Shokugeki no Soma L'étoile 1

Shokugeki no Soma L'étoile 1

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Box: French Cuisine---
Box: Together with Chinese and Turkish cuisine it's considered to be one of the Three Grand Cuisines.
Box: Even on a certain famous restaurant guide,
Box: In the midst of many dishes and restaurants from many different countries, thousands of them are from French Cuisine.
Box: It's the most well-known and beloved cuisine in the world.
Text: The "Magician" appears in Jump+!!
Box: Amongst the many chefs who fiercely compete in the world of French Cuisine,
Box: There was a man who, while being Japanese, was called the "Légumes (Vegetables) Magician"...

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Shokugeki no Soma L'étoile
(cutlery) numéro 1 The Man Called the "Légumes Magician"
Text: A "Shokugeki no Soma" spinoff begins!
Text: That man starts to move aiming for the summit of French cuisine!!
Story: Itou Michiko
Art: Asatoki Taiki
Original Work: Tsukuda Yuuto/Saeki Shun/Morisaki Yuki
Orange Box: The 3rd novel will be on sale this Spring!!
Orange Box: The TV Anime begins airing on April 2015!!
Red Box: The 11 JC Volumes and the Novels (1) and (2) are on sale with rave reviews!!

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Gin: Shinomiya...Aren't you
Gin: Stagnating?
Kojirou: What do you know about...!?
Gin: Try it.
Gin: Tadokoro-kun's dish---
Kojirou(thinks): What I lost sight of after aiming for the top all the time.
Kojirou: Huh...The heating was too indulgent.
Kojirou: The arrangement too, the pâté aren't well-joined either.
Kojirou(thinks): I remembered it.
Kojirou(thinks): It was...

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Box: Paris, France, "Marché Bastille".
Box: One of the biggest marchés (markets) in Paris, many kinds of shops, naturally including those selling fruits and vegetables, line along it.
Man: Do you want some Tomatoes?
Kojirou(thinks): Tomatoes, huh...
Kojirou(thinks): They're perfect for the season.
Boy: Heeey,
Boy: Over here.
Girl: Wait for me.

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Girl: Ah

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Girl: U...Umm, I'm sor-
Kojirou: Don't go spacing out in the middle of the road, what are you doing you noroma(dunce). //I put it in Japanese since he apparently says everything else but that in French, this is what he calls Megumi after his assignment during the camp.
Megumi's sd: Eh
Girl: Erm...
Girl: No...roma?
Kojirou(thinks): Damn it, what did I just do?
Kojirou(thinks): I went and spoke in Japanese here...
Kojirou: It's nothing, hurry and go.
Girl: ?
Voice: Uwah

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Guy: Move away, you bastards.
Guy: You're in the way.
Voice: Those guys again...
Voice: We better not get involved.
Kojirou(thinks): Well,
Kojirou(thinks): I don't really care about that.
Guy: !
Kojirou(thinks): Wha-

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Guy: Are you ok, pal?
Guy: Eek

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Kojirou: One bottle of champagne.
Guy: Thanks a lot.
Guy: !
Guy: Eh

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Man: Hey, what the fuck are you doing?
Guy: The suit maman bought for me is drenched.

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Kojirou: He looked like he was hot so I cooled him down a bit, any complaints?
Man: Complaints are all I have for you.
Guy: This suit is really expensive, maman bou-
Kojirou: That lame suit?
Guy: It isn't lame at aaall!
Man: I'm going to beat this guy up.
Woman: Hey, wait a sec there.
Woman: Are you Japanese?
Woman: You're a pretty nice guy.
Kojirou: I'm not interested in middle-aged women.

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Woman: What was that? (cd: I'm only 24)
Police: Could you come with us for a second?
Woman: Remember this.
Guy: Sister.
Man: You're a lifesaver.
Man: Those guys are vicious land sharks who are rather famous around here.
Man: A while ago, they started coming to this market.
Man: They set their eyes on this poor girl.
Kojirou: ?

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Girl: Umm.
Kojirou(thinks): The noroma?
Kojirou(thinks): I've got a bad feeling about this.
Girl: Ah

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Girl: U-
Girl: Umm
Girl: W...Wait, please.
Girl: Let me thank you.

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Girl: Those people are land sharks from the district I live in.
Girl: They've even come to my house.
Girl: My father collapsed out of anxiety and so I came to the market in his place...
Girl: So you really helped me a lot.
Girl: To think you stood up to those people...
Kojirou: Don't follow me.
Kojirou: I'm not involved in...
Kojirou: Hm?

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Kojirou: ...
Kojirou: You produced those?
Girl: These tomatoes?
Girl: That's right.
Girl: E-
Girl: Eh...

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Girl: A...Are they dirty or something!?
Girl: Or is the shape weird...
Kojirou: No, that's not it...
Kojirou: These tomatoes-
Voice: Waaah
Voice: They came again.
Girl: ...My...Shop.

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Girl: Ah...
Woman: Your worn-out vegetables
Woman: Will never sell so just get out of here.
Girl: You're terrible...
Kojirou: You-

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Kojirou: You don't even understand the value of foodstuff?
Kojirou: This tomato is much more valuable than you guys.
Thought: !!?
Woman: What are you saying about such a seedy-looking tomato?
Woman: No one would buy this.
Kojirou: I guess human garbage only has trashy eyes.
Woman: Huh!?
Woman: If you're going to say so much then I guess you can prove it.
Kojirou: I can.

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Kojirou: This is perfect, I'll go there,
Kojirou: And make a dish with this tomato.
Kojirou: If you think it's delicious,
Kojirou: Then I'd have proven my point.

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Woman: And so? How trivial, how can I even tell it's "delicious"?
Woman: Are you going to coerce me into doing so?
Kojirou: ...
Kojirou: Let's see,
Kojirou: Then,
Kojirou: If after eating my dish you can say it's "bad", even if you're acting,
Kojirou: I'll pay the fees to buy up their farm.
Thought: !!?
Woman: Puh...That's perfectly fine, let's go with that.
Guy: Sister, this guy's an idiot! We did it!!
Man: Maman will praise us!!
Kojirou: You consented, huh? Then,
Kojirou: It's settled.

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Voice: It seems they're having a cooking contest.
Girl: Really? Where?
Voice: Waaah, it smells nice.
Boy: Hey, isn't that...
Man: Yes, Tomates Farcies.

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Box: Tomates Farcies, one of the most popular forms of home cooking in France.
Box: The origin of the word Farcies is in the verb "farcir" which means "to stuff".
Box: For it you stuff the tomatoes with meat or vegetables.
Woman: ...
Thought: What's with this guy?
Thought: He probably can't make anything that great!

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Kojirou: It's complete!
Kojirou: A farcies using a whole tomato.
Kojirou: Bon Appétit (Enjoy your meal).
Thought: Even I can make Tomates Farcies.
Thought: But...This smell...
Woman: I'll have some.
Box: Something is calling me from inside this tomato.

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Thought: ...!!
Thought: What is this!?
Thought: I've eaten hundreds of farcies in my life but none was like this.
Box: The combination was completely calculated.
Box: The Italian parsley and Herbes de Provence which were minced together with the spices,
Thought: And the most remarkable thing is the tomato.
Thought: Some Tomates Farcies are rather watery,
Thought: But in these small tomatoes the sweetness is tightly concentrated...

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Thought: They're like fruits with a refined sweetness and sourness...!!
Thought: But that's not all.
Thought: The added herbs and spices are almost only there to support the tomato.
Thought: Yes, this tomato is like---

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Voice: The time has come,
Voice: Get in formation and begin the roll-call.
Thought: A tomato revolution!!!
Voice: Let's go,
Voice: To the Bastille!!

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Text: The tomato
Text: Of Versailles---

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Woman: Me...Merci (Thanks).
Kojirou: De rien (You're welcome).
Guy: Sister, it's ok.
Guy: Even if he could make a good dish, we can make it go bankrupt by applying pressure.
Guy's sd: P-Probably.
Woman: You're right, a shop like this-
Kojirou: Then, I'll buy all these tomatoes.
Woman: Eh.
Kojirou: That's not all.

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Kojirou: Take it.
Girl: Eh
Kojirou: It's a contract.
All: What's with that?
Girl: Starting now...
Girl: All of this shop's vegetables-

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Kojirou: All of them,
Kojirou: Will be bought by me, Shinomiya.
Girl: ......SHINO'S
Girl: Shinomiya...Kojirou...
Girl: SHINO'S......?
Woman: ...It can't be, you-

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Woman: You're the Légumes Magician,
Woman: Shinomiya Kojirou!!!
Woman: The one from SHINO'S,
Voice: The first Japanese to be awarded with the Pluspol medal!?
Kojirou: Yes, that's me.

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Kojirou: This tomato is...Japan's tomato breed.
All: Eh
Kojirou: Getting hold of Japanese vegetables in France is quite difficult,
Kojirou: But I once went to the farm of a person who cultivated these same tomatoes.
Kojirou: I thought those tomatoes were perfect for Farcies.
Girl: So that was it.
Girl: My father once told me that he learned this farming method from someone.
Kojirou: I see.
Kojirou: You got it now, didn't you?

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Kojirou: This tomatoes
Kojirou: Are something worthy of deeply moving people.
Kojirou: If you got it then leave, you bunch of incompetents.
Voice: Wha-
Kojirou: Imbeciles who only think about money like you should disappear, especially the middle-aged woman.
Woman: Middle-aged!?
Kojirou: Take that piece of goldfish crap with you while you're at it.
Guy: Goldfish are cute.
Man: You're supposed to get angry, lil' bro.
Man: This bastard is getting too cocky.
Guy's sd: Eh

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Voice: Get out of here!
Voice: We're not afraid of you!!
Woman: Th-These guys...
Guy: Sister, at this rate...
Man: We won't
Man: Give in to you anymore.
Voice: Uwaaaan.
Voice: Remember this---
Voice: Don't ever come back here again.

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Boy: We drove them away.
Boy: We can do it if we try.
Man: You did great too,
Man: Didn't you,
Man: Grâce?
Grâce: Yes!
Kojirou(thinks): Grâce...Grace...
Kojirou(thinks): Megumi...? //One of the meanings of Megumi is grace

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Kojirou: Pff
Kojirou: Ku...Kukuh...
Grâce: U-Umm.
Grâce's sd: You're laughing at me...?
Grâce: Shinomiya-san.
Kojirou: See you,
Kojirou: A noroma should do the best she can.
Grâce(thinks): Wh...What's noroma...?
Grâce: Thank you very much for what you did today.
Grâce: It was all for someone like me.
Kojirou: That's not it.

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Kojirou: I needed it for my recette (recipe).
Grâce: This tomato.
Text: After the recipe he's looking at there's only the path to three stars! Next time, we approach Shinomiya in his school days!!
Grâce: Ah,
Grâce: Please pay for the vegetables in advance!
Kojirou: What!?
Text: Next chapter is scheduled to come out March 20th (Fri)!!