cover Antique, leading to increased popularity for the business. In the anime adaptation, Tamiko is replaced by Fuji TV anchor playing herself. Portrayed by: Koyuki (Japanese television drama) A sports journalist who falls in love with Ono. Appears only in the Japanese television drama adaptation. Media Manga Main series Antique Bakery was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Wings from June 1999 to September 2002. Upon its conclusion, the series was collected into four tankōbon (collected volumes) published by Shinshokan. In North America, Digital Manga Publishing published an English-language translation of Antique Bakery as four volumes published from 2000 to 2002, making Antique Bakery Yoshinaga's first manga series to be translated into English. Volumes in the English language release feature scratch and sniff covers. Spin-off dōjinshi series Following the conclusion of the Antique Bakery manga series, Yoshinga began writing and illustrating , a spin-off manga published as a series of dōjinshi (self-published fan comics). In contrast to the main manga series, Antique Afterwards is more overtly influenced by the yaoi (male-male romance, also known as boys' love or BL) genre, and has sexually-explicit content. This includes both sexual encounters merely alluded to in the original series and slash fiction-inspired scenarios that depict same-sex sexual encounters involving the series' canonically heterosexual characters; for example, in one such story, three female customers tell each other improvised erotic stories involving Antique's staff. Fourteen dōjinshi in the Antique Afterwards series have been created by Yoshinga. Live-action television drama In 2001, the manga was adapted into the live-action television drama , which aired on Fuji TV from October 8 to December 17, 2001. The series was directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro and Eiichirō Hasumi, and written by . Its theme song, "", is written and performed by Mr. Children. The series removes all depictions of same-sex romance and LGBT identity present in the original manga; for example, Ono is not gay, but has a fear of women and is romantically pursued by an original female character not present in the manga. List of episodes Audio drama From 2003 to 2004, Shinshokan produced an audio drama adaptation of Antique Bakery. The adaptation was release as four compact disc volumes: Anime In March 2008, Nippon Animation and Shirogumi announced that they would produce an anime adaptation of Antique Bakery, which aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block from July to September of that year. The series' primary production