Series synopsis
Sweetness & Lightning, also known as 甘々と稲妻 is a Japanese animation comedy family television series that premiered on Tokyo MX on July 5, 2016. It ended on September 20, 2016. It stars Rina Endou, Saori Hayami, Yuichi Nakamura and Aina Suzuki.
Kohei is a single father and high school teacher who lives with his only daughter. A chance encounter brings him together with Kotori, one of his students. The three of them start to meet together to make meals. None of them know how to cook, but they all love delicious food!
Premise
Kohei is a single father and high school teacher who lives with his only daughter. A chance encounter brings him together with Kotori, one of his students. The three of them start to meet together to make meals. None of them know how to cook, but they all love delicious food!
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Rina Endou as Tsumugi Inuzuka (voice)
- Saori Hayami as Kotori Iida (voice)
- Yuichi Nakamura as Kouhei Inuzuka (voice)
- Aina Suzuki as Chiyo (voice)
- Satomi Arai as Megumi Iida (voice)
- Ai Kayano as Tae Inuzuka (voice)
- Saaya Andou as Hana (voice)
- Seiya Kimura as Inuzuka's older brother (ep 4) (voice)
Supporting cast
- Komugi Kuga as Yuuka (voice)
- Haruka Tomatsu as Shinobu Kojika (voice)
- Shoki Tsuru as Mikio (voice)
- Tomokazu Seki as Yuusuke Yagi (voice)
- Yuuko Hara as Kindergarten teacher (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 12 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 12 | July 5, 2016 | September 20, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Uniforms and Pot Rice Kouhei is a single dad living with his daughter, Tsumugi. He's busy and doesn't know how to cook, so he feeds her nothing but frozen foods and lunches from the convenience store. But when a chance encounter with a student of his gives him the opportunity to feed her a home-cooked meal, he leaps at it. |
July 5, 2016 |
| 2 |
Pork Soup and Restaurant Lights Kouhei is worried about meeting with Kotori, his student. Is it okay for him to be meeting with an individual student outside of class? But Tsumugi is too young to know or care about the rules of the adult world, and what's more, Kotori has the promise of pork soup to tempt them both. |
July 12, 2016 |
| 3 |
Tsumugi and the Long-Awaited Hamburg Steak Tsumugi gets into a fight at daycare, and it spoils her mood for good cooking. Even the long-awaited Hamburg steak isn't enough to rouse her from her gloom. Can Kotori and Kouhei come up with a way to cheer her up so she can enjoy her meal? And will she find out how much her daddy really loves her? |
July 19, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Tokyo MX |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 5, 2016 |
| Last aired | September 20, 2016 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Tuesday at 01:05:00 |