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Sweetness and Lightning
Cover of the first manga volume
甘々と稲妻 (Amaama to Inazuma)
Genre	Cooking, Iyashikei
Manga
Written by	Gido Amagakure [ja]
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Kodansha USA
Magazine	Good! Afternoon
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	February 7, 2013 – August 7, 2018
Volumes	12
Anime television series
Directed by	Tarou Iwasaki
Written by	Mitsutaka Hirota
Music by	Nobuko Toda
Studio	TMS/3xCube
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Original network	Tokyo MX, ytv, BS11
English network	SEA: Aniplus Asia
Original run	July 4, 2016 – September 19, 2016
Episodes	12

Sweetness and Lightning (Japanese: 甘々と稲妻, Hepburn: Amaama to Inazuma) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gido Amagakure [ja]. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Good! Afternoon from March 2013 to August 2018, with its chapters collected in twelve tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation animated by TMS Entertainment aired in Japan between July and September 2016.

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: Yuichi Nakamura

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 to learn the basics of cooking. The three of them often hang out at Megumi's (the name of Kotori's mother) restaurant in order to prepare and eat meals together. Though relatively inexperienced in cooking, Kohei is a willing learner, and he 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

Kohei's adorable daughter who attends kindergarten. She is energetic, 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 long, fluffy hair and is a fan of magical girls, especially the fictional series Magi-Girl (マジガル). She likes meat, particularly hamburger steak, however, she 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

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 suites her taste buds. As an only child of divorced parents, she and her mother Megumi have 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 wasn't aware she's actually one of his students) and Tsumugi led to the three of them meeting up regularly at her mother's restaurant to prepare home cooked meals for them to enjoy 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

Shinobu is Kotori's friend from another class, whose family runs a vegetable shop where Megumi often buys vegetables from. In contrast to Kotori's more shy and reserved nature, Shinobu is boisterous and outgoing. She also calls Tsumugi "Tsumu-Tsumu."

Yūsuke Yagi (八木 祐介, Yagi Yūsuke)

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki

Kōhei's friend since high school and childhood friend of Tae. He works at a restaurant. Shinobu usually calls him Yagi-chin, a nickname he dislikes due to the fact that he is older than her (see Japanese honorifics § Chan). Despite his gruff and intimidating exterior, he often gives Kōhei advice when he has trouble and sometimes babysits Tsumugi.

Megumi Iida (飯田 恵, Iida Megumi)

Voiced by: Satomi Arai

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

Kōhei's wife and Tsumugi's mother, who died six months prior to the story.

Yuuka (ゆうか)

Voiced by: Shinmugi Koga

Tsumugi's classmate in kindergarten.

Hana (ハナ)

Voiced by: Saya Ando

Tsumugi's classmate in kindergarten.

Mikio (ミキオ)

Voiced by: Shoki Tsuru

Tsumugi's classmate in kindergarten.

Momoya (桃谷先生)

Voiced by: Hirokazu Machida

A male teacher at Kotori and Shinobu's school.

Media

Manga

Sweetness and Lightning, written and illustrated by Gido Amagakure [ja], was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Good! Afternoon from February 7, 2013 to August 7, 2018. Kodansha collected its chapters in twelve volumes, released from September 6, 2013 to February 7, 2019.

In North America, the series was licensed for English release by Kodansha USA. The twelve volumes were published from July 26, 2016 to June 4, 2019.

Volumes

Anime

An anime television adaptation was announced in February 2016. The series was 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. 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

Reception

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

It ranked eighth on the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey and number 24 on the 15th Book of the Year list by Da Vinci magazine. The series ranked 14th in the first Next Manga Award in the print manga category.

See also

• A Galaxy Next Door, another manga series by the same author

Notes

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

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External links

• Official manga website at Afternoon (in Japanese)
• Official anime website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-09-06) (in Japanese)
• Sweetness and Lightning (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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