Antique Bakery’s Ono To Stay Pretty Gay
One of Antique Bakery’s best characters is Ono, the pastry chef who refers to himself as a “gay demon.” He claims to have the ability to get any man, gay OR straight, to sleep with him (and, well, does). The exception to prove the rule is the owner of the bakery, Tachibana, who actually rejected Ono in high school.
Anyway, in the 2001 live-action drama based on the manga, titled Antique, Ono was made non-gay. And they also pulled most of Tachibana’s backstory, which provides a significant amount of the tension (Tachibana’s backstory leads to Tachibana’s high school problems which leads to his seriously mean rejection of Ono; his backstory also leads to his establishing the bakery, etc).
So! 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 boyfriends who make appearances. THIS IS NOT A YAOI).
So yeah. Good news for fangirls: Ono stays gay! Bad news for narrow-minded fanboys who are too uncomfortable with their own sexuality to be okay with a gay character in their animu: Ono stays gay!
…Just sayin’.
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March 5th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I have nothing against gay men — I’m just annoyed by the “camp” way of being gay.
So is “being gay” a trait, or a quirk for Ono?
March 5th, 2008 at 9:05 am
@Kikimaru: it is absolutely one facet of many to his character. You can always trust Fumi Yoshinaga to have excellently fleshed-out characters– it’s the primary draw to her works, both yaoi and not.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Ono is canonical gay in manga. But in TV series they make him straight! And this is sad and silly - for him is very characteristic be gay, it is crucial part of manga, because Tachibana is homofobic! But they must work together and become friends. :razz: Do you understand? :wink:Not lovers or something, just friends. Tachibana wil be no more homofobic. But in TV series it is not! And anime is alike manga, Ono is here gay too. :smile: