Bartender (バーテンダー, Bātendā?) is the title of a Japanese manga
series written by Japanese mangaka Araki Joh and illustrated by Kenji Nagatomo.
Its focus is a genius bartender who uses his world-class talents to ease the worries
and soothe the souls of troubled customers. The manga was first serialized in the
Japanese manga magazine Super Jump. The manga was later adapted into an anime which
began airing in Japan on October 15, 2006.
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At the bar Eden Hall in
Ginza, Sasakura
Ryuu creates cocktails dubbed "The Glass of the Gods." Hotel redesigner
Kamishima holds deep disregard for bartenders because of an embarrassing
mistake he made as a younger man. He is shown the skill of the profession
by Ryuu, who creates a simple water-mix by smashing Eden Hall's signature
ice cup. Kamishima's bar redesign incorporates Ryuu's explanation of the
importance of bars. The featured cocktail is the
Grasshopper.
Kurushima Miwa comes to Eden Hall to ask Ryuu to find
her "Menu of the Heart." As a child, she broke a bottle of alcohol intended
to mend the rift between her father and Kurushima Taizou, her grandfather.
The two had been fighting over modernizing the family hotel. Shortly after
this accident, Miwa's parents were killed in a car crash. Ryuu extrapolates
that the beverage was
Suntory's
Kakubin (referred to in the show as "Kaku"), a beverage at the crossroad
of old and new Japan. The featured cocktail is the
Nikolaschka.
Shimaoka, the head of an advertising company, is retiring,
and his old love, the actress Yuzuki Mieko, has just died. The two of them
wanted to perform together in
Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House, until he decided to take over his family's company.
Ryuu uses the
Margarita
and its history to show Shimaoka that love can live on. The featured cocktail
is the Margarita.
Ryuu assists a couple on their first date. Meanwhile,
Yusada Sayo is waiting for her husband for their anniversary, however the
two have grown apart. Ryuu mixes the Bijou Cocktail, then creates an Amber
Dream from it. He explains that amber takes time to get its beauty, much
like a marriage and the time a couple puts into it. The featured cocktails
are the
Bijou and
Amber Dream.
05
"Things Forgotten In a Bar" "Bā no Wasuremono"(バーの忘れ物)
A young salesmen, Shibata, is given a transfer notice
from his boss after his sales figures are low. Ryuu lifts the young man's
spirits by telling him about
Ernest Hemingway and the story
The Old Man and the Sea. The featured cocktail is the
Daiquiri.
06
"The Story Inside the Glass" "Gurasu no Naka no Monogatari"(グラスの中の物語)
Kasahara Shizuo, a screenwriter, has been having trouble
writing scripts. He poses a riddle to various bartenders, having ordered
four brands of
single malt Scottish whiskies (Laphroaig,
Miltonduff,
Glenburgie, and
Ardbeg),
asks what should be next. After going to several bars, his long-time friend
and director Mineyama Ryuuji catches up with Kasahara and the argue over
why their productions are no longer original. Ryuu answers the riddle, and
by doing so helps the two men with their problem. The featured cocktail
is the
Aberdeen Angus.
Ryuu has fallen ill and the bar is closed for the day.
Two senior bartenders who visit Ryuu decide to concoct some drinks to help
him. In the meantime, two customers enter the bar: Souma Kouji, a politician
embroiled in a scandalous court case and endlessly pursued by the paparazzi,
and a female lawyer who is supposed to meet Kouji to discuss the case but
misses the time. The two bartenders separately give the customers "Rusty
Nail" and "Bull Shot", who eventually arrange to meet again. The featured
drink is the
Rusty Nail.
Ryuu receives a visit from two customers, a woman and
a man; the latter claims to be a doctor. While they are having a usual talk,
Ryuu quietly watches and listens to his conversations, as he serves Angel's
Tip to both of them. In later time, Ryuu is challenged by the man at the
start of the episode to perform a "taste test". As he arranges different
marked glasses on the counter, he pours in water into each of them and places
a drop from each of the different bottles in the glasses. He is to turn
facing away from the counter as the man randomly switches the positions
of the glasses for him to guess the names of the drinks. As this continues,
the episode switches to a flashback scene where it appears that the man
on the counter turned out to be a
con man after his wish to perform a fake proposal to the woman in the
bar is declined by Ryuu, whom detected his error playing as a doctor during
their early conversations. The man went as far as adding a different cocktail
into one of the glasses during the taste test. Ryuu however, successfully
detects his trick and accurately guessed the mixture of which the drink
contained. The featured drink is "Pastis Water"
It is raining heavily in Ginza and Miwa is running towards
Eden Hall to seek shelter from the storm only to find a "Reserve" sign posted
on the front door. Seeing her puzzled look, a nearby street food vendor
explains to her that every year on this particular day, the bar is closed
for a single customer, the customer who Ryuu served a mistaken cocktail.
Sensing Miwa's doubt that Ryuu could ever make a mistake in fixing a drink,
the vendor proceeds to tell the story of Ryuu's early days as an apprentice
bartender at Bar Saito through an extended flashback. An important looking
businessman named Ryuuichi Minegishi arrives at Bar Saito with an attractive,
younger date, Kanako. Minegishi seems to know the bar's master, Ryuu's senior
bartender, quite well and gives Ryuu his business card which indicates that
he is a CEO of his own company. Kanako orders a champagne cocktail and Ryuu
serves her Champagne Pick-Me-Up in a tall flute glass. Kanako looks displeased
and returns it, puzzling Ryuu as to what he did wrong.
10
"Christmas Miracle" "Kurisumasu no Kiseki"(クリスマスの奇跡)
A professor, who calls himself Okita, specialized in
computational fluid dynamics comes to Eden Hall on a
Christmas
night. He claims to follow a star up until she enters Eden Hall. He later
gets into an argument with Ryuu after declining his recommendation of having
a
champagne, and downing a cup of
Guinnessbeer instead.
Afterwards, Ryuu offers Okita the Black Velvet, which is a mixture
of both beer and champagne. He doubted Ryuu and boastfully predicts that
the drink will spill out of the glass, generally basing off the idea from
his years of thorough research and study of
fluid mechanics. This is not the case however, as Ryuu successfully
pours both the beer and champagne simultaneously, without the mixture pouring
out of the cup. It is noted in this episode that Ryuu is amongst the very
few bartenders in Japan who are able to mix the Black Velvet perfectly without
pouring them separately. Thus, the featured drink of episode 10 is the
Black Velvet.
Ryuu finally decides to end his apprenticeship at Eden
Hall in this final chapter. The episode revolves mostly on the life of a
bartender. A few cocktails are featured in the episode, such as the
Red Eye,
No Name
and
Rob Roy. "The Macallan 1946" is referred to by Ryuu and his senior bartenders
as "The Water of Life", and it is mentioned that its bottle is passed through
every generation of bartenders who has completed their time at Eden Hall.
The main narrator of the series makes an appearance in this episode and
visits Eden Hall and sat down by the counter to have a talk with Ryuu, although
the rest of the episode is told from Ryuu and both his senior bartenders'
perspective. Ryuu mentions that he feels fortunate to be able to live through
his job, choosing not the craft of bartending, rather the life of a bartender.
Therefore, the final featured drink is "Bartender".
