Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten: Antique

Even though he is the top salesman at his company, Keiichirou Tachibana decides to quit his job to open a bakery. While looking over résumés for a head patissier, one name sticks out in particular: Yuusuke Ono, the young man who confessed his feelings to Keiichirou in high school—and whom Keiichirou harshly shot down. Now, Yuusuke is known both as a genius patissier for his skills in the kitchen, and for possessing a demonic charm that attracts even straight men into his bedroom.

Despite their shared past, Keiichirou hires Yuusuke and starts working on making the bakery a success. Before long, the pair is joined by former boxer Eiji Kanda, who is searching for a new career after an injury forced him to retire early. Everything is looking up for the newly-opened bakery named Antique—but the ghosts of the employees' pasts threaten to upset their simple lives.

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Kobayakawa, Chikage Main

Hanawa, Eiji Japanese

Ono, Yuusuke Main

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Tachibana, Keiichirou Main

Fujiwara, Keiji Japanese

Kanda, Eiji Main

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Atsushi Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Nobuyuki, Shimada Supporting

Ono, Nagako Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Kaedeko Supporting

Kasai, Tomomi Japanese

Yoshioka Supporting

Kashii, Shouto Japanese

Sakaki, Sakurako Supporting

Honda, Takako Japanese

Saitou, Hiroyuki Producer

Hosokai, Kousuke Producer

Okumura, Yoshiaki Director, Storyboard

Hayase, Hiroyuki Sound Director

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Nov 8, 2022

Ella_Yo2001

Recommended

If you are looking for some yaoi action or BL (boys love) unfortunately this anime is not really the case. Even though we have a character who is gay, the story doesn't focus a lot on it.

This anime has kind of a dark storie that happend to one of the main characters when he was a kid and how his life changed after it.
Some episodes made me laugh a lot and some were pretty cute. Chigake is a sweetheart, one of my favorite in this anime.
It was not a great anime, but I still enjoyed watching it.

If you want to know more about how their ... lives goes after the anime, I really recommend the manga called "Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten dj", there, we DO have some action LOL.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 5, 2020

Unconfidence

Recommended

So, I liked this anime quite a bit. It wasn't anything overly extraordinary, but it did execute a number of concepts very well with other anime struggle with.

One of the main things I'd like to mention is how they treated homosexuality in the series. The thing is, with anime there's usually a strong dividing line between "Gay Anime" and "Straight Anime". If anime is "gay-centric" it'll be a romance either centered around gay men or gay women exclusively. But this anime does something different, where it introduces gay and bi characters, but makes them and their romantic situations incidental to the ... overall plotline. In every other anime I've seen featuring gay men, either it's a Shounen Ai in which the romance IS the plot, or the gay character is just some comedic side character. This show manages to introduce gay and bisexual characters in more than a superficial or comedic manner, but humanize them with issues and concerns related to things other than their romances.

I don't have too much to say except that I really liked the way they executed everything. I doubt they'll make any more but I would enjoy that.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 31, 2024

unluckyprimes

Not Recommended

The problem with this show is that it doesn't quite know what it wants to be. Is it a charming, found-family, slice of life about a bakery? Or a dark crime mystery about survivor's guilt and PTSD?

UNCLEAR.

The tone is all over the place sometimes and it doesn't have any clue how to strike a balance. It pulls off most of the slice of life stuff pretty well, though there are some weird 2008-style tropes about gay characters that are more than a little off-putting at times. Still, even with all of that, there's surprisingly little "romance" for what I was told was BL.

Beyond that, and ... the real reason I struggled with this is the absolute disregard it has for abusive relationships.

Ono's ex-boyfriend literally beats the shit out of him (off screen) and threatens to break his hand (on screen) and there is nothing done in the narrative to call it out. The relationship was obviously toxic before, but that seems to justify the behaviour? The ex gives a shallow apology and kisses Ono on the hand when he leaves at the end of the episode. And Ono clearly says he deserves to be abused given his promiscuity or whatever. It's appalling. (Chikage, at least, is properly upset by this, but then it's just kind of over and swept under the rug and never mentioned again.)

To make matters worse, in a later episode shows obvious emotional neglect of a child by her mother. And that mother slaps her daughter across the face and tells her to get out. For context, it's late at night and the child is canonically like 10 years old at best. When getting comforted by her father, she's told that when her mom is struggling, she--the child--needs to step up and be the mother. ABSOLUTELY NOT. This is also a one-off episode and the characters never reappear and we just sort of forget that it all happened.

It's too bad, because there were some genuinely heartwarming character moments with a cozy feel. But it keeps jamming in these plot points that are truly the antithesis of that vibe for no real reason? Maybe they thought it was necessary to add """""depth""""" to the characters? I don't know. (I get that this was based on a manga, but the point still stands.)

Anyway. Can't say I recommend this at all. It's too all over the place, feels dated, and fails to confront some horrific behaviour. Even if you could put that all aside for the BL or whatever, it doesn't even pay those dividends so I can't really fathom the draw.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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