Original subtitles

Those of you who have been making Daneihon up to now will secure beef bones and vegetable oil.

Those of you who have been making salt will secure salt and sea weed.

- Manpei-san. - We're comrades!

Let's unite and get Daneihon ready.

That's not it, Manpei-san.

Why do we have to do this...

Just let those guys make Daneihon!

Manpei-san. I don't think it's a good idea to have Morimoto-san and those guys help make Daneihon.

The problem is that the guys are not functioning as a team, right?

Working together will strengthen their unity. Right, Gen?

But that will only increase the workload for the saltmaking team.

As long as commercialization of Daneihon is our goal, it will eventually have to become an all out effort.

More important, though, is the taste. How can we make it taste better

without adding unnecessary things?

Gen, you think with me too.

- Excuse me. - Coming.

Shinichi-san.

- What brings you here today, Shinichi-san? - How have you two been?

Ah, Gen-chan's grown too.

You should've called us if you were coming.

I just thought about it suddenly, so I took some time off and came.

Please, come on in.

Here's a little something for you.

Good-looking plums, aren't they?

Plums...

Manpuku

♫Marumatteru senakani ni morai naki ♫I get infectious weeping looking at your stooped shoulders

♫Haji datte issho ni ♫We'll share the humiliation too

Week 9

That's Not It, Manpei-san

♫Hikoukigumo bonyari nagamu ♫Gazing absentmindedly at contrails

♫Kokoro kokoni arazu ♫Here in body, but not in spirit

♫Nenkan totaru moshi shitara ♫If I was to calculate an annual total

♫Tsukiau watashi sugoi? ♫Aren't I amazing for keeping you company?

♫Toboketeru mayuge ni morai warai ♫ I get infectious laughter looking at your comical eyebrows

♫Tere datta nandatte ♫Be it embarrassment or whatever

♫Ganko de mendou de hara mo tatsu kedo ♫Although you're obstinate and troublesome and you make me mad

♫Anata no jounetsu wa ♫Your passion is

♫Atashi no hokori de jiman de kakugo nano ♫My honor, my pride, and my resolve

♫Morai naki morai warai morai ikari ♫Infectious weeping, infectious laughter, infectious anger

♫Moraippaji don to koi! ♫Infectious embarrassment. Bring them on!

♫Seiten mo donten mo hekireki mo ♫Sunny days, cloudy days, thunderous days too

Gen-chan's truly adorable.

I would have liked to have seen you and Saki's child too.

Mom.

Yes, I think so too sometimes.

The other day, Saki Nee-chan appeared in my dream. I was so happy.

I dream about Saki all the time too.

She doesn't appear in my dream at all. What's going on...

- That's the bullary . - Bullary?

Fuku-chan showed Shinichi-san around right away.

Ah yes, the incident of the rumor that

Fuku-chan was walking with a man at the black market

settled down after Fuku-chan explained to everyone, but

six months had already elapsed since then,

so no one realized that that man was Shinichi-san.

This is the laboratory for Daneihon.

Come on in.

Oh, Madam.

Aren't these the plums Shinichi-san gave us?

I'm thinking about mixing this into Daneihon.

Plums contain vitamin E.

Vitamin E is in vegetable oil too, but

adding more would not be a problem.

If this makes the taste better, it would be a joyous occasion.

Okay, let's try mixing this in for now.

You didn't have to use the present from Shinichi-san of all things.

That's all right. I'm glad they could be of use.

It tastes better with the sweetness.

- Well? - It certainly tastes sweeter.

- Right? - But it still doesn't taste good.

- I think it's become edible though. - All right!

So this is the kansui-making process.

Actually, Shinichi-san had been lying to Fuku-chan and Manpei-san.

Although everyone was to find out eventually...

After we're done here, we have to go get seaweed again.

I can't take it anymore.

Does Manpei-kun really understand his employees?

I think there are some disgruntled employees too.

So you can tell?

Frankly, I don't think Manpei-kun is cut out to be a president.

He's an inventor.

His talent is in coming up with new ideas.

I think it's Fuku-chan's job to bring everyone together.

Me?

Since Mother isn't that kind of a person, right?

Please appear in my dream too.

You should step forward more, Fuku-chan.

I think it's true that a burden's been placed on everyone due to Manpei-san's lack of consideration.

But no matter how awkward the atmosphere becomes, no one blames Manpei-san.

They all admire Manpei-san and do what he asks.

So it's not me.

But still, I can understand what you're trying to say.

I'll give it some serious thought.

You're a good wife, Fuku-chan. I envy Manpei-kun.

Oh, please...

Then I'll be seeing you.

We're going with this taste.

Does that mean we're going to start selling Daneihon?

We'll bottle it, label it, put a price on it, and put it up for sale.

We're going to be churning them out, huh?

- We'll have to gather more ingredients. - Get more pots too.

For sure.

Since you'll be spreading it like butter, would a bottle about this size do?

It could be a little bigger.

The Daneihon label goes on here, huh?

- I wonder how much President's planning to sell it for. - It's getting exciting, isn't it?

How come you're all so quiet today?

The problem is that the guys not functioning as a team, right?

But that will only increase the workload for the saltmaking team.

- Manpei-san? - Hm?

Aren't you eating?

I'll eat later.

I think you should eat with everyone.

I'm verifying the protein content right now.

The problem hasn't been resolved yet, Manpei-san.

Our employees are still not unified.

- They're not fighting anymore... - What did I tell you!

I told you that you're just increasing the burden on the people making salt.

Manpei-san, you have a lot of ideas in your mind,

but there's something only you don't understand.

What don't I understand?

You have to let Morimoto-san and Komatsubara-kun and others into your group too.

I think they all want to work with you, Manpei-san.

Just like Kanbe-san and Oka-san.

Manpei-san.

- I'm not cut out to be president after all. - No.

No one can take your place.

- Fukuko, it would be better if you're the president... - That's not it!

They all respect you. They think they were saved by you.

Manpei-san. You have to say the important things yourself.

There probably won't be any shops that would stock Daneihon from the beginning.

Since they won't know what nutritious food is, right?

We've got to show them what it is.

We're sending out to the world something new that no one knows about.

- We've got to sell it ourselves first. - Yeah, you're right.

President.

Manpei-san, sit down and eat too. Where's Fukuko?

- President, come eat with us. - We were just discussing

- how we should sell Daneihon. - That's right.

- At first, we should go to Osaka and... - Everyone, listen up.

Morimoto...kun.

Komatsubara-kun.

Sakai-kun.

Masuda-kun.

Takagi-kun.

Nagakubo-kun.

Nomura-kun.

Hori-kun.

Sakuma-kun.

Minegishi-kun.

I apologize to you all.

I got so absorbed in the new business that

I didn't realize I was imposing a burden on you guys.

I'm truly sorry.

What is he talking about?

- You know. - No, I don't.

From tomorrow, we're not going to have a Daneihon Team and a Saltmaking Team anymore.

No more?

Everyone will take turns working in the lab and help in making Daneihon.

I want you all to give me a hand with the new business.

You're letting us work on it too?

That's right. Of course, you'll all take turns equally making salt too.

Kanbe-kun, it makes me feel good to see you disappointed like that, but

we're not a big company.

We can't stay afloat unless everyone comes together and works hard with the same passion.

President...

Kanbe-kun, Oka-kun, Owada-kun, Kuranaga-kun. After you guys finish eating,

I want you to tell the other guys how Daneihon came to be.

For the time being, Oka-kun and Kuranaga-kun will go back to salt making from tomorrow

and Morimoto-kun, Komatsubara-kun, Takagi-kun, the three of you will join the Daneihon Team.

We have one week to bottle up and start selling Daneihon.

I want you all to learn the job by then.

Enough about that. Hurry up and eat before the food gets cold. You too, Manpei-san.

All right.

Let's all work hard together.

You can't get all fired up by yourselves.