Antique Bakery 3
Posted: March 7, 2007 Filed under: Antique Bakery Leave a comment »It’s a real shame this series is only 4 volumes long. Then again, I can’t imagine where else it would go.
There was significantly less interesting backstory in this one, but plenty of character development all the same. Our man Ono gets a ton of screen time, with both backstory and a scene where he overcomes his fear. There is also lots more of slipping in and out of the past for all three of the old men this time around, and we even get an exciting relative showing up for Chikage near the end of the volume.
I wound up liking Chikage a lot more here. I still think he’s kind of a silly character, but when they showed him holding Tachibana after he’d woken up from a nightmare and promising Tachibana he wouldn’t tell anyone, it’s hard not to just melt.
There’s also much time dedicated to two female reporters. I kinda hope the one doesn’t come back as a love interest for Tachibana, because that would be too predictable.
Other than that? Still an awesome character-based series that lives in the moment. It’s not even right to call it episodic because so many small events happen in each chapter… the whole thing just blends together in this sort of wonderful Yoshinaga harmony.
