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“Prodigy bartender Ryuu Sasakura serves soul-healing cocktails at hidden Eden Hall to troubled customers who need guidance.”
Bartender
バーテンダー
7.32
2,919 rank · 106,916 viewers · 544 favorites
Drama
Gourmet
Adult Cast
Workplace
Seinen
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Synopsis
Prodigy bartender Ryuu Sasakura serves soul-healing cocktails at hidden Eden Hall to troubled customers who need guidance.
Hidden in the backstreets of the Ginza district is Eden Hall, a lone bar operated by Ryuu Sasakura, the prodigy bartender who is said to mix the most incredible cocktails anyone has ever tasted. However, not just anyone can find Eden Hall; rather, it is Eden Hall that must find those who need it. Customers of varying backgrounds, each plagued with their own troubles, wander into this bar. Nevertheless, Ryuu always knows the ideal cocktail to console and guide each distraught soul.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 56 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 56 viewers settled on.
94%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.80
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.80 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.5 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 3.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.18
Running avg · Aug 2007 → Mar 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “It was good and I liked it. The moral of the story is that alcohol solves everything story 10/10 The art style wasn't too impressive except for all the drinks art 10/10 The music was nice jazzy...”
- 8 “This is a slice of life series, that uses a bartender's poetic and insightful approach to serving liquors as the best form to solve people's problems. Its originality, its' well constructed...”
- 10 “Bartender proves that slice of life shows can be more than slap stick comedy and moe blobs. This is the type of show you watch when you just want to sit down and forget about everything else,...”
Verbosity
Short · 23%
Medium · 50%
Long · 27%
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- Format 11 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 13m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2006 – Dec 2006 Fall 2006
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-1446 catalog
Produced by
- Pony Canyon Producer
- Fuji TV Producer
- Sony Music Entertainment Producer
- Fujipacific Music Producer
- Fuji Creative Producer
- Omnibus Promotion Producer
Licensed by
- Anime Limited Licensor