Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko ‘s quaint seaside town is equal parts quiet, peaceful, and full of life thanks to this. ‘The sounds of the rainforest’ Image used with permission by copyright holder ...

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.

Produced by Studio 4°C, directed by Children of the Sea’s Ayumu Watanabe, and based on Kanako Nishi’s novel, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko follows a fat, loud mother and her embarrassed tween ...

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

‘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.

Gkids, the producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights for Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (Gyoko no ...