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[meganbmoore]

It occurred to me that a few people who might be interested in this may not have seen it yet, and so I bring you the trailer for the Korean adaptation of Antique Bakery. I am told by those who know such things that it's actually much gayer than the manga. (Which, actually, is kind of interesting. With Korean dramas, you usually have to interpret a hug as kissing, and a few pecks as a makeout session. But the movies? Not so conservative... At all.)

Anyway, trailer:

I have to say, even though I'm not very interested in the movie, the trailer is addictively cute (I think it's the music) the food pr0n looks amazing, and that's the first time I've ever thought Joo Ji Hoon looked attractive at all. (Yes, I know, heresy, but I've never understood why he's so popular.) The Very Very Gay baker is cuter, though. If nothing else, it looks much more entertaining than the Japanese adaptation. How anything with Fujiki Naohito and Abe Hiroshi managed to be dull is something I'll never understand.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of starting a drinking game for anytime someone says Yoon Eun Hye should have been cast as Makino in the Korean Hana Yori Dango. Seriously, did she even audition? And, frankly, I can't picture her in the role. I like her, but in 24 episodes of Goong and 4 of Vineyard Man, I've seen her stand up for herself exactly once. For about 7 seconds, and then it was back to the cutesy protesting. Still, I have 12 episodes of Vineyard Man and all of Coffee Prince to watch, so my opinion could change. If nothing else, Vineyard Man is already a vast improvement over Goong.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Aside from Ono, I'm not sure who's who by names. I'd gather Ono/"one-with-sunglasses-but-the-second-one,-not-Joo-Ji-Hoon-aka-the-first-one-in-the-trailer."

[nebulia.livejournal.com]

Haha, sorry. I like Ono/guy who ALWAYS wears sunglasses, but it looks like it'll be Ono/guy with the ugly moustache who runs the bakery.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, I assumed the one he made out with a few times was the one he'd end up with...

Ono/Joo Ji Hoon (runs bakery) seemed to be Ono making sure he had his attention in Uncomfortable But Unavoidable Ways.

I am, of course, purely using snogging and body language to make this judgement, not actually knowing what was being said...

BTW: Re: Doujinshis: I have heard of those, and I find it funny that they couldn't be put in the manga, given some of what does make it into various manga. (Though, granted, I haven't read them.) Maybe it was the magazine itself?

[nebulia.livejournal.com]

There's plot, but there's sex. Tons of sex. In every doujin.

And it's probably about as graphic as Yamane Ayano (Viewfinder, Crimson Spell), but I think it might be that the magazine Yoshinaga was publishing in wasn't an explicit one...? I dunno. Anyway, they were released as doujin--all of them are pretty short, anyway, and though they kind of follow a plot, I think (though I'm not sure, as I can't find them scanlated) that they can each stand alone as well.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Are you looking for scanlations of the AB doujin? If you are, give me a minute to rummage through my bookmarks/memories and I can point you at links for a few; to the best of my knowledge the entire run hasn't been done yet, but there's a scanlation circle that's actively working on the lot.

[nebulia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would be great! I would love to actually find out what was going on. XDD

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Hack the Mainstream (http://www.hackthemainstream.com/projects/project_antiquebakerydjs.cfm) -- scanlation of the first book, Ono Dreams In The Kitchen

I think I may have found the other ones on yaoi_daily, but they don't tag so it would take more time than I have this evening to dig up the original posts/download links. I've got local copies squirrelled away here somewhere, let me rummage about a bit and I'll see if I can't backtrack to the scanlators' sites, or if worst comes to worst just zip and reupload 'em myself. :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/free_manga/3756029.html?nc=15

This post has a few (but doesn't mention raws/scans for all) and links to another place to find them, but you have to be a member to see the post.

[nebulia.livejournal.com]

Wow! thanks so much!

I'll flip through yaoi_daily myself, I've got plenty of time on my hands. XDDD But thank you so much for that link!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

In order for the little split-screen actor/manga bits at the end of the trailer, Tachibana = stubble-faced suave older one, Ono = long-haired v. v. gay patissier, Kanda = perky young ex-boxer apprentice, and Chikage = tall adorkable guy in sunglasses. And judging by the trailer, I don't know if I'd say it's gayer than the manga...it seems more like gay in a slightly different way? In the original series there's never any doubt about Ono's sexual orientation, we see him with various boyfriends and flirting with other guys, and he spends a fair bit of time prowling at a gay bar where he's been a regular since he was 18. The big difference here seems to be that they've replaced quiet scenes of sitting at a bar flirting with a more visually flamboyant dance club.

I do love the series quite a bit -- it's definitely not your typical cookie-cutter BL series, if the mangaka weren't primarily known for yaoi series I'd almost think it might be classified elsewhere. There are a ton of female characters, not just background walkons but they're actually the focus of several story arcs; two of the male leads are straight, and while we do see some past and current flames of all of them, the only one who is actively in an ongoing relationship by the end of the story is one of the straight boys. Really, romance (be it gay or straight) just isn't the primary focus of the story at all. (The doujinshi, now, that's another matter entirely...)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Based on what I've heard of it, I almost wonder if it'd be regarded as a BL series ifthe publisher weren't BL.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that and the mangaka's general focus in about 95% of her other series being BL. Her Antique Bakery doujinshi, now that's flat-out explicit yaoi, but if you didn't know about her other stuff or the publication history, AB might honestly pass for a josei title.