TV season
2009-10-04
Episode 1
2009-10-04 • 24 min
Amano Ichigo, a middle schooler with no particular talent, meets a pâtissier (Henri Lucas) who realizes that she has an incredible palate one day at a sweets festival. He asks her to transfer to a special school for pastry chefs called "St. Marie Academy".
Episode 2
2009-10-11 • 24 min
Ichigo transfers to St. Marie Academy and is overwhelmed by the school. She encounters three boys (aka Sweets Princes) on the way to class, each one of them is a talented pâtissier. Ichigo is then placed in Group A with them, despite being a beginner, leading to jealousy and surprise among her other classmates.
Episode 3
2009-10-18 • 24 min
Ichigo has a hard time with the extreme course-load at St. Marie and starts to get homesick. She is cheered up by Hanabusa, one of the boys in her group.
Episode 4
2009-10-25 • 24 min
There's a special salon at St. Marie Academy (which is run by the High School student council) called Salon de Marie. Ichigo would give anything to work there, but because she's in middle school, her chances are slim. Andou asks her to come with him to his family's Japanese confectionery to help get her mind off things. There, she finds out that the eldest out of Andou's 4 younger siblings, Ichita, dislikes cake, so she decides to find out why.
Episode 5
2009-11-01 • 24 min
Kashino is extremely skilled with chocolate; so with a chocolate test coming up, Ichigo decides to make a chocolate cake that will blow him away.
Episode 6
2009-11-08 • 24 min
Ichigo finds all three of the Sweets Princes also have accompanying Sweets Spirits. On a trip to a local preschool, Ichigo notices a little girl named Ringo that seems to be having trouble making friends, and promises her that she will make a cake that will help her to make friends with everyone else in the class.
Episode 7
2009-11-15 • 24 min
Group B stole the cake Ichigo designed in order to embarrass her because she is with the Sweets Princes. With little time to spare, Group A must design a new cake to be presented to Ringo for her birthday.
Episode 8
2009-11-22 • 24 min
Ichigo's roommate and friend, Rumi, goes home and leaves her alone. Group B invited her to gather walnuts and she is intentionally misled by them. Fortunately, the High School student council president, Mari Tennouji, rescues Ichigo. Later, Ichigo learns about the Cake Grand Prix, a competition held at St. Marie where winners get to go to Paris to study. Ichigo and the rest of Group A decide to team up for the competition, but a girl named Miya (known as the Heiress) shows up and claims that she will be the one to work with Group A, leading a showdown between her and Ichigo.
Episode 9
2009-11-29 • 24 min
Ichigo, with the help of Caramel and Vanilla, stays up all night the night before her showdown with the Heiress to practice making pudding. She ends up winning due to a few factors, and finds out that Mari Tennouji also has a Sweets Spirit named Honey. Group A is upset at Ichigo's attitude towards her win, and when Vanilla tries to explain, Ichigo doesn't listen. Vanilla gets upset as well and claims that she will no longer be her partner.
Episode 10
2009-12-06 • 24 min
Upset that she made her friends mad, she runs back home without telling anyone. Her family greets her happily, not having known that she ran away because she told them that she was on an early Winter break. But, Ichigo quickly tells them the truth after her mom hangs up the phone and tells them her plans to transfer from St. Marie. The next day, Ichigo and her family visit her deceased grandmother's pastry shop, now run by her uncle. Ichigo and her sister help their uncle make sweets. After discovering that Vanilla followed her and remembering the happiness her grandmother's sweets brought her, Ichigo decides to go back to St. Marie. Her uncle gives her grandmother's recipe notebook and she heads back to school, where she finds the Sweets Princes waiting for her to apologize for what they said to her.
Episode 11
2009-12-13 • 24 min
The Sweets Princes tells Ichigo about how they first met, got their Sweets Spirits, and became friends over each other's madeleines.
Episode 12
2009-12-20 • 24 min
At St. Marie's annual Christmas cake charity event, Ichigo encounters a customer who seems very depressed. When she and her group hear his story about his lost love seven years prior, they decide to help him have a Merry Christmas.
Episode 13
2009-12-27 • 24 min
While everyone else heads home for New Year's break, Ichigo stays behind at school to practice. When Vanilla asks her to visit the Sweets Kingdom, she agrees eagerly. While Vanilla and the rest of the court Sweets Spirits prepare for their annual New Year's Festival, Ichigo encounters a group of bandits who are known as "The Jerks".
Episode 14
2010-01-10 • 24 min
The Sweets Princes give Ichigo a crash course to help her through the preliminary section of the Cake Grand Prix. Due to the fact that too many middle school teams entered this year, they find out at the beginning of the exam that there is a new individual section. If Ichigo fails, the whole of Group A will fail.
Episode 15
2010-01-17 • 24 min
In the first round of the Cake Grand Prix, Group A is up against a group of third-year boys and a girl who have their sweets featured in Salon de Marie. Ichigo, Kashino, and Andou are easily able to come up with their pound cakes. But Hanabusa can't seem to get his rose water pound cake to come out the way he wants it too. He then gets frustrated and runs away, but Ichigo follows him. He explains to her (because she's a girl) that the rose water was a gift from his deceased father and how important it was to him.
Episode 16
2010-01-24 • 24 min
Hanabusa decides to abandon his rose water pound cake, and angrily throws the bottle into a pond. But Ichigo jumps in after it. After noticing that the pond water left a smell on Ichigo and Kashino (who jumped in after her), Hanabusa has an idea for his cake. When he had his cake to be like the way he wanted it to be, Ichigo suggests that the group should change their pound cake recipes and has to stay up all night to perfect their four cakes. The next day at the Cake Grand Prix match, they show the audience that they had to change the recipes so that they would match Hanabusa's rose water cake (well, most parts of the explanation appeared in sort of a flash back). Because they made cakes that all accented one another instead of overpowering each other, Team Ichigo wins the match. After, during a tea-time celebrating their win, Hanabusa kisses Ichigo on the cheek. Kashino and Andou react comically(maybe jealously), but Ichigo dismisses the kiss as "nothing more than a greeting."
Episode 17
2010-01-31 • 24 min
One of Ichigo's classmates, Hayami, mentions that Ichigo doesn't deserve to be in the same group at the Sweets Princes due to her lack of skills. However, Hayami and the rest of Group F continually slack off in class and she, however, seemingly doesn't care about sweets. Ichigo has a feeling that something isn't quite right and found out that Hayami was originally in Group C (but dropped to Group F after her sickness and fever during the final exam). Even worse, Hayami is currently planning to transfer out of St. Marie.
Episode 18
2010-02-07 • 24 min
Ichigo falls down the stairs and is taken to the local hospital by the Sweets Princes. Kashino doesn't seem to want to go into the building. Ichigo notices that all the doctors are named Kashino at the hospital and the group finds out that Kashino's family owns the hospital. Kashino's sister shows up and has him kidnapped. Ichigo, Andou, Hanabusa and the Sweets Spirits finds out and follows him.
Episode 19
2010-02-14 • 24 min
Ichigo goes shopping with Rumi for Valentine's chocolate when they run into the Heiress, and challenged Ichigo to a chocolate-making duel that is to be held on Valentine's Day at the party sponsored by the Heiress's father. At the party, they end up having a tie and Ichigo danced with the Sweets Princes.
Episode 20
2010-02-21 • 24 min
Team Ichigo is up against the only first year group in the quarterfinals of the middle school round of the Cake Grand Prix, whose leader, Lemon, is a transfer student from the original campus in Paris.
Episode 21
2010-02-28 • 24 min
The rematch for Team Ichigo and Lemon's quarterfinal match is scheduled and the theme of "friendship" is chosen, but Andoh ran away. Ichigo, Kashino, and Hanabusa follow him home to make him change his mind about quitting St. Marie.
Episode 22
2010-03-07 • 24 min
Vanilla knocks over Ichigo's alarm clock, causing her to oversleep. When she trips down the stairs, the dorm mistress gives her some baumkuchen she made as Ichigo skipped breakfast. When she sees the dorm mistress arguing with her husband (who is also the head of the boys' dorm), she decides to meddle.
Episode 23
2010-03-14 • 24 min
A circus group from France is coming to perform near Andou's home, and Ichita wants to go see it. Ichigo, Ichita and the gang go to see the circus' performance, where Ichita spots a blonde girl performing. After the show, Ichigo and Ichita get separated from the group and meets the blonde girl Ichita previously spotted (whose name is Ameli). Ichita gives Amelie some cookies, and she invites them to her mobile home in repayment for the delicious cookies. When they arrived at their mobile house, Ameli's mother offered them to eat curry and some spinach salad. Ameli doesn't like the carrots in the curry while Ichita hates the spinach in the salad. Ichigo makes a dessert, containing both spinach and carrot which neither Ichita nor Ameli enjoyed it. Back at the academy, Ichigo works hard to make a spinach and carrot cake but can't get it right without Andou's help. They let Ichita taste it and after he approves, they rush to get it to Ameli, who is moving with the circus.
Episode 24
2010-03-21 • 24 min
Team Ichigo must win in the semi-finals of the Cake Grand Prix, otherwise Kashino must join the Heiress' team.
Episode 25
2010-03-28 • 24 min
Team Ichigo is confident in their design for the latest round of the competition; Team Koshiro are copying Team Ichigo's design almost exactly.
Episode 26
2010-04-04 • 24 min
The bitter taste of defeat doesn't stop Team Ichigo from giving their all in the third-place round of the Grand Prix; Team Koshiro' newest member may not feel the same way.
Episode 27
2010-04-11 • 24 min
Ichigo and the Sweets Princes aren't the only ones who have to study; the Sweets Spirits must pass their makeup exams or be barred from the human world forever.
Episode 28
2010-04-18 • 24 min
When Ichigo goes home to train on her own, she learns her sister Natsume is quitting the piano; a nostalgic tart from their childhood may be the thing to rekindle Natsume's passion for music.
Episode 29
2010-04-25 • 24 min
Team Ichigo needs to practice for their new theme, but their teacher is giving them only the most basic of lessons.
Episode 30
2010-05-02 • 24 min
The team goes to a ranch to understand where their ingredients come from.
Episode 31
2010-05-09 • 24 min
As the main tournament begins, Team Ichigo faces off against the Country Girls, who only use wholesome organic ingredients in their creations.
Episode 32
2010-05-16 • 24 min
Ichigo makes some new friends at a local festival; sweet turns to sour when she must face off against them in the Cake Grand Prix.
Episode 33
2010-05-23 • 24 min
After tasting Team Natsuki's delicious pastry, Ichigo worries she can't compete; perhaps using an unusual ingredient can give her the inspiration she needs to taste victory.
Episode 34
2010-05-30 • 24 min
Sometimes the Sweets Kingdom can be so boring; that's why Marron decides to travel to the human world to put a little spice in her life.
Episode 35
2010-06-06 • 24 min
Ichigo wants to make a great impression when Henri Lucas returns to St. Marie Academy.
Episode 36
2010-06-13 • 24 min
A good grasp of the basics may not be enough to carry Team Ichigo when the theme of their next match is kept secret until the big day.
Episode 37
2010-06-20 • 24 min
Team Ichigo has their work cut out for them before the final round of the Cake Grand Prix.
Episode 38
2010-06-27 • 24 min
The final match is here; Team Ichigo must put on the fight of their lives to make their culinary dreams come true.
Episode 39
2010-07-04 • 24 min
The results of the Cake Grand Prix are in, but not everyone is happy with the result.
Episode 40
2010-07-11 • 24 min
Getting lost in a foreign country is no fun; luckily, Ichigo is great at making new friends, although the rest of her team isn't too happy about that.
Episode 41
2010-07-18 • 24 min
Team Ichigo is up against a stellar team; competing with a broken oven puts their feet to the fire.
Episode 42
2010-07-25 • 24 min
Although Team Ichigo's idea to make gelato is super cool, they have to invent a truly outstanding flavor if they want to win.
Episode 43
2010-08-01 • 24 min
Ichigo and Kashino start training under the famed patissier, Monsieur Blanc.
Episode 44
2010-08-08 • 24 min
Team Ichigo hopes for this round of the competition have a happily ever after.
Episode 45
2010-08-15 • 24 min
Fresh from a whirlwind tour of Europe, Team Ichigo and Team Koshiro are thrown into an all-things-chocolate rematch.
Episode 46
2010-08-22 • 24 min
Recipes start going missing; perhaps a trip to the Sweets Kingdom could shed a little light on the disappearances.
Episode 47
2010-09-05 • 24 min
The search for the perfect strawberry leads Ichigo on a trip around the world and back again.
Episode 48
2010-09-12 • 24 min
A shocking upset throws Team Ichigo for a loop; the fate of Team Tennouji isn't the only unpleasant surprise in store for Ichigo and her friends.
Episode 49
2010-09-19 • 24 min
The finals of the World Cake Grand Prix arrive; to taste sweet victory, Team Ichigo must face a grueling three-hour battle against the formidable Team Francois.
Episode 50
2010-09-26 • 24 min
In the World Cake Grand Prix's final challenge, Ichigo must stand on her own two feet; the likelihood of victory comes down to her extraordinary palate.
