The rainbow-bright world of Netflix’s recent stop-motion series “My Melody & Kuromi” appears overwhelmingly cute at first glance. That impression seems fitting given that one of its stars, Sanrio’s bunny-like character My Melody, has been a Japanese kawaii ambassador since 1975.
However, it’s the chaotic, jealous and unpredictable Kuromi that makes the show hum. She captures the often anxious and angry zeitgeist, and this series provides her biggest moment yet ... but most certainly not her last.
“My Melody & Kuromi” finds the titular characters operating dueling bakeries, with the former running laps around the latter. The series begins with the two characters preparing for a big confections contest coming to their pastel hometown of Mariland. Yet amid that sweet-centric showdown, the two rivals team up and go on an adventure to save their world from accidentally released mystical forces.
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