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- Azuma and Kawachi are wondering why the store doesn't get more customers when the main store has lines dragging on and on. When they ask Ken, he points out that the main branch of St. Pierre, a rival bakery, is across the street. Soon, they meet the manager, a very effeminate man named Mokoyama, who is about to release St. Pierre's new line of bread. However, Ken tells Mokoyama Azuma is a much better baker, and he challenges the St. Pierre branch to a duel: Azuma's newest Japan against his new line. St. Pierre accepts, but the main Pantasia branch knows nothing about the challenge, or Azuma's new Japan, and their entire reputation is resting on their newest employee - especially since the duel will be broadcast on television. (en)
- Kazuma chose the worst possible butter and baked a dinner roll which was thought by Kuroyanagi to taste the worst but it seems that Kazuma has just pulled off a miracle. (en)
- Just before the competition, Yukino placed endo-proteases into Kawachi's flour, causing Kawachi to lose to Kanmuri by foul play. (en)
- Because of Kanmuri's defeat, Yukino as promised, destroys Kanmuri's research. The scene switches to Kawachi and the gang, and flashes back to Kawachi's training at the church. Kawachi also tries to get rid of his habit of saying "what was that?!" but it proves to be futile. The match between Suwabara and Kawachi then starts, with each of them introducing a new type of bread they developed. (en)
- The second part of the preliminaries. In this part, a slot machine is used to get ingredients as indicated on the coins in the slot machine. But the more coins that are gained the more of a disadvantage is gained. Before the start of the match, Edward Kayser makes a bet with Suwabara, that the losing team must drop out of the Monaco cup. Despite the fact Suwabara gains too many coins, he ends up passing by making Lupan #3, also called Pain D'epice, a type of bread he developed shortly after losing to Azuma in the newcomers arc. (en)
- The episode begins with a short overview of the past few episodes. Matsushiro also suggests that Kawachi go train at a church during the finals, before facing Suwabara. After talking to Kanmuri in the kitchen, Yukino finds the petalite slab and then breaks it into sand pouring it into a sandbox. (en)
- It's Azuma and Kawachi's first day of work at the Southern Tokyo Branch of Pantasia. Tsukino, their new supervisor, teaches Kazuma how to make French bread. When they hear that the manager, afro-sporting Ken Matsushiro, must sample it before it can be sold in the bakery, they seek him out at a horse race track. Instead of tasting the bread, he throws it to a horse, who will eat it or reject it. He tells the two of them to make a bread delicious enough to be eaten by a horse. When they return to the store, Tsukino tells them his story - his sister nearly died from eating bread because of an unknown allergy to dairy. He therefore aims to make a bread that anyone, even someone with allergies, can eat. Horses will eat this type of bread because although they love wheat, they hate butter and dairy products. (en)
- The competition is down to four finalists - Azuma, Kawachi, Suwabara, and the girl who gave Azuma the hairband, whose name is Tsukino. Their challenge is to bake a croissant, but as revealed at the end of the previous episode, Azuma does not even know what a croissant is. Azuma and Kawachi agree to bake one together in secret even though it's against the rules. Azuma realizes that he has made a similar Japan, Japan 43. When Kawachi tells him that a standard croissant is 54 layers, Azuma says that this is too little, and that it should be 324 layers, which would be burnt to a crisp if baked. However, there is a secret behind the bread, and Kawachi reluctantly agrees to make it. It's the day of the finals, and Azuma is missing. But first, there is a surprise in store: Tsukino is the granddaughter of Pantasia's owner, and the owner of the Southern Tokyo Branch. Kawachi beats Suwabara with Azuma's croissant, but Azuma never shows up. It is revealed that Azuma dropped out because of Kawachi's siblings - Kawachi had earlier lied to Azuma, claiming that they were homeless. Kawachi, feeling guilty, gives up his employment at the Main Branch, but then both he and Azuma are hired by Tsukino and the Southern Tokyo Branch. (en)
- Kazuma had made a bet with Mizuno, Tsukino's sister but he's totally clueless on baking melon buns. The sushi shop owner whom Kazuma met when he fainted arrived at the main branch to treat them to some sushi. While observing him, Kazuma got an idea on how to create Japan#58, Melon Sushi Bun and asked Tsukino out. Tsukino thought they were out on a date but Kazuma had just forgotten his money and needed her to come along to buy some ingredients. Kazuma's Japan#58 Melon Sushi Bun enabled him to defeat Mizuno and advance to the next round. (en)
- Because of the rush to give Kuroyanagi the tarts in the previous episode, his reaction turns this episode into a parody of The Lord of the Rings with elements of The Chronicles of Narnia, starring Azuma as Frodo, Kawachi as Sam, Kanmuri as Legolas, Ken Matsushiro as Gimli, Tsukino as Arwen, the old man at the loquat store as Gollum, Meister Kirisaki as Gandalf, and Yukino as a cross between Sauron and the White Witch. (en)
- The episode begins with the bake-off between Azuma and Tsubozuka. Azuma begins hollowing out the poor quality French loaf he had asked Kawachi to prepare for him in the previous episode and hammering the crust flat. Tsubozuka finishes baking first and puts his Super Toro Aburi up for Kuroyanagi, who, after tasting it, transforms into "Super Kuroyanagi", a lookalike of Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z. Kawachi panics, but Azuma serves Kuroyanagi his Ōma Ja-pan: Sea urchin Chawanmushi bread. Kuroyanagi tastes it, and after apparently not reacting at all, pronounces Azuma the winner. Tsubozuka, shocked, immediately starts accusing Kuroyanagi of being partial to Pantasia, but after tasting the bread himself, transforms into a lookalike of Kitaro from GeGeGe no Kitaro, down to Kitaro's signature needle-hair attack. Kuroyanagi explains that Tsubozuka lost points because he used avocado to bind the tuna to the pastry, thus losing points for not using local specialties, while Azuma used only local ingredients including organic free-range eggs , hammered the crust of the hollowed-out French loaf to create a watertight shell and fried the bread from his hollowed-out shell as croutons to mix with the eggs. Tsubozuka meekly accepts defeat, much to the shock of his raving fans, and meekly asks Azuma if they can be friends, to which Azuma cheerfully replies, "Yeah!". (en)
- Kawachi returns after shockingly changing his hairstyle into an afro. Meanwhile Azuma and Kanmuri battle it out, Meister Kirisaki, the judge for the finals, gives Kanmuri a full score by the display of peacock feathers on his mask. Azuma also receives the same result but the result allows Meister to suddenly fly around the room, shocking the audience. The match ends with Azuma's win. (en)
- The first part of the preliminary round begins. In the first round, a roulette wheel is used to select ingredients for the bread. The bread must be made with only the ingredients that were selected by the roulette wheel. Team Japan is put in a hopeless position after all three members ended up getting only eggs. But Azuma pulls through by asking for a certain type of flour and makes Japan# 21. (en)
- Pantasia leads the Yakitate!! 9 with 4 points to none and has drawn with St. Pierre in the fifth match. This could mean bad luck for the Pantasia team, as if St. Pierre wins the next match, they could take all of Pantasia's points and knock them out of the tournament. The theme for the next round is Uppurui and the task is to make a bread with nori, and with the Pantasia team having to face off against Miki Norihei, a famous chef who is renowned for his skills in preparing nori, the situation looks grim. Azuma gets the idea of brewing the nori in cola, and when Kawachi tastes it, he transforms into a Pepsiman lookalike and rescues a girl from drowning. On the day of the competition itself, Norihei wins the hearts of the crowd by offering them his nori spread, which intoxicates them and turns them into rabid fans singing his praises. Things do not look good for Pantasia... (en)
- The newcomer duet is still working on their bread for the competition. Kawachi is in intense training to increase his muscle mass and obtain Solar Gauntlets. Azuma, understandably, faints on his way to Izu, but finds what he needs at a sushi restaurant he collapses near - wasabi. Meanwhile, Kawachi is trying to find his ingredients, so he can fulfill his deceased father's dream of working at the main branch of Pantasia, but feels sorry for himself. Ken Matsushiro tells him to stop being such a baby by dumping his liquor on him. Ken actually intended to give Kawachi the idea of using alcohol in his bread, and Kawachi gets the idea, making his Osaka-pan. (en)
- The final match between Kawachi and Suwabara starts. Kawachi introduces his "singing" French bread, a technique he developed during his training, Suwabara also introduces his "dancing" French bread that takes the appearance of a coiled up snake. The match ends in a draw, and thus concludes the Pantasia Newcomers arc. (en)
- The two St. Pierre ninjas are unmasked as Kai Suwabara and Monica Adenauer, who are now lovers. As the Pantasia team leaves their dilapidated guesthouse, it suddenly falls apart and collapses flat on the ground as Kawachi shuts the door, apparently giving Azuma an idea. At the start of the match, both teams begin preparing their breads. Suwabara shocks the audience by twisting his dough into a giant spiral, but Azuma shocks Suwabara by folding his dough over twice. Kuroyanagi tastes Suwabara's bread and ends up twisting himself out of shape, but when he goes to taste Azuma's bread, Suwabara grabs it out of his hand and takes off. In an attempt to distract the audience, Suwabara throws pieces of Azuma's bread into their mouths, causing them to fold over backwards. Monica almost tearfully implores the Pantasia team to find Suwabara and prevent him from committing harakiri as he said he would if he lost to Azuma. Using Kuroyanagi as a sniffer, they track Suwabara to a river, where he is about to stab himself. He is deaf to all their pleas, but everyone is struck dumb when Ken Matsushiro reveals that Monica is pregnant. Later, when they are alone, Suwabara tells Monica a tragic story of his abandonment by his father, but promises to be the sort of father that his child will look up to. He attempts to propose to Monica, who accepts before he can speak, rushing into his arms and hugging him. Tsukino asks Matsushiro why he had to tell such a daring lie, but Matsushiro's ambiguous answer leaves her dumbstruck. The episode ends with Suwabara and Monica in a tender embrace as the sun goes down over the river. (en)
- Team Japan ends up passing the first round. Pierrot the judge of the Monaco cup then relates the story of how he became a clown. At the end of the story, Team Japan has fallen asleep, as it was 3 a.m. (en)
- Azuma, Kawachi, Suwabara, and Kuroyanagi now depart for France. Just before going through the gate, Kanmuri hands Kawachi a box which he can open in case he's in trouble. The three newcomers stay in France for a month for training to make bread especially for the French people; they train under Meister Kirisaki's younger sister Sophie Balzac Kirisaki. Kawachi later discovers that inside the box was a cellphone. Kawachi and Kanmuri then devise a plan that will allow the Japanese team to appear the weakest in order for Kanmuri's plan to work. (en)
- Kazuma was initially disqualified along with other 13 people who chose the same butter as him by Kuroyanagi, however Kazuma was re-admitted into the Newcomers' battle after Kuroyanagi tasted his butter rolls. This episode also introduces Mizuno Azusagawa, Tsukino's younger and bratty sister, along with the animosity between the two sisters. Near the end, after Kazuma and Kyosuke learned about the issue between the Azusagawa sisters from their manager, they decided to give their best to win the Newcomers' battle to support Tsukino. Mizuno also sets up a gamble in which if Kazuma loses to her, he will have to transfer to Mizuno's new Tokyo Pantasia branch, however should Kazuma win, Mizuno has to begin respecting Tsukino as her older sister. (en)
- Monica and Suwabara are having their battle. Monica had already finished her bread not long after Suwabara finishes his, and when he does just as Pierrot was about to judge Monica's bread first, Monica told Pierrot to judge Suwabara's bread. Without knowing why, Pierrot did what he was told and judged Suwabara's bread first, then as he was about to judge Monica's bread Pierrot, Suwabara and the audience saw that during the time Pierrot was judging Suwabara's bread, Monica's sugar rose had bloomed into a beautiful flower which gave her an advantage to gain credit for the bread to be beautiful. During Pierrot's reaction to Monica's bread, Pierrot got arrested for hassaing Chinese cabbage, so both Suwabara and Monica had to go the police station to get the results. It is then revealed that Monica is the winner and when Suwabara wanted to give Monica a handshake, Monica refuses, so Suwabara pulls her hands. When he takes a look at Monica's hands, they are scarred as a result of molding hot sweets, and when Suwabara sees this he says that she has the most beautiful hands he have ever seen, as the marks on her hands are the mark of a true patissier. Monica is shocked because no one has ever told her that her hands were beautiful. This episode makes a reference to the Greek myth Pandora's Box as Kyousuke mentioned that Kai's bread Pan d' Oro is a pun on Pandora. (en)
- Due to an accident, Kuroyanagi loses his sense of taste. Azuma's opponent is Ken Matsushiro's old friend Ryuu Roumen, the ramen chef from Episode 14. The theme is Ōkuchi and this time the bread has been decided: Chinese-style steamed pork dumplings. After multiple edible experiments including eating pig swill, Kuroyanagi realizes his sense of taste is gone. He fears he might have to quit being the judge of the Yakitate! 9. The Pantasia team is terrified at having to face off against a professional Chinese chef, but Azuma suddenly comes up with a plan. On the day of the bake-off, Roumen finishes first, but the dumplings are judged by Coo, Meister Kirisaki's pet peacock, who gives them a perfect score by his display of tail feathers. A miserable Kuroyanagi is about to resign as the judge, but Azuma serves him his Tenobe dumplings, which miraculously restore Kuroyanagi's sense of taste. Kuroyanagi pronounces Pantasia the winners as the only local specialty Roumen had used was the Ōkuchi black pork, while Azuma had made the filling out of local ingredients including katsuobushi and sweet potato wine, and used Tenobe noodle dough instead of regular dumpling dough to provide a complementary texture to the pork. The episode ends with Roumen and Kuroyanagi fighting over the last of Roumen's dumplings, while Coo flies off into the sunset. This episode parodied the long-running animated series One Piece (en)
- Kawachi's match between him and Motohashi. Kawachi wins, but only after trying his best after receiving a huge scare from Matsushiro. Shachihoko, Azuma's next opponent is introduced, as well as the next theme for the next round, which is yakisoba bread. The object is to make the yakisoba not the bread. Azuma who has only ever made bread is a terrible cook; Matsushiro calls an old ramen chef friend of his to teach Azuma and Kawachi the way of yakisoba. (en)
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