#Tamako Love Story

[pinklacedcoffin]

꒰⠀me and who 🎀⠀⠀꒱ the mochizō to my tamako

[thebenefitsofheartbreak]

Tamako Love Story

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[mintybytes]

Everybody loves somebody ❤️

[zombiesama]

so i rewatched tamako market

[only-wonder]

mochizou in his lil dysphoria hoodie my beloved

[bestanimecouples]

Best Anime Couple: Tamako Kitashirakawa and Mochizo Oji

Anime: Tamako Market

1 season: 18 episodes

1 Movie

Sub & Dub

[animebrit]

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

it's 2024. guess what i'm about to rewatch for the first time since high school >:3c???

[ultrakart]

Tamako Market: a cute and fun and slightly absurd slice of life story!

Tamako Love Story: but what if we took that premise and turned it angsty by making characters suddenly and acutely aware of the passage of time. What if these characters realized that life can abruptly change course and the same old will eventually become the same old. What if we made you cry at midnight over this-

[sheilagab6y]

ᵗᵃᵐᵃᵏᵒ ˢᵗᵒʳᵉ!🍡

[new-rosecity]

Aqua: Hatsune Miku

last poll <3

[pinkmasquerade]

The Tamako love story rewatch is about wondering why I cannot find a man like Mochizou and then relating to Midori. Like the reason is right there.

[solarfire-art]

This anime genuinely still brings me so much joy ✨💕

[starryjelly]

Tamako from Tamako Market

[eatkittys]

keske

[yukisubmarino]

Tamako Love Story captures the unspeakable agony of young romance, and does so better than just about any movie of its ilk I’ve ever seen. It takes such a huge step up in quality from an already very good show that I wouldn’t hesitate telling people to skip Tamako Market entirely and just watch Love Story. It’s that good.

One of Market’s biggest shortcomings (aside from the Mochimazzi clan, and thank goodness their token appearance in Love Story is brief) is that Tamako is lowkey a fairly uninteresting main character. She radiates sunshine, but hardly faces anything resembling conflict, whether internal or external, and that makes Market kind of slow at times. Love Story changes that.

And it does so with a brilliant narrative twist, introducing the story from Mochizo’s POV before flipping it to Tamako after his big confession. From there we see a once-confident shopping district princess descend into the helplessness of a first love, and this movie nails all of the complicated emotion surrounding it. Everything about Tamako feels unbalanced, and the artwork, music, and vocal performances all make us feel as pleasantly confused as our romantic leads.

The production quality understandably benefits from the movie-sized budget, but so does the movie from the tonal changes, both visually and narratively. The colors lean towards earth tones and the pace drops the frenetic outbursts from Market in favor of grounded interactions (with notable exceptions for joke-telling purposes), and Love Story just feels so much more satisfying as a result. The jokes slap harder, the pathos lands better, the drama feels actually dramatic. If Market is strawberry mochi with a dusting of powdered sugar, then Love Story is heavy daifuku with a rich anko paste and a cup of warm tea.

It doesn’t quite rank as a 10/10 for me, as I feel a little bitter about Midori not feeling empowered enough to explore her feelings for Tamako (*shaking my gay fist*) and exiting this world knowing next to nothing about the shopkeepers, but those are small complaints in the big picture. I love this movie and implore everyone to watch it. 9/10