Ristorante Paradiso

It has an interesting story, can bring the audience into its relaxed but memorable plot. I usually only watch anime with good picture quality, because most anime now have good picture quality. That doesn't mean I'm saying the image quality in this anime is bad, but the story in this anime is so light and unique that it makes me not care about the image quality. It's been a long time since I've been this satisfied with an anime set in everyday life. The love story in it was so impressive that it made me feel what the main female character felt.

It is a calm story to appreciate another side of life as it is more adult people and spend moments of everyday life with them.
It has some weak points as some pasts , flashbacks tucked quickly or actions of the protagonist that leave some doubts that make you say ''Why?'' or make you feel uncomfortable and with anguish (I do not know if it is good or bad) .
In addition we have the theme of the mother , in general , many times it comes to annoy and had a rather inadequate and at the same time sad ending in the sense that she treated ... her daughter like that for years and she just assimilated it , it lacked a lot of development at that point being one of the main plots . Next, it does not have a very good quality as far as scenarios are concerned because of the limited budget that is understood when watching it, although they are quite unique and satisfying to watch.

On the other hand they deal with interesting themes and have characters that are easy to get attached to like Luciano who makes you feel like you are his grandson or Gigi (at the beginning I didn't like him too much) but as the episodes go by and the subtleties that surround this gentleman make me love him.

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I didn't drop this one only because, being from Italy, it was fun to see italian newspapers, brands and famous places, plus hearing the character randomly speaking in Italian was also hilarious, but I found the story itself boring and I didn't enjoy the animation either, especially the cgi that has been used for most of the dishes and some parts of buildings.

To me it was pretty obvious from the beginning that the staff would have found out about Olga and Nicoletta being mother and daughter, Nicoletta ending up with Claudio wasn't a surprise either, even though I really hoped that they wouldn't. ... The side stories about other characters were interesting enough and useful in order to distract the public from the main one, but it would have been better if they actually influenced the main story, while most of them ended up being just some facts about the character's past that Nicoletta got to know