Shun is adamant on staying with Mio, but Mio urges him to return to reconcile with his family. Meanwhile, Shun’s childhood friend and ex-fiancée, Sakurako, arrives at the island to persuade him to return to Hokkaido due to his father’s poor health. Three years later, Mio suddenly moves back and confesses he is in love with Shun, but Shun is overcome with guilt from depriving him of a “normal” life. Mio’s reaction however towards Shun reaching out to him, reminds him of the estrangement from his parents after they discovered his sexual orientation.Īs Shun and Mio grow closer, Mio confesses that he is moving to the city, but promises to keep in contact once there. Shun Hashimoto is a gay novelist living in Okinawa who meets Mio Chibana, an orphaned high school student living with his relatives after his mother’s death. Korea released a film, renamed simply “Antique” in 2008. This is one of the best gay anime shows on Hulu.
Though the series largely proceeds as a slice of life story without an overarching plot, Tachibana’s desire to find the man who kidnapped him as a child is a recurring storyline the series climaxes with Tachibana working with the police to find a child kidnapper. The series focuses on the men as they encounter a variety of comedic and dramatic scenarios, often focused around workplace comedy, the creation and development of pastries, or romantic intrigue. Hybrid Child, over four love stories, continues to follow Hybrid Children, depicting the relationships between the artificial humans and their owners.Īntique Bakery follows the lives of the four workers at Antique, a patisserie in residential Tokyo: store owner and manager Keiichirō Tachibana, pastry chef Yusuke Ono, apprentice pastry chef Eiji Kanda, and waiter Chikage Kobayakawa.Īntique is so named because the patisserie is located in a former antique shop, and uses antique tableware and furniture in its café. Through overcoming these obstacles, their love and the bond connecting them grow stronger, however, ten years pass before a horrifying realisation dawns on them: a Hybrid Child might not have an endless life span. His family even attempts to throw away Hazuki multiple times when he is not paying attention. Kotarou Izumi is the young heir to the noble Izumi family, so it is frowned upon when he brings an abandoned Hybrid Child he found in the garbage into their household. While they can feel human emotions and have their own consciousness, they are not real humans and require love to grow. In this gay anime series, a skilled craftsman named Kuroda created artificial humans called Hybrid Children, beings who are neither fully machine nor fully humans, but rather a reflection of the love shown to them. Now, that they are reunited, Masamune vows to make Ritsu fall in love with him again since the latter had become reluctant towards love due to the heartbreak he received at school. Later Masamune finds that Ritsu is his old schoolmate who had confessed to him. Ritsu wants to resign but when his boss Masamune Takano calls him useless he stays to protect his pride. He does get a job at the literary section but turns out he has been put in the shoujo manga department. He applies for a job in Marukawa publishing company and hopes to get a position in the literary section. When he no longer could bear the jealous attitudes of his co-workers, he decides to quit his job and join another publishing company to prove his worth. He is quite good at his job but still, people think he only has the job because his father is the owner. Ritsu works as an editor in his father’s publishing company.
The protagonists of the anime are Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano. Two are gay anime series, one is a film, and one is an Original Video Animation.
There have been four anime adaptations of the manga. Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is based on a light novel which first came out in the year 2006.