Chairman Rame,
St. Pierre’s owner, Monsieur Kirisaki, is here to see you.
Show him in.
How nice of you to visit, Monsieur Kirisaki.
My being able to attain the post of chairman
is thanks to the recommendation of such a close friend of the King of Monaco as yourself.
Cut the stupid formalities.
I’ll get straight to the point.
Crush the Japanese representatives.
Huh?
It’s not like I’m telling you to make my team, the American representatives, win.
So, it should be a simple matter, right?
Y-Yes, but...
I know that you people want the local favorite, France, to win.
If you were to crush Japan,
and it were to come down to a final between America and France,
we would forfeit.
Huh?
Of course, we will be sure to compensate you generously for your trouble.
What do you think?
It’s not a bad deal, is it?
Yes, in that case...
But, I don’t really understand it.
Why would you, a Japanese person...?
Don’t pry into that which doesn’t concern you.
What you need is the money, right?
In that case, just obey me quietly.
Th... That’s true.
Oh well, I guess I can tell you.
The reason why I want to crush Japan is...
because I HATE Japan.
I really don’t understand that man.
I was surprised when the Japanese enterprise St. Pierre
attained the rights to the American team...
And now he wants to crush the Japanese representatives...?
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.
Survival!!
Bakers on an uninhabited island!
Survival!!
Bakers on an uninhabited island!
I’m bored.
The match is in three days and we have nothing to do until then.
Fool.
If you wish to win at all,
then you should train yourself while you have the time.
Especially baldies like you.
What does being bald have to do with it?!
Wait, I’m not bald!
And when you take your bandanna off, your hairline’s receding quite a bit, too, you know...
So, you can’t really talk.
Why you...!
Hey guys! I have news!
Get ready to travel.
Travel? Where to?
Well, I was almost on my way to heaven, wasn’t I...?
To a deserted island.
A deserted island?
I wonder why all our opponents seem really strong just before a match...
And what’s that thing they’re carrying?
Attention all representatives and concerned people.
You’re on board a personal plane of the Monaco Cup Management Board.
Your pilot... is me, Pierrot.
You were piloting the plane?
Wait, is it really all right with you piloting the plane?
I’m carefully reading the manual and doing it, so it’s all right.
You moron!
Don’t pilot the plane while reading it!
This flight is going to take you to the site of the match,
a deserted island off the French-Polynesian island cluster.
Very well, I will now explain the rules for the second match of the finals.
Wait just a moment.
And we have a wait-just-a-moment call!
Note: This is a reference to the hit Japanese match-making program “Neruton Benikujiradan” (aka Neruton) from the 80s. The “wait just a moment call” indicated a sudden twist in match-ups.
Are we going to have an unexpected twist?
I doubt the young viewers will pick up on this gag.
Why do we suddenly have to have the match at this deserted island?
Shouldn’t you be explaining that to us?
That’s true, but...
even I don’t know why it turned out this way.
But, if you don’t understand, there’s no way we possibly could!
I’m sorry.
But, there are things even a clown doesn’t know!
That again?
It’s just that this morning, there was a sudden call from the chairman.
And things suddenly turned out this way.
Don’t steer with your feet!
How unsightly, Japanese representative.
The word of the Management Board is absolute.
If you don’t like it, then it’s best that you forfeit.
Oh, the dude at the highest level isn’t here.
Anyway and either way, I’m going to explain the rules for the second match.
First, look at this map.
Note: We can’t find a real island called Tahitin. But Tahitin can mean “Little Tahiti.”
This is Tahitin Island.
Once we reach the island, we’d like for each team to go to their specified location.
Wait a moment!
Why is the Japanese team alone so isolated?
I don’t know that either.
In other words, you don’t really know anything, do you?
But... the chairman said that being isolated was not necessarily a disadvantage.
Apparently you can catch more fish there, so there are advantages too.
You have to live on this deserted island for a week.
So, you have to acquire food by yourselves as well.
One week?!
The top four teams to make
a delicious bread in that one week will pass.
The topic is to make a sweet and delicious bread.
Since you can get salt easily from the sea,
salty breads will not be accepted.
As for the ingredients, the only thing you’ll get from us is the flour.
All other ingredients, including the yeast, must be collected from the island.
What was that?!
Yay! Yay!
All right. What do we do?
Flour... and a flare to signal when we’re finished...
And that’s it.
What are we supposed to do?!
To do...
To do... To do...
Hey, Suwabara, let’s work together as friends for this round.
Since we’re both bald!
Whoa, it’s a tunnel!
I’m not bald!!
Oh, very well.
Because if we don’t seriously cooperate this time, we may not survive.
So, what should we do now?
The topic is to make a sweet and delicious sweetened bread in a week.
We can make the yeast by mixing flour and water.
So, let’s leave that aside.
The trouble is going to be getting water and the sugar we need.
I think that we should get away from here
and head to the center of the island as soon as possible.
Yeah.
While it may be a deserted island, this is a southern island,
so once we get to the center, we should be able to find fruit or something.
As long as we have fruit, we can make something like jam.
All right.
We’ll swim around to the other side of the island irst thing tomorrow morning.
Okay?
Yep!
I don’t really think we can take our time with this.
Why not?
Why not, you ask?!
Because we already have water lapping at our feet.
The flour will get wet!
This is probably a beach which disappears at high tide.
Leave the luggage to me!
Swim, Azuma! Kawachi!
Okay!
Yep!
Serving champagne here!
Here!
Oh, thank you.
But, I kinda feel bad about this.
I mean, Kazuma and the gang are having a hard time on the deserted island after all...
Yeah. I guess I’ll take a look before the sun sets.
Oh no!
The beach is not there!
What?!
You’re right!
Hey, Mr. Pierrot!
Did you need something of me?
The beach that was supposed to be the main base for the Japanese representatives...
is under the sea!
Pierrot Eye!
Oh, you’re right!
Aiyee...
How can he see without even using binoculars?
Either way, please send out a search party immediately!
I’m worried about them.
I can’t do that.
What? Why not?
There are things that even a clown can’t do.
Because, if I were to lend them a hand, they’d be automatically disqualified.
What are you saying?
If they die, it won’t matter whether or not they’re disqualified!
It’s all right. They’re alive.
Once you’re a world-level clown,
you have a heart sensitive enough to know
whether or not everybody in your audience of 10,000 has made it home safely.
And I feel that they’re still alive.
So, it’s all right.
I wonder if this guy is really all right.
It’s just as he says.
Ryou!
I can feel it, too.
No matter what the conditions may be,
they will not die before making a delicious bread.
Because that’s a “true baker.”
Never heard that one before...
In that case, I never really want to become a “true baker.”
But, it’s strange.
Chairman Rame told me that there are advantages to Japan’s position...
Japanese representatives...
it looks like the chairman might really hate you...
Come quickly everyone.
Wait, Kawachi.
You’re swimming like the old soldiers used to!
How can you possibly know how to swim like that?
While training for the Solar Gauntlets,
Tsukino made me swim to the point of death.
I’m an expert at this now.
Kawachi!
Oh no! A whirlpool?
Kawachi!
Huh? Huh?!
That must be causing it!
Kawachi!
Stop, Azuma!
Don’t come!
You’ll get caught in it, too!
Suwabara! Stop Azuma please!
I should be able to get out somehow by myself.
Suwabara! Stop Azuma please!
Stop, Azuma!
I said no!
Azuma!
Let go.
Let go of me, will ya!
I have to go save Azuma!
Let go.
It’s impossible.
You no longer have the stamina left to do that.
You’d be committing suicide.
You idiot!
Azuma’s not dead!
This is all your fault!
Why didn’t you stop Azuma?
I couldn’t catch up.
No, even if I had caught up, the chances of Azuma struggling were high.
In that case,
I wouldn’t have stopped Azuma.
Because, we can’t allow the flour to get wet at any cost!
You no longer even had the strength to throw a proper punch.
Please be alive, Azuma.
Azuma... where are you?
Azuma!
Stop it already.
What are you doing?!
How long do you plan on moping?
Crying is not going to bring Azuma back.
I don’t need you telling me something like that.
You cold-hearted beast.
At that time...
If you had saved Azuma instead of worrying about the flour...
How long are you going to worry about stupid things?
Why don’t you just keep crying forever then?
I’m going.
If we don’t have anything ready for when Azuma comes back,
then we’ll have truly failed him.
And, can you not hear it?
While it may have been for a brief moment,
we faced death together as companions.
Can you not hear your friend’s voice?
I can hear it.
I can hear the sound of Azuma’s soul screaming out to us.
Suwabara...
Kawachi...
It’s true...
Now that he says it, I get the feeling I can hear his voice...
Kawachi...
Suwabara...
Now I understand.
This is Azuma’s soul screaming out, right?
Listen please, Kawachi...
I guess you can also hear it, huh?
Listen up Kawachi, Azuma will be sure to come back.
So, until then,
let’s collect as many ingredients as possible to greet him with.
You’re right.
Let’s start with fruit.
Yeah.
W-Why?
You’re both so cruel.
Kawachi...
Suwabara...
How could you not notice when I was so close to you?
You’re so cold.
I can’t go on anymore.
I seem to be wounded.
And I’m hungry...
Where am I?
It’s pitch-black.
Oh, I see.
I’m dead, aren’t I?
But, since it’s pitch-black, I guess I didn’t go to heaven.
I don’t think I spent my days badly, but...
Looks like he’s come to.
Muhammad.
Cleo.
Yes Sir!
What’s this?!
Using the powers of Egypt’s symbol, the pyramid, we have treated your wounds.
Treated?
Oh, it’s true.
My wounds are healed.
And, who are you guys?
We are...
Sphinx Blue!
Cleopatra Pink!
Pyramid Red!
The Egyptian representatives.
Let me explain.
The Egyptian representatives are the messengers of justice.
We are here to end injustice in the Monaco Cup.
Geez, what’s with this island?
It’s a southern island.
Yet however much we’ve walked, we haven’t come by a single thing that looks like fruit.
Where in the world can they be?
I got it.
The fruit must be there.
Huh?
The north. Let’s head north.
North?
This time, our coming to this deserted island was
decided by the Monaco Cup Management Board.
Oh! They’re hoping for the local team, France, to win.
In other words...
We can assume that trees with fruits that can be used as ingredients
will be plentiful in the north, where France is stationed.
Exactly.
That committee is made up of
people who leak the rules to only the French representatives beforehand.
I guess it wouldn’t be strange if the French team is being favored and supported over everybody else.
Let’s go.
But if that’s the case, then they must really hate us.
We’re the farthest away from the point where the ingredients are plentiful.
And our location was the kind that sunk into the sea.
I wonder why...
At least I haven’t done anything for the committee to hate me.
You stupid, bald twerp!
What about your disgraceful behavior at the exhibition?!
I guess the committee has no sense of humor.
Maybe I really should disembowel this baldy right here, but...
Suwabara!
This time, all of us almost died!
No matter what, it’s strange for them to go so far as this.
It may be that...
hidden somewhere within the trials we face on this deserted island
is a big conspiracy.
So that’s how it is.
The Japanese representatives’ location has sunk into the sea.
With this, we can be certain of their defeat.
Weak.
What?
What’s the big deal in losing their location?
While there may have been whirlpools there,
they probably survived since they were near the shore.
Of course.
I wasn’t really planning on killing them...
I mean, if we were to have deaths...
I don’t really mind if they die, you know...
Huh?
Even if they died, it would be a mere accident.
But...
And, if it comes down to you having to take the responsibility,
just quit as the chairman.
We’ll give you an equivalent post at St. Pierre.
A post such that you won’t have to work for another day in your life.
Very well.
Cockroaches are very persistent creatures.
If you don’t intend on killing them, you can’t get rid of them.
I expect that next time, your plans won’t be as weak as this.
Very well.
What a terrifying man.
This is not enough for him...?
It can’t be helped.
I should get my next plan ready.
Paradise.
This is truly paradise, Brother.
The sea is an emerald green.
The fruit is bountiful and delicious.
A true paradise.
It’s a pity that we have to make bread and return.
Oh, come to think of it...
we have a gum boat and oars in our mantle.
Let’s get them out later?
Cut it out, Edward.
We haven’t come here to play–
French representatives...
Are things going well there?
Why if it isn’t Chairman Rame!
I’m embarrassed to say that we’re rather enjoying ourselves.
Actually, I have a request.
What?!
He wants us to set fire to the forest after we’ve gotten the fruit?
What can the chairman be thinking of?
As long as the fruit is gone,
it doesn’t matter that they’re the best eight countries in the world.
It’ll be impossible to make a sweetened bread on a deserted island.
The chairman wishes for our victory over everyone else’s, Edward.
I see.
The chairman is such a considerate person!
A splinter got into my foot!
I can’t take this anymore!
I don’t wanna walk anymore!
I can’t walk anymore.
You really are a completely useless baldy.
I’m not as tough a baldy as you.
I’m NOT BALD!
Oh, whatever.
Wait there.
I’ll get the fruit myself.
Kawachi, let’s go immediately.
Huh? But why?
Didn’t you just say you’d go by yourself?
“But why,” you say?!
Because we’re surrounded by a sea of fire!
What was that?!
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
It's just not possible to make sweet, tasty bread without any fruits!
Every day, every day, we are...
I'm really not liking this!
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
And now you must swim!! Tai-yaki-kun of the South Island!
And now you must swim!!
Tai-yaki-kun of the Southern Island!!
Be sure to watch!
Yakitate!! Seed of knowledge.
When you want to make bread, but...
At times you want to make bread, but don’t have yeast:
Yeast
Knead a small amount of flour and water together.
Small amount of flour
Water
This allows yeast to grow, and you can make your very own native yeast.
Yeast
Native Yeast
Go to a deserted island and test it out.
Okay!