Yume-iro Pâtissière

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Dream-Colored Pastry Chef, Yumeiro Pâtissier, Yume-iro Patissier, Yumeiro Pâtissière: À La Carte, A La Carte, Yumeiro Patissiere Tokubetsu-hen, Beautiful Dreamer

Japanese: 夢色パティシエール

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 12

Chapters: 59

Status: Finished

Published: Sep 3, 2008 to Aug 22, 2013

Genres: Award Winning, Gourmet, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Ribon Magazine

Authors: Matsumoto, Natsumi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.81¹ (scored by 2,296 users)

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Ranked: #1290²

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Popularity: #3139

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Ichigo Amano adores cakes, and she dreams of sharing her passion with others one day. While stuffing her face at a sweets festival, Ichigo stumbles across a cake that reminds her of a pastry from her past. This intrigues Henri Lucas—the pâtissièr that made the cake. Impressed by her astute sense of taste, he implores Ichigo to enroll at St. Marie Academy, where they train the next generation of pâtissières in all aspects of creating confections.

On her first day as a transfer student, Ichigo prays for her success in front of a "Queen of Sweets Spirits" statue on campus. She is later placed in a group with the school's legendary "Sweets Princes"—three boys at the top of her class, each specializing in a different confectionary discipline. Struggling to keep up with the course material, she faces scrutiny from her classmates for being an amateur despite the praise she received from Henri. Upset that her skills pale in comparison to those of her talented team members, Ichigo vows to use her every waking hour to practice.

Seeing her conviction, a Sweets Spirit named Vanilla answers her wishes and coaches Ichigo through the basics of baking amazing cakes. Vanilla aspires to become one of the Sweets Kingdom's "Royal Pâtissières," but she must first prove her abilities by aiding a human. Using her magic, Vanilla helps elevate Ichigo's techniques and confections to the next level as the two work towards becoming top pâtissières.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Beautiful Dreamer

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Yume-iro Pâtissière received the Shogakukan Manga Award for best children's manga in 2010. The manga received a Nintendo DS video game adaptation and a card game, both created by Konami and released in Japan. It has also received a dedicated cookbook, published by Shueisha on December 1, 2009.

The series has been published in Chinese by Sharp Point Press.

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Jun 29, 2024

Strymoon

Recommended

I'm a person that reads a lot of terror, psychological and mystery stuff, and sometimes just reading this can be exhausting, so reading the totally opposite can be a journey, and what a journey! I'm really not used to this type of manga, and I simply fall in love with this series! For the little I can say is sweet, almost literally.
Probably it exists various other manga with this type of execution, but in its own way it is unique. The protagonist, even with tears, for me at least, it is not annoying, the romance it's a slow burn, but it didn't drag around, the ...

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May 28, 2019

KoemiChi

Recommended

You know what you're going to get and it delivers.

Even though it's not the most original or has the best twists, it is still an enjoyable read if you like light-hearted manga about baking and romance. The main is likeable enough and the side-characters have different personalities.

One of the downsides for me is that it's not my favourite art style, so that sometimes didn't incentivise me to binge read it. However, it's not so glaringly bad that it became an active distraction and the food still looked great in it so it did its job well overall

It's cute and will satisfy you if you're looking ...

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Mar 24, 2023

Animelover875

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (35/59 eps)

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Please note that this review only encompasses the translated portion of the manga, which is up to roughly Chapter 35, Volume 10. The other thing to note here is that despite the presence of mascots, this is not a magical girl series.

Yume-Iro Patisserie is exactly what it looks like: a manga about a young girl named Ichigo who enters the Japan's St. Marie Academy to become a Patisserie, which means making lots of desserts and winning her way through various sorts of challenges. Along the way, she develops friendships with three gifted patissiers-in-training who the series sends mixed signals as to whether these are platonic ... or romantic. Not that this is a bad thing, as a romantic subplot does add something to keep the story going, though it is not its main focus.

The main focus of the series is its illustrated and descriptively evocative desserts, which feature new types of sweets (mainly cakes) in all issues. These are vivid and the characters describe them in painstaking detail, which extends to all four main characters and each of their enemies. While this is nice and provides a fair amount of eye candy (no pun intended), there are some elements which bog down the story or detract from the overall experience, depending on what you were hoping to see.

For instance, many characters (especially rivals) are one-note: frequently, they only appear once and seem to fade from existence in future chapters. However, some characters will reappear later, trying to give the story an extra layer of tension. The issue with this is that the characters tend to be written in stereotypical form (for instance, the psychotic Miya who's in love with Kashino, the main love interest) or some bullies who plagiarized Ichigo's cake design.

Unfortunately, the series also comes off as quite directionless at times, frequently getting itself distracted from the main events and preferring to focus on "bonus" chapters. There is also a considerable degree of filler here, as many chapters mark unimportant events, though the main problem with the story is its reliance on the status quo.

The series relies on the status quo to a fault, to the point it becomes formulaic. As an example, Ichigo typically wins most of the battles she faces, with a chapter typically dedicated to preparing for the event and the next chapter actually having it occur. While this is formulaic in itself, the tension is gone when you realize that Ichigo (as a character) will automatically win as a default because of the status quo. An example of this is around Chapter 33, where an enormous gambit is on stake that will determine whether the Sweets Spirits stay on Earth. Simply by mentioning this (ignoring the fact it's resolved less than a few chapters later), it's fairly obvious that if the manga intends to keep running, this turn wouldn't really seem plausible based on the direction the series appears to be going.

While I acknowledge its faults, I also acknowledge its strengths and realize that while it may not appeal to me personally, I'm sure many readers will be left with fond memories of it should they pick it up. So long as you are alright with beautifully drawn cakes at the cost of a more defined or evocative story, this may be a manga series that you should pick up. As mentioned, however, do be aware that, at the time of writing this, the last two volumes appear to be only available in Japanese. 7/10.

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