Other Titles:
Antique Bakery: Anime
Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten: Antique
Type:
TV
Aired:
July 4, 2008 to September 19, 2008
Source:
Manga
Genres:
Comedy, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
Synopsis:
A high school crush, a world-class pastry chef, a former middle-weight boxing champion... and a whole lot of cake!
Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono's charms (or his cooking skills!) but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magically gay" Ono get his just deserts? And how in the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono's cake boy?
Characters and Voice Actors:
- Main:
Eiji Kanda
21 years old.
Assistant pastry chef at the bakery "Antique". Formerly a middle straw-weight world champion boxer of genius, he is forced to give up the ring when he is diagnosed as having detached retinas. Shortly thereafter, he encounters Ono's deviushly delicious "cake of all cakes" and becomes an apprentice patisser. Dating back to his days as a boxer, he possesses an insatiable love of pastries. An abandoned child as well as a former member of a biker gang. He has the most colorful past out of the four men, despite his young age of 21.
- Miyano, Mamoru (Japanese)
Chikage Kobayakawa
Age: 34
Because his mother was a live-in housekeeper at the Tachibana residence, Chikage has known Tachibana since childhood. Clumsy and a little slow on the uptake, he is something of a burden. At the request of Tachibana's concerned parents, he arrives at the bakery "Antique" to look after Tachibana. Because of his weak eyesight and nervousness, he is never without his sunglasses. Once his glasses are removed, his handsome looks captive Ono, and although nearly overpowered by the notorious "demonic charm," Chikage manages to dodge Ono's advances and maintain a "friend only feeling." It was also found that in episode 8, Chikage actually has actually had past relationships and even fathered a child named Deko with Sakurako, a famous author.
- Hanawa, Eiji (Japanese)
Yuusuke Ono
32 years old.
Pastry chef at the bakery "Antique". Former high school classmates with Tachibana. Tachibana was the object of Ono's first confession of love, as well as his first rejection. When the two next meet again, Ono has overcome this painful past and blossomed into a "gay of demonic charm" who is able to seduce any man he wants. Although he possesses impeccable taste and technique as a pastry chef of genius, his personal allure is always the cause of romantic trouble in the workplace, and he is fired from store after store until he finally settles in at the bakery "Antique".
- Miki, Shinichiro (Japanese)
Keiichirou Tachibana
32 years old.
Owner of the bakery "Antique". Grandson of the wealthy director of a major financial group. Formerly a top-class businessman at a trading company, he suddenly quits his job to start up the bakery "Antique". Cryptically, he cares not one ounce for any sort of pastry, and his only opinion of sweets is "tastes like sugar". Although he was the victim of a kidnapping at the age of nine, he retains no memory of the exact events of the ordeal. The perpetual stubble on his face is something he was not allowed in his days as a corporate businessman, and he treasures its presence as a symbol of "a man's aesthetic".
- Fujiwara, Keiji (Japanese)
- Supporting:
Tadahiro "Detective" Akutagawa
A cold, boring, and, frankly, somewhat scary ex-cop who works for the police, was obsessed with trying to find Tachibana's abductor, and who is now a pastry connoisseur, sampling cakes from bakeries all over Japan. He is married with a son.
- Wakamoto, Norio (Japanese)
Atsushi "Akkun"
A guy in ni-chome bar who likes Ono. (episode 1)
- Taniyama, Kishou (Japanese)
Jean Baptiste Hevens
Jean is a famous patisser in France whom taught Ono the trade. He and Ono had a rather tumultuous relationship, partly due to Jean's temper and unpredictability and Ono's inability not to stray.
- Inoue, Kazuhiko (Japanese)
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