Amaama to Inazuma

Since the death of his wife, Kouhei Inuzuka has been caring for his young daughter Tsumugi to the best of his abilities. However, with his lack of culinary knowledge and his busy job as a teacher, he is left relying on ready-made meals from convenience stores to feed the little girl. Frustrated at his own incapability to provide a fresh, nutritious meal for his daughter, Kouhei takes up an offer from his student, Kotori Iida, to come have dinner at her family's restaurant. But on their very first visit, the father and daughter discover that the restaurant is often closed due to Kotori's mother being away for work and that Kotori often eats alone. After much pleading from his pupil, Kouhei decides to continue to go to the restaurant with Tsumugi to cook and share delicious homemade food with Kotori.

Amaama to Inazuma follows the heartwarming story of a caring father trying his hardest to make his adorable little daughter happy, while exploring the meanings and values behind cooking, family, and the warm meals at home that are often taken for granted.

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Inuzuka, Tsumugi Main

Endou, Rina Japanese

Iida, Kotori Main

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Inuzuka, Kouhei Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Yagi, Yuusuke Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Kojika, Shinobu Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Inuzuka, Tae Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Iida, Megumi Supporting

Arai, Satomi Japanese

Hana Supporting

Andou, Saaya Japanese

Yuuka Supporting

Kuga, Komugi Japanese

Mikio Supporting

Shouki, Tsuru Japanese

Oda, Motohiro Producer

Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Producer

Suzuki, Toshihiro Producer

Hirokawa, Kouji Producer

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Nov 7, 2022

OG_Otaku

Recommended

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 several epilogues or postscripts to wrap up important subplots. The story is obviously very incomplete at the end of the anime. It might be possible to make it all the way through the next 12 years of the story if it gets another season. But the only way to get the whole story is going to be reading the manga. And it is well worth it!

Finally, this show is a great educational program for basic Japanese cooking. I'm in the process of collecting all the manga just to have the recipes that are included.

Sweetness and Lightning is a true slice of life and Iyashikei experience. Negative reviews are from viewers who had unrealistic expectations or were expecting something other than slice of life. Sweetness and Lightning is truly a masterpiece, although as an anime it remains incomplete.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 22, 2024

lycoping

Mixed Feelings

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 girl is cute*

And that's it.

That's not even a spoiler. There's no effort to hide it, and I can only think of one or two things that are even *possible* to be a spoiler (which I haven't said). What you get in the first episode is pretty much exactly the same as what you get in the last, except there's a little bit of character growth and some different food.

If you like food anime and cute little girls and a few minor tearjerker moments... you'll love this anime.

If you're looking for anything... and I mean *anything*... else... move on. Nothing for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 29, 2023

Trapper20

Not Recommended

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 show represents the crossroads between parenting anime (Bunny Drop, Kakushigoto, etc.) and a cooking/food anime, but doesn't do either particularly well enough to stand out.

Overall, this show is fine. If you want something a bit cute and a bit foodie, then you can give this a shot. But I would personally recommend the other anime I have mentioned over this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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