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It’s been decided! There will be a TV anime adaptation of manga artist Kotoyama’s manga Dagashi Kashi which is currently serialized in “Weekly Shonen Sunday.” The announcement was made on Sept. 19. The work is gaining popularity for being a “cheap sweets comedy.” It is unique in that it combines the successive appearance of nostalgic, cheap sweets and a story with a comedic touch. While there has only been two volumes of manga released to date, over 450,000 copies have been sold. Gaining more and more fans, this is a work that certainly deserves attention.
Kotoyama began serializing Dagashi Kashi in 2014. Main character Shikada Kokonotsu doesn’t want to succeed his family’s business - a small candy store. He happens to meet a girl named Hotaru Shidare who is both beautiful and obsessed about cheap sweets. The continued increase in fans is in part attributed to the work as being seen as a new type of comedy with comical dialogue between Kokonotsu and Hotaru that plays out throughout the work.
An illustration was released at the same time as the TV anime adaptation announcement that features heroine Hotaru. The small candy store Kokonotsu’s father Yo manages, called Shikada Dagashi in Japanese, can also be seen in the background. Gatcha machines, a small freezer, and a bench are placed right outside the shop, which truly finishes of the illustration with a nostalgic feeling.
Dagashi Kashi doesn’t just have charming characters, but also perks one’s interest with its interweaving of real cheap sweets into the story. In recent years there have been many anime adaptations of food-themed manga including Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, Gourmet Girl Graffiti, and Wakakozake, but works with a cheap sweets theme are rare.
How will sweets, that have been tried at least once by anyone who has grown up in Japan, make their appearance in the anime? We’ll have to wait to find out! Such sweets include:
**- Umabio**: a small, puffed, cylindrical corn snack available in many flavors
**- Potato Fry:** a chip-like snack that is fried, flat, made of potato, and available in different flavors
**- Kyabetsu Taro:** small puffed corn balls made with Japanese brown sauce and sprinkled with nori
**- Butamen:** a small instant ramen cup flavored with pork
**- NeruNeruNeruNe:** a fun, colorful candy that expands when water is added to it
- And more!
Those curious about the work can take a peek at it on the intro page of the Shogakukan website. However, you’ll have to sit tight and wait for another announcement regarding the cast and broadcasting time. On another note, the third volume of the manga is set to release on Oct. 16 in Japan.
About Dagashi Kashi
One day during his summer break, Kokonotsu, who aims to become a manga artist rather than the next manager of his family’s small candy shop, happens to meet a mysterious, beautiful girl named Hotaru. Hotaru, who is the daughter of a president of a major candy company, tries to lure away Kokonotsu’s father Yo and persuade Hotaru to take over the shop...
Dagashi Kashi
© Kotoyama / Shogakukan
Dagashi Kashi WEB Sunday Intro Page (Japanese)
Source: animeanime
Source article written by Katsunori Takahashi
