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Showa Year 22 , April 3.

It's a boy, Fukuko.

Fuku-chan gave birth to a healthy baby, and that baby boy was named Gen.

Gen!

But...

She says she can't see at night.

When it gets dark, I have a hard time seeing things.

Fuku-chan was having a hard time recovering from childbirth, causing Manpei-san and Suzu-san to worry.

Eggs alone won't do. You've got to feed her vegetables and fish too.

I'm done chopping komatsuna .

Akatsu, fry it with chirimenjako .

At the midwife's suggestion, Suzu-san and her helpers made meals for Fuku-chan everyday...

After the runaway incident of Suzu-san, Manpei-san decided to have everyone

share other household chores as well.

Can you eat a little more?

And gradually, Fuku-chan recovered...

Look, it's the ocean.

See how big it is, Gen.

It was around the end of rainy season when she finally got her energy back.

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 8

A New Adventure?!

♫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

That didn't feel good, huh? Gen-chan. You're fine now.

I'm so glad Auntie Fukuko's feeling better.

- That's for sure. - It's thanks to Uncle Manpei.

I'm the one who brought Fukuko's health back.

It's thanks to everyone.

But you were able to eat nutritious food because the company's doing well and you had money, right?

- We're not that wealthy... - Taka-chan's right.

The midwife said that if you were from a poor family, you might have died.

She may have...

But I'm all right now, Gen-chan.

- Nutritious food? - Yeah.

When people talk about being unable to recover from childbirth, they're basically talking about malnutrition.

But in present day Japan, not only pregnant women but

people in general are suffering from malnutrition.

Because everyone's poor and there's a shortage of food to begin with.

So you're talking about making nutritious food that's easily accessible to anyone.

I'm thinking about taking it on as a new business.

But I have no idea what that would be.

President...

I'm a graduate of Osaka Imperial University.

What is it, Kanbe-kun. I already know that.

I was in Engineering, but I had a few friends in Medical School too.

At the Medical School at Osaka Imperial University, there was a course on public health.

There's someone who was studying nutrition there.

- Nutrition? - Yes.

As I recall, he was an assistant or a lecturer...

Introduce me to that person! I'd love to meet him!

Nutritional Science Lab

Your wife probably had fat soluble vitamin deficiency.

Fat soluble vitamin deficiency?

It's a condition that's deficient in Vitamins A, D, E and K.

OHMIYA SAKICHI

It's especially common among pregnant women whose nutrients are absorbed by their unborn child.

When people get this deficiency, they become what's known as night-blind where they can't see well

when it gets dark...

Fukuko had that too.

- Worst case scenario, they could go blind. - What?

There are lots of pitiable pregnant women like that these days.

So in order to prevent this fat soluble vitamin deficiency,

it's necessary to consume meat and fat from animals.

- From animals... - Cow, pig, fish.

But that alone won't do.

In addition to protein, vitamins and mineral must be consumed as well.

- Vitamins? - Yes. Vitamins are in vegetables and fruits.

Mineral is salt.

But beef and pork are so expensive, not everyone can afford them.

- If there's no ocean nearby, fish would be hard to get too... - That's why we're going to make it.

A nutritious food that has all protein, vitamins, mineral,

and cheap to boot.

So is that what you're going to make with Chairman Mitamura's 30,000 yen investment?

Why would you dabble in something like that?

You've never even made any nutritional food before.

Why don't you just stick with salt making?

Mother, remember how you hated salt making when we first start it?

- Remember?! - Now, now, now.

Promptly the following day, Manpei-san began preparing for the new business.

We're going to turn this half of the warehouse into a laboratory.

Laboratory?

Let's put the pressure cooker here.

Handle it with care.

Manpei-san now had the look of a true inventor.

Your husband is a speculator just as I thought.

He's going to fail miserably.

Just when Tachibana Salt Company is doing so well.

Oh, he's going to fail miserably...

I believe in Manpei-san.

I'm sure he'll come up with something that will make everyone happy.

And one week later...

It's this way.

Tachibana Nutritious Food Laboratory

Watch your step.

Well, well. Once again, thank you for taking the time to come here, Ohmiya Sensei.

I have decided to assign

these four men here to the Tachibana Nutritious Food Laboratory.

- I'm Oka. - My name is Kuranaga.

- I'm Owada. - Once again, I'm Kanbe. Looking forward to working with you.

- I'm Ohmiya. Pleased to meet you. - From today on,

we're going to be developing new nutritious food under his guidance.

The nutritious food you're contemplating, is it something to eat, or something to drink?

Or is it something like a pill?

I just want to make something that everyone can consume easily.

Right now, that's about all I can say.

I heard they started serving lunch at elementary schools.

But what they're serving for lunch is bread.

What? They're not serving rice?

I read in the newspaper that it's what GHQ ordered.

Bread...

What about something you could spread on bread?

It's easy to fix, isn't it?

True.

If you're going to spread it on bread, it has to be in paste form, right?

- Paste? - You mean something like butter?

- Yes. - I think that's a good idea.

So, with that in mind, the question is where do we get the animal protein.

We'd like to keep the cost down, so we can't use expensive ingredients.

- So beef and pork is out of the question. - What about our chickens?

They're precious birds that lay eggs for us.

- What about eggs then? - There's not enough.

Is that Ohmiya Sensei

going to be coming everyday?

He says he's happy he gets to read books while he's commuting by train.

I guess there are eccentric people even at the reknowned Osaka Imperial University.

He was saying that the professors were all eccentric characters.

That can't possibly be true.

- He must've been deceived by Manpei-san's smooth talk. - Mom.

That's right. Are we paying a salary to Ohmiya Sensei too?

Of course we are. Since he's going to be helping us.

- I wasn't informed, even though I'm the bookkeeper.

Can't it wait?

It's an important matter.

Mom.

What are we going to do with your Grandma?

What are you doing, Manpei-san?

We're looking for something we can use as animal protein.

- Protein? - Yes.

I caught one!

I got one too!

Mother!

- Boiling them? - Yes.

- The toads? - Yes.

Stop it, stop it, stop...stop it~!

Don't you think it's about ready, Sensei?

I guess so.

- What was that? - Did something explode?

Pour some water on us!

The toads exploded?!

It's not that they exploded. The lid of the pot just flew off.

- That's when the contents of the pot splattered. - Splattered?!

Kanbe-san, stay still.

If we had used a bigger pot, it would've been disastrous.

- We would've been severely burned. - We're lucky we got away with this.

- But this smell... - Please go change clothes quickly.

No, we've got to take care of the lab first. It's a mess in there.

Cleaning that up would be a lot of work.

It's not a laughing matter, Ohmiya Sensei.

Are you really a lecturer at Osaka Imperial University?

- Mom. - Manpei-san, quit right now.

- A stupid thing like this. - No, I'm not quitting.

A failure like this is nothing.

Ahead of numerous failures lies success.

I know. But please don't do anything dangerous...

We'll be more careful from now on. But I'm not quitting.

I'm determined to make a new product for all the people out there

suffering from malnutrition!

- Yes - Don't agree with him!

Gen, you make it with us too.

Easy and nutritious Daneihon.

It's not selling?

Does this mean our employees are divided into two groups and are in conflict with each other!

Week 9 "That's Not It, Manpei-san"

Thank you, Mom.

I won't let you get away with it if you deceive Taka.

Please let me work at Manpei-kun's company.

I want to concentrate on work!

Because we're husband and wife...

They were fighting?

I mean it!