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Antique Bakery Vol. 04 (Yaoi GN)
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* * * * *   August 27, 2010
Reviewer: Kimichan

Yoshinaga's final instalment of the Antique Bakery series is a psychologically driven piece, with inner turmoil and emotions playing a large part of the story arcs within. The humour is still there in part, with light deft touches here and there, but appropriately, the overall tone is more sombre. I quite liked how Yoshinaga sensei tied past plot threads in previous volumes into the current events without missing a beat. She also managed the feat of taking such a potentially disturbing plot line and not turn into a gloating, in your face spectacle that demeans such events. And while the volume ends with our friends looking forward to the future with slightly troubled, yet hopeful, expressions, it does not leave us hanging, as a closure of sorts is reached so that they are literally able to move mentally and emotionally forward and not just drift along with life's tides. It is a sentiment that one encounters again in Flower of Life, and also in Ichigenme, being a seeming trademark of Yoshinaga sensei's. I was sad to leave the bakery behind, but hey, with hard copies available to sit on my bookshelf and the animé and live action versions available to watch, it is not like it is goodbye forever. Now if I can just find Yoshinaga's Antique doujinshis... Additional Reading suggestions: If you like the gentle comedy and the setting found in Antique Bakery, you may also like Happy Boys and Café Kichijoji de, also from Digital Manga Publishing.

Antique Bakery Vol. 04 (Yaoi GN)

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As Tachibana handles the day-to-day business of running the bakery with Ono, Kanda, and Chikage, memories of the ordeal he suffered as an abducted child continue to recur in his nightmares. Haunted as he is by vague images of the incident he cannot fully recall, Tachibana is slowly beginning to put the past behind him, when a series of child-abduction/murders hits the city. The same police detectives who handled Tachibana's case arrive at the bakery to inform Tachibana that the remnants of his cakes have been found in the cold, dead stomachs of the murdered boys...could this be the same suspect who abducted Tachibana so long ago? Another boy has been abducted, and the clock is ticking...Tachibana must stop the past from happening again, as the day he has waited for finally arrives in this concluding volume of the series.

Author/Artist: Fumi Yoshinaga
ISBN: 1569709432
232 pages
Dimensions: 5 7/8" x 8 1/4"
Manufacturer: Digital Manga Publishing
Age 13+

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