anime episode summaries

Yawara bids Jody farewell. They promise each other to fight in a match someday. Unfortunately for Yawara, she is still pretty unknown and has no previous records so fighting in a huge international match is still a long way. Jigoro arranges for Yawara to appear in several tournaments so that she can make a name for herself. In order to fulfill her promise to Jody, Yawara agrees. The entrance examinations for Mitsuba College (?) are coming up pretty soon, too, so Yawara spends the whole night studying and then the rest of the day doing judo. Although fatigued, Yawara manages to win her first few tournaments. Jigoro challenges Sayaka, too, to meet his granddaughter in a match. Matsuda is worried about Yawara health because she hasn’t been sleeping and taking care of herself well.

Kevin and Ryoma are about to fight each other but Tezuka stops them. Ryoma won’t listen to Tezuka so Tezuka slaps him. Kevin is pissed when he learned that Ryoma won’t be playing in the invitationals. Ryoma is frustrated about not being selected and not being able to play against Kevin. Ryoma visits Tezuka and begs him to let him play. Tezuka sees Ryoma’s passion for tennis rekindled so he tells Ryoma that he can be part of the national team as a substitute.

Mugen has a hard time fighting his opponent (the brother with the chain/scythe weapon) but manages to kill him. The other brother (the one on the wheelchair) shoots Mugen and tries to blow the entire place up with bombs.

Jin loses in his fight with Kariya (?) and falls in the water.

Fuu finally meets her father but finds him weak and dying. Kariya appears and kills Fuu’s dad. Apparently, Kariya was ordered to kill the entire family. As he was about to kill Fuu, Jin shows up. Kariya and Jin fight again and this time, Jin lets himself get stabbed so that he can stab the opponent, too. Kariya dies.

Mugen and Jin both survive. They try to fight each other but are too weak to do so.

After the two recovers, the three part ways. The end.

The next round, Yakisoba Pan, commences. Group B, Kawachi’s group, goes first. Even though Kawachi’s opponent uses several tasty seafood in his yakisoba, Kawachi wins by mincing up his yakisoba and compressing the pieces into a hotdog. Meanwhile, Azuma is depressed because no matter how hard he tried, his yakisoba is still not good enough. Kawachi thinks of a plan and he and the manager hint that Azuma should crush his bread. The next day, even though Shachihokou’s rich-flavored yakisoba bread elicits a really crazy and revealing reaction from Kuroyan, Azuma’s okonomiyaki- inspired flat bread (he pressed it using a heated pan) wins the match.

The best-tasting yakisoba bread from all the participants wins a cash reward. To everyone’s surprise, the winner turns out to be Mizuno’s Koala-chan, Azuma’s opponent in the next round.

Kawachi was so overconfident and complacent that he’ll win during the melon pan round that the manager scares him by saying his opponent possesses a “mother’s hand,” which is apparently even better than Kawachi’s “solar gauntlets.” In his anxiety, Kawachi tries even harder but it turns out the obasan he battled is no match for him at all. Everything was a ploy by the manager to bring out Kawachi’s potential.

Mizuno makes another bet saying that if Kazu-kun (her nickname for Azuma) does not win against her Koala-chan, Tsukino forfeits her right to inherit the company.

After that, Kuroyan announces the next theme: yakisoba pan. This time, the bread is provided. The participants are supposed to make the best yakisoba to go with the bread. Azuma worries because he doesn’t know to cook anything other than bread. To make matters worse, Azuma’s next opponent is an Italian-American champion baker named Spencer Henry Hokou a.k.a S.H. Hokou a.k.a. Shachihokou who specializes in yakisoba pan because he lives in Nagoya. The manager knows a noodle expert (who also moonlights as an assassin) and gets him to teach Azuma and Kawachi how to make yakisoba. Kawachi is good since he’s used to cooking for his younger siblings but Azuma seems hopeless.

Fuu, Mugen, and Jin finally reach Nagasaki. Fuu heads off to Ikitsuki Island alone because she doesn’t feel like saying goodbye to Mugen and Jin. Several assassins are on our trio’s trail though.

Momo and Komomo are within the vicinity of Mt. Fuji when it explodes and one of the wings of their plane catches fire. They teleport back to safety though.