Antique Bakery
Antique Bakery | |
西洋 骨董 洋菓子店 (Seiyō Kottō Yōgashiten) | |
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Genre | |
Created by | Fumi Yoshinaga |
Manga | |
Written by | Fumi Yoshinaga |
Published by | Digital Manga Publishing |
Imprint | Wings Comics |
Magazine | Wings |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | June 1999 – September 2002 |
Volumes | 4 |
Television drama | |
Directed by |
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Original run | October 8, 2001 – December 17, 2001 |
Episodes | 11 |
Audio drama | |
Studio | Shinshokan |
Original run | December 25, 2002 – March 25, 2003 |
Episodes | 4 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
Original run | July 3, 2008 – September 18, 2008 |
Episodes | 12 |
International adaptations | |
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Antique Bakery (
The series has been adapted multiple times: as a
Synopsis
Antique Bakery follows the lives of the four workers at Antique, a
Characters
Primary characters
- Keiichirō "Keisuke" Tachibana (橘 圭一郎, Tachibana Keiichirō)
- Portrayed by:
- The owner of Antique. He is the son of a wealthy conglomerate-owning family; seeking to radically change his life, he quit his job at a trading company prior to the events of the series to open the pâtisserie. He was kidnapped at the age of nine, though he retains no memory of the incident beyond his kidnapper feeding him cake every day; consequently, he dislikes sweet foods.
- Yusuke Ono (小野 裕介, Ono Yūsuke)
- Portrayed by: Naohito Fujiki (Japanese television drama),[4] Hozumi Gōda (audio drama),[5] Shin-ichiro Miki (anime)[6]
- The pastry chef at Antique. Despite his skills as a baker, he has been fired from multiple bakeries due to his "demonic charm": any man he is attracted to will reciprocate his affections, regardless of their sexuality. The sole exception is Tachibana, who rejected Ono when they were high school classmates.
- Eiji Kanda (神田 えいじ, Kanda Eiji)
- Portrayed by: Hideaki Takizawa (Japanese television drama),[4] Tomokazu Seki (audio drama),[5] Mamoru Miyano (anime)[6]
- Ono's detached retinas. He has a strong sweet tooth, and joined Antique after seeing a "help wanted" sign in the bakery's window.
- Chikage Kobayakawa (小早川 千影, Kobayakawa Chikage)
- Portrayed by: Hiroshi Abe (Japanese television drama),[4] Kazuhiko Inoue (audio drama),[5] Eiji Hanawa (anime)[6]
- The stoic son of the Tachibana family's housekeeper, Chikage has known Tachibana since childhood and has become both a friend and caretaker to him. Though he appears intimidating due to his height and his ubiquitous black sunglasses (which he wears due to his weak eyes), in reality he is clumsy. He joins Antique as a waiter to watch over Tachibana. He falls in love with Ono.
Secondary characters
- Tadahiro Akutagawa (芥川 忠宏, Akutagawa Tadahiro)[a]
- Portrayed by: Kazunaga Tsuji (Japanese television drama),[4] Norio Wakamoto (audio drama and anime)[5]
- A career bureaucrat at the National Police Agency who was in charge of Tachibana's kidnapping case. Now on a sinecure, he spends his ample free time visiting cake shops across Tokyo.
- Kaede (楓子)[b]
- Portrayed by: Mia Murano (Japanese television drama),[4] Fumiko Orikasa (audio drama),[7] Tomomi Kasai (anime)[6]
- Chikage's daughter, affectionately referred to as "Deko" or "Dei-Dei". She is in the fourth grade, but is frequently taken to be older due to her mature appearance.
- Ito (伊東) & Urushihara (漆原)
- Ito portrayed by: Umeka Shoji (anime)[6]
- Urushihara portrayed by: Mayumi Yanagisawa (audio drama),[5] Misa Watanabe (anime)[6]
- Former middle school classmates who are regulars at Antique.
- Jean-Baptiste
- Portrayed by: Jūrōta Kosugi (audio drama),[7] Kazuhiko Inoue (anime)[6]
- A famous pâtissier, and Ono's former mentor and ex-lover. He unsuccessfully attempts to persuade Ono to move to France to work in his new restaurant.
- Haruka Nakatsu (中津 はるか, Nakatsu Haruka) & Tamiko "Tammy" Kagami (各務 民子, Kagami Tamiko)
- Haruka portrayed by: Shizuka Ishikawa (audio drama),[5] Yukiko Takaguchi (anime)[6]
- Tamiko portrayed by: Hiroko Taguchi (audio drama)[5]
- Two news presenters who cover Antique, leading to increased popularity for the business. In the anime adaptation, Tamiko is replaced by Fuji TV anchor Yukari Oshima playing herself.
- Momoko Itsuki (飯塚 桃子, Itsuki Momoko)
- Portrayed by: Koyuki (Japanese television drama)[4]
- A sports journalist who falls in love with Ono. Appears only in the Japanese television drama adaptation.
Media
Manga
Main series
Antique Bakery was serialized in the monthly
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | June 25, 2000[11] | 978-4-403-61588-7 | July 16, 2005[12] | 978-1-56970-946-7 |
2 | May 25, 2001[13] | 978-4-403-61628-0 | November 1, 2005[14] | 978-1-56970-945-0 |
3 | December 25, 2001[15] | 978-4-403-61652-5 | March 22, 2006[16] | 978-1-56970-944-3 |
4 | September 25, 2002[17] | 978-4-403-61690-7 | June 7, 2006[18] | 978-1-56970-943-6 |
Spin-off dōjinshi series
Following the conclusion of the Antique Bakery manga series, Yoshinga began writing and illustrating Antique Afterwards (それからのアンティーク, Sore kara no Antiiku), a
Live-action television drama
In 2001, the manga was adapted into the
List of episodes
No. | Title | Directed by [22] | Original air date [22] |
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1 | "Tenshi no Hane (天使の羽)" | Katsuyuki Motohiro | October 8, 2001 |
2 | "Ai no Ido (愛の井戸)" | Katsuyuki Motohiro | October 15, 2001 |
3 | "Shitorasu no Tanjōbi (シトラスの誕生日)" | Eiichirō Hasumi | October 22, 2001 |
4 | "Chīsana Hoshi (小さな星)" | Eiichirō Hasumi | October 29, 2001 |
5 | "Kako Kara no Okurimono (過去からの贈り物)" | Katsuyuki Motohiro | November 5, 2001 |
6 | "Mishiranu Kioku (見知らぬ記憶)" | Eiichirō Hasumi | November 12, 2001 |
7 | "Suterareta Omoide (捨てられた思い出)" | Katsuyuki Motohiro | November 19, 2001 |
8 | "Kokuhaku (告白)" | Eiichirō Hasumi | November 26, 2001 |
9 | "Kinji Rareta Yorokobi (禁じられた歓び)" | Katsuyuki Motohiro | December 3, 2001 |
10 | "Hametsu and no Idenshi (破滅への遺伝子)" | Eiichirō Hasumi | December 10, 2001 |
11 | "Owarinakitabi (終わりなき旅)" | Katsuyuki Motohiro | December 17, 2001 |
Audio drama
From 2003 to 2004, Shinshokan produced an
Title | Release Date | JAN | Ref. |
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Antique Bakery Vol. 1 | December 25, 2002 | JAN 4560219321663
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Antique Bakery Vol. 2 | January 25, 2003 | JAN 4560219321670
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[5] |
Antique Bakery Vol. 3 | February 25, 2003 | JAN 4560219321687
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[26] |
Antique Bakery Vol. 4 | March 25, 2003 | JAN 4560219321694
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[7] |
Anime
In March 2008,
List of episodes
No. | Title | Storyboard [31] | Directed by [31] | Original air date [31] |
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1 | "Reunion" | Takahiro Okao | Takahiro Okao | July 4, 2008 |
2 | "Eiji's Situation" | Yoshiaki Okumura | Takashi Morimiya | July 11, 2008 |
3 | "The Fourth Man" | Miho Hirao | Miho Hirao | July 18, 2008 |
4 | "The Source of the Nightmare" | Katsuyuki Kodera | Yasuo Tsuchiya | July 25, 2008 |
5 | "An Antique Trial" | Yoshiaki Okumura | Takahiro Okao | August 1, 2008 |
6 | "An Antique Crisis" | Yoshinori Odaka | Yoshinori Odaka | August 8, 2008 |
7 | "An Antique Christmas" | Katsuyuki Kodera | Yasushi Kushibiki | August 15, 2008 |
8 | "Chikage's Secret" | Miho Hirao & Yoshiaki Okumura | Yasuro Tsuchiya | August 22, 2008 |
9 | "Eiji's Melancholy" | Yusuke Fujikawa | Yusuke Fujikawa & Taiji Kawanishi | August 29, 2008 |
10 | "For the Sake of This Day" | Hideki Hosokawa | Tosei Yamauchi | September 5, 2008 |
11 | "The Criminal" | Yoshinori Odaka | Shinpei Ezaki | September 12, 2008 |
12 | "The Unending Nightmare" | Yoshiaki Okumura | Yoshinori Odaka | September 19, 2008 |
International adaptations
A South Korean film adaptation titled Antique (Korean: 서양골동양과자점 앤티크, Seoyang-gol Dongyang-gwaja-jeom Antique), was released on November 13, 2008. The film was directed by Min Kyu-dong and starred Ju Ji-hoon as Kim Jin-hyeok (Tachibana in the original series), Kim Jae-wook as Min Seon-woo (Ono), Yoo Ah-in as Yang Ki-beom (Kanda), and Choi Ji-ho as Nam Soo-yeong (Chikage).[32][33] In December 2020, Thai production company GMMTV announced that it was producing a live-action television adaptation of Antique Bakery titled Baker Boys. The series, which stars Thanat Lowkhunsombat as Poon (Tachibana in the original series), Prachaya Ruangroj as Weir (Ono), Purim Rattanaruangwattana as Krating (Kanda), and Pat Eksanegkul as P'Pooh (Chikage), aired on GMM 25 in 2021.[34]
Reception
Critical reception
Antique Bakery is noted as Yoshinaga's first major commercial success as a manga artist, following a career in which she was best known as an author of
Reviewing the anime adaptation for Anime News Network, Carl Kimlinger praised the series' animation and characters but criticized its romance and kidnapping subplots, writing that Antique Bakery "top-loads its plot with preposterous romantic entanglements and forces unnecessary structure onto it with Tachibana's kidnapping."[36] Cathy Yan lauded the series' voice acting in her review for Manga Bookshelf, but criticized its animation as overly reliant on CGI elements.[37]
Awards
The Antique Bakery manga series won the
Analysis
Portrayal of cooking and gender
Tomoko Aoyama has considered the depiction of cooking in Antique Bakery in relation to the Japanese concepts of hare (晴れ, used to describe things that are special and exotic) and ke (ケ, used to describe things that are mundane and trivial). While the elaborate cakes and pastries of Antique Bakery are self-evidently hare, she notes how Antique Bakery complicates the hare-ke dichotomy through its presentation of gender.
Portrayal of homosexuality
Yoshinaga has described Antique Bakery as not a work of BL, but as a shōjo manga with gay characters, stating that "being regarded as BL may limit the range of the audience, but there’s nothing I can do about it, and more importantly, I want my readers to read as they like. Surely we should be allowed to read manga with whatever dogma and prejudice we like."[44] Critics and readers have often considered the series as a work of BL,[21] with Xuan Bach Tran describing Antique Bakery as "not a BL manga, but a shōjo work with a lot of BL flavour."[45] Tomoko Aoyama states that while BL elements are "clearly present" in Antique Bakery, in contrast to typical BL works the series does not depict sex or sexuality graphically, and instead "encourages readers to use their imagination" in regards to the nature of the relationships between the characters.[21] She praises the series' effective "use and parody [of] BL conventions,"[46] particularly Antique Afterwards, which she commends as "by no means simple, formulaic pornography" but instead a series that subverts expectations of BL narratives through their use of comedy and irony.[21]
Akiko Mizoguchi discusses Antique Afterwards in her research of yaoi dōjinshi, noting that while most dōjinshi are
Notes
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Further reading
- Butcher, Christopher (January 11, 2010). "10 Manga That Changed Comics: Antique Bakery". Comics 212.
- Cavcic, Antonija (2013). "From Dashing to Delicious: The Gastrorgasmic Aesthetics of Contemporary BL Manga". In Peppas, Mikhail; Ebrahim, Sanabelle (eds.). Framescapes: Graphic Narrative Intertexts. Inter-Disciplinary Press. pp. 278–287.
External links
- Official anime website (in Japanese)
- Official television drama official website (defunct link via Internet Archive; in Japanese)
- Antique at IMDb(Japanese television drama)
- Antique at IMDb(Korean film)
- Antique Bakery (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Antique Bakery (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia