In order to save Pantasia from a danger to its very existence,
Kazuma and the gang aim to win the Monaco Cup.
And...
unbeknownst to everyone else,
Kanmuri granted Kawachi the means to that end.
You are Rodin.
Become the Ten Billion Yen Rodin.
A-A Ten Billion Yen Rodin?!
What have I...?
Then, let’s have you show us, Kawachi, shall we?
All right.
I’m a man as well.
I’ll show you.
The Kawachi style of taking responsibility.
I will be the host for this event.
My name is Pierrot Bolneze.
Isn’t this bread a little too big?
I-I wasn’t expecting it to be so hard to breathe, and...
When I had the flour put on me while I was naked...
I seem to have chilled my stomach.
All right.
It’s cold!
But, the plan was a mission from hell,
one that would call forth a terrible consequence with even one misstep.
I can’t take this anymore!
Princess!
I-It’s a nightmare...
Move!
I can’t hold it in anymore!
They’re really depressed.
While it may have only been an exhibition...
On top of seriously insulting this tournament, Japan has
assaulted Princess Anne, from the Kingdom of Panquita.
We’ve received a severe warning from the Management Board of the Monaco Cup.
We’ve also lost 2 points.
This is a match with 10 points in total,
so from the very beginning we have no choice but to fight with only 8 points.
We weren’t even late, and yet we lost points...
It’s really cruel.
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.
This is the world level!!
The roulette that brings forth a storm!
This is the world level!!
The roulette that brings forth a storm!
And now, we will begin the Second Monaco Cup.
To begin with, we have the parade of the participating countries.
First, we have last year’s championship team.
Our country France’s representatives, Kayser.
Good luck, Kayser!
We’re leaving it to you, Kayser!
Just as you would expect of the championship seeds.
Their odds of winning are an impressive 1.5 to 1,
and of course, they have the most popularity!
Note: “Ein, zwei, drei” is German for “one, two, three.”
Ein!
Zwei!
Drei!
Also! Next, we have the entry of the howling German representatives.
And, as we’d expect, we have the Great Britain representatives on their bagpipes.
It sounds like they’re really having fun out there.
Just as you’d expect of a world competition.
It’s quite a party.
And contrary to that, we are...
Hey, everyone, we’re going to be called out soon...
Let’s do this with energy.
Losing 2 points isn’t a big deal!
That’s true.
Slash your stomach.
Who do you think is the cause of these unpleasant feelings?
And at number 78, we have the Japanese representatives!
Let’s go!
All right!
Go back home, you shameless people!
You crap-in-your-underwear man!
You changed your underwear, right?
Someone like you shouldn’t be making bread!
Oh, things are getting heated up here.
Last year, the Japanese representatives failed in the preliminaries.
To top that off, this year, the Japanese representatives messed up BIG in the exhibition.
They have to start the preliminaries with a two point deduction.
They have the lowest odds of over 300 to 1, as well as the worst reputation this tournament.
I guess that not a single person is betting on them.
Wa, ha, ha, and ha.
It’s all right.
It’s all right this way.
We can just pretend that the jeers are cheers!
Ouch...
What the hell are you doing?!
How exactly is it that you manage to hear these jeers as cheers?!
Calm down.
Anything, and everything, is your fault!
How much longer are you going to harp on about the past,
you ugly, old samurai!
You should just die and atone for your sins!
I don’t want to die!
Hey, hey!
Why don’t you just cut your stomach?!
Shut up, Baldy!
Ooh la la!
It looks like there is a falling out among friends.
What is Japan thinking of?
Ha, ha, and ha!
This is the pits...
Brother,
I guess we don’t have to worry about people like that after all, right?
Edward, do not let your guard down.
We must remember that they are Kirisaki’s subordinates.
I can’t imagine that he would send useless people two years in a row.
Especially that boy with the hairband.
He possessed a La Main De Deesse that surpassed even ours.
This comes only to those who have trained the flexibility of their hands since childhood.
The suppleness of the joints of these feminine hands and fingers
is what produces soft and artistic bread.
This Japanese representative...
Has the Goddess’s Hands?!
Anyone can do this!
What is he?!
Is he human?
It would be safe to think of him as a considerable opponent.
I see.
All right.
Since there are 135 countries gathered here to participate,
let me explain the rules for the preliminaries.
The preliminaries are based on a scoring system.
In the first preliminaries, 5 points is considered to be a perfect score.
In the second preliminaries, 5 points is also considered to be a perfect score.
The points from the first and second preliminaries will be added up,
and 16 countries with the highest scores
will be permitted entry into the Finals Leagues.
In other words,
since we have already lost 2 points,
even if we pass the first and second preliminaries with full points,
we won’t have more than 8 points.
It’s your fault.
Wow, it’s a huge roulette wheel!
This is the Grand Casino’s special “ingredient roulette.”
In addition to numbers in the slots, we have ingredients!
That’s a roulette wheel you don’t see every day...
In the first preliminaries,
you may use any variety of flour, or any strain of yeast.
Also, aside from sea water, you may use any type of water.
However...
As for other ingredients, if you do not get them from the roulette wheel,
you may not use even things such as salt or sugar.
W-What was that?!
Each of the three members from each nation’s representatives
will spin the roulette ball, one by one,
and using only the three ingredients that you land on,
you must bake your bread!
I’m worried.
Yeah, this preliminary depends quite a bit on your luck.
At the very least, we’d like to get salt or sugar...
But, last year, there was a team that didn’t get either,
and tried to draw salt from their sweat...
in the open-air lobby.
I can’t dance anymore.
Just... Just a little more.
Hang in there!
Oh yeah, there was something like that...
Oh well...
While that’s a possibility,
about half of the hundred slots are either salt or sugar.
If you don’t try missing it on purpose,
you might end up with all three landing on salt,
so that in the end, you can only use salt.
It’s hard, isn’t it?
We have no choice but to pray
that none of them fall on the same spot, so that they can
use as many ingredients as possible.
Yeah...
All right, then.
Let us determine what ingredients you can use by the roulette!
Begin!
All right.
I’ll go first.
It’s gonna drop.
It’s eggs!
We got eggs!
There’s only two spots for eggs in the hundred.
It’s amazing for him to get it.
Yeah. Kazuma’s in luck.
All right, I’ll go next.
What would you like?
Anything’s fine.
Aside from eggs, that is.
Are you a moron?
The chances of landing on eggs is two in one hundred.
You can’t get it, even if you aimed for it.
I’m good with aiming lightly for either salt or sugar, which have the greatest odds.
All right, let’s get sugar or salt!
Oh, amazing!
You’re amazing, Kawachi!
Move it!
You’re really a completely useless man.
But, there is no need to worry.
Suwabara Kai, who has attained the way of the sword, has now taken over.
With this type of ball play,
I’ll have no trouble landing the ball on any slot I desire.
We’ll leave it to you, Suwa-chan!
Just watch.
Azuma got eggs in slot #78,
and Baldy got eggs in slot #80.
I’ll aim for sugar in the slot #79 between them!
Amazing!
Now, just watch.
Suwabara style’s ultimate technique:
Dragon at the Summit!
He did it!
It’s sugar!
So close...
You’re a moron!
If you can aim with so much precision,
why couldn’t you aim for it in that area, where the sugars are all lined up?!
I’m not like you.
I won’t do cowardly things like that.
H-He really is a moron...
Amazing!
I’ve never seen so many eggs before!
Eggs! Eggs!
H-He’s a moron, too...
What are you, a moron?! It’s no time to be getting happy, is it?
Huh?
Oh top of things being hard for Japan, with our loss in points,
we have neither salt nor sugar.
With only eggs and flour,
any bread we make would be tasteless.
But, didn’t he say that we can use any flour?
And so, what about that?!
I can’t take this anymore.
In that case, it’s all right.
What’s all right?
It’ll be Japan #21!
A bread that we can make with just these ingredients.
With just these...?
Yeah.
That’s Japan #21.
It’s no good.
Even with Azuma’s Japan...
This is the end!
With only eggs and flour, any bread we make would be completely tasteless.
Like I said, that’s not true!
They said that we can use any type of flour, after all.
But...
It’s all right.
Let’s leave it to Japan #21.
That looks like quite a grave turn of events.
It’s not a laughing matter.
We have already invested all of our savings in this.
While this may have nothing to do with paupers like you,
if by some chance Azuma and they were to lose, I...
Forget about preventing the takeover, I’d lose even the management of this store.
I’m thinking no such thing.
I’m just worried about Azuma and everyone.
Nothing will happen with us worrying unnecessarily.
B-But...
Well, if we lose,
if we all seriously work at boring jobs, little by little, it might work out.
Exactly, Tsukino.
As long as people can work seriously, there’s nothing to fear.
Even boring jobs, little by little...
Here, let’s be safe and bet on 246.
Exactly how much of what you people say should I believe?
There it is! Ron!
Note: Kanmuri is making a reference to the game of Mahjong.
Tsukino-san...
I’m working at a boring job, seriously, little by little.
Man...
You’re cruel.
But, jokes aside, this is quite a pinch they’re in...
But Azuma-kun looks like he’s thought of something.
We should just stay calm here.
So, what’s this Japan #21?
What kind of item is it?
You see...
Are they all right?
What are you planning to do, Azuma?
And that’s what it’ll turn out like.
Can we really do something like that?
No, it’s true that that might work out.
Just as expected of the man who defeated me.
A great difference in the ability to conceptualize, compared to Baldy here.
What was that?!
Let’s ask if they have something like that here, shall we?
Yeah!
Hey, Old Man Pierrot!
Did you have a question?
Old Man Pierrot, actually...
What is he doing?
I want that kind of flour, so...
Well?
I can get you that flour.
Is that so?
However...
I am only 22 years old.
I am not an old man!
Should you call me an old man again...
I shall hang you there!
The trapeze swing?!
Last year, I hung around two people there, also.
Apparently, they dried out like the “dry fish” you find in Japan.
This year, you may be the victim.
Be careful, Azuma.
This man’s serious!
That’s right,
this is “serious,” on the world level!
Oh, don’t get mad, Old... I mean, really handsome Mister Pierrot.
I was kidding.
As long as you understand...
All right, every type of flour is available here.
You can take whatever you like.
Just as you’d expect of the world level.
Thank you.
Oh, this is it.
I cannot forgive the fact that he insulted me,
but this young boy...
He has noticed what nobody did last year.
That was scary, wasn’t it?
That Old... Brother Pierrot...
It’s true that he’s very agile,
but that clown is no ordinary person.
Yeah...
Those malicious little eyes...
I’m sure he’s a pervert.
Kawachi, Suwabara,
let’s make Japan #21.
Yeah, let’s hurry up.
There seem to be countries that are already baking their bread.
This platform has an oven attached.
It seems like they have decided on what bread they will be making.
The question is how they’ll make up for the handicap of not having salt or sugar.
No...
How they’ll overcome it.
Good luck, everyone.
I see!
That is all!
It’s good that we somehow managed to finish it,
but we really made bread without any sugar or salt...
Is it really all right like this?
All right then, everyone...
Since you are all done,
the judging of the first preliminaries will begin.
The judge shall be me, Pierrot.
It looks like it’s about to finally start.
But, how in the world is he going to judge?
Won’t he just eat them?
In the finals, where there’s only a few countries, that’s possible.
However, in the preliminaries, there are 135 countries!
It’s not possible to taste all of them by himself.
Yeah, not even he could...
I know!
Just like Old Man Kuroyanagi, I’m sure that he can judge simply by looking.
It’s true that he probably has that level of insight,
but while this may consist entirely of young people, they’re all bakers at the world level.
It can’t all just be bread that you can judge by simply looking at it.
So, how is he...?
You, Baldy over there!
That is quite a valid question.
All right.
So, let me show you how I will be judging.
W-What’s this smoke?!
Don’t panic!
It’s just some trick to frighten us.
It’s scary!
The Pierrots just keep multiplying!
My last count was about 135!
It’s like a festival!
Artisans, were you surprised?
My magic is at the world level as well.
Increasing my numbers to 135 is a piece of cake for me.
The fearsome world level!
All right then, judging begins!
Moving quickly, moving quickly!
No! No! No!
Chile, Mongolia, and Russia’s breads get 0 points.
How can you say that?
How can you give 0 points without tasting it?!
Because I am a clown!
Note: Perestroika refers to social reform set by Gorbachev. It is simply a random Russian word, used completely out of context.
Perestroika!!
Once you’re a world level clown,
you can even discern from an audience of 10,000
as to exactly which person will laugh, and where.
All of you who did not get sugar or salt in the roulette
have made your bread without any trick to it, just as you were told.
I can see that in one glance.
Just like Japan,
Russia also didn’t get sugar or salt, eh?
With them, they get off with 0 points.
If we get 0 points,
we’ll have to go to the second preliminaries with -2 points!
Man, whose fault is this?!
Azuma-kun, are we really all right?!
It’s finally going to start.
It’s true that the bread they made is different,
but just like the Russian team, the Japanese team
hasn’t used any sugar or salt...
Is it really all right?
Japanese representatives.
I will begin the scoring...
of this bread, which has neither salt nor sugar in it.
itsuka wakaru sa kizutsuitari nayanda hibi
Someday you’ll understand.
The days when you were hurt and confused
kagayaki ni kawaru. Dakara tsukamaetete
will turn into something radiant. So, hold on to...
ima wa kurushii kimi wo. Nigenaide kanau made
your present suffering. Don’t run away till your wish comes true.
kodoku wo kakaekomu toki mo
Even at times you embrace loneliness...
kimi wa mada hitori ja nainda
you are not yet alone.
jibun sae shinjirarenai bukiyou na kimi demo
Even if you don’t quite believe it, even the clumsy little you
nandomo kara wo tatakinagara
can knock yourself against your shell many times over,
tobidasu hi wa jibun dake no chikara sa
so that the day you fly out, it will be with your own strength.
tatoe kimi dake ni tsubasa ga nakutemo kitto
Even if it is only you who doesn’t have wings,
utau tori ni natte
become a song bird.
Next Episode
Bread with neither sugar nor salt...
Castella
Japan (#21)
Note: Castella is a kind of cake introduced to Japan by the Portuguese.
Will it really be all right?
Don’t get flustered, Kawachi!
The judging is beginning!
Note: This is a reference to the ad used for castella. The jingle goes, “Castella is #1, Telephone is #2, Snacks at 3 p.m.” to Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” with baby bears dancing the cancan. “Zunchan” is just him imitating the sound.
Zunchan zunchan zunchan zunchan
Pierrot No. 1, Telephone No. 2.
Snacks at 3 p.m.!!
It’s Japan #21.
Snacks at 3 p.m.!!
It’s Japan #21!
Be sure to watch!
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
The Japanese people are ranked highly in the world when it comes to liking eggs.
Japanese People
Ranked highly in the world
in liking eggs
The consumption of eggs in a year is over 300 per capita.
Amount of consumption in a year
per capita
over
That means they eat at least one egg a day.
Isn’t that amazing?
Really?!