Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Come along and take a bite of the delicious pastries served at the Antique Bakery.  On the surface, it’s a lovely place, run by four charming young [...]
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For those who missed this column’s introduction, this is a new, weekly spotlight featuring books from my own personal manga collection that I’ve offered up as a library to my teen students. And since [...]
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Genre: Comedy/Drama/Shoujo/Shounen-ai(?)/Slice-of-Life Review Status: Complete (12 Episodes/12 Episodes) Licensed: Yes, this is licensed in the US by Nozomi. Art/Animation: I can’t say much for the OP, because it’s carboard cut-outs against a dollhouse background, but the actual series looks quite good. It’s a more airy/sketchy look to it, rather along the lines of Honey and [...]
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I started to watch this drama because I was on a bakery kick, and I liked the title… “Antique Bakery”. My overall impression was that not a lot happens in this drama. Regardless this drama is heartwarming, and I couldn’t … Continue reading →
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*Note: No actual cookies will be offered. So today was supposed to be my day to completely catch up on the news and getting people informed of what’s been happening. Supposed to being operative phrase. As you can tell, the day kind of got away from me but I still have just enough time to [...]
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Antique Bakery is old, old news to most folks. It’s a brilliant manga and sadly, hard to find. I picked up the last two volumes while I was at AnimeEvolution, and was both delighted and sad to finish the series. There is so much to this manga! You pick it up thinking it’ll be a [...]
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About the Mangaka Yoshinaga Fumi is mainly does shojo and shonen-ai manga, as well as shonen-ai novels. She made her debut in 1999 with a title called “The Moon and the Sandals”, and while several of her works have been licensed her most notable one remains Antique Bakery. As well as the manga and novels she creates [...]
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Antique Bakery, is a small bakery that's run by four handsome man. Tachibana, the owner. Chikage, who was send by Tachibana's family to watch over his childhood friend. Ono the "demonically charming" gay master pastry chef. And Kanda, a former boxer and Ono's apprentice.Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9501Antique Bakery is a very light series, consisting only of 13 episodes. There is a little touch of gayness and homosexuality but I think it's only at the level that's manageable and still entertaining.My most favorite thing about this series is because you get to see yummy and mouth-watering cakes that they serve to customers. I actually had an instance where I bought a cake just so that I can watch Antique Bakery. Hahahhaa. The cakes really look yummy and their designs are also enticing for the eyes.The OP and ED music are so very good. Music is by Chemistry, a RnB duo. The songs became my favorite so even if the anime has already finished, I am still listening to them. They are still in my playlist in my ipod.A Korean movie and a live-action drama has also been released prior to the anime.
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Right Stuf International / Nozomi has announced simultaneously online and at their Anime Expo panel that they have licensed three new anime series and a new OVA: First up is Aria the OVA ~Arietta~ and Aria the Origination, the 3rd and 4th parts of the Aria series to add on to the first two seasons that [...]
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There’s not too much for me to say about this one actually. Antique Bakery, a show I watched and followed on this blog last summer. It was an alright slice of life with a great first half and lousy second half. However, Antique Bakery had a very good opening and ending theme, with entertaining animation accompanying [...]
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When Keiichirou Tachibana chucks in a well paid job to become the proprietor of a patisserie, it seems an unlikely move for a man who doesn’t even like sweets that much. Still, his new life is far from uneventful, thanks to his new employees- a chief patissier so gay that he’s been fired from all [...]
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I always pick up the most random series in the amidst of finals and such, and Antique Bakery was just one of those series, I guess. It was short and available, so I watched it. Now here is the finished review. I think it's going to be one of those very forgetful sort of series; honestly, it didn't leave much of an impression on me at all except that I think the Japanese pronunciation of "cake" is kind of hilarious. I'm also ever impressed with Mamoru Miyano's voice acting abilities. And lastly, screw what anyone else says, Antique Bakery isn't actually a shounen-ai series.This is my first review on MAL since its review overhaul though, and I must say, I really, really miss that BBCode. I am still using my old review template, so I still wrote the review containing BBCode assuming that it would just be stripped out when I actually posted. Instead, MAL posts the review, code and all, forcing me to manually weed out what I'd put in. This made me realize just how much I do actually use italics to emphasize certain words so they're easier to read mentally.I also still hate how jumbled the review looks without bolding to announce each subsection. I suppose I should just swap to "traditional" reviewing and write everything in that cohesive essay format, but I don't want to. :|
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With the kidnapping case resolved, the police thank Tachibana. Yoshioka: Thanks for everything you did, Tachibana- and don’t worry, we won’t reveal your name as a low-life collaborating snitch! Udagawa: It’s just as well you got there when you did, because after the cake would have come death! That’s how meals usually go, isn’t it? (Tachibana: Oh, shut [...]
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Tachibana finds himself trapped in yet another Flashback Mode about his kidnapping. Young Tachibana: Mother, it was awful! And the worst thing wasn’t being taken from my family and forced to live with a strange man- it was eating cakes with strawberries on top! Back in the present, the two cops plan a stakeout at Antique. Old Detective: [...]
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Tachibana has a Flashback Mode about how he escaped his captor by stabbing him in the leg. Tachibana: I don’t want any more strawberries! Kidnapper: Wait! Would raspberries have been better? In the present, Ono presents a new cake. Eiji: Delicious! A perfect combination of mousse and fruit! Ono: Er, yes, ‘mousse’… Tachibana: Anyway, Eiji, I’ve decided that you’ve levelled up [...]
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It’s a new day at Antique Bakery, and against all odds, Eiji’s fig cake is selling well. Tachibana: Who would have thought such plain cake would sell this well? All those cooking shows about fine dining have lied to me! Ono: Well, it’s just like my body- once people get a taste of it, they keep coming [...]
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… This scene is memorable to me but definitely not in the right way. It was more traumatic to me more than anything. I forced myself to watch the scene again for the sake of the moment because, the last time, I completely skipped it. Obviously, I’m running out of ideas for using such a scene [...]
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I like cake. A lot. I have a totally incurable sweet tooth - I still take two sugars in my tea, I live for Starbucks’ White Chocolate Mochas (syrup and milk, mmmmm…), and by rights I should be the size of an elephant with the amounts of sugary crap I eat. Therefore [...]
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So Antique Bakery is now over. And now to blunt and honest, the ending sucked.   So what went wrong? To be honest, I have felt that Antique Bakery has gone downhill since episode 5, with the stories becoming poorly executed and just coming across as lame. Chikage’s daughter anyone? Character development grinded to a halt, and then [...]
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Bishounen-series are in a way much like bishoujo-series. It’s just too easy to just treat the fanboys or fangirls to a lot of fanservice and get things over with, but of course the real challenge is to put them in interesting situations, develop them properly and flesh them out like real characters, otherwise you could [...]
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