'
Got to do
So better believe in
Better believe in
Better believe in yourself
oikaze riyoushite kyou to tatakae ALL THA SOLDIERS
To all the soldiers fighting today using the tail wind...
Better believe in
Better believe in yourself
Next Episode
Kanmuri Shigeru from the Central Shinjuku Branch.
And Azuma Kazuma, from the Southern Tokyo Branch.
The winner of the 39th Pantasia newcomers’ battle will be decided at last!
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Meister flying in the air!!
Who will be the winner?!
Meister flying in the air!! Who will be the winner?!
Be sure to watch.
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
The Kaiyoushinsousui that Kanmuri developed
Kaiyoushinsousui
is found at a depth of greater than 200m underwater, where sunlight doesn’t reach.
Depth greater than 200m
2000 years of fermentation
The water is rich in minerals as it has been fermenting for 2000 years.
Huh?