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JonaRM
I quite enjoyed it. Each episode offered a different reflection and featured a different dish, making each episode enjoyable. However, I felt it lacked a major conflict to be resolved in the later episodes. It felt more like an anime to enjoy in the moment, but I still enjoyed it.
The three main characters grow throughout many episodes, especially in how they treat their family, though they also develop in how they treat their friends.
The food aspect was a highlight for me. The recipes were presented in detail, step by step, and the level of detail in the animation was quite good, making it the most enjoyable part.
In conclusion, if you like food and want to spend some time laughing and reflecting, this is the right anime for you.
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An amazing slice of life and a gourmet themed anime!
I loved watching this anime, it was super relaxing and fun to watch.
I liked the story of cooking amazing dishes in a nice, small, cozy restaurant kitchen. The anime is filled with emotions, cuteness and adventure of preparing a nice meal.
The art style is nice and modern. Dishes look delicious, the process of making them is shown as quite detailed. I also liked the character art for all the characters.
The characters' personalities are also quite nice. Tsumugi is such an adorable and cute little girl and I also liked Kotori who is nice and caring particularly towards Tsumugi. Kohei is also shown as a caring father who does everything in his power to ensure that his daughter is happy. Other characters were also good and made the anim…
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It's a shame this one is as short as it is, because I really enjoy this one. It really does a great job of adding just a pinch of raw reality in an idealistic cooking anime without making it too depressing or whiplashy. The characters, particularly the father and child, act like actual people. Tsumugi both sounds and acts like you would expect a child to act given what she's going through which isn't often done in animes like this (her voice actor Rina Endō needs some serious kudos for that). Tsumugi is adventurous and energetic, not the greatest at projecting her emotions, she gets angry and throws tantrums, and when the reality of her mother's demise starts to dawn on her she breaks down. All the while, her tired and hard working assistant teacher father does everything he can to ease he…
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I went to watch this anime thinking I was going to fall in love with it, and that's what happened. What I didn't plan on was that I lost my father while I was watching it. It's really painful to remember even now as I'm writing this review, even though it's been a month since he passed away, but the story reminds me of when my father used to cook for me, his delicious lasagnas, stroganoff, and the creamed corn that I asked him to give me the recipe for, but he couldn't remember what it was anymore. I wish all the children in the world could have a wonderful father like Tsumugi-chan had, because unfortunately there are many out there who abandon their children, or if they don't abandon them, they mistreat them.
Watch it, you won't regret it!
Read at the sourceKurosaki1580
Man, Japanese people know how to develop relationships. And most importantly, they know how to keep us interested in learning, understanding and following the development of these relationships.
I don't actually know what it's like to be a family of just a father and his daughter, but I imagine it's exactly like this: the two of them trying to move forward, helping each other, while continuing loving who is gone.
And I liked that they used cooking as a tool to move forward, it's an original idea (as far as I know) and it was well executed.
I want to praise the way Kotori-chan was used in the work. She was often a necessary incentive for the father and daughter's problems to be resolved, but she never interfered, so as not to create a feeling that she was in the wrong place at the wrong…
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There is a reason I rated this anime low, and it has nothing to do with the characters. They were sweet, and the little girl was particularly cute, and had some believable character growth. It had nothing to to with the art, which was pretty good, or the sound, or anything like that. There was nothing wrong with this anime. Nothing at all.
Except...
It is a food anime.
That's all it is. Every episode involves a single father and his daughter making food with one of his students who is a kinda-sorta-maybe love interest.
And that's all you'll ever get out of it.
Any given episode is:
"Let's make some food"
"We're making some food!"
"It's delicious food!" (with faces and over the top descriptions of how good the food is)
*student makes slightly hidden googy eyes at the father*
*little g…
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This show can't decide if it's about lonely individuals finding each other and becoming family, or if it's just a cooking appreciation show.
Based on the premise, you'd expect that this show would focus on interpersonal relationships and the difficulty of single parenting. But, the show ends up spending a lot of time on particular dishes and making them.
This would be perfectly fine if it really focused all of its energy on the food aspect, like "Restaurant from Another World" or "Campfire Cooking in Another World" (huh a lot of food isekai...)
But even when the characters are cooking, many shots are devoted to the characters' boring faces rather than the food. This makes the cooking to interpersonal relational aspect 50/50, rather than dominantly one or the other.
Basically, this sho…
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Half of the show is about cooking food, the other one is about bad parenting.
The cooking aspect is very superficial. But the reason I would not recommend it is that it is simply unreal, fake. The child does not act liek a child. She acts like someone without children would imagine a child to act. When she expresses actual trait a children might have, it is sullenness or stubbornness, her father first does not know how to react properly and then apologises to her for not acting properly (e.g. Daddy is sorry for not scolding you enough).
The parenting is so wrong here that the cuteness the authors are trying to go for feels kinda repulsive.
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Hello, and welcome to an anime that's about as bland as plain oatmeal. I'm talking about Amaama to Inazuma, an anime that tries to be heartwarming and endearing but falls short in almost every way.
The premise of Amaama to Inazuma is fairly simple. Our protagonist, Kouhei, is a single father raising his daughter, Tsumugi, on his own. When Tsumugi expresses an interest in cooking, Kouhei enlists the help of one of his students, Kotori, to teach them both how to make delicious meals. Along the way, they form a makeshift family and learn important life lessons.
Unfortunately, the execution of this premise is lackluster at best. The characters are one-dimensional and lack any real depth or complexity. The humor f…
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This anime adapts the first 19 chapters of a manga that spans 12 volumes and 63 chapters total. And of course, it had to leave out a fair bit to make it even that far.
The art work and the voice acting make this a very special anime. The art in the manga was great, but after watching the anime, I feel like the manga was a bit minimalist. The extra detail, and of course the color, make the anime a really special experience. And the voice actors were incredible. Every single VA was perfect. It was as if I had known the characters and their voices for years. Every actor recreated their character perfectly, and never have I heard such believable child characters.
However, I strongly recommend reading the manga first. The original story includes some flashbacks, some travel episodes, and sev…
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Talking about this title leaves me with mixed feelings, on one hand I am happy to finally write a review again after so much time but on the other hand it’s a bit sad that it has to be about a title that was well received at the time yet forgotten quickly, and that I never had a positive opinion about it.
To start with the positives, it’s easy to understand why people would enjoy the show as long as they like slice of life, first of all, for the genre it’s pretty well visually presented, even after half a decade I still remember it as a series with no major quality drops, well made backgrounds, vivid, expressive and fluid motions and facial expressions for its type of show, and with cooking anime levels of detailed and very well drawn food. The scene I remember the most and that I watched…
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this is SO feel-good. just 12 episodes of the most adorable father-daughter love expressed through a passion for food. what originally drew me in was Rina Endou's (fantastic) performance as Tsumugi (the kid), but I stayed for the characters. i expected it to get repetitive after a few episodes, but it just kept introducing new conflicts and all of them were so well done. i especially liked how it managed to introduce new secondary characters without detracting from the importance of the main cast :3 MAN this was so much fun to watch!! highly recommend for those looking for something short and light-hearted.
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So this slice of life falls into more along the informative shows, that above all else focused on more on the cooking aspect than the characters themselves.
The cast is pretty concise which I appreciate. Often times with slice of life they tend to add too many characters within a short episode span, and kind feel overwhelming.
But Amaama to Inazuma has a solid cast, mostly between Kohei, Kotori, and Tsumugi. Without a doubt Tsumugi steals the show with her adorable antics and keeps the episodes fresh with her father attempting to deal with her tantrums and school troubles. Its heartwarming to see Kohei try his best, especially being a single father. But the people around him, with the friends he makes along the way really aid him when at times he's unable to understand Tsumugi.
All that…
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Wait this was an anime review. Sweetness and Lightning or Amaama to Inazuma for the weebs who can't stand translated titles, is an interesting mish-mash of ideas. Primarily I think it wants to be a food anime, as everything always manages to come back to cooking, but it also tries to juggle themes of parenting and an implied student x teacher romance. I had a bet with my brother as we were watching it that the girl's mo…
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Tsumugi is extremely cute. That's about it, to be honest.
The "dad raising a cute child" setting is one that tends to really stick with me. But unfortunately, Amaama to Inazuma couldn't deliver a solid experience. Its biggest problem is that it's boring. As the series starts, Tsumugi's overall cuteness and her personality are good enough that I'm kept interested for a few episodes. Endou Rina, as young as she is (10 years old!) did a fantastic job at voicing her, and watching her interact with her dad and meeting new characters with the viewer makes for interesting exposition, but apart from a few select extra-cute scenes, the novelty of it all quickly wears off after the first few episodes.
The characters show next to no growth by the time the series ends. Inazuka-sensei showing some im…
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This is not a show that you watch to see a deep dive into an author's imagined world. This is not a show you watch in order to experience an enthralling story with tons of events to think about and interpret. This is the kind of show that you watch when you want a brief moment of escapism from life's hardships. A time where you can see a light-hearted story that doesn't really have much in the way of stakes.
This show isn't meant to be a great show. It's meant to be a feel-good story that warms your heart and make you appreciate the genre more. This show achieves that. It's very easy to watch, and doesn't leave you wondering about the characters lives outside of the story. No theories to contemplate. No future events to anticipate. That kind of works against it a bit in comparison to othe…
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I watched Amaama to Inazuma. Here are my thoughts:
The anime is mainly focused on a single widowed father and his kindergarten-ish age daughter. Cooking is the primary focus of the show and the bulk of each episode revolves around cooking in some way. This cooking theme is a major component of the anime's appeal, at least from my point of view.
I don't like the daughter character's voice actor. She sounds like she has food in her mouth or something. Really unnatural-sounding voice acting in her case. Otherwise, the show's audio is completely unremarkable.
Don't really like the character designs, although they appear to be accurate depictions of the manga art. Animation quality is okay and the art style is bland.
Emotional aspects of the show feel forced and artificial. The characters a…
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My quest to find the perfect "foodie" anime continues with this.
Story 8/10
The struggling single father tries to connect with his young daughter through learning how to cook, he receives an offer from a lonely student with a workaholic mother who has a restaurant (now closed) due to her TV work. They decide to cook, and eat together. This is a slice of life with a different recipe and life lessons each episode. The kid having meltdowns and drama at day care, that was so real, every parent has experienced something like this. Great story.
Art 5/10
This should have been much, much better with better animation. It was honestly kind of blah, which is sad because the character designs are good.
Sound 6/10
Also could have been better. The OP is fantastic and catchy but the rest of it was ver…
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tl;dr: A show with simple but relatable cooking and an adorable father daughter relationship that get’s somewhat repetitive towards the end.
This anime is at it’s core about a single dad, Kouhei, learning how to cook with his five year old daughter, Tsumugi, and one of the students he teaches as a high school teacher, Kotori, who’s mother owns a restaurant. Each episode generally has two focuses that are connected to varying degrees, the cooking itself and the main character’s personal lives and relationships.
The cooking I found interesting in that it was low level. There are many cooking shows and anime about great chefs creating amazing works of culinary art or chefs who cook in extremely tense and high paced environments. But as someone that is a terrible cook those are completely un…
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Wholesome show about family& food. I think that says it all but let’s elaborate.
First, two things that threw me off:
- Tsumugi’s voice. Not bad& very fitting to her character, but it struck me as out of place, especially at first.
- The "cooking is starting" song. Also, pretty good but the first seconds are basically an alarm clock so I had a fight or flight response every time it played. I rarely notice music in anime & when I do its either too good, too bad or out of place. I'll add alarm clock to that list.
With that out of the way, the characters are very cute and pleasant, so you end up caring about their little adventures and victories. Also, huge points to Kouhei for being an amazing father who wants the best for his daughter, listens and apologizes when he does a mistake. It was…
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