Dagashi is now becoming a bleak part of Japanese culture, and I think the show is trying to drum up interest in kids today particularly the millennials. As Japan’s economy developed and children came to have more money in their pockets, they began buying more expensive snacks at supermarkets and convenience stores instead of dagashi.” It continues, “Nowadays dagashi are more often found in convenience stores and 100-yen shops.” This is really the beauty of the anime. It reads “Over the last few decades, though, traditional dagashi stores have gradually disappeared from the towns. According to, “the word dagashi originally referred to cheap candies of low quality, but over time the word came to be used for candies children can easily afford with their small allowances.” It’s a very colorful article, and it basically sums up the motivation of the anime at the last paragraph. I found this neat article that explains the general idea of dagashi. I recently learned that it means “candy” but I had to google the term because the show also featured random sh*t like wafers and powdered drinks. It has a premise that I actually like but the entire show dedicates everything to “dagashi”. For a story slut like me, who loves their sandwich with a thick slice of exposition, this anime is just perplexing. It’s just characters talking about candy and the audience getting treated to some more Japanese things to fall in love with. Seriously, the characters just talk about candy throughout the shows entire twelve episodes. The anime now focuses on Hotaru and her love of candy as she discusses them with Kokonotsu. Hotaru then decides that the only way to get what she wants is to she teaches Kokonotsu the wonderful side of candies.
He refused because no one will look after his shop, and his son isn’t interested in owning it. One day, a girl named Hotaru appears wanting Kokonotsu’s father to work with her family’s company. Kokonotsu’s father owns a candy shop in a small rural town. No, it’s something much more surprising, actually. Anyways, this is a twelve episode anime about candy otaku and the dangers of sweets. Seriously, run the word on google translate and it’ll give the play on words instead. It means “cheap sweets candy” but it’s also a play on words that also means “however”.
The anime I’ll be reviewing is called Dagashi Kashi. This anime is part of the Winter 2016 lineup. This is review number three hundred and sixty.
0 kommentar(er)
