Dagashi Kashi | |
だがしかし | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Kotoyama |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | June 25, 2014 – April 11, 2018 |
Volumes | 11 |
Light novel | |
Dagashi Kashi: Mō Hitotsu no Natsuyasumi | |
Written by | Manta Aisora |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Imprint | Gagaga Bunko |
Demographic | Male |
Published | December 18, 2015 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Shigehito Takayanagi |
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Written by |
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Music by |
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Studio | Feel |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll[a] |
Original network | TBS, CBC, SUN, BS-TBS |
Original run | January 7, 2016 – March 31, 2016 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime television series | |
Dagashi Kashi 2 | |
Directed by | Satoshi Kuwabara |
Produced by |
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Written by | Mayumi Morita |
Music by |
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Studio | Tezuka Productions |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | TBS, SUN, BS-TBS |
Original run | January 12, 2018 – March 30, 2018 |
Episodes | 12 |
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし)[b] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 2014 to April 2018 and has been collected into eleven tankōbon volumes. A light novel adaptation titled Dagashi Kashi: Mō Hitotsu no Natsu Yasumi, written and illustrated by Manta Aisora, was published in a single volume by Shogakukan in December 2015 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint.
An anime television series adaptation by Feel aired in Japan from January to March 2016. A second season by Tezuka Productions aired from January to March 2018. This series is licensed by Crunchyroll in the English-speaking regions.
Shikada Dagashi, a countryside shop selling cheap candy and snacks ("dagashi") has been run by the Shikada family for nine generations, but Kokonotsu does not want to take over the shop from his father, Yō, instead aiming to become a manga artist. Hotaru Shidare visits the shop one day hoping to recruit Yō to her family's company, the sweets manufacturer Shidare Corporation, but Yō refuses unless Hotaru first can convince Kokonotsu to take over Shikada Dagashi.
Dagashi Kashi, written and illustrated by Kotoyama, was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 25, 2014 to April 11, 2018.[9][10][11] The series was collected into eleven tankōbon volumes published by Shogakukan from September 18, 2014 to May 18, 2018.[12][13]
No. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | September 18, 2014[12] | 978-4-09-125125-1 |
2 | March 18, 2015[14] | 978-4-09-125399-6 |
3 | October 16, 2015[15] | 978-4-09-126210-3 |
4 | March 18, 2015[16][17] | 978-4-09-126570-8 978-4-09-159222-4 (SE) |
5 | May 18, 2016[18][19] | 978-4-09-127160-0 978-4-09-159231-6 (SE) |
6 | October 18, 2016[20] | 978-4-09-127408-3 |
7 | March 17, 2017[21] | 978-4-09-127513-4 |
8 | August 10, 2017[22] | 978-4-09-127681-0 |
9 | December 18, 2017[23] | 978-4-09-127882-1 |
10 | February 16, 2018[24] | 978-4-09-128083-1 |
11 | May 18, 2018[13] May 16, 2018 (SE)[25] | 978-4-09-128247-7 978-4-09-943012-2 (SE) |
A light novel adaptation titled Dagashi Kashi: Mō Hitotsu no Natsu Yasumi, written and illustrated by Manta Aisora, was published in a single volume by Shogakukan on December 18, 2015 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint.[26]
Main article: List of Dagashi Kashi episodes |
A 12-episode anime adaptation aired from January 7 to March 31, 2016.[27][28][29] It was produced by Feel, and was directed by Shigehito Takayanagi, who also handled the series composition together with Yasuko Kamo. Kanetoshi Kamimoto was in charge of character design, and Satoshi Motoyama was the series' sound director.[30] The series' opening theme is "Checkmate!?" by Michi, while the ending theme is "Hey Caloric Queen" by Ayana Taketatsu.[5]
A second season, Dagashi Kashi 2,[31] aired from January 12 to March 30, 2018, on TBS, and aired on Sun TV and BS-TBS.[32] For Dagashi Kashi 2, Tezuka Productions took over the series production, with Feel instead being credited for setting cooperation. While Motoyama returned as sound director, several other duties were taken over by new staff: Satoshi Kuwabara directed the season, Mayumi Morita handled the series composition, Nana Miura designed the characters,[30] and Michiko Yokote wrote the script. The voice cast from the first season reprised their roles,[31] and was joined by Chinatsu Akasaki, who voiced the new character Hajime Owari,[33] and Tomokazu Sugita, who voiced Yutaka Beni.[34][33] The second season's opening theme is "Oh My Sugar Feeling!!" (Oh My シュガーフィーリング!!, Oh My Shugā Fīringu!!) by Taketatsu,[7] while the ending theme is "Okashi na Watashi to Hachimitsu no Kimi" (おかしなわたしとはちみつのきみ, "The Candied Me and the Honeyed You") by Hachimitsu Rocket.[35] Dagashi Kashi 2 aired in a shared half-hour time slot together with Takunomi., both of which consist of fifteen-minute episodes.[32] Like its first season, Dagashi Kashi 2 lasted for 12 episodes.[36]
Dagashi Kashi ranked #5 on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" by the Honya Club website in 2016.[37] The series was nominated for the 41st Kodansha Manga Awards in 2017, in the "best shōnen manga" category.[38]
In September 2015, when the anime adaptation was announced, the two manga volumes that were released at the time had sold a 450,000 copies combined; when the fourth volume came out in December 2015, sales had risen to a total of 1.2 million copies. By the time the anime premiered in January 2016, the manga has 1.6 million copies in print, doubling the average number of copies sold per volumes compared to before the anime announcement, to 400,000 copies per volume.[39] The manga had over 3 million copies in print as of April, 2018.[40]