Which, at the end of the day, that's exactly what it ended up being, except minus much of the fantastical elements. It felt too much like there was an attempt to hit certain characterization and narrative points from the Yume-iro Pâtissière series. It didn't do anything new, and sent off a bunch of red flags in my head regarding what the Bonjour♪Koiaji Pâtisserie would be like, that if I were a casual viewer I wouldn't want to even pick up the series with how much of a ripoff this series feels like without having the faires.
And then I watched the series and--
The one-shot covers the better parts of the Anime series' first two episodes, making a bit of narrative change for drama purposes while managing to cut out some of the more cringe content, yet in doing this the one-shot ended up doing much of nothing. It played it safe, but then given the Anime--
It reads too much like a one-shot by a newbie Mangaka who is overly focused on incorporating all the tropes without thinking about how to combine them or make them original. As such, I can't recommend either the one-shot or the Anime to the casual Anime fan.
