"This restaurant has absolutely nothing to do with my mother, and it's completely crap!" "He's more irritating than I expected." "Why did you start it up again?" "The restaurant." "I'll make that kind of food for you." "Love..." "This feeling is..." "love?" "I'm hungry." "Ow, ow, ow." "What are you doing here so late?" "!" "Hey, are you okay?" "Taku!" "Hey, Taku!" "Tell me your name and age." "Hiratsuka Taku. 25." "So you're a part-time worker..." "Hey, hey..." "Hold on..." "Who's a part-time worker?" "Look carefully." "I'm a rock musician!" "He's a trespasser and he just got out of prison." "You just got out of prison?" "!" "So, you have a criminal record?" "No, no, it doesn't count as a crime." "Hey, hold on..." "What the hell man?" "!" "When someone collapses in front of you, you're supposed to take 'em to the hospital!" "Delivering a suspicious guy to the police is my duty as a citizen!" "Huh?" "Aren't you my friend?" "Who betrayed us first?" "!" "Shut up, you two!" "I'm starving, you know!" "I'll send you both to prison." "Bastards..." "We're sorry." "If you're hungry, I've got some spare food." "Hey!" "This is good!" "I don't know what happened between you guys, but just forgive him." "A guy who cries while eating can't be a bad guy." "I didn't get along well with Taku from the beginning." "(5 years ago)" "That's wrong, that's not it." "You got the lyrics wrong again!" "Oh, it is?" "Huh?" "Do you even understand the lyrics?" "!" "Hey, hey, Eisuke, calm down, okay?" "Yup, yup." "I'll get the audience excited." "You guys just relax and stand back here." "Okay, let's go again." "C'mon!" "Let's start again." "However, he had more talent than I realized, and as a result our popularity rose." "Two years after Taku joined us, we got our first..." "Sorry to make you guys wait." "Nice to meet you." "Have a seat, please." "Thank you." "I'll just get straight to the point," "I want you guys to work for us." "I want ROCKHEAD to make their debut under our label." "Seriously?" "!" "...we got a debut offer from a recording company." "No, no, no..." "I mean..." "How should I say this..." "It came all of a sudden..." "It's a bit..." "Alright!" "We're finally going to make our debut!" "However, as a result of the music slump during that period, the offer was retracted and time passed by without any thing happening..." "I'd never become like you, a bunch of old geezers and losers." "Taku decided to quit our band, and... joined INJECTION, a visual kei band." "Wassup!" "Starting today, I'll be..." "Have some..." "No, I... don't do..." "Hey, don't move." "Yes, we're the police." "Don't move!" "Stay still!" "You guys are arrested for narcotic drug abuse!" "Hey, are you one of them?" "No, no, no." "Hey, move!" "I'm not a member yet." "No, really." "I have nothing to do with them." "After the misunderstanding was finally cleared..." "Hello, I'm Taku-chan!" "Be good to me!" "Hello!" "Shiroyama-san introduced him to a job as a host..." "Being as good as he is with women, he snatched away the number one host's customer." "Don't get carried away!" "He was beaten up by the jealous hosts who claimed he had broken a rule." "So, due to the arrest, he lost his fans and women, had nowhere to go and ended up here." "What a dazzling life he's had." "That goes for you too, though." "Sorry." "You came all the way here and this happened." "It's fine." "What are you doing?" "It should get better if I give it more time." "I'm sure everything will be fine when I get it running normally." "You're right." "I'm going home now." "What?" "But..." "Have some breakfast before you go." "No, it's okay." "We're kinda, living at odds with each other lately." "At odds?" "You and I." "For some reason, you feel far away." "Is it love?" "I'm so hungry." "No way." "Wait." "I don't think we're at odds." "It's fine." "I just came to tell you personally that the marmalade tasted so good." "That's all." "Oh, it was?" "That's good." "It's so good that it worries me." "I've been eating too much lately." "I'm suppose to be on a diet." "You don't need a diet." "I do." "You haven't been paying attention to me." "You don't know." "They're such a mature couple." "So, they're together in the morning, too." "It's not the daytime, evening or late at night but being together in the morning means they're adults, huh." "Don't you think?" "They don't stand out, either." "Just quietly having a conversation." "In a very intimate way." "So that beautiful woman is his girlfriend, after all." "Our lives are so different..." "An office lady who was with her boyfriend before going to work in the morning, and a farm girl who dug out onions and cultivated lactic-acid bacilli since morning..." "Wow, the bacillus are multiplying!" "How cute!" "Really?" "I've lost my appetite." "Wow!" "So that amazing food is made here." "Kenta-san, you're so good with a knife!" "Aren't I?" "I just got a haircut so I feel like a new person!" "I envy your light hand." "Oh?" "This, huh?" "This." "Just slide it over, that's the trick." "How cool." "They're men who are good at cooking." "Eisuke-san is even more amazing." "I can't believe he used to be a musician." "He was a musician?" "Hey!" "Don't get carried away, dammit!" "We only had 10 guests yesterday, dammit!" "10 is the highest number we had, so far!" "Dammit!" "Shit!" "Crap!" "That's true." "You seem to be in a worse mood than usual today." "It's all that guy's fault." "Damn." "I'll kick him out before opening." "Hold it, Eisuke, I think this place's biggest problem is your face." "My face?" "!" "Let's think about it for a moment." "Let's say there's a restaurant that serves delicious food but the waiters are unfriendly that it makes you feel terrible." "And there's another that serves food with mediocre taste but with smiling and friendly waiters that makes you feel good." "Which one do you prefer?" "It's definitely the first one for me." "Taste is a restaurant's soul." "Seriously?" "I prefer the one that would make me feel good." "I think I prefer that one, too." "Me too." "No matter how good the food is, sometimes you wouldn't want to come again due to the waiter's bad attitude." "That's right." "Based on my experience, most Japanese who love dining out would prefer the latter." "Listen, Eisuke." "The Japanese are particular about taste." "However, they also tend to like restaurants that makes them feel good, too." "Would you prefer... to eat a curry that tastes like shit?" "Or a shit that tastes like curry?" "That's the big problem." "Don't talk about shit here." "Eisuke." "Try to smile." "Smile?" "Yes." "A smiling face." "Kenta-kun and Tsuyoshi-kun are practicing their knife skills." "For this restaurant's sake, you should practice smiling." "Why should I do that?" "Eisuke, smile." "No!" "Do it more sincerely!" "More!" "Show your teeth!" "It's not working." "There's no freshness or soothing effect in your smile." "What?" "You just made me do something so embarrassing!" "Come to think of it, our MC part during live performances were boring, before Taku joined us, huh." "Okay then, I know!" "Should I do it?" "I don't mind working here for you." "Translator - yanie" "Editor" " Enggrrl, kimurafreak" "Re-timing  QC - koitsu" "Actually I was thinking while I was in jail." "That my only true friends are you guys." "Jail?" "So..." "Let's get along again." "I won't runaway this time." "Oh, but I'll just be working here part-time." "I mean, you know... unlike you guys, I'm still young." "I have a promising future, right?" "So, I'd only be here until I find the next band!" "Who is that?" "Not sure... but he seem to be a very self-centered kid." "He totally hasn't realized the atmosphere has turned so cold here." "And so, and so why did the three of you decide to open a restaurant?" "Do you get popular this way?" "Stop kidding' me!" "Hey, hey... why?" "It was how it was supposed to be, right?" "You guys are in trouble, and I'm like, the Saviour who came to the rescue!" "Dumbass." "We disbanded because you quit, in the first place." "That's true." "You're a traitor." "Just go to hell." "Yeah." "I don't have even 1 yen to employ you." "If you don't want to get minced, you better get the hell outta here now!" "Get out!" "Get lost." "Oh well..." "Got it, OK, bye." "Oh yeah..." "Thanks for the sandwich, man!" "That's an onyx." "Onyx enhances one's ability and adjusts one's emotion." "The crystal is good too." "It removes one's ill will." "But this is such an expensive..." "Still," "I can't believe you went to the same cooking school with that lame ex-musician." "He seems to be a talented chef, indeed." "He won a few cooking competitions growing up, he received the Prime Minister Award in the Chef Training Institute's Cooking Technique Contest, better known as the Gourmet Cup, at 19 years old." "But those are nothing." "He achieved all that when he was a kid." "But..." "He hasn't been cooking at all in the past 10 years." "Not to mention, he left cooking for something as worthless as rock." "Why should we fear such a man?" "You're the man I chose." "I'm sorry." "Have faith in your own strength." "More than that, have faith in me." "With this restaurant, you'll be a winner in life." "I'm sorry." "I'll be careful from now on." "What a wonderful man." "He's so confident." "So Kashiwagi-san and the young master know each other." "The actress, Takamine Kaoru-san is coming today, right?" "Yes, during in the previous restaurant she always loved that table so I've prepared that same table for her tonight." "We have also let the chef know her favorite menu." "Thank you." "Everyone knows she's a gourmande, she also writes gourmet essays in a women's magazine." "We have to make sure she likes this place." "It's our chance to gain some media notoriety." "Make sure you don't make any mistakes when you serve her." "Yes." "A rock band?" "Yep!" "And the hottest-looking one in the center is me." "Wow, the kitchen guys are holding musical instruments." "We were an indie rock band, but we had quite a lot of fans." "So you had fans." "I didn't know a thing about this..." "So, by the way, who are you?" "What's your relationship with the guys?" "Me?" "Well, I'm..." "I guess I'm a fan too." "A fan of this guy's cooking." "Eisuke's cooking?" "Yes." "The first time I ate Eisuke-san's cooking," "I was totally surprised." "My heart started beating faster, and I wanted to have more and more of it!" "I didn't know a meal could make our heart beat faster." "Damn." "Looking at you makes me feel hungry." "Really?" "Normally, I would fantasize about the food like this, and I'd get hungry." "Then, let's go to that place again tonight." "What?" "No, no..." "I can't go have a meal with someone who just got out of prison..." "And..." "If I eat his food once more..." "I might fall for Eisuke-san for real..." "Say what?" "Nothing!" "I've lost my appetite lately." "But I hope you get to work things out with them." "Goodbye, then." "Two weeks since the opening." "Welcome!" "The flier we spread around seems to have actually worked..." "Welcome." "Welcome!" "Finally, guests are coming bit by bit." "Hello!" "1, 2, 3!" "But our service to the guests, and my smiling face aren't going well..." "Here." "Here, the menu!" "What is it?" "Hey, hey!" "I wonder how Mom managed that big restaurant." "Pops!" "I see." "So he didn't do well with the host job, either." "I'm not surprised." "He hasn't contacted us since then." "What?" "So you're worried?" "Not at all." "I have so many things to worry about already." "The restaurant, money, and everything." "Actually, I loved the balance of the 4 of you." "Don't you want to make a comeback?" "The restaurant isn't making any money, right?" "How could you say that?" "Well... it's the truth, though." "Karaoke contest?" "(Matsugane City Singing Contest)" "Singing contest?" "What the hell is he doing?" "Don't tell me that's his purpose... (Prize)" "(Grand Winner - 100,000 yen)" "Thank you very much!" "You have a good voice, but..." "Seriously?" "!" "10,000 yen." "Just give me 10,000." "I can't." "At least, give me a prize for my effort, will ya?" "So you want it?" "We're giving away the effort prize." "Go ahead." "Bring it home." "That was Hiratsuka-san, 25 years old from Tanikishi!" "Thank you very much." "How miserable." "The vocalist I scouted lost in this kind of contest..." "Eisuke?" "Eisuke, won't you talk to him?" "Well..." "There are moments when a man doesn't want to be seen by others." "Especially by other men." "Well, I guess there's no easy way to pursue your dream." "Wait for me!" "It has changed so much." "Do you know the restaurant that used to be here?" "The gate with roses..." "Ah, no..." "I only started working here when this place became this restaurant." "I see." "Le Petit Chou?" "I'll be reconsidering the menu." "The menu?" "Yeah." "In the past, we didn't care about people who didn't like our music and we just kept going with the music we liked." "But that's what amateurs do." "This time," "I'd like to be a true professional." "Then..." "Then, I'd like to make you feel at ease as soon as possible." "If you'd like, come and have a meal here tonight." "Yes, okay." "Then, I'll finish my job as soon as possible." "OK, bye." "Here." "So, we're gonna have fried potato here!" "Really." "Yeah." "More familiar names and the price is good, too." "I'll cut down on the cost of the ingredients a bit, so I can lower the price." "The menu is changing, and I'll change a bit too." "What's wrong with you?" "Did you eat something bad?" "I'm not kidding!" "Come here!" "I opened this restaurant to see the guests' smile." "So, we have to keep going with a smile too, from now on." "Even when we're upset or sad, we have to keep smiling inside the restaurant." "This restaurant's keyword is "smile" now." "Alright!" "You guys have nice smiles." "Let's go!" "I just finished my experiment." "Let's go eat somewhere." "That guy's place is fine, if you want." "I won't go." "Actually, I can't go." "The music is so loud, my head hurts even more." "Huh?" "What?" "You've still lost your appetite?" "It's unlike you to lose your appetite for so long." "It's so painful." "I kept thinking about it while lying on the bed..." "I didn't know a thing about his past and he has such a mature girlfriend, we came from totally different worlds right from the beginning." "I don't want to eat anything anymore." "I want to forget everything." "That guy and that restaurant's food..." "She caught a cold?" "Yup." "Seem like she got worn out." "Okay, thanks!" "So that energetic girl can catch a cold, too." "We have 2 groups of guests for now." "They're all new faces." "Wow, ZZ Top is coming to our place." "You know, ZZ Top." "What?" "They're just a pair of old geezers." "And also 4 office ladies." "This group might have mistook this place for that creepy restaurant." "Gasterea's guests, huh." "We better steal them away." "I hope those old geezers become regulars too." "Welcome." "It's just you." "What are you doing here?" "Can't I?" "Your place is so empty, anyway." "I came to eat today." "Feed me with this." "You can't eat anything with only 241 yen!" "So funny, oh well... just give me some water." "Damn you..." "Geez, how shameless he is." "Eisuke." "Smile, okay?" "Smile." "Welcome." "Welcome." "That painting brings back memories." "Welcome." "Uh..." "Please serve me anything." "I'm hungry." "Oh, okay." "Uh... roger!" "Wait a moment." "Isn't it suppose to be "Very well, Ma'am"?" "Very well, Ma'am." "What's wrong with her?" "Isn't she Takamine Kaoru, the actress?" "Actress?" "I did think I saw her somewhere before." "What is an actress doing in our place?" "Young master!" "You're frowning." "Smile, smile." "What." "Welcom..." "Mariya." "Good evening." "I brought along my colleague." "We were working overtime and he said he's hungry, so I brought him with me." "Hello, good evening." "What a unique place." "Hey, hey, hey..." "This is bad." "Tell me about it." "He's totally not smiling anymore." "Eisuke." "Can you give me water?" "Shut up." "Don't get so persistent just because of water, you bastard." "Calm down..." "Oh, just so you know, those ladies are running out of water too." "Also 4 young ladies just came in." "Shit!" "Who's that guy?" "Wearing a suit and all..." "And he ordered roasted pork." "Anyone who would order the main course immediately is definitely not a good guy!" "Of course he's wearing a suit." "He just came from work." "That's true." "Women these days would have one or two male friends." "So Mariya is a bitch too, huh." "Mariya is not a bitch!" "Where have I seen that guy before...?" "Unless you put together a better plan, managing the restaurant will be tough." "So he's that guy." "Ouch!" "The fire is too big!" "Gotta do it all over again!" "Eisuke came for a loan?" "Yes." "I didn't know that he was your boyfriend." "I see." "His account book shows his business isn't doing well." "I saw that account book a bit too..." "Excuse me!" "I'll fill up the water for you." "Oh, right." "Mariya-san, sorry about the other day." "I heard you two had a fight?" "No, it's okay." "I'm glad you're getting along well with him again." "Fight?" "Since when does that hot waiter work here?" "Maido!" "(thanks for waiting) Here's the Aromatic Salad." "This is your wine." "Why, thank you." "Hey, Kenta." "Didn't I tell you to stop saying "Maido"?" "I know that, but" "I can't just take off my habit." "Take it off." "ZZ Top made an additional order, beef steak and salad." "They want the beef steak to be well done." "Okay, well-done steak." "Excuse me." "So which one of you needs more water?" "Me!" "Well I won't give any to you!" "Juz kiddin'!" "Excuse me." "Please." "Excuse me." "But, seriously you're all so pretty." "Just a bit too slim, I guess?" "Thank you." "Enjoy your meal." "Where's the toilet?" "Oh, this way." "The Japanese food is good too, but I totally recommend this place!" "I can't lose to you, grandpas." "Not only the slim ones, but men like the healthy type of women too, you know." "This meat is so good, it's really something, isn't it?" "Since when does he..." "Additional order..." "Those college girls still want more to eat." "But make sure they don't order more than 3000 yen." "And the right one of that ZZ pair, he asked for more rice." "Huh?" "More rice." "Rice?" "Hurry go get them!" "Hey, man..." "Don't worry, you guys just relax and stand back here." "I'll make the guests happy." "Rice." "Thank you!" "Thank you for waiting." "To think of it, he mistook the band's name and all, but he was really good at talking and fan service, huh." "He worked at a host club after high school, too." "Please enjoy." "Shit!" "We can't lose to him." "Alright!" "Okay!" "Please call the chef here." "Very well." "Eisuke, Eisuke." "Sorry to make you wait." "This is the chef." "What are you doing?" "The taste shows how inexperienced you are." "The sauce is too thick." "The chicken was on the fire too long." "The portion is too much for me." "The food arrangement lacks delicacy." "Oh no..." "Are you okay?" "It's..." "It's so inexperienced... and totally different  but it reminds me of Hanako-san's flavor." "Takamine-san?" "Taro-san?" "Yes." "So, this is your stupid son?" "Stupid son?" "Eisuke, Takamine-san is..." "Hanako-san's close friend right from when she worked at the hotel restaurant." "At that time, I was a rookie actress." "The press and cooking world belonged to men that time, right?" "We talked about our worries to each other." "I heard a lot about you." "I came to Le Petit Chou so many times." "I can't believe I cannot taste Hanako-san's flavor anymore..." "It's all your fault." "You, her stupid son made her worry all the time." "Hanako-san." "I wonder if this is the tongue's memory..." "Will this restaurant be okay?" "You're inexperienced in cooking and the service is bad." "It's like a coffee shop at a school's festival." "Today's only passing mark is that waiter kid." "You mean, Taku?" "He has a nice smile." "You fail on that point." "I'm sorry." "Hanako-san also had many worries the first time she opened her own restaurant." "Managing a restaurant and serving the guests delicious dishes are totally two different levels." "Mom..." "Yes." "Be strong." "If I ever have the chance to taste Hanako-san's flavor once again" "I guess, this would be the only place." "Please come again." "Such a weird smile." "Oh, right." "Hanako-san told me once that she was making a recipe book for you." "If you have that, you can use that as a reference, right?" "Recipe book?" "Th... thank you!" "Oh, you're leaving?" "Yes." "I have work tomorrow early in the morning." "But, tonight," "I finally understand that you're chasing after your new dream with all your might." "I see." "But you didn't eat much." "Don't you know?" "She's currently on a macrobiotic diet." "Macrobiotic?" "Yes." "Macrobiotic is..." "I've heard it before." "That means you don't eat meat or the like, right?" "But you ate them the other day." "That was because she felt bad for you." "That's not it." "But it's true that I'm gaining weight." "Don't mind that too much." "What if you lose weight more than needed?" "What are you saying?" "Stop saying useless things." "I'll call you later." "Yeah, bye." "Okay." "Thanks for the food." "Dammit!" "Those two!" "What is it?" "Macrobiotic?" "!" "Eisuke?" "It's time." "Mutsuko-san." "Okay!" "Rock, paper, scissors!" "Alright!" "We're in an alley." "The location is bad." "To get people to come here, we have to serve them good food and give them service that would make them want to come again." "Hm?" "You may work here." "Are you kidding?" "!" "Seriously?" "!" "Yeah, sheesh..." "Didn't I tell you?" "You'd definitely need me!" "You guys too!" "We have no other choice for now." "But if you runaway again this time, we'll make you minced meat!" "There's one problem, though." "I don't have money to pay you." "So I have a suggestion for you." "Huh?" "Here, one more." "No, no, no, please!" "It's fine." "Come on." "Use your muscles." "You're still young." "My back..." "Why do I have to do this?" "We have no choice." "This is our palace starting today." "Hold..." "Hold on." "You're carrying the light ones yourself." "Hold it... my back..." "Huh?" "What's this?" "It's a much narrower place than I expected." "Don't complain." "It's because you wanted the one with the art studio." "This is the better one, you know." "Okay..." "Hey." "Seriously, the 3 of us will live here?" "Stop complaining." "I can't pay you so I'll let you live here for free." "Not to mention with 3 meals a day." "No need to pay light, heating and water utility costs." "It suits you a lot." "I know..." "But I've never lived together with anyone besides girls." "Stop complaining, and get the other stuff in here." "Welcome." "I'm sorry to cancel my reservation all of a sudden yesterday." "It's alright." "It's a pleasure for us that we can see you tonight." "Aso-san, have you ever been to that restaurant?" "Le Petit Chou." "Hanako-san's son's restaurant." "No." "I see." "You better taste the cuisine there once." "His cooking is unrefined but I feel potential in it." "I see." "Thank you for the valuable information." "Please enjoy your dishes." "Something smells good." "You've lost a lot of weight." "Wh-...why?" "!" "Why, why, are you here?" "Your brother let me in." "Your parents are on vacation, right?" "I can't believe it." "That idiot Sasuke!" "What if I get attacked?" "Don't worry." "You don't have that kind of charm even one bit." "Here, open your mouth." "What's... that?" "What?" "As you can see." "It's gruel." "I just made it over there." "No... no, thank you." "You've been bedridden for a week, right?" "You have to eat something." "This is a special gruel that my mother used to make for me when I was a child." "Potato puree and consomme are added to it." "I was holding back on going to your place." "What?" "Fine..." "I'll eat it myself." "How's the restaurant recently?" "Are guests coming?" "Yeah... but, I guess I'm not good at smiling." "Huh?" "Well..." "But, I found someone who's better at smiling than me." "I see..." "Yeah." "What's this?" "Oh, onions help you to sleep well." "I wasn't able to sleep well." "Ouch!" "Geez, here." "Let me." "I'm always good at feeding sick dogs and cats." "Here." "C'mon." "Delicious." "Of course." "See..." "I fell for him, after all." "Today's Special is" "Onion Gratin Soup." "Raw onions have a sharp taste, if we make it a soup, there's this melted sweetness that comes out of it." "But I feel that today's onion, for some reason, would make me cry." "Homard Lobster." "That's Homard Bleu!" "I'll definitely win this fight." "I'll beat his restaurant." "I can't eat this kind of crayfish." "You have such a lonely life!" "I love you, Eisuke." "I'm glad you opened that restaurant." "For you who want to watch "Hungry!" once again, you can watch it on your personal computer or mobile phone whenever and wherever you want." "Please check out the show's website for more details." "Let's take a break."