Official Website
www.fujitv.co.jp/chocolatier
Broadcast
Mondays, 9.00 – 9.54 p.m. from 13 January 2014
Station
Fuji TV
Story
Koyurugi Sota, who attends a confectionary school, fell in love at first sight with his senior Takahashi Saeko during high school days. They started dating right before Christmas after a lot of effort. However, Saeko says she cannot meet Sota on Valentine’s Day which they should be commemorating together. Sota has no choice but to see her on the eve of Valentine’s Day. He tries to hand the chocolates he made for her with all his heart, knowing that she loves them. But Saeko refuses to accept. She even tells him that she did not mean to date him. However, the single-minded Sota is not discouraged. He goes over to France alone and arrives at L’atelier de Bonnaire, the famous Parisian chocolatier. Although he comes from a confectionary school, he has no experience working at a chocolatier and also cannot speak French. Even so Sota entreats L’atelier de Bonnaire to let him work here. What has brought him to Paris is his love for Takahashi Saeko. Saeko loves the finest chocolates, especially Bonnaire’s. Sota wants to become a chocolatier and make her pay attention to him. Six years later in the autumn of 2013, Sota returns to Japan with Olivier Treluyer whom he met at Bonnaire and is busy with preparing for his shop’s opening. Then, Saeko shows up. She has learnt through TV that Sota is now famous as the “Chocolate Prince”. Sota acts cool despite a wildly beating heart from their reunion after six years. Olivier rejoices that there is progress because Saeko came. He lives together with Sota, Sota’s sister Matsuri and father Makoto, and is even friendly with the staff Inoue Kaoruko. At the same moment, the chocolatier Rikudo Seinosuke is looking at a magazine in which Sota is featured. The model Kato Erena is to his side. Before long, the day of the opening of Sota’s shop Chocolat Vie arrives … …
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