Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender

• Name — Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender • Ja Kanji — 腐男子バーテンダーの嗜み • Ja Romaji — Fudanshi Bātendā no Tashinami • Genre — Comedy, slice of life

• Type — manga • Author — Naruko • Publisher — Ichijinsha • Magazine — Zero Sum Online • Imprint — Zero Sum Comics • First — 2018 10 19 • Volumes — 2

• Type — drama • Director — Junya Ikeda • Producer — * Masahiko Asakura • Kōichi Tezuka • Writer — Junya Ikeda • Studio — Hakuhodo DY Media Partners • Licensee — GagaOOLala • Network — Fuji TV • First — 2022 5 31 • Last — 2022 5 31 • Episodes — 2

• Portal — yes Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender is a Japanese manga series by Naruko. It was serialized in the josei digital manga magazine Zero Sum Online since October 19, 2018. A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast on Fuji TV and its online streaming service, Fuji TV On Demand, on May 31, 2022.

Sōichirō Hibiki works as a bartender in Shōnan, where he is known to be mysterious and cool. However, he is secretly a fanatical otaku and fudanshi (a fan of boys' love) who spends the daytime drawing boys' love doujinshi, watching anime, and buying anime goods. At his bartender job, he observes and imagines wild, fantastical scenarios of his male patrons and co-workers falling in love.

• Sōichirō Hibiki • Kōsuke Kiminarita (voice comic), Takuma Wada • Hibiki is a skilled bartender who maintains a cool appearance in public. He is secretly an otaku and fudanshi who often daydreams scenarios about his male patrons and co-workers falling in love. He bases his characters in his boys' love doujinshi on his customers. • Kanemitsu Hakushū • Shouhei Tokiwa (voice comic), Takeshi Masu • Referred to as "manager", he is the owner of the bar. • Hokuto • Maiko Akahoshi (voice comic), Miona Hori • Hokuto is a part-time apprentice bartender who is in love with Hibiki. She is a masochist and gets excited when Hibiki is cruel to her. She was given the first name Yuri in the television drama adaptation. • Yūto Chita • Kenta Suga • Chita is a young and recent hire at the bar. Hibiki initially suggests to Hakushū to hire a male bartender in order to give Hakushū a love interest; however, after Hibiki determines both Hakushū and Chita are uke, he dedicates himself into finding a "prince charming" for Chita instead. • Torii • Yūto Ishida (voice comic), Tomohisa Yuge • A frequent patron of the bar, Torii is a manager of a company. Hibiki ships him with Yamazaki as his "OTP". • Yamazaki • Junichi Kuroi (voice comic), Masaki Nakao • A frequent patron of the bar, Yamazaki is Torii's young subordinate. Hibiki ships him with Torii. • Obuchizawa • Kazuhiro Yamaji • Nicknamed Bucchī, Obuchizawa is Hakushū's childhood friend who cares a lot about him. Hibiki ships him with Hakushū. • Hibiki's older sister • Hibiki's older sister is a popular doujinshi artist who publishes comics under the pen name Shōko Kotsushō. • Chihiro Kubota • Kubota is Hibiki's good-looking classmate from high school. Kubota has started to become casually interested in anime and video games and befriends Chita. • Unnamed patron • A patron of the bar, he is enchanted by Hibiki and often attempts to seduce him, despite Hibiki trying to set him up with the manager. He and Hokuto see themselves as rivals for Hibiki's affections. He is bisexual and has a sadistic personality.

Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender was written and illustrated by Naruko. It is serialized in the josei digital manga magazine Zero Sum Online since October 19, 2018. The chapters were later released in two bound volumes by Ichijinsha under the Zero Sum Comics imprint. To promote it, Monthly Comic Zero Sum released a voice comic adaptation of the first chapter on their YouTube channel.

A live-action television drama adaptation of Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender was produced by Hakuhodo DY Media Partners. It premiered on WakuWaku Japan in Taiwan in December 2021. It was later broadcast in Japan on May 31, 2022, on Fuji TV for their Night (programming block) programming block, as well as their online streaming service, Fuji TV On Demand, for a total of two episodes. It was streamed internationally outside of Japan and South Korea through GagaOOLala. The series stars Takuma Wada as Hibiki. The supporting cast includes Takeshi Masu as Hakushū, Miona Hori as Hokuto, and Kenta Suga as Chita. Additional cast appearances include Tomohisa Yuge as Torii, Masaki Nakao as Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Yamaji as Obuchizawa, Shogo Suzuki as Iwai, and Shota Matsushima as Taketsuru. The television drama adaptation is directed and written by Junya Ikeda. It was produced by Masahiko Asakura and Kōichi Tezuka. Ikeda stated on his Twitter account that he was interested in producing a sequel for the series.