#whereas a lot of thr comedy in bd comes from kazuki reacting to miri doing gneric kid things like making a mess or having to pee

[toughtink]

watched the first 4 eps of buddy daddies since folks have been comparing it to spy x family, and i have some thoughts! mostly it’s cute, and yes, similar to spy x family in that it’s about hired murderers pretending to be the parents of a little girl. but the vibes feel pretty different and more…hmm generic anime? maybe partially due to the modern setting, but also it treats it’s main child character much differently.

while anya is an active protagonist in sxf holding up her own end of the story and helping to protect the fragile peace between east & west, miri so far has been more of a plot element, a vehicle by which to introduce chaos into the story and force the actual protagonist to act. she feels flatter than anya, more of what someone’s idea of a kid is who hasn’t spent a ton of time with the nitty gritty weirdness of how little kids think. i do wonder if she’ll get more agency down the line, but i thought this was an interesting and notable difference.