Dagashi Kashi
Dagashi Kashi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 2014 to April 2018 and has been collected in 11 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 produced by Feel aired from January to March 2016. A second season produced by Tezuka Productions aired from January to March 2018.
Plot
Shikada Dagashi, a countryside shop selling cheap candy and snacks 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 seeking 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.Characters
;Hotaru Shidare;Kokonotsu Shikada
;Saya Endō
;Tō Endō
;Yō Shikada
;Hajime Owari
;Beniyutaka Shidare
;Tamako Tamai
Media
Manga
Dagashi Kashi, written and illustrated by, was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 25, 2014, to April 11, 2018. The series was collected in 11 volumes published by Shogakukan from September 18, 2014, to May 18, 2018.Light novel
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.Anime
A 12-episode anime adaptation aired from January 7 to March 31, 2016. It was produced by Feel, and was directed by Masato 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. The series' opening theme is "Checkmate!?" by Michi, while the ending theme is "Hey Caloric Queen" by Ayana Taketatsu.A second season, Dagashi Kashi 2, aired from January 12 to March 30, 2018, on TBS, and aired on Sun TV and BS-TBS. 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, and Michiko Yokote wrote the script. The voice cast from the first season reprised their roles, and was joined by Chinatsu Akasaki, who voiced the new character Hajime Owari, and Tomokazu Sugita, who voiced Yutaka Beni. The second season's opening theme is "Oh My Sugar Feeling!!" by Taketatsu, while the ending theme is "Okashi na Watashi to Hachimitsu no Kimi" by Hachimitsu Rocket. Dagashi Kashi 2 aired in a shared half-hour time slot together with Takunomi, both of which consist of fifteen-minute episodes. Like its first season, Dagashi Kashi 2 lasted for 12 episodes.