Antique Bakery Manga

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Antique Bakery Manga to be Animated for TV in July

Yoshinaga's romantic comedy to take over Noitamina late-night timeslot

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Fumi Yoshinaga's Antique Bakery romantic comedy manga will be animated for Fuji TV's popular late-night Noitamina timeslot starting this July. The planned 12 episodes will air in Japan after the Library War anime ends its run in the same timeslot. (The Hakaba Kitarō anime runs in Noitamina now.) Antique Bakery's story follows four somewhat quirky men who run Antique, a quaint cafe that celebrates the small joys of life such as cake.

Yoshinaga drew the original manga in Shinshokan's Monthly Wings shōjo magazine from 1999 to 2002. The four compiled volumes sold 1.4 million copies in Japan, and the manga was already adapted into a live-action television drama series in 2001 on the same Fuji TV network. The manga also earned an award in the shōjo manga category of the 26th Kodansha Manga Prizes in 2002. This will be the first anime adaptation of Yoshinaga's manga.

Digital Manga Publishing released the original manga in North America, and has licensed most of Yoshinaga's other manga, including Don't Say Anymore Darling, Flower of Life, and Garden Dreams. (Tokyopop's Blu imprint licensed her Gerard & Jacques, Lovers in the Night, and Truly Kindly manga.)

Source: animeanime.jp

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July's Antique Bakery Anime to Retain Gay Character (Updated)

Ono made "straight" in earlier live-action adaptation of comedy manga

The Japanese website for Shinshokan's Wings imprint posted an official confirmation of the reported television anime adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga's Antique Bakery "heartful" comedy manga late last week. In the confirmation, Shinshokan assured fans who had vivid memories of the 2001 television drama version that the new anime version will be "faithful to the original work." In particular, the company emphasized that the titular bakery's head chef Ono (the leftmost character on the cover image to the right) will maintain his "demonically gay" charms. The 2001 live-action version turned the Ono character into a straight man. There are also plans to depict the plot-crucial "incident" that occurred during the childhood of the bakery's owner, Tachibana. The anime is set to premiere in July.

Update: The anime's official announcement also mentioned that the manga will be adapted into a Korean live-action drama film. Princess Hours' Joo Ji Hoon will star in this movie which will open in South Korea this year.