A gleaming and delightful anime with a large appetite for tenderness and laughter, director Ayumu Watanabe’s mother-daughter saga “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” boundlessly adores its titular charact…
” boundlessly adores its titular character even when it lingers a tad too long on her happy-go-lucky naiveté or ample love of food.
Being a punch-drunk romantic a little too trusting of scheming men who mercilessly take advantage of her, Nikuko often falls in love with the wrong sort and moves to a new village every time an ill-fated affair predictably turns sour. We learn that it was on the heels of one such heartbreaking romance when she and Kikuko found themselves in their current living arrangement, after the latest loser deserted her abruptly with no explanation.
That food — or rather, Nikuko’s frequent consumption of it, often shown in impolite close-ups — bears examination, since “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” emphasizes it repeatedly. One could read into that recurring impulse to accentuate Nikuko’s weight and deem it unkind. But working from a novel by Kanako Nishi, screenwriter Satomi Ohshima and director Watanabe are thankfully careful in avoiding cheap laughs at the expense of their big-hearted character.
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