Dagashi Kashi 2
だがしかし2
- Gourmet
- Slice of Life
- Educational
- Love Polygon
- Workplace
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 12 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 12, 2018 to Mar 30, 2018
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
*Dagashi Kashi 2* continues the comedic, snack-filled slice-of-life centered on Japan’s beloved dagashi—cheap, nostalgic sweets and treats. Building on the first season’s premise, it returns to the familiar setting and ongoing conversations about candy culture, quirks, and cravings, with plenty of playful food trivia along the way.
Otaku Consensus
Dagashi Kashi 2 earns its modest but loyal reputation by letting Satoshi Kuwabara’s direction and Tezuka Productions’ bright, compact presentation turn candy education, shopkeeping minutiae, and flirtatious discomfort into quick-hit comedy. The shop-restoration material gives the sequel a stronger workplace spine than viewers expected, while episode-specific praise often singles out the cast’s ability to sell small emotional turns inside a half-length format. Its recurring weakness is real: the plotting remains deliberately shallow, so viewers looking for escalation beyond snack culture and character chemistry may find the season too slight.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Dagashi Kashi 2 if you want food anime as cultural archaeology rather than cooking spectacle: more convenience-store economics, rural shop labor, and brand-specific candy trivia than tournament hype. Its 12-minute episodes make it ideal for viewers who like the low-pressure rhythm of Non Non Biyori but want sharper gag density and a more commercial, snack-aisle focus. It also scratches a small part of the Food Wars! itch, minus the battles and melodrama, by treating everyday treats as objects with history, marketing logic, and ritual. The sequel is especially easy to recommend to fans who enjoy romantic tension as seasoning, not the meal, and who prefer a workplace slice-of-life that stays breezy even when the shop itself becomes a project.
Key Characters
- HHotaru Shidare(VA: Ayana Taketatsu)
Hotaru remains the franchise’s engine: a theatrical candy evangelist whose extreme enthusiasm turns tiny product details into full comic performances.
- KKokonotsu Shikada(VA: Atsushi Abe)
Kokonotsu works because he is not merely the straight man; critics singled out moments where his restrained reactions carry embarrassment, frustration, and even heartbreak without breaking the show’s light tone.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The season uses a half-length structure: 12 episodes that run about 12 minutes each, giving the comedy a tighter cadence than a standard 24-minute slice-of-life episode.
- 2
Tezuka Productions handles the animation, with Nana Miura credited for character design and Yumi Aburaya for color design; web reception repeatedly notes the show’s vibrant, colorful look despite its shorter format.
- 3
The educational angle goes beyond snack trivia: AniList’s high Economics and Work tags reflect how often the series frames candy through pricing, retail habits, and the survival of a small rural shop.
- 4
Season two’s most discussed structural shift is its focus on restoring the shop to its former glory, a workplace thread that gives the sequel more continuity than the first season’s looser skit energy.
- 5
The writing team pairs Michiko Yokote on script with Mayumi Morita on series composition, a useful match for a show that needs quick jokes, trivia delivery, and small romantic discomfort to land inside compressed episodes.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Dagashi Kashi 2 aired from January 12 to March 30, 2018, finishing as a 12-episode winter season rather than a full-length two-cour follow-up.
- Fun fact 2
- The anime comes from original creator Kotoyama, and AniList classifies the adaptation with a Shounen tag alongside Food, Educational, Economics, Work, Rural, and Love Triangle tags.
- Fun fact 3
- Its reception numbers show a niche sequel rather than a breakout hit: MAL lists it at 6.82 from 78,656 votes, with a popularity rank of #1518, while AniList scores it at 67/100 with 333 favourites.
- Fun fact 4
- Ayana Taketatsu and Atsushi Abe return as the two credited main leads in the provided cast data, anchoring the season’s contrast between high-energy salesmanship and deadpan resistance.
- Fun fact 5
- Critical commentary around the season is unusually consistent: praise clusters around its colorful presentation, humor, and educational content, while the most repeated complaint is that the story remains intentionally thin.
Studios
- Tezuka Productions
