Then there is the father and he…I don’t have anything to say about him, really. Speaking of Kotori, her introduction in the show was very weak, crying because she was alone and couldn’t eat with her mom? You’re not a little girl anymore. I mean I guess you could say that’s the reason why Tsumugi gets so close to Kotori so easily, but that’s it. Yuzuyu from Aishiteruze Baby was a way better character in that regard. One complain I have about Tsumugi is that she barely has any conflict with no having a mother, if at all. Sweetness and Lightning belongs in the iyashikei, or feel good, type of slice of life show, and as far as that goes, it manages to have a proper relaxing atmosphere, as long as you don’t get overwhelmed by how hiperactive Tsumugi can be at times.īut that’s as far as positives of this show go for me. If you’re like me, it will get tiresome a bit to see and hear a character cry for unimportant stuff, but it’s easy to give that a pass when the character is so young, and when is all around very well characterized. She’s loud, energetic, innocent, and makes a big deal out of everything, in either a comedic or dramatic way. Tsumugi herself is adorable, as most protagonists in this type of shows are, and unlike Rin Kaga, for example, she’s not so mature for her age, in fact she is not mature in the least. I have already talked about this on my Aishiteruze Baby review where Yuzuyu, also a five years old girl, was voiced by a little girl but with a much much worse performance, that is not the case here.
#AMAAMA TO INAZUMA KISSMANGA SERIES#
The scene I remember the most and that I watched a couple times outside of the anime was about the little girl Tsumugi walking down the streets while avoiding imaginary sharks on an imaginary ocean in her mind, that particular scene had great special effects, but during the rest of the series there were pretty standard, and as the vast majority of slice of life shows, the character designs are simple, generic and forgettable, besides that the visuals are still a very solid department as a whole.Īs for the sound department, the sound effects were good and both the music and the voices did their job accordingly but nothing to write too much about besides Tsumugi, a five years old girl voiced by an, at the time, eleven years old girl, who despite being so young did a wonderful job. To start with the positives, it’s easy to understand why people would enjoy the show as long as they like slice of life, first of all, for the genre it’s pretty well visually presented, even after half a decade I still remember it as a series with no major quality drops, well made backgrounds, vivid, expressive and fluid motions and facial expressions for its type of show, and with cooking anime levels of detailed and very well drawn food. Talking about this title leaves me with mixed feelings, on one hand I am happy to finally write a review again after so much time but on the other hand it’s a bit sad that it has to be about a title that was well received at the time yet forgotten quickly, and that I never had a positive opinion about it. As the name implies, seinen works are marketed primarily to an audience of young men the age range commonly understood to be the target of such works goes roughly from 17 to somewhere in the 40s. See also manhua and manhwa., seinen Seinen, literally "young man", is one of the main demographic classifications applied to manga, and, by extension, to anime, especially manga-based ones. However! There are exceptions where the manga was not the basis for the anime. Everything and its mother is based on manga. Daily Life is basically a synonym for everything normal, repetitive, and trivial happening to your average person., manga Manga is the lifeblood that drives the anime industry. Cooking Cooking is the process of preparing food by using heat., daily life The antics of the protagonists do not take place in some exotic setting or time, but in everyday life.