Is this it?
Yeah.
St. Pierre’s Tokyo Main Branch.
Let’s cut loose.
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?
Close attack!!
The birth of the Black Japan!
Close Attack!!
The birth of the Black Japan!
There’s just one reason for having you come all the way from St. Pierre’s Kyuushu Branch...
The Pantasia Southern Tokyo Branch, which is diagonally opposite us...
I want you to thoroughly crush them.
Is this the enemy’s diet bread?
It appears that they are using nanshoukasei wheat flour.
If it’s just this, we can make as many as you like.
We can choose whatever method we like, right?
Yes, of course.
However, it still remains inscrutable.
We’re people from St. Pierre.
Therefore, why would you, from Pantasia, want to use us?
That’s true...
On top of that, we’re trying to crush that store.
We would like to hear a reason that satisfies us.
That’s true...
Oh, shut up. There’s no reason.
I guess the reason would be that... I love bread.
I’m just harassing them because I hate and despise them.
You got a problem with it?
Everyone who loves bread is... family!
It shouldn’t matter whether they’re from Pantasia or St. Pierre.
However...
It’s just that the Southern Tokyo Branch is different.
How is it different?
They...
They mixed enzymes that digest protein, endoproteases, into my dough...
and laughed at the fact that my dough wouldn’t ferment, no matter what.
The yeast that I had lovingly cultured, and many years worth of my research...
were bombed by them.
They scattered my deceased mother’s ashes onto a dead tree.
How cruel...
They’re like demons.
Is this true?
I’m a woman who’s like white snow...
Please believe me, Azusagawa Yukino.
Whatever...
Actually, all of that was done by me!
The owner, Kirisaki, has agreed to cooperate with me.
That’s why I thought of having you lend me a hand...
I understand.
Leave the rest to us.
We’ll be sure to take your revenge.
What simple-minded morons.
The owner, Kirisaki, told me to leave the cockroaches alone...
but I definitely won’t leave them alone.
Definitely not.
It is me.
I see.
So, St. Pierre has called upon the three of them...
All right.
Please continue to stay there and keep watch.
I wonder how the Southern Tokyo Branch will face up to this trial...
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Hmm... I wonder what happened...
Note: Bunshin no jutsu (分身の術) literally means “cloning technique.”
It’s usually so busy at this time that I have to make clones of myself...
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Azuma.
Shouldn t you start getting things ready for your trip to France?
I am getting ready.
I have to ready plenty of sauce for Japan #57, for when I’m not here.
As usual, all he’s thinking about is bread.
We’re in trouble, everyone!
St. Pierre has started selling the same nanshoukasei diet bread as ours.
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I see...
So that’s how they’ve decided to go...
I had expected this to a certain degree,
but to think that it’d be so soon...
Everyone! There’s something terrible happening!
We know.
St. Pierre’s selling the diet bread, right?
What... You already knew, eh?
Kawachi-san...
You keep coming here,
but are things okay over at the Main Branch?
Since I’m leaving for France soon, the Main Branch gave me a vacation.
However, that doesn’t mean that you have to come here.
He really must have no other place to go.
So, what are you going to do?
This is troublesome.
At this rate, much of the diet bread will remain unsold.
It’s all right.
We can just turn all the unsold bread into the Japan #57 kabukiage bread.
You moron!
Doing that won’t solve the problem!
Everyone! We’re in trouble!
Everybody already knows.
St. Pierre’s making the diet bread, right?
That’s true, but...
The television, please turn on the television.
Here at St. Pierre’s Tokyo Main Branch,
they have taken this opportunity and finally announced their newly developed bread.
Diet
Apparently, they use a special wheat flour that is high in hard fiber.
This is hard for the stomach and intestine to digest, and is optimal for dieting.
This looks like it’ll gain enormous popularity among young girls.
May I?
Uh, sure.
It appears that there’s a similar bread being made at a bakery in the neighborhood.
That bread is a complete fake.
Everyone, please be careful not to be fooled.
Hey, bakery from the neighborhood!
If you have a problem with it, bring it on.
We’ll take you on anytime.
Most likely,
they figured out how to use autodigestion in the recipe, too.
We really cannot underestimate them.
But, hey!
The fakes aren’t ours, but theirs, right?
Although that may be the truth,
they are speaking with a lot of financial backing behind them.
Even black will become white.
Black will become white...?
At this rate, if we continue staying like this with our arms folded,
Pantasia will be taken over, just as Yukino wants.
We need to come up with a plan against this.
Kanmuri...
How about a bread that’s good for your health?
If it’s a bread that’s both delicious and good for you,
any customer would be happy.
Delicious, and good for your health...
That’s true,
but it’s more like a dream...
It’s Japan #56!
I’m sure it’ll go well with that.
T-That’s the one from that time, isn’t it?
That’s right.
It’s from that time.
It’s the bread that I first tried to make during the Main Branch Employment Exam.
If you’re talking about Japan #56, then...
The dough for that bread, which I spoiled...
which you had to give up on making, in the end...
That bread, right?
That was an unfortunate accident.
T-That’s right!
It was an unfortunate accident...
Azuma-san...
Come to think of it,
why did you go ahead and make Japan #57, the kabukiage bread, instead of Japan #56 after that?
Because at that time, I had used up all of the ingredients.
But...
If I get my sister to bring them, I could make it right away.
Exactly what ingredients do you intend to use?
Rice bran.
Rice...
Bran?
Note: Nukazuke (糠漬け) is a Japanese pickle made using nuka (rice bran). Nukamiso (糠味噌) is a salted rice bran paste that is used for pickling.
Is it the rice bran that you use for nukazuke and nukamiso?
That’s right!
It’s true that neither white nor brown rice is as
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balanced in its nutritional content as rice bran.
If works to expel dioxins that have accumulated in the body.
It has been called the natural health product of dreams.
Natural health product of dreams
That’s amazing!
In that case, we might win against St.Pierre’s diet bread.
However,
rice bran normally has a peculiar bitterness to it.
It isn’t used for anything other than in fertilizer, or for pickling.
You need to develop quite some trick to be able to add it to bread.
It’s all right.
By mixing Grandfather’s freshly harvested, new breed of rice bran
with my special dough, you’ll get a bread that isn’t bitter.
Freshly harvested new breed, eh?
Just as I thought...
What’s wrong?
Umm...
Azuma-san, I believe that your home is in...
It’s in Niigata.
You can harvest the very best rice there.
Can you harvest the new breed, even in this season?
That’s right...
That’s true...
Well, let’s just wait until fall then.
We can’t wait that long!
It’s over, isn’t it?
Hey, Azuma.
Could we use this instead of rice bran?
It is partly my fault that Japan #56 remained incomplete.
With this, I’d like to atone for my sin a little bit.
What’s that?
It’s the secret ingredient of a healthy bread that my father tried to create.
My father was a man who constantly fussed over the dinner bread that we ate every day.
Moreover, since we’d eat it everyday,
he’d mix in things that were good for our health.
Medicinal Herb Bread
He’d say that he wanted to revolutionize the bread industry.
In the end, his dream did not materialize.
However, I’ve wanted to perfect it someday.
So, I always carry it around, close to my skin.
We’re going to use something black like that as an ingredient in bread?
I guess it’s impossible, then...
Despite saying that it’s good for health, in the end, it was something that failed...
No, it’s all right.
Huh?
With this, we can do it.
A good-for-your-health Japan #56.
For real?
Can we win against St. Pierre with that?
Yeah.
If they turned black into white...
then we’ll just have to turn white into black!
Let’s go.
Okay.
All right.
Well, lookie here.
If it isn’t the folk from the bakery diagonally opposite ours.
What do you want?
Could it be that you’ve abandoned your store,
and decided to apply for work here?
Umm...
You see...
Well, since you said, “If you have a problem with it, bring it on”...
We’ll take you up on that.
We challenge you.
Here’s the Improved Japan #56: Black Japan!
W-What’s this black thing?
I’ve never seen such a bread.
You really want us to eat this thing?
If you eat this and think that it’s delicious,
we’ll have you take back calling us fake on television.
We don’t really mind.
And, if it doesn’t taste good?
In that case, we’ll shut down the Pantasia Southern Tokyo Branch.
That sounds interesting.
Yeah, it’ll save us the trouble.
Well then, let’s eat some right away.
This slight fragrance is...
It’s bamboo, the smell of bamboo!
Why, from such a bread...?
What...
the...
T-This is...
Oh, this is...
P-Princess Kaguya!
Note: “Princess Kaguya” is the story of a baby that was said to have come from the moon. She was found and adopted by a bamboo harvester and his wife. The story ends with her returning to the moon.
Grandpa,
please take care of me from now on.
Several years later...
Please marry me, Princess Kaguya.
Note: According to the story, the reigning Emperor at the time (the Tenno) fell in love with her, but she wouldn’t have him.
Don’t wanna!
H-How cruel!
Grandpa, Grandma,
I’ll return to the moon.
What was that?
After having raised you for so many years? No way!
That’s cruel.
Oh, shut up.
I’m the Princess of the Moon.
I’m not a woman who’d spend all her life in a place like this.
See ya!
H-How cruel!
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We must save the princess and take her back to Earth at all costs!
We have detected the presence of a Giant Colony there.
There it is!
That’s where the princess is.
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Oh, Princess!
We’ve come to get you.
What?!
You used me as a footstool?!
Ortega!
Why would Princess Kaguya attack us?
Simple-minded morons, aren’t we?
After being betrayed this much, you still don’t know?
How cruel!
What do you mean by, “I’m a woman who’s like white snow...”
We were deceived!
That woman’s pitch black!
A crispy surface with sticky, yet fluffy insides.
They’re matched perfectly to leave an impression that you can’t complain about at all.
Also...
This fragrance that makes it smell as if it’s freshly baked...
There’s no mistake.
Bamboo charcoal has been used in this bread.
That’s right.
Bamboo charcoal has been mixed into this Improved Japan #56.
From time immemorial,
bamboo charcoal has been used as a medicinal remedy by common folk,
and as a substance to aid growth.
Recent scientific studies have determined that
the dioxins and active oxygen that are left behind in the body...
along with food additives, harmful bacteria and various toxic substances...
even surplus nutrition that could lead to obesity
are adsorbed, broken down, and inactivated by its special properties.
It’s good for your health, and also helps in dieting.
It really is the ideal ingredient.
But, if you were to mix in something like bamboo charcoal,
a bitterness akin to a burnt taste would–
Moron.
This bamboo charcoal is made by burning domestic bamboo
at super high temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Celsius.
So the bitterness and “burnt taste” disappears.
How’s that? Are you giving up yet?
But, if you were to mix in bamboo charcoal with the bread dough,
it should give a gravelly texture.
However, this bread wasn’t like that.
How in the world did you...?
That problem was solved by using Solar Hands and Solar Gauntlets
to knead the special dough.
We’re mixing in the black black stuff.
If you knead the bamboo charcoal into the dough with more warmth than usual,
along with fermenting the dough, the charcoal also becomes very fine.
These minuscule particles become one with the bread dough.
You can’t copy this off of us, even if you did headstands.
We have lost.
We are completely defeated.
Right?
It was good, right?
We’re really sorry for having called you fakes.
We will go to the TV station now, and tell them the truth.
Also, we will suspend sales of our diet bread as well.
There’s no need for that.
What?
Starting tomorrow, we’ll start selling the Black Japan.
From there, let’s have Pantasia and St. Pierre
fight it out, fair and square.
Ah!
This person was the true Princess Kaguya!
OLD HAG!!
LIAR!!
What is this?!
SHAME ON YOU!
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Going on Sale Today!!
For all you lovely ladies out there
Going on Sale Today!!
For all you lovely ladies out there
Diet Japan
Going on Sale Today!!
For all you lovely ladies out there
Diet Japan
For all you lovely ladies out there
Diet Japan
For all you lovely ladies out there
Diet Japan
Welcome!
Thank you very much!
The highly popular Black Japan corner is this way!
It’s a delicious bread that’s good for your health as well as for dieting!
It appears to be very popular.
With that bread dough, in addition to dinner bread,
we can also make croissants and sweet breads.
So, most of our breads will become Black Japan.
Thank goodness.
At first, I was worried since it’s so very black.
That’s not it.
Sesame seeds
Seasame seeds, seaweed, black beans...
Sesame seeds
Putting black things into their mouth isn’t a big deal for the Japanese.
Sesame seeds
Hijiki
Sesame seeds
Seaweed
Black beans
Black rice
Hijiki
For instance, the traditional New Year’s cuisine has a great deal of black stuff in it, right?
Also...
Come to think of it...
There’s also spaghetti made with squid ink, right?
You can’t put squid ink spaghetti with New Year’s cuisine, can you?
She’s really a girl who doesn’t get the point of the conversation.
Did something happen?
Nothing at all.
You did it, Azuma.
Now, you can go to France without having to worry about the Southern Tokyo Branch at all.
Oh, that’s right!
I haven’t gotten ready for the journey at all!
I’m in trouble!
I’ve got to hurry, hurry, hurry!
He’s a moron.
Kawachi-san.
Take care of it.
Yeah, leave it to me.
We’ll just keep going like this and win the Monaco Cup.
Not that.
I’m talking about the Ten Billion Yen Clown.
About that, eh?
It is me.
I see...
Just as expected of the Southern Tokyo Branch.
Their work always surpasses my expectations.
With them in it...
I’m sure they’ll have perfect scores in the Monaco Cup.
I have high expectations of all of you.
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
Good evening.
How are you all doing?
My name is Ken Matsushiro.
Ah ha.
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
And now, it’s France!! Aim for the Monaco Cup!
And now, it’s France!!
Aim for the Monaco Cup!
Be sure to watch!
Please do.
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
This is rather sudden: bamboo charcoal massage!
Bamboo Charcoal Massage
If you rub bamboo charcoal on your shoulders or arms,
The very core of your body will be warmed
due to the effect of far infrared radiation, the very core of your body will be warmed!
It depends on your personal preference,
People sensitive to the cold should
Try it out!
but, people who are sensitive to the cold should try it out!
What?!