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“Flamboyant single mom Nikuko and shy daughter Kikuko navigate life on a houseboat in a small northern town.”
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
漁港の肉子ちゃん
7.28
3,137 rank · 14,767 viewers · 50 favorites
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Synopsis
Flamboyant single mom Nikuko and shy daughter Kikuko navigate life on a houseboat in a small northern town.
Kikuko Misuji, more often called "Nikuko-chan," is known by everyone in her small northern town as the happy fat lady at the grill. Having lived arduously traveling from man to man and town to town for the bulk of her life, Nikuko-chan finally seems to have settled down on a houseboat docked in the bay with her daughter—also named Kikuko. Together, the pair does their best to find their place in the world. For the bold and brash Nikuko-chan, her spirited behavior easily guides her toward the earnest goal. However, for the quiet and reserved Kikuko, who is often embarrassed by her mother's antics, each day can be just as uninspiring as the last. From middle school drama to solving the mystery of her strange classmate Ninomiya, Kikuko's adolescence is full of many twists and turns.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
7.6
/10
What 9 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 6
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.56
Running avg · Feb 2022 → Jun 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “It's 9/10 on the wholesome media scale.(Unbiased) It's 4.5/10 against all genre's and forms of media. (Biased) ( had 30minutes to spare so I watched it in 4x and I got a 4.5/10 experience out of my...”
- 10 “I might be biased here with my review, but I absolutely loved it. I resonated a lot with the character and her upbringing so a lot of the times I was just agreeing, or saying thigs like "been...”
- 10 “This was a very beautiful movie. The art was beautiful, the story was beautiful, and even the theme was beautiful. The art was almost comparable to that of ghibli, except more expressive. It wasn't...”
Verbosity
Short · 22%
Medium · 22%
Long · 56%
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A Movie Production
Studio 4°C.- Format 1 × 96′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 36m all episodes
- Aired Jun 2021 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-18581 catalog
Licensed by
- GKIDS Licensor