Moving away from the theme of finding a "twinkle" Volume 5 of Sugar talks more about the relationship between Saga and Sugar as well as Saga with her friends. Saga goes through quite a bit in this volume including losing her mother's piano to her friend and rival, Greta. These episodes were quite nice and actually I'm seriously considering marathoning the series after I finish it, or at least parts of it.

Sugar is a show that is readily growing to become one of my favorite shows made in the last decade. It is steadily growing to show the different layers it contains. Between the fairy tale fantasy, silly comedy and wonderful music it reminds me in many ways what it was like to be a child and also reminds me of a time when I tended to enjoy just about every anime I watched. While many claim I'm a huge pessimist about shows made after the move to more computer animation techniques (and they'd be right) Sugar is a show that makes even someone like me step back and realize that not everything out there is trash, just 90% of it.

Labels: Anime, Cute, Japanese