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Radically different from the first season of this anime, the second season of Dagashi Kashi seems to abandon what made the first season shine - the information about dagashi. They do provide some small nuggets in most episodes, but they take a secondary place behind an ill-made attempt at turning this anime into a slice of life story when there's really nothing interesting going on.

More importantly, with only five characters in the first season, they really couldn't afford to lose two of them for this second season. Nonetheless,that's exactly what they did, and while they brought in two new supporting characters to take ... their place, the absence of the familiar missing characters hangs over this season like a shroud.

The final episode is pure chaos - whereas the first season's finale seemed clearly designed with a second season in mind, this season's finale looks like they were planning a third season, realized at the last minute they weren't going to get one, and tried to cram together a bunch of unrelated story lines into the final episode. It works about as well as you might expect.

Dagashi Kashi has been criticized by many on this site for it's lack of plot and character development. Both criticisms are valid - the series is neither character- driven nor really is it plot-driven. The characters are just a means to an end - that end being to educate viewers about the wide range of traditional dagashi that are out there. If your goal is to learn more about dagashi, the characters serve as a painless means of doing so. If you're looking for a romcom with a satisfying ending, or even a more traditional slice of life series, this is ... probably not the one for you.

Aside from the plentiful information about dagashi the series features decent, if a bit cliche, character design and catchy opening and ending themes which you might not mind sitting through a few times. There's really not too much more you can ask from an educational anime hidden inside a slice of Life / romcom shell.