Yakitate!! Japan 229

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229

The shape of completion

P114
Azu: An important element?
Kai: Remember your battle with me.
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If you do that you should understand imediately.
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That's it!

P115
The shape!!
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That's right
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There are many shapes of bread, and depeding on the shape, bread is easily hardened when toasted, or is less easily hardened.
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If you think of the shape rather than just the ingredients, you should be able to make your ideal bread.
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I see, that was in our blind spot.

P116
Dinner bread becomes hard easily when toasted because it's cut thinly...
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Kan: If you tried to toast it without cutting it, it wouldn't really become hard.
Kai: That's correct.
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That's why, is your ideal bread is one that is soft like dinner bread but when toasted becomes hard like french bread...
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Kai: First, you should worry about using ingredients to make it as soft as possible, and leave the hardening to the form of the bread.
Azu: Right!

P117
Hey Kawachi, of the ingredients that went over well, which one was the softest?
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Hmmm, that would be..
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the taro was very soft, but I think I'd have to choose the softest, I'd say it was the Japanese Yam
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When it gets toasted, thanks to the characteristics of the yam, it's fluffy, and is almost like eating cake.
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Kaw: My legs turned turned into yams after that
Azu: I see...

P118
Alright, let's do this.
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First I'll make a huge amount of the dough mixed with yam, so everyone try to to make a lot of different shapes with it.
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Of course try to make a shape that would result in it getting hard after being toasted.
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(bottom right)I'm counting on you!
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Yeah!

P120
Azu: How is it everyone?
Kan; It's absolutely no good.
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Cylinders, squares, rectangles, croissants, ones we folded, ones we twisted...
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We've tried all sorts of shapes but whenever they are toasted, they are only soft, and none became hard.

P121
The best one was the same shape as dinner bread, but that was only when it was sliced thinly...
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Since the dough was so soft, it didn't become any harder than regular toast, and is still far from ideal.
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Hmmm..
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What shall we do Azuma-kun?
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I'd hate to give up such softness, but maybe we should quit using yams after all.
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Most of all...

P122
At this rate Kawachi-san is going to pass his limit, and cease to be a living thing
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Kawachi.. what have you turned in to?
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Well, it seems since I've been just eating yams, I turned into Tororo (though I'm a little worried that kids these days don't know Tororo is made from yams)
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well, I really wanted to become a certain famous directors Toto(censored) but it seemed like the whole copyright thing was going to get complicated I gave up

P123
Azu: I see... that's too bad..
Kaw: No, it's not really that bad
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If I turn into something with a form like a Daruma and Toto(censored), I'll have a stomach and a set amount I can eat, but like this I can eat as much as I want. right?
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I want to be able to support everyone, so this is better
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B.. but, you'll just turn into something stranger...
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That's fine.

P124
All I can do is do what I can for everyone's sake!
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In order to make your ideal Ja-pan...
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In order to protect the world from those Hu-pan guys..
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It doesn't matter what happens to me in the mean time!
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Ka... Kawachi... you're..

P125
really delicous.
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Kaw: What the!? Why are you eating me!?
Azu: Sorry, sorry.
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But, unlike you, I can't really taste anything from bread.
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Azu: I kept getting hungrier and hungrier...
Kaw: Well... I can see that but...

P126
Kan: Wow! this is great!
Kai: Not bad, Kawachi
Tsu: Wow, you're right
Mei: This taste is superb
Kaw: What the, you guys too!?
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You guys are unbelievable...
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If you really want to eat so badly you can, but at least use some soy sauce and mix it up first!
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It's very rude to me!!
Azu: S.. sorry
P127
Azu: We'll make sure to add soy sauce, so calm down // ok?
Kaw: Hmph // You should do that from the start
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Well then, let's add some soy sauce.

P128
Ha ha ha, you kind of look like Naruto now.
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Naruto
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That... that's it!
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Kan: Well then, let's mix it up.
Azu. No.. hold on a second!
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Kaw: What Azuma, are you the type that doesn't like to mix up his tororo?
Azu: That's not it...

P129
Well... then what is it?
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Kawachi... thanks to you and everyone I've finally figured it out...
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The dream I've been chasing and chasing and chasing this whole time...

P130
The completed form of Ja-pan!!