Yakitate!! Japan ep. 7
Poor Azuma!Hattori Surpise!! Transformation with the Secret Sauce!
At the TV Station, the showdown between Mokoyama Tsuyoshi and Azuma Kazuma commences. When the two are introduced, Mokoyama is all flashy and stuff and his St. Pierre employees are cheer him on. Mokoyama is determined to defeat his Ken-chan’s apprentice. The host introduces the three judges, bigwigs from the baking world, and she names the rules. Each of the contestants start with ten points each. Deductions are made from there on. The one who gets the most points wins.
Mokoyama’s kouign amann.
Mokoyama starts first and he takes the lid off his platter, revealing three pieces of round, glittery bread. One judge says it looks like a kouign amann. In the stands, Kawachi and Tsukino lecture about kouign amann (it’s made of sugar and butter, it came from France, yada-yada…). The judges take a bite and they’re taken away by the bread’s rich, sweet taste. One judge notes that it’s not regular kouign amann. Mokoyama mentions that his bread has a secret, that being unsweetened custard pudding is used as filling alongside the supersweet bread. He calls his creation kouign pudding amann. The judges are impressed and each award him a perfect score of ten, thus earning a total of thirty points. Kawachi and Tsukino are worried and Mokoyama gloats at Azuma, telling him to go home. Kawachi thinks of the fatal flaw the manager said earlier.
It’s Azuma’s turn and he reveals three pieces of bread, each having a different shape but all have the same fried texture. The judges wonder if they all taste the same and Azuma just prods them to eat his bread in order to find out. 
Azuma’s Japan #57.As soon as the judges bite into Azuma’s bread, they are electrified. The judges feel as if they’re transported into a stage and they become kabuki actors and they declare "kabukiage da" or "it is kabukiage" (kabukiage is a rice cracker). Mokoyama is surprised by the judges’ reactions. Azuma calls his entry Kabukiage bread, Japan #57. He also tells of how he made it using leftover bread, dipped in a special sauce, and then fried. The judges are amazed that such leftover bread could taste so good. Even the audience clamor for a taste. However, before the judges give their scores, Mokoyama steps up, emphasizing the fact that Azuma used old bread, saying that it’s rude to Pantasia’s customers. The manager explains that this image is the flaw in Azuma’s bread. Azuma insists that Pantasia’s bread tastes good, no matter how old it is, and that it’s such a waste to throw good bread away since everybody worked so hard for it. Kawachi confronts the manager, asking him why he didn’t stop Azuma since he knew of this flaw, but the manager points out that since Azuma didn’t want to waste anybody’s bread, the manager didn’t have the heart to refuse him. Of the three pieces of bread Azuma presented, one is Kawachi’s flavor, another is Tsukino’s flavor, and the last one is the manager’s flavor. Everything seems hopeless but suddenly, somebody from the audience speaks out loud.
Boohoo, cry me a river.It’s the Meister, accompanied by a flock of birds as usual, asking the judges to consider the price of the bread in their decision. The judges have no objections with Meister Kirisaki’s proposal and the host asks the participants for the price of their bread. Mokoyama, thinking he can beat Pantasia’s price, says his bread is worth 190 Y, almost the same price as a regular kouign amann, inspite of all the expensive, high-class ingredients he used. Azuma says his bread is free, since he used leftovers. Mokoyama and the audience protest, saying that’s impossible. Meister cues Matsushiro and he promptly stands up to defend Azuma, saying that in order to showcase the Southern store’s flavor, Azuma’s free bread will be available starting tomorrow. He bows down, joined by Tsukino and Kawachi, inviting everybody to come visit the store. Azuma bows down, too. The women in the audience look forward to tasting the manager’s masculine-flavored bread; the male audience want to taste Tsukino’s bread, saying she’s cute; unfortunately, nobody pays attention to Kawachi’s bread. The judges give Azuma perfect marks, too, thus tying him with Mokoyama. Mokoyama and his employees are shocked, everybody else is pleased with the results, Meister leaves the hall.
The Southern Branch employees celebrate. Back at St. Pierre, Mokoyama goes nuts, and tells his employees to keep everything a secret from St. Pierre’s owner or else he’ll make them his lovers (wtf?). At Pantasia’s Southern Branch, the store is flooded with requests of Azuma’s bread. However, since everybody except the guy with the weird hairdo is partying, he fends for the store alone.
More screenshots:
Buy some Tsukino-flavored
bread, please?
Oi, oi, aren’t you forgetting
somebody?
The judges.
The horror!