Audience reviews
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SteIx
Encouraged by the study feel, which has done things like the nostalgic Kiss x Sis, the famous Yosuga no Sora, and crap like Makura no Danshi. We get this anime that once gave something to talk about, but today is as forgotten as Erased at the end of its broadcast.
We better go quick with this fucking anime shit which I watched in its broadcast last year. Why ?, because I read a post where a moderator of AeE told some member of the Chinese dead that the show of this series would be his Waifu of the season, and surprisingly the design was fucking beautiful so I ran quickly to see the first episode, only to find me in the end ...
An anime, which starts in a meh way. We start with a dream that our protagonist has, which is a kind of future aspiring manga cartoonist, but who works in his fath…
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"Wanna try and be like adults?"
Apart from the fun and sweet (pun intended) nature of Dagashi Kashi, in all my reviews, this has been the hardest review ever as there's lots that conflicts with your mind and the fact that how much you enjoy it is severely hindered by the focus on Japan and it's sweets, something Westerners won't understand.
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Story: 6/10
It starts off excellently, it made me think that it's gonna be some Ecchi anime with a dash of romance included but boy was I wrong. Instead, it turned out to be a slice of life comedy with a huge focus on sweets particularly Japanese sweets and their origin. The middle part is the reason for it's mediocre rating, it's just too difficult for Western audiences to delve into the show and understand each and every reference and it. This…
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This anime is criminally underrated here, probably because it has every qualities to get a low score on myanimelist. (episodic manner, non-plot-heavy, fan-services, mysterious Japanese snacks and commercial-ish) It is not the type of anime that everyone would like, but I am glad that I never trust the score of MAL and believe in my intuition when I picking up anime.
For the story, as a Slice of Life anime, it never intends to tell a story. Plot almost doesn't exist to begin with. Therefore it is kind of irrelevant and unfair to judge the value of this anime with its plot.
For the art and sounds, snacks look delicious. Eyes are unique. OP and ED are catchy. The voice acting is great. Hotaru is voiced by Taketatsu Ayana, who is a very polished voice actor. other characters are also voice…
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This anime remind me summer when I was in eight-nine grade in school. Even not summer, but my writing about "How I spend my summer."
For me, it was that type of compositions when you sit at evening and try to find something worthwhile and not too embarrassing. Because nothing worthwhile didn't happen. Heroic deals - not for you, supernatural things always happens in other countries, apocalypse was canceled. All what you do: just went outdoor, met your friends, walk nearby with silly thoughts and do dummy things. You can't write about it, it was fun for you, not for anybody else.
And "Dagashi Kashi" is exactly about this kind of summer. It set of short stories about teenagers (Kokonotsu, Hotaru, Saya and Tou) who doing nothing special. Hotaru with hers perverted on sweets mind, all time…
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Hi my name is David Cheesborg and I'm here to review this show.
Story 5:
In response to this query, I pondered with what little intelligence I could muster. I can only conclude, with this morally challenging question of "story," and how it was. Well, my fellow cartoon consumer, it's trash. Zippity zap, bing bong, fling flop flip. Just know that this is not a cartoon where the story isn't the main focus: it's the snacks.
Art 8:
The art is what is should be, and I would assume it stays true to how the author wanted it to look like. They have managed to use actual, real life, not drawn by hand, images of the snacks to give us some real eye candy for when we buy snacks off otakumode.com(tm)* see the link below.
Sound 7:
I like it. Nothing special.
Character 9:
They chose the "few pew pew"…
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I feel like this series is more of an advertisement for a Japanese candy rather than an actual show trying to present a plot.....
[Story]: (2/10)
Kokonotsu's father owns a candy shop on a small rural countryside town. One day, a girl appeared and she tried to recruit his father to work for her company. He refused and so did Kokonotsu. Hotaru then decides to stay to try and convince Kokonotsu to work for her company.
I have no idea why I decided to enter this show with expectations. The first episode was really interesting and I thought it was going to go somewhere. Even if the plot was going somewhere like a garbage, I'd rather have that than 12 episodes of pure advertisement for a candy. That's literally the whole show. Every single episode, Hotaru brings in a new candy or she randoml…
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Dagashi Kashi is that kind of anime that you either hate or love as soon as you are done watching the very first episode. Yet I'm still surprised how low is the show rated here on MAL.
Instead of pointing out pros and cons, let me comment on some aspects that people complain about.
"The show is advertising Japanese sweets.". I mean... it is called *Dagashi* (sweets) Kashi, so the talk about sweets and their history is to be expected, isn't it?
Even the synopsis says, quoting: "...And so begins Hotaru's mission to *enlighten* the boy on the true joy of delicious and nostalgic dagashi!"
Then why is it so surprising, that the characters often discuss facts about candy? It isn't. That's exactly what I expected and what I got. Facts about sweets. Often pretty interesting at that and occasion…
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You rarely see an anime that actually teach you something (specially Japanese culture), or that's probably just me 'cause I rarely watch anime...
Anyway, the whole anime is really nice. Really light, and doesn't force you on the main plot. I like how it's being playful and gave a tickle on the fan-service/ecchi side.
You really could just jump between episodes if you're a bit lazy (or just want to re-watch) since it's really doesn't have a major plot. The plot is there so the main girl have at least *some* purpose. In my opinion, if there's no major plot, only a girl with a love of snack like some weed junkie loving... his weed, it's still a good and happy-go-lucky anime.
The only flaw I have it's that (for me) it feels a tad fast, and it's kind of sad that they're not THAT focus on the…
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Dagashi Kashi is basically a show featuring different kinds of Japanese snacks and candies along with light-hearted comedy and some fanservice.
The plot line about his father wanting him to succeed the candy shop so that he could work in Hotaru's company made little importance to the show (the last 2 eps}, so the anime has almost no story and are focused more on the snacks, candies, and gags.
The characters are good. Hotaru is quite an interesting ball of energy and weirdness along with Kokonotsu's father and are balanced by the more normal (but not boring) Kokonotsu and Saya. Tou, Kokonotsu's best friend, was the guy in between, a little weird and a little normal. So all in all, the characters are almost perfectly corresponding to each other and made this show comical and amusing.
The…
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Dagashi Kashi is a "sweet" series. The series centres around a boy known as kokonutsu. His father tells him one day that he has to run a small shop which is his families legacy. Kokonutsu does not really want to run the store and is left to look after it. Suddenly, an insane purple haired girl who was the main reason people watched the series appears. Her name is Hotaru Shidare. She is one of the main characters. Hotaru is the daughter of a business owner for the famous Shidare Dagashi corporation. She had been sent to retrieve Kokonutsus father to get him to join the Shidare corporation. We find out that Hotaru has a real sweet tooth, knowing pretty much anything needed to know about candy. We get to meet the 2 other main characters after Hotaru gets Kokonutsu to make a delicious new umai…
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER FREE!
Many people argue that Dagashi Kashi is nothing more than one big advertisement for Dagashi. This may or may not be true. Perhaps if you are Japanese and had grown up on Dagashi, this series is probably so slice-of-life that it’s boring. As someone genuinely interested in the lifestyles of Japanese citizens beyond anime and pop culture, I found this anime quite educational! Not only had I never heard of Dagashi before watching episode 1, but it also gave me a look into Japanese childhood, and growing up in the Japanese countryside. I also love the silly characters, especially Hotaru. If you are interested in Japanese culture as a whole, and you enjoy your light-hearted series’, then Dagashi Kashi is for you! It helps that I’m also a bit of a foodie.
I was rat…
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The title and the plot of the anime just screams Japan, All that the anime focuses on is "DAGASHI", which would mean "Candy" in English, as childish as that may sound, its a lot more deeper than that, the way candy is shown to give nostalgic feelings to people about their child hoods and take them back to those days just by looking at the packaging is something every one in any place around the world can relate to.
The anime has a very silly side to it, a lot of gags and awkward moments that just make the "comedy" tag worth it.
I don't know a lot about the plot, but what am sure of is that this anime wont give you much of a story, their wont be deep details about the characters past, just small flashbacks and also their isn't really any character development but for the most part you won…
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Dagashi Kashi is for me the rare show that turned out to be different from what I expected, in a wholly positive way. No fanservice or wish fulfilment going on here, just unabashed dagashi nerdiness and fun slice of life.
The premise is simple: An energetic girl comes to a town out in the countryside and tries to encourage our protagonist, Coconuts, to take over his father's dagashi shop. The story is full of nice people, the characters are pretty much all likeable and behave naturally throughout the show. I find Coconut's father, You(his mom's name must be "Me") to be an especially fun character, he is really energetic and caring, the kind of father you hardly get in anime these days.
You have to be prepared though, the show throws a lot of facts at you which can get repetitive. Each ep…
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Well this is my first review and I'm writing this because I thought that many people rated it too low.
About the story, it was pretty okay. You have a bunch of teens living in the countryside and doing the usual stuff. They sometimes go to the "dagashi" shop and talk about the origin of the sweets they eat. There is not much more to it. So, if you like deep anime with a serious plot, this is not it. It's more a "product" anime that you watch for your own enjoyment or to kill some time.
About the art, I'm sorry, I am no expert and my opinions on it usually are pretty subjective, so I just gonna say that it looks polished and the animation is pretty nice. I didn't notice too much lazy tricks or any awful drawings.
The sound doens't have a lot of imporance. The opening was nice and the end…
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Dagashi Kashi is a really simple and easy to follow anime. Main plot is about Hotaru convincing Kokonotsu to take over the family candy shop. And almost 95% of this plot is about candy. Every episode explains literary everything about one or two particular candies but in a fun way.
Other than candy and some really good humor there is also well-placed hinted romance. But it’s more about friendship and young people planning their future. The characters are also well-made, interesting and fun to watch. I’m not a big fan of main female characters because they’re often poorly done but Hotaru is really special. Her candy obsession never stops to amaze me. Downside is that you’ll probably get bored because every episode is similar so even if you skip a few, it’s no big deal. And it definitely d…
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Tl;dr 4.4 out of 10. no oppai, no plot, lots of talking about snacks.
This show starts completely different than it actually is. We start with a young aspiring manga artist who works in his dad's rural snack shop. It's a boring little shop with few customers. One day a pretty girl walks in and announces she's someone important and then goes on to challenge the main character in some snack themed contest and then does it again and again and again and so on.
The story pretty much derails after the first two episodes and falls into a formulaic feedback loop:
Start of episode: boring snack shop. part 1: introduce some mundane problem that a character acts like it's the end of the world (think first world problems).
part 2: somehow this has to do with a snack (no, really it doesn't).
part 3…
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With a sweet story and deliciously hilarious comedy, Dagashi Kashi has to be my personal favorite of the Winter 2016 season.
What’s great about the plot is how simplistic it is: conversations about traditional Japanese snacks (referred to as “dagashi”) in a rural setting. That is pretty much all there is. However, it’s how this is executed that makes it great. Also, fun fact: the dagashi mentioned in the show are the real product, so there is even accuracy to it.
The other great aspect about the show is the characters. Ever get tired of shows that have this massive list of characters that it makes it hard to comprehend? Well, Dagashi Kashi can fix that, because their cast only consists of five characters. Since we follow only these five that we get this strong connection with them; all o…
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So Kokonotsu... do you wanna try becoming adults?
Say yes you beta bastard, say yes!
Anyways, Dagashi Kashi! This series was the one I was most interested in before it aired. Why? Because of that busty babe on the picture! And now, after watching it, I can confidently say that Dagashi Kashi was actually the complete opposite of what I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be a story about young Kokonotsu, an aspiring mangaka, and his struggles of dealing with Hotaru, that sweet sexy thang, who wants Kokonotsu to take over his dad's candy shop instead! Well, sure... that's kind of what the show is about. But is it really?
Nah.........
Dagashi Kashi is a textbook example of a "nothing happens" show. However, it isn't by any means boring! It isn't like Glasslip tier of nothing ha…
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Candy has never been this delicious hasn't it...right Hotaru?.
This anime is a slice of life comedy through and through from it's setting of a rural town to the local candy store which is the setting for most of the anime screentime. The comedy like it's "slice of life" genre has simple yet some fanservicey punchlines from the minimal cast however even with 5 main cast members, their chemistry together makes the comedy all the more entertaining and relatable.
Although the comedy revolves around traditional Japanese candy that may deter or confuse some people, it still has substance in comedy and relatablity. Candy has always been a kind of food you could actually have fun with, savour the flavour and best of all, nostalgia, thus it "just being a Japanese candy, I won't get it"...isn't m…
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Watching Dagashi Kashi feels nostalgic. It’s nostalgic in the sense that makes you feel like a little kid again. Remember the first time you’ve walked into a candy store and picked out your favorite sweets? It’s that type of familiar feeling. Dagashi Kashi evokes a bit of childhood memories when I walked into a candy store for the first time. And believe me, this show likes to do a lot of funny things related to candy.
The series follows the episodic adventures of Kokonotsu Shikada. His encounter with Hotaru Shidare lands him in stories that drops him into the world of dagashi. Why? It’s because Hotaru is part of a famous family owned sweet company. She wants Kokonotsu’s father to join and he only agrees on the condition that Kokonotsu can take over his own shop. Thus, we got Hotaru and h…
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