Stranger_Hanyo

With all the anime this seasonal sparking debates and deep thoughts, I wanted something to watch that would make me feel relaxed. Browsing through the shows I landed upon this one, and what I saw for 40 minutes, did not disappoint me. While others will disagree with me, I genuinely feel that Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara is one gem of an anime. A sweet take on the everyday life of a couple will make any depressed or grumpy guy happy. Chistao is a working woman in a company. Pretty, reserved and excellent in her work. Sora, her husband, works in a bar. The anime dealswith Chi-chan being welcomed or treated to a drink by her husband everyday, and the cuteness that un-follows thereafter. There's not much to think, not much to debate while watching the anime. Just kick back and relax as you see a cute couple still enjoying their days. It's an overall enjoying package and honestly for a 3 minute short with 13 episodes a critical part by part analysis seems foolish. Chi-chan and Sora are really couple goals. Chisato is for sure my waifu of the season. Her drunk face, her serious face and her face filled with the love for her husband are too damn cute. If only there were cute girls like that in real life(deep sighs of regret). Rather than reading the many review, go watch it. You will not be disappointed unless you have made up your mind to hate it. P.S. About the many alcoholic recipes given in the anime, I tried to make a few. It was hard and didn't taste right. Something is best left with the professionals I guess.

RebelPanda

Love is Like a Cocktail (AKA: Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara) represents everything that’s I hate about the romance genre. Maybe you’ll have more patience for it, but I’m a pretty cynical person by nature so I struggled to not look at it spitefully. The worst issues that plague this show: 1. A man gives woman alcohol for the first time, now she’s an alcoholic. (Great influence! Why not marry him!?!) 2. She marries him to have a personal bartender. (a Hilariously misguided example of romance.) 3. Guy buys his wife with alcohol. (There’s more to love than just substance!) 4. She becomes drunk very easily and throwsherself at him. (Wow nice life lessons!) 5. A "romance" starring adults is written with all the seriousness you'd expect of Umaru-chan. (If you wanted to make a goofy romance, then alcohol-fueled relationships was not a good choice. It could have easily been a drama if they didn't approach a careful subject like alcoholism with so little care for the gentle subject.) You can’t teach an audience that a relationship works that way. Love doesn’t and shouldn’t work like that. Alcohol doesn't work like that! When you’re making an anime (watched mostly by kids or young adults) then it’d probably be a good idea to consider your audience. On top of this show’s egregious issues it also fails to provide a decent watching experience. Despite being only 3 minutes long it is incredibly repetitive, each episode has the same sequence of events and it isn't funny or entertaining. The show has a simple but kind-hearted intentions that just don't come across at all. It wants to be cute and heartwarming but instead it borders on insulting. Every episode a stressed-out businesswoman, Chisato, is comforted by her husband, Sora, with alcohol and/or food he prepares himself. Chisato and Sora have no chemistry, other than she likes the drinks that he makes and he likes feeding her. There is no spark between them. I wouldn't even believe that they were married if there wasn't an obligatory backstory episode. Love is Like a Cocktail is just a cooking show (and not a very good one at that) with a seemingly obligatory romance tacked on. Look no further than their undercooked relationship, there's no chemistry! Their relationship is platonic at best, toxic at worse. No one should take their relationship seriously. This isn't what healthy romance looks like, it's poison and could never exist this happily in real life. Sure, if there were other qualities that Chisato and Sora loved each other for I could see it being more believable. But there are none. The show does not develop them past, a cute tired woman who likes alcohol, and a bartender who likes cute woman. Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken this is not. Story 2/10 What story? +1 for a generously brief length. Art 6/10 Fine. The food and drinks look… edible I guess? Sound 6/10 Nice ed. The voice acting is ok. Character 1/10 +1 for the lemon. Enjoyment 2/10 The lemon was pretty funny. Overall: 3.0/10 It's bad. Not just for short-form anime. It fails because it doesn't try to create a convincing romance or realistic characters, instead it just forces overbearing cuteness onto you. Maybe cute lady drinking alcohol is all you need for 3 minutes, but there should be something more. Perhaps you may get some fleeting enjoyment from it if you are more tolerant of problematic disposable entertainment than I am. But for me 3 minutes a week is far too long to waste on this drivel.