anime episode summaries

Hanai-kun, trying to impress Yakumo-san, volunteers his class to clean the swimming pool (he was the class rep). The class ends up playing hockey instead, using their mops as hockey sticks and a bar of soap as puck. Nobody wins the game though since they spend most of the time chasing each other around or fighting or trying to impress the opposite sex (not that interesting of an episode, IMHO).

Kawachi and Azuma revise their French bread. Kawachi uses oats while Azuma uses goat’s milk. Kawachi’s bread is fragrant but lacks in taste because it doesn’t have any dairy product in it but the horse eats it anyway. The manager lectures him about a special kind of yeast (made from special brown rice or something) that he uses to make the bread taste good. Azuma’s sister brings Azuma fresh milk from their goat, Nanako, and with this, Azuma makes a special kind of butter which he then uses to make his France-Japan. The horse refuses to eat Azuma’s bread (and stomps on it, too) but the mangager says it’s OK since goat’s milk doesn’t have the ingredient that causes allergies and the resulting taste is richer than if one uses regular cow’s milk. The manager calls Kawachi a mimicking monkey while Azuma is lauded for being a pioneer. The manager officially welcomes the pair into Pantasia’s Southern Branch Store and is pleasantly surprised that one of them possesses Solar Hands. A lot of crazy reactions and silly puns (u-meeee!) in this episode, too.

Sasuke leaves the village inspite of Sakura’s pleas and tears (what does she see in that insensitive jerk anyway?). Tsunade asks newly-appointed chuunin Shikamaru to lead a mission team to bring Sasuke back. Shikamaru brings Naruto, Kiba, Chouji, and Neji along. Shikamaru thinks of the perfect formation for his team (wow, you’re so smart, Shikamaru, I wish I have your brains). Lee regrets that he can’t come with them because of his injuries and he’s desperate to start training again. Orochimaru’s men give Sasuke sleeping pills and put him inside a barrel. Two Konoha jounins encounter Orochimaru’s men, fight them, and get killed. Careless Naruto nearly falls for a trap. Shikamaru’s 5-man team reaches Orochimaru’s men, explosions arise, and more fighting ensues.

ryuusuke introduces chiba to taira and chiba is disappointed taira’s not a girl (taira: can he sing?). maho gives koyuki eddie’s pick she picked up from one of dybre’s concerts. taira tells eiji that he’s joining ryuusuke’s band (it’s magic!). koyuki’s class has a new music teacher, momoko-sensei (momo-chan). koyuki and his friend (i forgot his name) sees momo-chan crying during breaktime because nobody listens to her in class. momoko-sensei asks koyuki to lead the class’s choir for the school festival because she heard he has a good voice (ousu!).

during practice, koyuki asks the class to take things seriously but he meets opposition in hyodo who tears up the lyrics sheet (wow, hyodo looks different in the manga). izumi tells koyuki that ryuusuke’s band had already decided on a name, beck, after ryuusuke’s dog (chiba thought of the name). hyodo sees koyuki getting friendly with ishiguro-sempai. hyodo practices guitar alone inside the music room. while the school was busy making preparations for the school festival, koyuki goes inside the music room and was disappointed nobody is practicing.

he spots a jaguar guitar and starts playing it. enters hyodo and gang who sees koyuki with the jaguar and asks him to play for them. hyodo and gang laughs at koyuki’s playing and koyuki tells them he just started last summer break under saitou’san’s tutelage. one of hyodo’s goons insults saitou-san and koyuki gets mad. the goon attacks koyuki and the guitar falls and gets chipped off. hyodo tells koyuki that the jaguar belongs to rikia, one of the toughest delinquents at school. koyuki sees rikia beating some guy up. hyodo and gang bullies koyuki and forces him to do whatever they please in exchange for not telling rikia about the guitar.

koyuki meets maho and they eat out (maho paid though because hyodo used up all of koyuki’s money). maho asks koyuki to join the band since they were practicing at the studio but koyuki says no because ryuusuke is still mad at him. maho convinces koyuki to take a peek at the band practicing but koyuki runs away after a while. koyuki’s class gets laughed at during the choir festival because they sucked (but i thought they weren’t that bad though). koyuki and friend catches hyodo’s guitar-playing at the festival and they’re impressed.

koyuki talks to hyodo about hyodo’s performance but hyodo orders him to buy food instead (hyodo: i don’t want to talk about music with you). koyuki doesn’t want to comply but he sees rikia beating the school’s judo champion up and koyuki changes his mind. eiji destroys ryuusuke’s guitar so ryuusuke decides to use lucille instead. whew!

1. Tenma-chan gets locked up inside the gym’s storage room. She falls asleep and when she wakes up, it was night time already. She gets hungry, finds a pack of bread, and eats it. The bread turns out to be super spicy so she turns on the sprinklers to get water which then gets everything wet, including her clothes. She takes off and hangs her shirt to dry. Then Karasuma-kun, who happened to be sleeping in the same room where Tenma-chan is, wakes up (the spicy bread was actually his). She hugs him in joy, thinking he’s come to save her, but then she realizes she’s shirtless (puni!). In her embarrassment, Tenma jumps off the window (and it’s from the second floor, too!) and runs away crying.

2. Harima learns that Tenma already likes somebody so he becomes paranoid of every guy she comes in contact with. He resolves to beat the crap out of whoever he is, but he is certain that that guy isn’t Karasuma-kun because Harima thinks he’s too weird. ]Then he catches Tenma-chan looking his way affectionately (Karasuma-kun is at his back!) and happily concludes that he’s the guy Tenma likes. Harima then plans to propose but on his way, he gets run over by a truck. He suffers from amnesia and forgets what has happened recently.

3. Tenma-chan visits Harima at the hospital and Harima is overjoyed but nervous as well. Itoko-sensei’s with Harima but leaves him when Tenma arrives. Harima panics but Itoko gives him a communication device (kinda like a mic and receiver) and she coaches him on what to say during his conversation with Tenma. It starts out fine but then Itoko makes him say embarrassing things. Itoko then cuts off the transmission so Harima is left alone. After talking for a while, Harima resolves to propose (again). He tries to hug and tell Tsukamoto he likes her but Tsukamoto has already left him while he was busy thinking, and so the one he gets to hug was Itoko instead.

Mini-matches at the Junior Camp. Everybody, except for Ryuzaki-sensei’s group, was training. Nobody still knows who pushed Kirihara. When Horio-kun was asked to sketch the face of the man he allegedly saw push Kirihara, he drew a monster which kinda resembles Momoshiro (who listens to Horio-kun anyway?). Everybody looks for clues (as if they know what they’re looking for! duh!). A bling-bling under the vending machine catches Echizen’s eye which leads him to declare that he knows who the culprit is.

Yaki ep. 1 - Enter Azuma, a boy who wants to make Japan (pan is bread in Japanese so Japan is a pun here), bread that tastes better than rice. Flashback Azuma’s past about the baker who inspired him and how his grandfather wouldn’t eat bread until Azuma made bread that tastes well with natto and miso soup. Azuma has magical, flashing solar hands whose temperature is warmer than usual, which basically makes any bread he makes tastes good. Azuma goes to Tokyo to work for Pantasia, Japan’s #1 bakery, but discovers that he has to pass an employee selection examination first. Kuroyan, the examiner, deducts 5 points from Azuma for being 5 min. late (oni!). The test is a point-deduction system. You initially start with 10 points. If you run out of points, you go home. Tsukino notices Azuma’s solar hands (well who wouldn’t notice them, they were glowing, for crying out loud!). Azuma resolves to win with his Japan.

Yaki ep. 2 - Kuroyan sends home three people for having nose hair, for being sweaty, and for having an ugly haircut. He deducts two more points for Azuma because of his messy hair, but Tsukino interferes and gives her hairband to Azuma. Exam starts and Kuroyan tells them to make any bread they like. Kawachi notices Azuma’s solar hands, too, and destroys Azuma’s dough because he wanted to win so bad (Kawachi, you bastard!). Since he was running out of time, Azuma decides to make a bread which has a short baking time. The dough looks like the Japanese flag and the bread was shaped like Mt. Fuji and tastes great with curry (Azuma thought curry was Japanese food; Kuroyan: nan da). Azuma’s bread was the only one Kuroyan tasted. Suwabara’s bread gets 0 point deduction (it pops right back if you punch it), Kawachi gets a 2 point deduction (he overbaked it a little because he was too interested in Azuma’s bread), and Azuma gets 2 plus points (I think I saw Kuroyan drool a little). Only Azuma, Kawachi, Tsukino, and Suwabara proceed onto the next round (Kuroyan sent the rest crying home). Kuroyan tells them that the next test was to make a croissant.

Yaki ep. 3 - Azuma didn’t know what a croissant is (he thought it was a person, Kurowa-san) so Tsukino volunteers to teach him. Kawachi realizes Suwabara is a croissant champion so he convinces Azuma to team up with him instead. Kawachi tells Azuma about how his little siblings would be homeless if he didn’t win the match (it was a total lie though). Azuma makes his 324 layered-croissant but backs out of the competition for the sake of Kawachi’s family so Kawachi gets credit for Azuma’s bread and wins the competition instead (the bread started out burnt black but if you hit it with a spoon, the charred layers fall off and the croissant inside is revealed). Because he felt guilty, Kawachi backs out, too, so Suwabara wins by default. Tsukino, who happened to be the owner’s granddaughter, decides to hire the two for her Southern Branch store.

Yaki ep. 4 - Azuma’s and Kawachi’s first day of work. Azuma gets stucked inside refrigerator and freezes. Tsukino asks them to make French bread, the Southern Branch’s specialty. Although their bread was delicious, Tsukino tells the two to get the approval of the store manager who was at the stables that day. Azuma and Kawachi meet the manager, Matsushiro Ken, who then feeds their bread to a horse. Horse wouldn’t eat the bread. Manager tells them their bread sucks. The manager tells them to make a bread good enough for a horse to eat or else they’re fired. Tsukino tells the story of how the manager’s lactose-intolerant sister got hospitalized by eating regular bread. They learn the whole deal about horses being vegetarian and how they wouldn’t eat anything with animal products in it. Azuma cries for the manager’s sister (he wasn’t listening when Tsukino said the sister recovered). Very little action in this ep. though.