I’ll be working here with you in Kawachi’s stead from now on.
I’m Kanmuri Shigeru.
Let’s all get along.
If Kanmuri-kun’s a hard worker, then hip hip hurrah.
Because self-replication is tiring.
Kanmuri,
why did you choose to come here instead of the Main Branch?
In order to beat Azusagawa Yukino,
there’s no longer any choice but to fight from this store.
Pantasia’s Southern Tokyo Branch.
Correctly speaking,
this store is leased under your name, Azusagawa Tsukino, right?
Yes, Grandfather had arranged it that way.
That’s right.
Therefore, even in the worst possible scenario,
this store alone can do what it pleases.
In the worst possible scenario, you say?
If Pantasia is taken over by St. Pierre, I mean.
Azusagawa Yukino is conspiring with St. Pierre
and has acquired up to 40% of Pantasia’s stock.
A takeover is now merely a matter of time.
What was that?!
Manager!
Is “What was that?!” okay in this instance?
Right now, such a thing doesn’t matter one tiny bit.
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 ten billion yen man!?
Pantasia’s life or death crisis!
The ten billion yen man!?
Pantasia’s life or death crisis!
Dammit!
I was finally...
I was finally able to make it to the Main Branch...
Well, I suppose it’s nice having a chandelier...
And the room I’m boarding in is nice and big...
Normally, I’d be celebrating...
But, I can’t under these circumstances, even for a tiny bit, thanks to a single word from that moron.
Man, it’s looking bad.
It’s gonna be really hard.
It’s Pantasia’s greatest crisis!
Kawachi-san.
I’ve brought breakfast.
What’s with this gorgeous food being catered for me?
I don’t even know how to eat this.
I mean, it looks like the kind of thing that might produce a “reaction” out of me.
Come to think of it...
It’s been a while since I’ve had breakfast that was made by someone else.
Since Azuma was no good at making anything but bread,
it was always me preparing it.
It’s delicious, Kawachi!
Don’t talk with food in your mouth!
I wonder if Azuma’s eating his meals properly...
Good morning.
Let’s work hard and energetically again today, shall we?
Good morning.
Azuma-kun,
you look very well today, as well.
Yeah, but it appears that it’s just me.
Tsukino-san!
Cheer up!
Tsukino-san, please!
There’s no help for these people.
Listen up, everybody.
Nothing’s going to come out of being depressed.
I understand that you all feel attached to Pantasia.
But, that’s precisely why we should fight!
This Southern Tokyo Branch is diagonally opposite to St. Pierre’s Main Branch.
Any changes they make can be studied directly here.
This is the perfect environment for us to fight back in.
If our activities can somehow lead to a huge drop in St. Pierre’s sales...
Tsukino-san!
it’s possible that we could prevent the takeover.
Cheer up!
However, how in the world...?
Over there, they have many who line up every day.
After Azuma-san and Mokoyama-san’s match,
things have been looking up for us a little,
but there’s no change in the fact that things are hard for us.
That’s all right.
I have an idea.
Good morning, Kawachi-san.
This is your personal workshop, Kawachi-san.
Personal?!
The Main Branch gives a personal workshop to a mere artisan?!
This is amazing.
If this was the Southern Tokyo Branch, then...
Oh, sorry. I slipped.
You’re in my way!
Can’t be helped, it’s cramped here!
Every day was filled with things like that.
Compared to that...
Here, it’s like heaven.
That may be true, but...
I’ve put St. Pierre’s Main Branch’s customer information from yesterday into this graph.
Please pay special attention to the sales in the evening.
It’s amazing.
It’s ten times...
No, twenty times our ability to pull in customers.
Actually, this area is
Sewage Area
Touei Park
Station
Park
Southern Tokyo Branch
St. Pierre
Park
Girls’ High School
Middle School
Park
located near a road that children from two middle and two high schools use to commute.
Therefore, we’d expect that during the evening,
Sewage Area
Touei Park
Station
Park
Southern Tokyo Branch
St. Pierre
Sewage Area
Touei Park
Station
Park
Southern Tokyo Branch
St. Pierre
Sewage Area
Touei Park
Station
Park
Southern Tokyo Branch
St. Pierre
Sewage Area
Touei Park
Station
Park
Southern Tokyo Branch
St. Pierre
Sewage Area
Touei Park
Station
Park
Southern Tokyo Branch
St. Pierre
when there are hungry middle and high school girls returning home,
we should be able to have huge sales on their favorite sweet breads.
It’s a perfect chance for us!
Or it should be...
But, that chance has been completely stolen by St. Pierre.
So, let’s hear this idea of yours.
St. Pierre’s big seller, their sweet bread kouign pudding amann, is marketed by using
Note: Traditional brown sugar in Japan is called “black sugar.” It is an Okinawa specialty that comes in cubes, and is similar to molasses in taste.
low calorie substitutes such as black sugar or honey as sweeteners.
With this, they caught the hearts of
high school girls who always complain about their diet.
On the other hand, our big seller, kabukiage bread,
Japan #57...
In addition to being free and of no profit,
it’s avoided by young girls, as it’s high in calories.
Therefore...
Let’s try using this nanshoukasei wheat flour.
Hard to digest wheat flour
This is not a flour that you usually see, is it?
Note: Nanshoukasei means “hard to digest.” This is a flour with a high fiber content. Fiber is a complex carbohydrate that is virtually indigestible.
Just as its name indicates, it’s difficult for humans to digest,
and it’s a flour that helps in dieting.
Wait just one moment.
Nanshoukasei wheat flour contains the hard, fibrous component of wheat,
and definitely helps in dieting, but in exchange,
it’s hard for gluten to form, which leads to a dry taste; a great demerit.
Note: In exchange for high fiber content, the protein (glutenin and gliadin) content is low. Therefore, gluten will be difficult to form, and the bread will not be as moist or sticky.
What?
Note: The dough is formed due to the complex which is formed from glutenin and gliadin upon adding water to the flour. This complex results in the formation of gluten, which makes the flour stick.
In that case, wouldn’t it be hard for us to even knead it into dough?
Yes.
That’s why even the most well known stores don’t bother with it.
You knew that and yet...
you...
In order to overcome that defect,
this is an improved product which I’ve personally developed...
a special nanshoukasei wheat flour.
With this, we should be fine!
Is what I thought, but...
Not even I can knead it.
Tsukino-san!
Me, neither.
Look! Look! I can’t, either!
I’m no good, either.
How about you, Azuma-san?
Tsukino-san, look!
It’s impossible, is it?
Don’t worry.
It’s not over yet.
That’s right.
There’s sure to be some other way!
I wonder if there really is...
Thank you.
Saying that it’s a special flour was a complete lie.
I knew that it was impossible...
But for now, it looks like everyone’s spirits are back up.
Next...
I’ll see if I can somehow actually make an improved nanshoukasei wheat flour...
However...
Now that I have neither the facilities nor the funding...
It’s all right.
I can knead it.
What, but just now...
But...
it’ll take three days.
Don’t tell me he’s planning to keep kneading it for three days...
I think it’s pointless...
3 days later
Oh my!
No way!
Right?
Not just me.
All of your dough also firmed up nicely, right?
What kind of trick could have...?
Note: Hie refers to Japanese barnyard millet, a coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and forage.
Well, you know about hie and millet, right?
Y-Yeah.
My Grandpa really likes
bread that has some mixed in, Japan #15,
as it reminds him of his childhood days.
But...
Besides being hard to knead, it tastes really dry.
So, it was really unpopular with the rest of my family.
So,
since it was dry, I wondered if it’d be softer if I submerged it in water and left it there for a while.
So, when I covered it with a wrap and left it in the fridge for a while,
it got nice and soft.
I see! That method is possible!
It’s autodigestion!
Huh?
Note: Jiko-shouka (自己消化) means “autodigestion.” On the other hand, jiko-shoukai (自己紹介) means “to introduce oneself.”
Didn’t we already introduce ourselves?
Oh well, whatever.
I’m Azuma Kazuma. Nice to meet you.
That is, in other words...
Actually, my hobbies include making Japan, but...
When grain with hard fiber is mixed with water
and left at low temperatures like that inside a refrigerator,
the grain will start secreting enzymes on its own.
Fermentation will start, and it’ll become soft.
This process is called autodigestion.
He’s crushing the fool.
If Kawachi-san was here, he would’ve made a comical situation out of it.
Nevertheless, I was careless.
It’s not rare to find high class restaurants that can make
high fiber items like celery soft by soaking it in water for a long time.
Azuma-kun,
you really are a genius!
Scientists like me think too much, and easily create blind spots for ourselves.
Everyone, even if it takes a little more effort,
let’s use this flour in all of our sweet breads.
Tsukino-san, could you make the banner for our advertisement, please?
Okay.
You with the mushroom head, please make the posters and distribute them.
W-Who you calling a mushroom head?!
For all you lovely ladies out there
The Diet-Japan Fair
Moreover, all of a sudden he’s giving orders.
Note: Hiromi is a name. Stupid joke.
Japan, Hiromi, whatever.
But, it appears that the cockroaches have started to make their move.
Is it okay to leave them alone, Mr. St. Pierre owner?
You can call me Kirisaki...
Miss Soon-To-Be-Pantasia-Owner.
They spark my interest a little.
I want to leave them alone for a bit.
Is that so?
But to me, they’re just an eyesore.
Should I just blow up the Southern Tokyo Branch right away, too?
That’s what I mean, Yukino-kun.
Why did you blow up Kanmuri-kun’s research facility?
He probably doesn’t know this,
but we provided him with quite a bit of financial support as well.
Are you complaining about the loss of your investment?
That’s not it.
He’s really smart.
If he betrays us, and an obstacle appears in our plan, it’ll be troublesome.
That’s precisely why I blew it up.
The possibility of him betraying us was always there.
At that time,
had he been storing any proof of our plans within the data or something in his laboratory,
it would’ve been troublesome, right?
Just as long as there is no evidence...
I’ve dispersed the stock under several hundred names.
Nobody can prove that all of them are actually mine.
Even if it gets discovered,
I’m the owner’s granddaughter.
All I need to say is that I bought up the stock
to protect it from St. Pierre by creating a wall.
Grandfather trusts me.
The little boy probably understands that it’s useless trying to expose it without any proof as well.
But, be sure to take care.
You’re such a worry wart.
But even then... Japan, is it?
I guess just about anyone can come up with the name, eh?
Ridiculous.
I’d like a Japan, please!
Are all of the Japan #15 like this?
Since the shapes are different,
they might as well call them #11 or #12.
But, in that case, it would be the same as our clothes sizes and would feel weird.
It was really effective.
A woman’s heart is so...
It’s great that so many people have come, isn’t it, Kawachi?
Kanmuri!
Could I have a moment?
I mixed up the afros.
Oh yeah...
He’s not here anymore.
Kanmuri, what’s your true objective?
It’s true that our sales have improved thanks to you.
However...
Someone like you can’t seriously be thinking
that something like this could prevent St. Pierre’s takeover.
It’s a really wild plan, so...
I thought that I’d talk about it after I gained a little more of your trust, but...
For now...
I’ll tell just you, Manager...
My true objective.
The Monaco Cup is going to take place during their study abroad in France...
It’s to have Japan representatives...
earn ten billion yen over there.
Ten billion, you say?!
What’s this?
I come back after a while to find you
talking of quite a big plan here.
Won’t you let me in on this plan as well?
Kawachi!
Kawachi-san!
Why?
Kawachi-san!
It’s Kawachi!
I can’t take this anymore!
To think that it was a wig...
How could it be anything other than a wig?
I mean, you can’t have an afro unless you have long hair.
B-But, in order to install yourself with an afro,
was it necessary to shave yourself bald?
It’s the opposite.
Since I really didn’t want an afro, the nun in that church
forcefully used the clippers on me instead.
However, a skin head’s embarrassing, right?
So, I thought that it had to be an afro until my hair grew back a little.
T-There’s no meaning to it.
So, what brings you here today then, Kawachi?
Well... I figured that you all must be lonely without me,
so I thought that I’d just drop by for a bit...
and then I heard that conversation about your big plan...
In reality, wasn’t it you who was lonely?
Yay! It’s all bristly. It feels good!
Hey there, Azuma.
You look really happy.
Hey there, don’t play with people’s heads!
So, Kanmuri...
Continuing with your earlier conversation...
What did you mean when you said that you’d have Japan representatives earn ten billion yen?
T-T-Ten billion?!
Wow...
How much longer are you going to do that?!
That’s our Kawachi-san!
I had wanted to leave out the details for a while, but...
now that they’ve heard about it, I have no choice but to tell them, right?
The extra prize of studying abroad in France
that was given away in the newcomers’ battle a few days ago...
While that’s referred to as “studying abroad,” it doesn’t involve any field trips or tourism.
There’s a World Bread Tournament
that occurs in Monaco for young bakers under the age of 22.
This prize forces you to enter the Monaco Cup.
A world tournament?
What was that?!
Then, the ten billion that you were talking about is the championship prize?
Of course not.
Not even the world renowned
Bakery World Cup has that kind of prize money.
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Monaco
The Monaco Cup is
a bread tournament that has more than 80 member nations from the world compete with each other,
and you can bet on who the championship team will be
Kingdom of Monaco
Grand Casino
Monte Carlo
Mediterranean Sea
Royal Palace
France
in Monaco’s Grand Casino as well.
As you know,
the Kingdom of Monaco gains enormous earnings from its support of state-managed casinos.
Therefore, it’s a country in which taxes do not exist.
Therefore, the bread tournament is...?
You must have guessed by now, right?
My true objective is to bet on the championship team,
that is, on the team from Japan,
earn ten billion...
and take over Pantasia once again.
Y-You’re saying this seriously?
I’m really serious.
Luckily, Pantasia’s newcomers were all extremely low level last year.
They all failed at the preliminaries.
Most likely, in this tournament,
there’s no one who’d predict that Japan could win.
At the very least, the odds will exceed 100 to 1.
I guess I’m just one of those low-level newcomers
who failed last year at the preliminaries.
I understand what you’re aiming for, but...
if we lose...
we’ll lose everything.
If you believe that there’s any other way, I’d like to hear it.
We don’t need to do something so dangerous.
If we just talk to Grandfather, I’m sure that my sister’s...
That Yukino’s scheme can be...
Are you saying that seriously?
If that woman could be crushed with just something like that,
I’d have done so from the very beginning.
You know this best of all, don’t you?
It’s true that your grandfather,
the owner Azusagawa, is good enough at management to be considered a god.
However,
when it comes to his granddaughters, he becomes completely spineless.
He becomes a regular old man.
After being at that woman’s side, I know this well.
Even if we expose the fact that she’s buying up stock...
she’d say that it’s just the owner’s granddaughter buying the stock, after all,
and he won’t think that anything’s strange.
I really want that woman to get what she deserves.
And I’ll show you how determined I am to make sure she does get it now.
Because of her...
I lost everything.
Tsukino-san... it’s time you got your act together and braced yourself.
If we don’t stop her,
someone will get hurt again.
There is ten million yen here.
All the money from my research that I’ve saved is here.
It’s the first time I’ve seen so many zeroes all together...
I’ll donate this money to the Southern Tokyo Branch.
I’ll leave the manager, Matsushiro-san, to decide how this will be used.
Very well.
However, even with this, we’re low on funds.
We need everyone’s cooperation.
In order to save Pantasia, the Japan representatives just have to...
Don’t worry.
I don’t quite understand the difficult stuff,
but all we have to do is win, right?
What are you saying?!
We’re up against the world!
Not just Pantasia newcomers... It’s the world!
It’s just as Kawachi-san said.
The Monaco Cup is a world tournament where the elite from all over the world gather.
Going like we always have...
That’s why!
That’s precisely why I...
want to fight it out with those amazing people.
The Monaco Cup is in a month.
Azuma-kun and everyone’s study abroad begins next week.
I request that you make your decision by then.
It’s true that if we win, it’d be like a dream come true...
But... ten billion!
That number’s so big, it just doesn’t quite sink in.
What should we do?
Kawachi-san.
Earlier, I said that I’d have the Japanese team earn ten billion.
But, what is truly essential is probably...
your presence, Kawachi-san!
What... Is that so?
That’s why you gave me the studying abroad in France prize...
In other words, after directly battling me,
you figured out my strength!
Not at all.
Why is it always so?!
The really strong one is Azuma-kun. Suwabara-san is good, too.
But, during the exhibition that determines the odds,
we need you to pretend to be weak,
thus amplifying the chances of the Japanese team.
Therefore, a very important role awaits you!
What was that?!
So, it’s like I’m just a clown?!
Do you want to work at a company where Yukino’s the director?
Don’t worry.
If it’s you, you can become it.
The World’s Best Clown.
The Ten Billion Yen Clown!
The Ten Billion Yen Clown?!
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
Azuma fights to protect Pantasia.
The attack of the St. Pierre bakers, nicknamed the Dark Third Years,
was simply intense.
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Close Attack!! The birth of the Black Japan!
Will you be able to survive it?
Close attack!!
The birth of the Black Japan!
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
Those of you who believe that you’ll grow fat from eating bread!
Rye wheat bread
is recommended!
Note: Rye wheat generally contains less starch and crude protein than wheat does.
We recommend bread made with rye wheat.
Compared to wheat flour, the rise in blood sugar levels after eating rye flour is low.
The rise in blood sugar levels after a meal is low
It is difficult to be stored as fat
It is more difficult for it to be stored as fat.
Really?!