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A mysterious Italian restaurant called Dante has opened in town, but it is no ordinary eatery. This establishment serves a unique clientele: famous historical figures from across the ages who appear at its doors just before their deaths. Unlike a typical restaurant, the currency paid for a meal at Dante is not money but the customer's very life.
The story centers on Koi Negai, a high school girl with extensive burn scars on her face and body from a fire in which her mother attempted suicide with her. Self-conscious and withdrawn due to her appearance, Negai begins working as a dishwasher, cleaner, and server at the restaurant Dante. There she meets the cook, Meshiya Asutaro, a man whose face is the spitting image of the chef from a previous restaurant called Heaven's Door, though his personality is completely different. The restaurant's petite owner is Kanaboshi Rushiha. Another key figure is Minokoji, who is actually Maeda Atari from the earlier restaurant Heaven's Door, now possessed by an angel as depicted in the previous series finale.
In a pivotal moment, Negai decides to offer her future life as payment to taste Asutaro's cooking. As a result of eating this otherworldly meal, she loses her ability to judge beauty and ugliness, and her burn scars no longer trouble her. Freed from her deepest insecurity, her personality brightens significantly. Other characters include Oka Ruto, a boy from a neighboring class who is an aspiring exorcist, and Julie Daubigny, a seventeen-year-old girl born in France in 1673 who arrives in the present day. Julie is judged by Asutaro as not understanding love, and eating his food produces no effect, so she is hired as a bodyguard for the restaurant instead.
The narrative arc follows the cursed and wounded characters who gather at this strange restaurant, as well as the parade of historical figures who arrive to trade their lives for one final meal. The series explores what a person--both the guests and the staff--might choose as their last taste, and what value one places on a single life when it can be exchanged for a single dish.
The story centers on Koi Negai, a high school girl with extensive burn scars on her face and body from a fire in which her mother attempted suicide with her. Self-conscious and withdrawn due to her appearance, Negai begins working as a dishwasher, cleaner, and server at the restaurant Dante. There she meets the cook, Meshiya Asutaro, a man whose face is the spitting image of the chef from a previous restaurant called Heaven's Door, though his personality is completely different. The restaurant's petite owner is Kanaboshi Rushiha. Another key figure is Minokoji, who is actually Maeda Atari from the earlier restaurant Heaven's Door, now possessed by an angel as depicted in the previous series finale.
In a pivotal moment, Negai decides to offer her future life as payment to taste Asutaro's cooking. As a result of eating this otherworldly meal, she loses her ability to judge beauty and ugliness, and her burn scars no longer trouble her. Freed from her deepest insecurity, her personality brightens significantly. Other characters include Oka Ruto, a boy from a neighboring class who is an aspiring exorcist, and Julie Daubigny, a seventeen-year-old girl born in France in 1673 who arrives in the present day. Julie is judged by Asutaro as not understanding love, and eating his food produces no effect, so she is hired as a bodyguard for the restaurant instead.
The narrative arc follows the cursed and wounded characters who gather at this strange restaurant, as well as the parade of historical figures who arrive to trade their lives for one final meal. The series explores what a person--both the guests and the staff--might choose as their last taste, and what value one places on a single life when it can be exchanged for a single dish.
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- Story & ArtMichihiko Fujiei