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''Antique Bakery'' is a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga which depicts the lives of four men who work in a small bakery. It was published in Japanese by Shinshokan from 1999 to 2002, and in English by Digital Manga Publishing.

The series won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga. The manga was adapted as a Japanese TV drama, with the title ''Antique: Antique Bakery'', which was broadcast on Fuji TV in 2001, a TwelveEpisodeAnime, airing on July 3, 2008 on Creator/{{noitaminA}}, and a Korean live-action movie.

Compare and contrast to ''Manga/WhatDidYouEatYesterday''.

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!! ''Antique Bakery'' contains examples of:

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: One of the more infamous qualities is the constant CG shots of Antique Bakery and other little details. There won't be an episode where there isn't a CG shot of something.
%%* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Ono, because of his "demonic gay charm".
* AuthorAppeal: If you read Fumi Yoshinaga's various manga series, you realize that she REALLY likes {{pretty boy}}s and {{food|Porn}}
%% * BattleAura: Cake-baking is SeriousBusiness, isn't it, [[HotBlooded Kanda]]?
%%* BlueWithShock
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: All four members of the main cast are attractive men.
%%* ColourFailure
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Keiichiro in spades. He was kidnapped at the age of nine by a man whose motives remain unknown and he was forced to eat sweets that he bought. At some point before he was rescued, Keiichiro stabbed him with a knife, possibly in a blind panic. Then when he's finally found, his kidnapper had slipped away before the police got to him. Throughout the series, it cuts back to nightmare sequences, slowly revealing what happened to him.
%%* TheDitz: Chikage.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ono has a reputation as a "Gay of Demonic Charm," and has been fired multiple times for (sometimes accidentally) charming his straight coworkers and bosses.
%%* FacePalm: Tachibana a couple of times. Also, Akugawa in episode 10.
%%* FoodPorn
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: The titular cake shop has a menu entirely in French to evoke this idea, the head pâtissière learned his trade and title in France, and the apprentice goes to France for advanced cuisine instruction. The waitstaff, thankfully, don't manage the snooty part of the stereotype.
* FrenchJerk: Jean, a pâtissier from France. He sneers at Keiichiro's attempt at speaking French, was a harsh tutor to Ono and is an abusive lover.
* GenreShift: A very subtle one, but at the end of the series ''Antique Bakery'' gets some detective/thriller-ish overtones as the police begins to believe that the same man who kidnapped Tachibana when he was a kid has resurfaced and is now kidnapping and killing kids, while also buying cakes from Antique. [[spoiler: Turns out it's another person entirely.]]
%% * TheGlassesComeOff: Chikage when [[spoiler:he stops Jean from breaking Ono's fingers]]. Also counts as his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
%%* {{Hikkikomori}}: The [[spoiler: second]] kidnapper/molester.
%%* HotBlooded: Kanda.
%%* HotterAndSexier: ''Antique Bakery dj'' by Yoshinaga herself.
%%* ManlyTears: Chikage a couple of times.
%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Deko.
* OfficialCouple: In the doujins, [[spoiler:Ono and Chikage end up in a relationship. Through some tribulations, including Ono cheating on Chikage, they decide to stay together.]]
* PunnyName: Chikage; "kage" meaning shadow, the joke being that he follows Tachibana everywhere. It's actually how he introduces himself to Ono and Eiji.
%% * RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Jean when he snaps at Ono and even Tachibana in his flashbacks and in episode 11.]]
%% * RunningGag: Chikage hitting his head on doorframes.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Chikage is the sensitive guy to Keiichiro's manly man.
%%* SpitTake: Tachibana in episode 10.
* StepfordSmiler:
** Keiichiro was kidnapped when he was about nine and he barely remembers anything from his experience. However, it's clear that whatever happened has left him emotionally and mentally scarred. As a result, he plays off his behavior and hides his pain from everyone around him.
** Ono was rejected by Keiichiro, which hurt him deeply. In the first episode, he said that he even considered ''suicide'' because of Keiichiro's rejection. On top of that, the man he dated after that incident turned out to be an abusive and controlling man. Years later after being away from France, that same boyfriend tries to get Ono to work for him again. When Ono turned him down, the former was beaten up and almost had his fingers broken by him. The sad thing is, though, Ono ''tries to defend him''.
* SunglassesAtNight: Chikage, who wears them because of his light-sensitive eyes. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Ono.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In episode 6, when [[spoiler:Tachibana offers to sleep with Ono to prevent him from going back to France]], a waitress happens to pass by, stops for a moment and ''walks away like nothing happened''.

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