Dagashi Kashi

Out in the countryside stands a sweet shop run by the Shikada family for nine generations: Shikada Dagashi, a small business selling traditional Japanese candy. However, despite his father's pleas, Kokonotsu Shikada, an aspiring manga artist, adamantly refuses to inherit the family business.

However, this may start to change with the arrival of the eccentric Hotaru Shidare. Hotaru is in search of Kokonotsu's father, with the goal of bringing him back to work for her family's company, Shidare Corporation, a world famous sweets manufacturer. Although the senior Shikada initially refuses, he states that he will change his mind on one condition: if Hotaru can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family shop. And so begins Hotaru's mission to enlighten the boy on the true joy of delicious and nostalgic dagashi!

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Shidare, Hotaru

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Taketatsu, Ayana
Japanese

Shikada, Kokonotsu

Main

Abe, Atsushi
Japanese

Endou, Saya

Supporting

Numakura, Manami
Japanese

Endou, Tou

Supporting

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
Japanese

Shikada, You

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Tamai, Tamako

Supporting

Hara, Asami
Japanese

Nakano

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Hara, Asami
Japanese

Perry

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Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Ono

Supporting

Tanaka, Aimi
Japanese

Fue Gum-senpai

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

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Yoshikawa, Atsushi

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Tanaka, Junichirou

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Okamoto, Junya

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"Checkmate!?" by MICHI

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"Hey! Calorie Queen (Hey! カロリーQueen)" by Ayana Taketatsu

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May 5, 2024

LegionIscariot

Recommended

I didn’t like this anime at first because I didn’t understand what it was going for.
Plus im not into Gourmet anime.

But once I started to understand what kind of humor it was going for I started to really like it.
Alot of it is thanks to the main character Hotaru. A very strange, eccentric and hilarious girl.
She is the heir of a candy company and wants to hire the owner of a small candy shop named You to come work for her father’s company. But You refuses unless his son Kokonotsu agrees to take over the shop.

From thereon episode after episode its Hotaru being cute, ...

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Apr 1, 2023

AeroGunz

Mixed Feelings

“Dagashi Kashi” is what happens when a sugar addict gets a chance to create something.

I honestly don’t know why it isn’t classified as a “slice of life” on MAL but… c'est la vie.

It’s a story about a boy who really doesn’t want to succeed his father in running a small dagashi (from what I understand it’s an umbrella term for cheap candy and snacks) store out in the boonies. One day an eccentric (borderline obsessive and crazy if You ask me) girl shows up in town to recruit his father to work for her family company. By the power of anime logic the father and ...

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Sep 19, 2018

SteIx

Not Recommended

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 father's snack shop. A day like any other one comes in a pretty-looking asshole who tells our beta that she is someone "very important", so that later she challenges him to a kind of sweets and sandwiches contest. Then the father appears and the pretty girl named Hotaru decides to stay in those places to fuck because he can, because he wants and because he has nothing else to do or anywhere else to go. The story is on the way to repeating the same puta formula of duels and contests with this little girl throughout the 12 episodes that constitute this work, falling into a vicious circle that could hardly leave.

As a point in favor I can say that the first chapters were harmless, they were not remarkable but they were not disastrous either, they were just there, they had harmless humor and you could even learn the odd thing about Japanese sweets and sandwiches. What happened next? The series opted to go degrading itself, going from being a Slice of Life with comedy and situations of daily life in a candy store, to be practically Pandering Otaku for pubertos, one of the stupidest I've seen in a series of that year. The series is downgraded to use its theme for a sexual nature and disgusting fetish that I would be embarrassed to teach my colleagues who only see comedies to pass the time and have some laughs. From winks and sexual messages with candy, to a construction of a disc Yuri bait between the two girls in the series. Not to mention that the series is super boring to have situations that are very fast, characters who do not care about a peanut and who spend talking about candy all the time, and in a way that you get tired. When I say that the only reason why someone would see this thing is by the Waifu of turn, Hotaru, being the biggest attraction of the whole series, for its energetic personality and its attractive design.

I have no desire to say much more, is another anime that starts as something harmless and ends up pathetically lowering all its theme and its character, to be able to create Fanservice situations that please even the last of the possible fetishes for disgusting Otakus, so that buy the DvDs and sleeves of these products.

And if you ask, will I see the second season that will come in January? Well ... I saw that he changed the studio (to a better one), and there was a design change (it's slightly different), however the trailer seems more of the same only with new characters, so I do not guarantee that to follow, and if so, I will only see the first episode to make some impressions, and if it is still in the same shit, I will give it its due Drop (unless of course I am wrong and there is an improvement).

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