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The Original Manpuku Ramen

isn't the kind of inferior product you get by just dipping fried noodles in soy sauce.

But that came from copying my idea...

The making of things begins with copying.

- Saruwatari-san. - You just said you copied. - I didn't say it!

- You did too! - I was just talking about a hypothetical situation.

- You're not making any sense. - It's not about making sense!

The important thing is whether you have pride in your work or not!

We're The Original. Don't lump us together with other crooked businesses!

That confidence of his...

Where does it come from!

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

Manpuku

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

Week 22

Is Naive Thinking Unacceptable?

♫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

♫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

Manpei-san had applied for a patent

Tokyo Patent Office

and all he supposedly had to do was wait.

But for some reason, he was called in to the Patent Office.

Water content of the noodles is 45 percent?

Yes. That's the optimal water content of the noodles before they're fried in oil.

It's our company's own numeric value arrived at by Tachibana Manpei through trial and error.

Just answer our question, please.

I'm sorry.

Temperature of the oil is 160 degrees. Frying time is 2 minutes?

Please answer our question.

...yes.

Will Manpei-san and Shinichi-san do all right?

They'll do just fine. It's for the ramen that Manpei-san invented.

They've got to give him the patent.

This is good.

But they called him in and made him go to Tokyo.

Don't they normally reach a decision by examining the documents?

That's because... Well, there must be other various difficult issues.

- Difficult issues like what? - I'm not really sure.

Anyway, just have faith and wait.

We understand for the most part. You will be notified of the result at a later date.

At a later date would be approximately when?

That, we don't know. Please wait until the results are out.

We're the only ones who have applied for a patent to deep fry the noodles ,

the oil heat drying instant ramen manufacturing method, aren't we?

Has Teiko Foods filed an application too?

The making of things begins with copying.

- Those people stole our technology. - President.

- By headhunting one of our employees. It's true. - Manpei-kun.

Circumstances like that are not our concern.

We simply carefully examine the contents of the application and review the qualification for the patent.

It was the next morning that Manpei-san and Shinichi-san came right back to Osaka.

- Teiko Foods did too?! - They applied for a patent too?

It's not like the officials at the Patent Office told us directly, but...

- Of course they applied! - What about us? Are we going to be okay?

It's unthinkable that they wouldn't give it to us!

It's Manpuku Ramen that Uncle Manpei went through so much trouble to invent.

Everything will turn out fine.

- Don't worry. It's going to be fine. - I'm not worried.

But Manpei-san. I'm sure we'll be awarded the patent, so

I want you to concentrate on making ramen.

Doesn't it make you mad, Fukuko?

Of course I am, but all we can do is wait for the Patent Office's decision, right?

Letting it bother us will do us no good.

That's right. Let's not talk about things that don't bode well.

Then let's get back to work.

Manpei-san, you too.

Yoshino-chan, I'm looking forward to working with you again today.

- Hey, don't start talking to her so easily. - Why not? We're co-workers.

Cut that out. You're putting Yoshino-chan on the spot.

I'm okay.

I'm going to the Chamber of Commerce to see if there's any movement at Teiko Foods.

- I'll let you know right away if anything happens. - Please do.

This is a battle that cannot be avoided.

It's in men's nature to fight.

Your father was the same way.

Thank you. Come again.

I want Manpei-san to concentrate on making ramen.

So?

I want you to deal with the fighting, Sera-san.

- Huh? - So, how do I say, uh...

those situations where you say "Damn!","Hey!" "Wah!"...

things like that are in your field of expertise, aren't they?

What do you mean field of expertise? There's no more Fukujinzuke, Master.

- You eat too much Fukujinzuke. - If you eat too much Fukujinzuke,

you won't be able to taste the curry.

- Sera-san. - This is an extra large rice curry, you know.

It's only natural that I get an extra large helping of Fukujinzuke too.

How are you going to take responsibility if we go bankrupt paying for all the Fukujinzuke?

You're funny. I've never heard of such a thing.

You've never heard of such a thing because there never was a guy like you.

How dare you talk to your customer...

Sera-san, please listen to what I have to say. Please.

Manpei-san cannot be like that.

So won't you be the one to be doing the fighting?

I'm a gentleman, you know.

Since Fuku-chan's asking you so earnestly, why don't you do it?

- Don't you have this thing called valor? - Really.

Look. My job is to sell Manpuku Ramen.

Because of that Saruwatari's fake product, our sales is at a standstill.

- Even more so, then. - No way.

Dealing with the president is too troublesome.

Is it because it's too troublesome?!

It's not because it's too troublesome. It's because I'm a gentleman.

But if I was to fight seriously, you're gonna see blood.

Don't wake up the wolf wearing a sheep's skin of a gentleman.

Sera-san...

What wolf is he talking about? It's a fox.

- It's a raccoon. - Fox. - Raccoon. - Raccoon.

At a store in my neighborhood, they had more Original Manpuku Ramen

on their shelf than Manpuku Ramen.

Everyone must be buying the Original.

That's because that one's cheaper.

Even when ours is tastier?

They must be customers who haven't tried eating our ramen yet.

I can understand why they'd buy the other one when it has "The Original" in its name.

Unless this problem is resolved,

won't our ramen remain unsold no matter how hard we work to make them?

Don't say things like that.

No. Morimoto may be right.

But we can't not make them either.

That's right. We've got to do our best.

- That's easy for you to say. - Right?

I'm going to do my best.

Yoshino-chan says she going to do her best, but you guys...

- I'm all raring to go. - Of course we're gonna do our best.

That's right. I refuse to lose to the likes of Teiko Foods.

Down with Saruwatari!

What's that?

It's a war cry.

Stop it already!

I'm home.

Welcome home.

- Dinner's ready. - I ate ramen at work.

I'll go take a bath.

What's wrong, Taka?

Shigeru-san won't pay any attention to her.

Just as I said, he doesn't care about me or Daisuke.

I told you, that's not true.

All right. I'll go talk to him.

Shigeru-kun.

Right now, you're busy with work. You're absorbed in your work.

I understand that well. But nevertheless,

you shouldn't neglect Taka.

Men leaving child-rearing to their wife is something that happens in a lot of households,

but you're still husband and wife after all,

so you've got to talk to each other about things that happened today and such.

I'm sorry. I've had too much on my plate.

I understand. I do understand.

But the completion of my picture that I'm painting for Daisuke's birthday

is up in the air.

I can't draw because you won't sit as my model.

Look, I'm not mad at you. Nor am I lecturing you.

But...

if Katsuko gets mad, you won't get away with it this easily.

Well.. anyway,

try to be more considerate to Taka.

Please.

I will.

- Is Dad still working? - Yes.

These days, there's always a scary look on the face.

- Me? - Dad.

Is he mad?

- He's not mad at all. - It's just that he's busy at work.

But he was yelling, "Damn!"

He was saying "Damn!" in the bathroom.

- It's just your imagination. - I heard it too.

- It's your imagination. - What's imagination?

To feel like you heard something when no one's said anything.

But I really heard it.

- It must have been the wind. - It wasn't the wind.

Then it was the gecko crying.

Do we have geckos in our house?!

Geckos are protectors of our house, you know.

Do geckos' cry sound like "Damn!"?

They cry, Damn~, Damn Damn. Right? Fukuko.

Yes, that's right. Damn~ Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn.

Come on, eat. This egg custard is delicious.

It's delicious!

It's delicious.

Thanks.

Don't lump us together with other crooked businesses!

But good news arrived 4 days later.

It's been accepted.

Is that true? All right! All right!

Our patent has been approved!

Let me see it.

- Manpei-san. - Oh, thank goodness.

That means Teiko Foods' application wasn't approved.

Serves them right!

There was no point in spending a fortune to headhunt you.

I'm sorry.

Damn... we're not gonna back off without doing anything.