After the last volume I was beginning to wonder if this series was going to have to end up in my ‘No More, Thanks’, pile. Luckily, this volume pushes Hana outside of the club and into the arms of her first love. Well, her second love, after food at least.
Creative Staff
Writer/Artist: Ai Morinaga
Translation: Athena and Alethea Nibley
Adaptation: Athena and Alethea Nibley
What They Say
LOVE AND CAKE
Hana is interested in only two things - eating and sleeping. But when a pastry shop opens in Hana's neighborhood and she gets a part-time job there, people begin to wonder: Does she love sweets, or the shop's gorgeous chef? When the chef asks Hana to go with him to France it's the icing on the cake.
The Review!
The affections of the women in the hockey club drift to outsiders. First, Quacky grows so jealous of Takashi’s attentions towards a dog that she finds someone else to care for her. Is the end of Quacky and Takashi’s love affair?
Next, Hana stumbles into a pastry shop owned by a kind handsome guy, Tsujiyama, who was trained in France. Not only does he pay Hana to work for him, but he allows her to have any unsold pastries at the end of the day. This storyline is exactly what I was looking for in this series, character growth and raw emotion.
Hana is quite oblivious to her own feelings and it takes her friends to point out her infatuation with Tsujiyama. She tries to ignore it at first, claiming her attraction to the shop is merely the tasty pastries. But with time, she begins to notice her heart rate quickens when Tsujiyama speaks to her, not when she eats his food. It is nice to see Hana away from the boys and living her own life. Although it doesn’t last long.
Izumi can’t stand the idea of Hana being out of his eyesight, so he has the guys follow her. Initially, the club thinks Hana is just attracted to the free food, but Izumi doesn’t believe it. Izumi sees the way Hana looks at Tsujiyama and his jealously won’t allow him to wait for Hana to come back to the hockey club. The boys decide to change the hockey club into the pastry club and work for Tsujiyama for free. This obviously puts a crimp in Hana’s after school sugary bliss, especially when throngs of women begin to frequent the pastry shop to the point of buying all the food every day.
Tsujiyama is ecstatic at the boys help as he has never sold out before, and now he does it on a daily basis. However, Hana is so ticked off she lashes out at Izumi. Her strong reaction and declaration of moving to France with Tsujiyama may cause Izumi to die of a broken heart. Can Izumi bring himself to apologize to Hana? Will that even be enough, or will he have to prove he is better than Tsujiyama? Will Hana really move to France for love of food and Tsujiyama? All good questions.
Most of the comedy in this volume is Quacky fighting with a dog, but I found more enjoyment in Hana’s relationship with Tsujiyama.
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