Yakitate Japan Ep 40

As usual, a highly entertaining yet ridiculous episode from Yakitate Japan. This is not a grouse as my meaning of ridiculous would be some of the events not being very logical but I won't call myself an idiot for continuing to watch this. Actually, I wonder what really makes me stay on to watch Yakitate as the story is not really exciting and quite repetitive i.e. make bread, win contest but the humour makes me relax for that 20 minutes or so thus I'm content to be silly and forget all logic. At the initial stages of watching this, I actually had the urge to eat bread after each episode.

What was left off from last week would be Pierro, Azuma, Kawachi and Suwabara being trapped at the deep valley. Pierro lies to the trio that he can swim 2-3km underwater to seek help provided they feed him with a bread made with fish. This is initially to get them fired up and stop worrying over their survival but Pierro does not know how to swim in the first place. As such, he is just making use of the time to make the bread for thinking of another way to get help.

However, things do not go his way as the guys manage to make the bread despite Pierro's constant "disturbances" like giving a mathematics question to test them. Unexpectedly, Azuma is a maths genius so Pierro's question means nothing to him.

Pierro realises that he cannot run away from his responsibility anymore and falls into the water to prepare to die. However, apparently after eating that bread, he suddenly knows how to swim and breathe like a fish as if he has gills. And this leads him to reach where Kuroyanagi and Sophie are so I guess it's obvious that the trio will be saved by the next episode. Besides, the King of Monaco will step in and remove that chief of the committee so there should be more fair play.

And the next round should be the semi-finals so we are nearing the end of the Monaco Cup arc. Does that mean I have to say goodbye to this series?!