Keiichiro Tachibana

Keiichiro Tachibana owns the bakery Antique after abruptly leaving a successful career at a trading company. The grandson of a wealthy financial-group director, he oddly has almost no interest in pastries and reduces his opinion of sweets to “tastes like sugar.” A childhood kidnapping left him without clear memories of the incident, while the stubble he was forbidden to wear in corporate life has become a symbol of what he calls "a man's aesthetic".