"Words are sometimes difficult. Words are sometimes vexing. Trying to get your feelings across can feel like a fruitless endeavor. However, your words and feelings will reach them someday."
RATING: 6.5/10
NUMBER OF EPISODES: 12 + 6 Specials
STATUS: Completed
SYNOPSIS: A talking bird named Dera, wanders in the Usagiyama Shopping District. He meets Tamako and decides to stay with her while looking for a bride for his prince. The story follows, Tamako, Dera, her friends and family in their every lives.
NON-SPOILERY REVIEW:
Tamako Market is a rather fun to watch anime. It's very easy to watch and entertaining. Although, there aren't any or much character development, the cuteness of the characters (especially Dera) would make you want to finish the anime. The bond between the characters are adorable and really heartwarming. It focused more on the friendships rather than romance. Although, it could have been expanded more to give the character more background and character development. Some of the characters weren't even explored or mentioned much (like Mochizo's friends). With it's short number of episodes, if you just want to have fun and enjoy something - you should definitely watch this.
In addition to that, you should also watch the sequel movie, "Tamako Love Story" which is a sort off continuation of this anime and adorable one at that. I watched that first before I watched this and it was fun even though I didn't know much of the characters. Watching the movie first, gave me background on the characters on this anime (of course, it would work vice-versa) and allowed me to enjoy every bit of it.
Tamako was a really cute character that was fun to watch. Her hair reminded me of Tenma from School Rumble for some reason. I love how friendly she is and how much she helps her family. She loves taking care of others but she could be quite dense sometimes especially when it involves others' feelings. I love that in the movie, she was able to tell Mochizo how she felt even after days of avoiding him. Midori was able to push her to finally admit how she felt using a white lie.
Mochizo was such a minor character in the anime. Though we were told how much he loves Tamako, he wasn't really able to show it in the anime. There weren't any backgrounds (visual backgrounds) on how he developed those feelings except that they grew up together. I love that he was finally able to admit how he felt for Tamako in the movie and was shocked when she finally caught the cup they used for conversations.
Dera was such a fun character and a cute one at that. I love how much Tamako's father hates his last same because it sounds something like mochi is disgusting. I love how much he cares for his girls and how he decided on his own to protect Tamako from the prince so that she would be able to stay in Usagiyama. I grew rather fond of him even though he was quite proud of himself at some points. I love that he has a crush on Shiori.
Midori was a really adorable character. I love how much she loves her friends and was finally able to open up to them in the episode where she had a block about the routines they were going to use for the festival. I love how protective she is of Tamako (even if it was because she liked Tamako) and how worried she was when they thought Tamako was the prince's bride.
Kanna was also adorable. I love how aloof she is and yet she is able to help her friends when they are in need. Her love of building things was quite awesome.
I love Choi but I felt sad for her. You could see that she loves the prince more than she realizes and I would like for them to end up together. I love that she became close with the people in the Usagiyama district but I was sad when she left.
For me, Shiori had the most character development all throughout the series. At first, she started as someone who was shy and couldn't talk to others properly yet by half of the anime, she was able to interact properly with Tamako and her friends and even joined their gang.
All throughout the anime I thought that Michiko was Mochizo's sister and not his mother. She looked really young.
I love the shopkeepers in Usagiyama. I love how friendly they are and how much they care for one another especially Tamako.
I love Fuku even though he acted strict towards his family. He was quite a traditionalist but deep inside he had a warm heart. I love the episode when his backstory with his wife was showed. How he confessed to her when he though she was confessing first and how he made a song for her which Tamako hummed.
I love seeing how thin Dera was in the beginning and how fat he became even before the episode ended. It was sad when he had to diet and everyone was worried for him and tried to sneak him food. I'm glad that even though he was still fat in the end, it worked out just as long as he was able to fly (which he was able to).
I felt sad for Mochizo because he wasn't able to tell Tamako of his feelings. Midori blocked him. He wasn't able to give his gift to Tamako for quite some years which had been stocked up in his room all this time.
I love seeing how happy Tamako was when she finally got the medal that she wanted and how the prince was able to give it back to her.
I felt sad for Mochizo when they all thought that Tamako was the prince's bride. You could see how much it broke his heart but Tamako's happiness comes for him first. As long as Tamako's happy, he'll be alright.
I felt sad for Tomio but you could see that he was alright as long as Sayuri was happy.
I love the records guy. I love how the music that he plays was appropriate to every scenario that he was shown. I also love that he was the one who was able to show Tamako and the others about the song that Tamako kept on humming.
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