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 Ggultra2764
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An adaptation of Kotoyama’s slice-of-life comedy manga of the same name, Dagashi Kashi focuses on Kokonotsu Shikada, the son of a rural dagashi shop owner who is trying to talk his son in inheriting his business. Things get more bizarre when the eccentric Hotaru Shidare attempts to recruit Kokonotsu’s father to work for her family’s dagashi company and he won’t accept work from her unless Kokonotsu chooses to pursue the family business. This leads Hotaru to attempt persuading Kokonotsu to inherit his family’s business through use of tactics like games, stories, and riddles using dagashi to convince him to pursue it. For anyone not aware, dagashi is cheap candy and snacks that are typically sold to children in Japan. Dagashi Kashi appears to be aimed at those who dabble heavily into the snacks considering Hotaru’s obsessive love for them and the large amount of information she has on various forms of snacks she consumes. Doing some research, it does appear that the series does dabble into actual brand name dagashi, which may offer some educational value to anyone interested in learning more about the types of snacks. But whether or not this grabs viewer interest may depend on familiarity with dagashi or being a snack aficionado. Episodes of the series are structured into two to three segments where Kokonotsu and his friends, the two Endo siblings, interact with Hotaru and get involved in some sort of conversation or activity involving the use of dagashi. The major characters have their typical character types they follow throughout the series and they largely stick with them, as Dagashi Kashi is more focused on its comedy and dabbling into dagashi. For the most part with me, the comedy mostly fell flat as it relies rather heavily on sexual humor and Hotaru’s eccentricity to attempt carrying things, making it feel rather one-note and repetitive with the types of gags it attempts. In short, I’m rather indifferent on Dagashi Kashi as an anime comedy. Its humor didn’t do much to amuse me and its focus on dagashi gives me the impression this show may have a niche appeal to anyone outside Japan, being no different to other anime titles made more in mind for fans of particular hobbies and popular cultural trends within Japan. Definitely a series where you mileage may vary with it. Last updated Wednesday, August 11 2021. Created Wednesday, August 11 2021. | ||||||||
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(One episode watched): Well, I guess the primary problem with this show is that the basic premise--a rich girl wants you to work in a modest snack shop rather than pursue your dream--feels pretty lame. It might work for one skit in one episode of some comedy show, but an entire series? I don't think so. Especially not when the first episode couldn't summon a single laugh out of me. If I were authorized to do whatever it would take to salvage this show, the first thing I'd do is hire one or more talented commedians who can write genuinely funny jokes. As things are, being a comedy without decent jokes DK needs an interesting story and likeable characters. But again the premise is lame and the characters are lame as well. Kokonatsu's personality consists of his wish to be a mangakka; that was revealed in the first minute or two of the episode and little or nothing is added to him afterwards. Who wants to make candy instead of draw manga? Maybe he will have a change of heart later on, but with his personality as bland as it is so far, I doubt if it would be very convincing. Nobody else gets much depth, either. One thing that is distinctive about the characters is that they have an odd, cross-eyed look to them. Both the OP and ED songs sounded to me like there was something wrong with the timing of the recording I was listening to. There's the usual 'oops, I walked in on a nude girl in a shower' scene; wouldn't it be funny if just for once a guy who was about to open a bathroom door stopped and thought 'for all I know, there might be someone naked inside'? It would definitely be unusual. I don't hate this show, but I definitely have much better things to do with my time. This show was clearly meant to be a comedy, the makers just couldn't or wouldn't provide it with any good jokes. It has gotten to the point where sometimes when I see a certain style of modest character designs (like the ones here) in the first scene of a new anime, they seem to quash my hopes at a stroke, because shows of this sort are almost never very good. Last updated Wednesday, February 15 2017. Created Tuesday, January 12 2016. | ||||||||
