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“Former high school crush becomes boss to irresistible gay pastry chef; ex-boxer turned cake assistant.”
Antique Bakery
西洋骨董洋菓子店
7.65
2,360 rank · 4,909 readers · 91 favorites
Shoujo
Award Winning
Comedy
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Former high school crush becomes boss to irresistible gay pastry chef; ex-boxer turned cake assistant.
A high school crush, a world-class pastry chef, a former middle-weight boxing champion...and a whole lot of cake! Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono's charms (or his cooking skills!), but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magically gay" Ono get his just desserts? And how in the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono's cake boy? (Source: DMP)
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.94
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.94 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Aug 2008 → Aug 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “This is my first experience with josei manga (although, shoujo could also be referred to this manga) - and what a rare treat it is! Now being adapted into a 12 episode anime after previously been...”
- 8 “I started reading this when I was younger expecting a bit more yaoi but what I ended up by reading was the story of a man being kidnapped as a child and being fed cakes by the kidnapper so he...”
- 6 “Don't be fooled by the description. The selling point may be the found family of cute boys running a bakery together, but there is a darker mystery plot lying just below the surface. The main...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 100%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 23 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 04m approx
- Published Apr 1999 – Jul 2002
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0204 catalog