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Amaama to Inazuma - Sweet New Anime [message #321007] Mon, 04 July 2016 23:16
Dave Baranyi is currently offline  Dave Baranyi
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“Amaama to Inazuma”, aka “Sweetness and Lightning” is an adaptation of a seinen
manga series about a single father, his pre-school daughter, and a lonely high
school student who form a bond over food. Kouhei Inuzuka is a high school
teacher whose wife died six months before. He is trying to take care of his pre-
school-aged daughter Tsumugi, but he can't cook and is often late from work.
Tusmugi is as cheerful as she can be, but she wishes that she could have food
other than the convenience store bento boxes that her father brings home or the
frozen food that he makes for her.

One night when Kouhei comes home extra late he finds Tsumugi right up against
the TV as she watches an infomercial about a pressure cooker. Kouhei feels even
more guilty and hopeless than usual and he takes Tsumugi to a small restaurant
that was recommended to them by a teen that they met in a park while viewing
cherry blossoms. When Kouhei and Tsumugi get to the restaurant they find the
teen there all alone. The teen, named Kotori Iida, offers to make some rice for
Kouhei and Tsumugi even though the restaurant is actually closed because
Kotori's mother is away. Kotori eventually makes the rice, which Tsumugi loves,
and then Kotori asks Kouhei and Tsumugi to join her in cooking together.

The first episode was amazingly sweet and poignant. I expected saccharine
melodrama but instead I got some very touching scenes. The voice actors worked
very well together and the story developed in a surprisingly realistic manner.
I guess that the story touched me too because when our daughter was young my
wife travelled frequently for work and I spent a lot of time effectively being a
“single” father. (The difference in my case from this show is that I was then
and still am a very competent cook.) So I'm looking forward to watching more of
this series and seeing if it can keep up the strengths that it showed in the
first episode.

Dave Baranyi



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