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A gleaming and delightful anime with a large appetite for tenderness and laughter, director Ayumu Watanabe’s mother-daughter saga “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” boundlessly adores its titular ...

“Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” succeeds where so many other movies like it fail simply by making its characters seem real enough to be going through a series of familiar growing pains.

‘Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’ Review: A Kaleidoscopic Anime With a Lovely Coming-of-Age Tale at its Heart Reviewed online, June 1, 2022. In Animation Is Film Festival. Running time: 96 MIN.

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko Not rated. In Japanese, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. In theaters.