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Dated: 27 Feb 2008
According to anime!anime!, Fumi Yoshinaga’s shoujo (and just-barely-not-BL) masterpiece Antique Bakery, about a troupe of colorful characters who run a bakery, is being made into an anime. It’ll be 12 eps long and run this July.
I hope it’s well-done, and I hope people won’t be complete morons and assume it’s yaoi. It DOES have a gay character, and because Digital Manga Publishing released it in English it generally gets shelved with the yaoi, but there’s only hints at any actual couplings; it’s really just an excellent character study of its four main characters.
HEAR ME PEOPLE? It may still not be your kinda thing, but don’t write it off too fast!@#$
Tags: antique bakery, fumi-yoshinaga
February 27th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
YAY~
more gay shit
February 27th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hey, if it features delicious baked foods I’m in :P
February 27th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Well, this is being shown in Fuji TV’s ‘Noitamina’ slot, and as everything I’ve seen from that has been good (Honey & Clover, Hataraki Man, Mononoke, Moyashimon), it’s definitely got my interest.
Also, I DID like Yoshinaga’s ‘Flower of Life’ manga,
February 28th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
[...] Trigun movie, and an anime adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s phenomenal 1999 character study Antique Bakery –is the sign of GOOD THINGS TO [...]
March 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Wasn’t there a drama created called Antique with Takizawa Hideaki?
I tried to watch it but it was SOOOO boring, I had no idea it was based on a yaoi manga. That explains everything lol.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:51 am
@Hinano: IT’S NOT A YAOI MANGA! =P
That said, the Antique drama took out the gay character and didn’t even touch on one of the main conflicts, which is the shop owner’s desire to confront the man who kidnapped him as a kid. BOOO FOR THAT DRAMA.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:45 am
[...] The news here is that, according to ANN, publisher Shinshoukan has assured fans that the Antique Bakery anime will retain Ono as a gay character (and, in fact, the only gay character, except a couple of his [...]
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
[...] It’s Buttsecks-Less! If you don’t trust me, then trust the great Omni. Or JP. Or other ones who have read the manga and know what it’s really about. (That Antique Bakery review by [...]