Jump to content

Sweetness and Lightning

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 11:31, 8 July 2018 (Robot - Moving category Cooking anime and manga to Category:Cooking in anime and manga per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 June 16.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Sweetness and Lightning
Cover of the first manga volume
甘々と稲妻
(Amaama to Inazuma)
GenreSlice of life
Manga
Written byGido Amagakure
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineGood! Afternoon
DemographicSeinen
Original runMarch 2013 – present
Volumes10
Anime television series
Directed byTarou Iwasaki
Produced by
  • Koji Nozaki
  • Tsuneyasu Suzuki
  • Kōji Hirokawa
  • Motohiro Oda
  • Toshihiro Suzuki
  • Hiroshi Akio
  • Kozo Ohara
  • Yoshihiko Yamazaki
  • Kozo Misawa
Written byMitsutaka Hirota
Music byNobuko Toda
StudioTMS Entertainment
Original networkTokyo MX, ytv, BS11
English network
Original run July 4, 2016 – September 19, 2016
Episodes12[a] (List of episodes)

Sweetness and Lightning (甘々と稲妻, Amaama to Inazuma) is an ongoing Japanese slice of life seinen manga series written and illustrated by Gido Amagakure. The series began serialization in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon manga magazine from March 2013 and has been compiled into ten volumes so far.[3] An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment aired in Japan between July and September 2016.[4][5]

Plot

Kōhei Inuzuka is a teacher who has been raising his daughter, Tsumugi, by himself following the death of his wife. Having mostly bought ready-made meals for his daughter since, Kōhei's encounter with one of his students, Kotori Iida, leads him to take up cooking in order to provide proper meals for Tsumugi.

Characters

Kōhei Inuzuka (犬塚 公平, Inuzuka Kōhei)
Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura[5]
He is the single father of Tsumugi whose wife died due to an unknown illness half a year before the start of the story. Kind-hearted, hard-working and optimistic, Kohei strives to provide the best possible life for his daughter. He teaches mathematics at Kotori's high school and is her class's assistant homeroom adviser. Initially depicted as having a plain-looking and unassuming appearance, Kohei is also quite thin because he was never an avid eater even when his wife was still alive. Upon witnessing his daughter's enthusiasm towards eating home cooked meals, he began meeting up with Kotori for him to learn the basics of cooking; the three of them often hang out at Megumi's (the name of Kotori's mother's restaurant) in order to prepare and eat meals together. Though relatively inexperienced in regards to cooking, Kohei is a willing learner, has steady hands (he is skillful enough with a sewing machine to make a birthday dress for Tsumugi) and is very keen in following instructions, albeit being flustered whenever something is not in the recipe. As the series progresses, he not only gains considerable culinary skills but he also deepens his bond with Tsumugi as well as with their relatives and friends.
Tsumugi Inuzuka (犬塚 つむぎ, Inuzuka Tsumugi)
Voiced by: Rina Endō[5]
Kohei's adorable daughter who attends kindergarten. Though energetic, she is well behaved and loves her father dearly. She always thinks of him and begins to truly enjoy eating when her father and Kotori start making meals together. She has large fluffy hair and is a fan of magical girls especially the fictional series Magi-Girl-(マグニ女の子). She likes meat, particularly hamburger steak, and doesn't like bell peppers. She has a stuffed animal of Mr. Galigali-(the mascot of Magi-Girl), a pink creature with the mixture of a sheep, a pig, and a rabbit.
Kotori Iida (飯田 小鳥, Iida Kotori)
Voiced by: Saori Hayami[5]
Somewhat a loner of a high school girl, who usually doesn't mind being with herself as long as there is good food on hand, Kotori is ecstatic whenever she is in the midst of eating food that pleases her taste buds. As an only child of divorced parents, she and her mother Megumi has gotten very close to each other. But when Megumi has to accept work as a TV celebrity chef, Kotori is often left alone at home. Despite being a restaurant owner's daughter, Kotori's learning capacity for cooking is greatly impeded by her terrible fear of knives (the trauma of cutting herself badly as a child still persists). A chance encounter with Kohei (who at that time wasn't aware that she's actually one of his students) and Tsumugi led to the three of them meeting up regularly at her mother's restaurant for the purpose of preparing home cooked meals that they happily partake in afterwards. She enjoys sharing ideas as well as cooking with Kohei and gets along really well with Tsumugi who she treats like a younger sibling. As observed by her best friend Shinobu, Kotori appears to be at her happiest whenever she's cooking food and eating with the Inuzukas.
Shinobu Kojika (小鹿 しのぶ, Kojika Shinobu)
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu[6]
Shinobu is Kotori's friend from another class, whose family runs a vegetable shop where Megumi often buys vegetables from.
Yūsuke Yagi (八木 祐介, Yagi Yūsuke)
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki[6]
Kōhei's friend since high school and childhood friend of Tae. He works at a restaurant.
Megumi Iida (飯田 恵, Iida Megumi)
Voiced by: Satomi Arai[7]
Kotori's mother who is a celebrity chef. As a result, she is often absent from her restaurant, but usually leaves Kotori recipes to follow when cooking with Kōhei.
Tae Inuzuka (犬塚 多江, Inuzuka Tae)
Voiced by: Ai Kayano[7]
Kōhei's wife and Tsumugi's mother, who died six months prior to the story.
Yuuka (ゆうか)
Voiced by: Shinmugi Koga[7]
Tsumugi's classmate in kindergarten.
Hana (ハナ)
Voiced by: Saaya Andou[7]
Tsumugi's classmate in kindergarten.
Mikio (ミキオ)
Voiced by: Shouki Tsuru[7]
Tsumugi's classmate in kindergarten.
Momoya (桃谷先生)
Voiced by: Hirokazu Machida[7]
A male teacher at Kotori and Shinobu's school.

Media

Manga

The Sweetness and Lightning manga is written and published by Gido Amagakure, and is currently being serialized in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine.The manga was first published in tankōbon format by Kodansha on September 6, 2013,[8] and currently the series has been collected into ten tankōbon volumes as of April 2018.[9] The seventh volume was released in two editions, a regular edition and a limited edition, with the limited edition being bundled with Tsumugi's lunch box.[10][11]

The series is licensed in English by Kodansha USA for North America, with the first volume being published on July 26, 2016.[12]

Volume list

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 September 6, 2013[8]978-4-06-387917-9July 26, 2016[12]9781632363695
2 March 7, 2014[13]978-4-06-387963-6September 27, 2016[14]9781632363701
3 September 5, 2014[15]978-4-06-387994-0November 29, 2016[16]9781632363718
4 March 6, 2015[17]978-4-06-388036-6February 28, 2017[18]9781632364005
5 September 7, 2015[19]978-4-06-388078-6March 28, 2017[20]9781632364012
6 March 7, 2016[21]978-4-06-388126-4May 30, 2017[22]9781632364029
7 July 7, 2016[10]978-4-06-388150-9
ISBN 978-4-06-362331-4[11] (limited edition)		July 18, 2017[23]9781632364432
8 January 6, 2017[9]978-4-06-388229-2September 5, 2017[24]9781632365118
9 July 7, 2017[25]978-4-06-388274-2November 28, 2017[26]9781632365125
10 January 5, 2018[27]978-4-06-511016-4May 8, 2018[28]9781632365699

Anime

An anime television adaptation was announced for July 2016 in the good! Afternoon magazine's April 2016 issue.[4] The series is produced by TMS Entertainment, directed by Tarou Iwasaki and written by Mitsutaka Hirota, featuring character designs by Hiroki Harada and music by Nobuko Toda. The 12-episode series aired in Japan between July 4, 2016 and September 19, 2016 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.[5][29] The opening theme is "Harebare Fanfare" (晴レ晴レファンファーレ, Bright Fanfare) by Mimi Meme Mimi, while the ending theme is "Maybe" by Brian the Sun.

Episode list

Template:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode listTemplate:Japanese episode list
No. Title[b] Original air date[30]

Reception

Volume 2 reached the 18th place on the weekly Oricon manga chart and, as of March 16, 2014, has sold 60,643 copies;[31] volume 3 reached the 19th place and, as of September 14, 2014, has sold 81,319 copies;[32] and volume 4 reached the 20th place and, as of March 9, 2015, has sold 108,994 copies.[33]

It was number 8 on the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey[34] and number 24 on the 15th Book of the Year list by Da Vinci magazine.[35]

Notes

  1. ^ The anime will be released across 6 home video release volumes containing 2 episodes each, totalling 12 episodes.[2]
  2. ^ All English episode titles are taken from Crunchyroll.

References

  1. ^ "Aniplus HD to Simulcast Sweetness and Lightning Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  2. ^ "東映ビデオ：「甘々と稲妻」特集" (in Japanese). Toei Video. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  3. ^ "Amaama to Inazuma vo". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Sweetness and Lightning Manga Gets TV Anime in July". Anime News Network. February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Yūichi Nakamura, Rina Endo, Saori Hayami Star in Sweetness and Lightning TV Anime". Anime News Network. March 5, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Haruka Tomatsu, Tomokazu Seki Join Sweetness and Lightning Anime Cast". Anime News Network. April 6, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Chapman, Paul (June 24, 2016). "Satomi Arai, Ai Kayano, and Others Join Cast of "Sweetness and Lightning"". Crunchyroll. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  8. ^ a b "甘々と稲妻（１）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  9. ^ a b "甘々と稲妻（８）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  10. ^ a b "甘々と稲妻（７）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  11. ^ a b "甘々と稲妻（７）限定版" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  12. ^ a b "Sweetness and Lightning 1". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  13. ^ "甘々と稲妻（２）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  14. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 2". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  15. ^ "甘々と稲妻（３）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  16. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 3". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  17. ^ "甘々と稲妻（４）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  18. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 4". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  19. ^ "甘々と稲妻（５）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  20. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 5". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  21. ^ "甘々と稲妻（６）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  22. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 6". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  23. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 7". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  24. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 8". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  25. ^ "甘々と稲妻（9）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  26. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 9". Penguin Random House. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  27. ^ "甘々と稲妻（10）" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  28. ^ "Sweetness and Lightning 10". Penguin Random House. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  29. ^ "Crunchyroll to Stream 91 Days, Taboo Tattoo, Orange, Mob Psycho 100, Sweetness & Lightning, Alderamin on the Sky". Anime News Network. June 21, 2016.
  30. ^ "甘々と稲妻の放送情報 - アニメ - TOKYO MX" (in Japanese). Tokyo MX. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  31. ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, March 10–16". Anime News Network. March 20, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  32. ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, September 8–14". Anime News Network. September 17, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  33. ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, March 9–15". Anime News Network. March 11, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  34. ^ "Top Manga Ranked by Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2014 Voters". Anime News Network. December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  35. ^ "Attack on Titan Tops Da Vinci Magazine's Ranking for 2nd Year". Anime News Network. December 8, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2014.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sweetness_and_Lightning&oldid=849349838"