With plans for a 2018 debut, we learned recently that Dagashi Kashi will be getting a second season and now a new detail has surfaced. The series has now been scheduled to be a part of the winter 2018 season that arrives in January and we’ve learned that Chinatsu Akasaki is on board to play Hajime Owari from the original work. The staffing for it has changed across the board with Satoshi Kuwahara directing it based on the series composition by Mayumi Morita. Nana Miura is handling the character designs and Tezuka Productions is on board for the animation. Studio feel will provide cooperation on the production.
Check out our review of the first season as released in bilingual form by Funimation.
The first season of show was directed by Shigehito Takayanagi, who wrote the scripts along with Yasuko Kamo. Character designs were done by Kanetoshi Kamimoto and it was animated at studio feel.
The Japanese cast includes Ayana Taketatsu asHotaru Shidare, Atsushi Abe as Kokonotsu Shikada, Keiji Fujiwara as Yō Shikada, Manami Numakura as Saya Endō and Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Tō Endō.
The English language dub was directed by Kyle Phillips based n the scripts from Jamie Marchi. Jeremy Woods and Domonique French are on board as the ADR engineers for it. The cast includes in primary roles Todd Haberkorn as Kokonotsu Shikada, Tabitha Ray as Hotaru Shidare, Jeremy Inman as Yo Shikada, Sara Ragsdale as Saya Endo and Justin Pate as To Endo.
The 2014 manga series comes from Kotoyama, his first work, which has six volumes to its name and is ongoing in Japan.
Plot Concept: Shikada Kokonotsu’s father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu’s father is famous and she wants him to join her family’s company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!
