Love is Like a Cocktail: Fourteenth Glass - Yuzu Hot Sake

お酒は夫婦になってから 14杯め「ゆず熱燗」 (Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara: Yuzu Atsukan)

7.0(18,204)

MAL Score

Ranked #4686

Popularity #4270

Comedy
Gourmet
Romance
Adult Cast

Episodes: 1
Duration: 3 min
Aired: Oct 6, 2018
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

At the Machi★Asobi vol. 20 “Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara” talk event, it was announced that *Love is Like a Cocktail* will be getting a 14th short episode, titled “Yuzu Hot Sake.”

(Source: MAL News)

Otaku Consensus

Yuzu Hot Sake works best as a compact encore: Creators in Pack keeps the parent series’ three-minute timing, drink-recipe hook, and married-couple warmth intact without trying to inflate a tiny extra into a full episode. Critics and fans generally praise Love is Like a Cocktail for its adorable adult-romance pacing and simple cocktail gimmick, while the recurring criticism is that the alcohol-as-cuteness joke can grow repetitive and, for some viewers, uncomfortably close to enabling behavior.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Yuzu Hot Sake after the main 13 shorts if you want a quick after-dinner extra rather than a new narrative commitment. It is for viewers who like adult domestic romance without school drama, love triangles, or melodramatic detours: closer in appetite to Wakakozake’s drink-and-food comfort than to a conventional rom-com season. The appeal is in the format discipline: one tiny scenario, one seasonal drink idea, and a married-couple rhythm that lands before it can overstay its welcome. If Wotakoi’s adult-cast angle is what you enjoy but you want something softer, shorter, and more recipe-driven, this special is exactly the kind of low-pressure bonus episode that rewards fans of the original’s miniature structure.

Key Characters

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Chisato Mizusawa(VA: Eri Kitamura)
Chisato is the series’ central contrast machine: composed in adult life, then famously more expressive once the drink-of-the-episode format kicks in.
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Sora Mizusawa(VA: Mitsuhiro Ichiki)
Sora gives the show its domestic fantasy angle, with fans responding to his calm bartender-like role inside an established marriage rather than a will-they-won’t-they romance.

What Makes It Stand Out

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This is a true 14th glass, not a recap: it was announced specifically as an extra short episode titled Yuzu Hot Sake after the original 13-episode run.
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The episode preserves the parent series’ ultra-short structure, a format fans often cite as key to why its sugary romantic jokes stay digestible.
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Creators in Pack handled the anime, matching the studio’s compact short-form production style to a series built around quick domestic beats and drink preparation.
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The franchise’s appeal is unusually specific for a romance anime: AniList tags it most strongly with Female Protagonist, Marriage, and Family Life, putting it closer to married slice-of-life than dating comedy.
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The drink element is not just flavor text; web reactions repeatedly single out the simple recipes as part of the show’s charm, placing it in the niche of anime that treat beverages as a repeatable episode structure.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Yuzu Hot Sake aired on October 6, 2018, after being announced at the Machi★Asobi vol. 20 talk event for Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara.
Fun fact 2: The original creator is Crystal na Yousuke, whose work gives the anime its compact gag-romance foundation rather than a sprawling serialized-romance structure.
Fun fact 3: Despite being only one short episode, the special has a sizable rating footprint on MyAnimeList, with a 7.04 score from 18,187 votes in the provided data.
Fun fact 4: AniList’s data positions the title as a seinen-leaning adult-cast romance, with Marriage and Family Life ranking among its strongest user-applied tags.
Fun fact 5: Critical reaction to the broader Love is Like a Cocktail run is split in an unusually specific way: many viewers call it sweet and easy to recommend, while one recurring discomfort is how often alcohol becomes the engine of the romantic comedy.