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Sweetness & Lightning (TV)

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Alternative title:
Amaama to Inazuma (Japanese) 
甘々と稲妻 (Japanese) 
Genres: comedy , slice of life 
Themes: cooking , parenting 
Objectionable content: Mild 
Plot Summary: Math teacher Kōhei Inuzuka is a widower with a young daughter named Tsumugi. Inuzuka isn't adept in the kitchen but with the help of his student Kotori Iida and his daughter, he embarks on a culinary adventure. (from manga)
User Ratings: 303 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:9, raw:3)
 Excellent: 45 votes (sub:43, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 120 votes (sub:115, dub:2, raw:1, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 87 votes (sub:79, dub:3, raw:1, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 23 votes (sub:23)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 509 users, rank: #2126 (of 10086)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.614 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.1658, rank: #1520 (of 10240)
Weighted mean: 7.602 (Very good−), rank: #1433 (of 10240) (seen all: 7.71 / seen some: 6.74 / won't finish: 4.58)
Bayesian estimate: 7.597 (Very good−), rank: #1118 (of 7690)
Running time: half hour per episode 
Number of episodes: 12 
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2016-07-04 
Opening Theme:
"Harebare Fanfare" (晴レ晴レファンファーレ; "Bright Fanfare") by Mimi Meme MIMI 
Ending Theme:
"Maybe" by Brian the Sun 
Reviews: Show:
Sweetness & Lightning (Oct 10, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 12 (Sep 20, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 11 (Sep 12, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 10 (Sep 5, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 9 (Aug 30, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 8 (Aug 22, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 7 (Aug 16, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 6 (Aug 9, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 5 (Aug 2, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episode 4 (Jul 26, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning (Jul 19, 2016)
Sweetness & Lightning ‒ Episodes 1-3 (Jul 19, 2016)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Tarou Iwasaki 
Series Composition: Mitsutaka Hirota 
Script:
Keiichirō Ōchi (eps 3-4, 8) 
Mitsutaka Hirota (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 5, 7, 12
) 
Naoto Iyoku (ep 10) 
Yoshimi Narita (eps 6, 9, 11) 
Storyboard:
Hiroyuki Yano (eps 5, 11) 
Keiya Saitō (eps 2, 8) 
Kiyoko Sayama (eps 3-4, 6, 10) 
Takashi Sano (ep 7) 
Tarou Iwasaki (eps 1, 12) 
Yasutaka Yamamoto (ep 9) 
Episode Director:
Katsuhiko Bizen (ep 7) 
Keiya Saitō (eps 2, 8, 11) 
Takehiro Nakayama (eps 4, 9) 
Tarou Iwasaki (eps 1, 12) 
Toshiaki Kanbara (ep 3) 
Yasuro Tsuchiya (ep 5) 
Yūsaku Saotome (eps 6, 10) 
Music: Irone Toda 
Original creator: Gido Amagakure 
Character Design: Hiroki Harada 
Art Director: Masanori Yamaguchi 
Chief Animation Director:
Haruka Tanaka (6 episodes
eps 2, 5-11 odd, 12
) 
Hatsue Koizumi (7 episodes
eps 3, 6-8, 10-12
) 
Hiroki Harada (eps 1, 7, 9-12) 
Kenji Hachizaki (eps 8-9, 11) 
Mika Yamamoto (ep 3) 
Nariyuki Takahashi (eps 4-5) 
Yūki Morimoto (ep 4) 
Animation Director:
Ai Yamazaki (ep 4) 
Akio Uchino (eps 6, 10) 
Haruka Tanaka (ep 1)  (eps 11-12) 
Hatsue Koizumi (eps 2, 11-12) 
Hideaki Shimada (eps 5, 11) 
Hiroki Harada (OP; ep 1)  (eps 11-12) 
Kaoru Miura (ep 4) 
Keiko Watanabe (ep 7) 
Kenji Hachizaki (ep 8) 
Masaru Yamada (ep 9) 
Minoru Morita (ep 3) 
Nana Yamaguchi (cooking; eps 3-11 odd) 
Naoko Ikeuchi (ep 7) 
Satomi Senbayashi (ep 9) 
Shōta Ueno (eps 6, 10) 
Tadayoshi Okimura (ep 5) 
Tomomi Kawatsuma (eps 8, 12) 
Toshiko Sasaki (eps 6, 10) 
Toyoaki Fukushima (ep 3) 
Yūki Morimoto (eps 8, 11) 
Sound Director: Kazuya Tanaka 
Director of Photography: Tomoyuki Shiokawa 

2D Work:
Chie Katō (T2 Studio) 
Eri Katō (T2 Studio) 
2nd Key Animation: Emiko Kataoka (eps 4, 9) 
3D Animation: Hisashi Akimoto (T2 Studio) 
Animation:
Chiaki Nakajima (OP) 
Emiko Shimura (OP) 
Fumiaki Kouta (OP) 
Hiroki Harada (OP) 
Hisako Sato (OP) 
Keisuke Kobayashi (OP) 
Takaaki Wada (OP) 
Color Check: Makiko Doi (OP; eps 1, 12) 
Color design: Makiko Doi 
Color setting: Makiko Doi (OP; eps 1, 12) 
Editing: Daisuke Imai 
Finish Animation:
Chiharu Tamashiro (Lightfoot; ep 1) 
Hiromi Sato (Lightfoot; ep 1) 
Hiroshi Moriwaki (Studio Elle; ep 1) 
Ikuya Watanabe (Studio Elle; ep 1) 
Kazuya Tsukada (Studio Elle; ep 1) 
Keiko Watanabe (Lightfoot; ep 1) 
Miho Muraguchi (Lightfoot; ep 1) 
Mika Kinoshita (Studio Elle; ep 1) 
Nagisa Sunagawa (Studio Elle; ep 1) 
Sakiko Soga (RIC; ep 1) 
Yuki Matsuura (Lightfoot; ep 1) 
In-Between Animation:
Ayano Okahara (Studio Mu; ep 2) 
Chihiro Watanabe (Studio Elle; ep 5) 
Kaede Maruyama (Studio Elle; ep 5) 
Kazuki Nakamura (Studio Mu; ep 2) 
Michi Yamamoto (Studio Mu; ep 2) 
Midori Tanaka (Studio Elle; ep 5) 
Moe Matsuda (Studio Mu; ep 2) 
Key Animation:
Akemi Hosono (ep 2) 
Akio Kitahara (ep 4) 
Asami Gouda (ep 3) 
Asuka Tsubuki (eps 1-2) 
Chihiro Nishikawa (ep 2) 
Chizuru Kobayashi (ep 1) 
Emiko Shimura (eps 1, 5) 
Haruka Tanaka (ep 1) 
Hatsue Koizumi (ep 1) 
Henry Thurlow (eps 6, 10) 
Hikaru Kodama (ep 5) 
Hiroshi Sasaki (ep 4) 
Junichi Higuchi (ep 5) 
Junko Abe (ep 2) 
Kanae Komatsu (eps 1-2) 
Kaori Dou (ep 5) 
Kaoru Miura (ep 4) 
Kazumasa Takeuchi (ep 4) 
Kenji Kodama (ep 2) 
Kenji Kondou (ep 5) 
Kiyoshi Nohji (ep 3) 
Kōji Miura (ep 3) 
Kumiko Kakoi (ep 3) 
Makoto Koga (ep 4) 
Mamiko Nakanishi (ep 2) 
Masami Abe (ep 5) 
Michiko Asada (ep 4) 
Michio Satō (ep 4) 
Mikako Kunii (ep 5) 
Miki Nomura (ep 5) 
Moeko Mitsugi (ep 4) 
Momoko Makiuchi (ep 5) 
Nagisa Nakajima (ep 2) 
Nobuhiro Okazaki (ep 4) 
Osamu Kurosawa (ep 3) 
Rikiya Okano (ep 4) 
Rumi Miyata (ep 2) 
Ryouichi Kaida (ep 1) 
Saori Yamamoto (ep 2) 
Satoshi Noma (ep 2) 
Shinichi Iimura (ep 3) 
Takaaki Wada (Magi-Girl sequences; eps 1-2, 7) 
Takahisa Ichikawa (ep 1) 
Tarō Yamada (ep 1) 
Tetsuya Akutsu (ep 5) 
Tetsuya Satō (ep 3) 
Tomokazu Shimabukuro (ep 1) 
Toshihiro Uranaka (eps 2, 5) 
Toshiyuki Komaru (ep 1) 
Wataru Hasegawa (ep 5) 
Yoshiaki Kubokawa (eps 1-2) 
Yoshihisa Sato (ep 4) 
Yoshiteru Kobayashi (ep 3) 
Yousuke Okuda (ep 5) 
Yukie Nishimura (ep 5) 
Yūko Matsuo (ep 5) 
Yuusuke Noma (ep 3) 
Photography:
Kenta Sasaki (T2 Studio) 
Kouji Takahashi (T2 Studio) 
Kumiko Tsuchiya (T2 Studio) 
Tomoyuki Shiokawa (T2 Studio) 
Theme Song Performance:
Brian the Sun 
Mimi Meme MIMI (OP) 
Yuki Takao (as Mimi Meme MIMI;OP) 
料理設定: Nana Yamaguchi (eps 3-11 odd) 
Rina Endō as Tsumugi Inuzuka 
Saori Hayami as Kotori Iida 
Yūichi Nakamura as Kōhei Inuzuka 

Haruka Tomatsu as Shinobu Kojika 
Komugi Kuga as Yūka 
Saaya Andō as Hana 
Satomi Arai as Megumi Iida 
Shōki Tsuru as Mikio 
Tomokazu Seki as Yūsuke Yagi 
Yuko Hara as Kindergarten teacher (6 episodes
eps 1, 3, 6, 8-9, 11
) 

Ai Kayano as Tae Inuzuka (eps 1, 6) 
Aina Suzuki as
Chiyo (eps 4, 11-12) 
Female middle school student (ep 7) 
Akari Uehara as Purikura announcement (ep 5) 
Ayaka Mitsumoto as Inuzuka's older sister (ep 4) 
Chika Fujitō as Kindergartener's mother (eps 1, 8-9) 
Daiki Yamashita as Galigali-san (ep 7) 
Fuka Haruna as Female student (ep 11) 
Fukushi Ochiai as Father (ep 7) 
Haruki Makino as Passerby (ep 1) 
Haruo Takayama as Hosaka-sensei (ep 2) 
Hirokazu Machida as Momoya-sensei (eps 1, 4) 
Hiroki Tasaka as Announcement (ep 12) 
Kaori Nazuka as Hana's mother (eps 8, 11) 
Kazusa Aranami as
Female student (ep 11) 
Kumagaya-sensei (eps 1, 3-4, 8) 
Keiko Seo as Old woman (ep 7) 
Kōji Fujiyoshi as Butcher (ep 5) 
Kōki Harasawa as Man (ep 7) 
Masato Yamauchi as
Boy (ep 7) 
Kindergartener (ep 8) 
Moe Shirota as Kindergartener (eps 1, 8) 
Nana as
Child in Yoshiko role (ep 11) 
Kindergartener (ep 8) 
Nao Natsuno as Female student (eps 8, 11) 
Natsumi Hioka as
Classmate (ep 4) 
Female student (eps 11-12) 
Osamu Kaneko as Father (ep 9) 
Reina Kondo as Female class head (ep 11) 
Rie Kawamura as Time announcer (ep 3) 
Rikako Yamaguchi as Magi-Girl (ep 7) 
Risae Matsuda as Female student (eps 8, 11) 
Ruito Koga as Kindergartener (ep 9) 
Ryōka Yuzuki as Yūka's mother (eps 4, 7-9) 
Saaya Andō as Kōhei Inuzuka (young; ep 4) 
Sayuri Sadaoka as Tanabe the sitter (ep 6) 
Seiya Kimura as
Inuzuka's older brother (ep 4) 
Shinobu's younger brother (ep 6) 
Shōhei Kajikawa as Male student (eps 8, 11) 
Shou Ueno as Store employee (ep 5) 
Tadashi Hasebe as Host (ep 3) 
Takuma Sasaki as TV voice (ep 1) 
Tetsuya Oka as Father (ep 9) 
Tokia Kitahara as Kindergartener (ep 9) 
Yōko Hikasa as Mikio's mother (eps 3-4, 7-9) 
Yū Arisugawa as
Child in Yoshiko role (ep 11) 
Girl (ep 12) 
Kindergartener (ep 9) 
Yū Sanada as Male student (eps 8, 11) 
Yūko Sasaki as Shinobu's mother (ep 6) 
Japanese companies
2D Works: T2 Studio 
2nd Key Animation:
CL Corporation 
Graphinica 
ingresA 
Jumondo 
LIDEN FILMS Kyoto Studio 
Mouse 
Nakamura Production 
Orange 
R.I.C 
Studio Elle 
Studio Wanpack 
Triple A 
Wafū Animation 
XEBECzwei 
3DCGI: T2 Studio 
Animation Assistance: Shin-Ei Animation 
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment 
Backgrounds:
Green 
GREEN Qiqihar Studio 
Broadcaster:
AT-X 
Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation 
Tokyo MX 
YTV 
Editing: Jay Film 
Finish Animation:
CL Corporation 
FAI International 
Hiwa 
Jumondo 
Light Foot 
Niandai Animation 
office DCI 
Orange 
PTC Magic 
R.I.C 
Studio Elle 
Sung San Production 
Triple A 
Xuyang Animation 
In-Between Animation:
CL Corporation 
FAI International 
Hadashi Pro 
Jumondo 
Nakamura Production 
Niandai Animation 
office DCI 
Orange 
PTC Magic 
R.I.C 
Studio CL 
Studio Comet 
Studio Elle 
Studio Live 
Studio Mark 
Studio Mu 
Sung San Production 
Triple A 
Wafū Animation 
XEBECzwei 
Xuyang Animation 
Youli Animation 
Internet Streaming:
Bandai Channel 
Docomo Anime Store 
Google Play 
GyaO! 
Hikari TV 
Hulu 
J:COM 
Niconico 
Rakuten ShowTime 
U-NEXT 
Video Market 
Music Production: TMS Music 
Photography: T2 Studio 
Production:
Amaama to Inazuma Production Committee 
Asmik Ace, Inc. 
Dax Production 
East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc. 
Kodansha 
Shin-Ei Animation 
TMS Entertainment 
Toei Video Co., Ltd. 
Yomiuri TV Enterprise 
Production Cooperation:
Ascension (ep 3) 
Nomad (ep 4) 
Studio Elle (ep 5) 
Wao World (eps 6, 10) 
Recording Studio:
Procen Studio 
Sound Inn Studios 
Sound Production: Dax Production 
Video Editing: Q-Tec 
English staff
English cast
Translation: Sriram Gurunathan (Aniplus Asia) 

Subtitle Timing: Krzysztof Kunc 
(none)
English companies
Broadcaster: Aniplus Asia 
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll 
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll 
Italian cast
(none)

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