Season 2 Finally Shows How Bread Hired Choco
Bread Barbershop is a 3DCG animated series about Bread, a genius barber who runs a hair salon for sweets and breads in Bakery Town, with assistant Wilk and cashier Choco keeping the shop running. Season 2 fills in that trio's backstory for the first time. According to the PR TIMES release from CHOCOLATE Inc., the Tokyo-based company behind the show's Japanese rollout, the new season depicts Bread and Choco's first meeting and Wilk's growth, sides of the characters the series has not shown before.
Episode 2, "Choco's Job Interview," tackles the origin story head-on. When Wilk asks how Choco ended up working at the shop, Bread rewinds five years to a parade of hopeless applicants and one fateful walk-in.
The season also introduces three new residents of Bakery Town: Macaron, a pink macaron and the town's most popular idol; Ice Cream, a gluttonous and endlessly curious ice cream boy; and Pretzel, a young pretzel police officer with a strong sense of justice.
Five Episodes Up Now, From a Hair Duel to a Runaway Ice Cream
The dub launched with episodes 1 through 5 available at once. In the opener, "Bakery Town's Hair Designer" (watch it on the official channel), a young hardtack challenges Bread to a hair-design showdown to save his father's barbershop. Episode 3, "Bread's Hair Loss," puts the master himself in a slump after he's told his style is outdated, complete with stress-induced shedding. Episode 4, "Macaron's Day Off," sends the overworked idol on a rare day out with Wilk, until a reporter chasing photos of her corners Wilk with a deal. And in episode 5, "Ice Cream Runs Away," the new kid flees his freezer in search of warm food and starts melting in the heat before the shop crew comes to the rescue. (Episode titles here are our translations of the Japanese dub titles.)
A Korean Franchise With Real Netflix Numbers
Produced by the Korean studio Monster Studio, Bread Barbershop launched in South Korea in 2019 and has grown into a full franchise: more than 200 collaborations with over 100 Korean companies, plus films, games, and musicals. The series has reached the Netflix Kids Top 10 in more than 10 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India, and its combined social media following now tops 9.9 million.
The series has also built a large audience in Japan. The official Japanese YouTube channel has passed 400,000 subscribers and 600 million total views, and a manga adaptation is currently serialized on the Weekly Corocoro Comic website, Shogakukan's online home for kids' manga.
Looking Ahead
New dubbed episodes arrive every Monday at 6 PM JST on the official Japanese YouTube channel, and the Japanese version of Season 2 is exclusive to YouTube. Outside Japan, the series streams on Netflix, where those Kids Top 10 rankings came from. No English release of the Corocoro manga adaptation has been announced.