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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

71 %|Jun 11, 2021|Animation, Drama, Family, Comedy

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.

Featured Crew

Kurumi Inagaki
Theme Song Performance
Moaang
Key Animation
Proro
Key Animation
Miyaso
Key Animation
Kou Horio
Key Animation
Shinji Kimura
Art Direction
Kenichi Konishi
Supervising Animation Director
Kenichiro Akimoto
Second Unit Director

Cast

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Shinobu Ôtake
Nikuko-chan (voice)
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Cocomi
Kikuko (voice)
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Natsuki Hanae
Ninomiya (voice)
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Ikuji Nakamura
Sassan (voice)
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Izumi Ishii
Maria (voice)
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Atsushi Yamanishi
Zenji (voice)
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Yuichi Yasoda
Old man at the aquarium / Other characters (voice)
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Matsuko Deluxe
Darcia (voice)
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Riho Yoshioka
Miu (voice)
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Hiro Shimono
Lizard / Gecko (voice)
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Koko Ueno
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