#and you conclude that the writers haven't really handled the characterisation all that well

[himebushou]

One of my favourite things about Buddy Daddies is the fact that Miri is incredibly well-written.

In Episode 8, Miri asks more about Rei's father — her grandpa. She's excited at first, but when she finds out that it won't be possible to meet Suwa Shigeki, she asks, "So is Grandpapa mad at Papa Rei?"

She continues:

We don't know how Miri frames the argument in her four-year-old mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if she imagined the pair fighting over the last cookie, or something.

Kazuki, however, somewhat forgets that he's talking to a tiny pop and starts telling Miri about the complicated family dynamic:

Watching this part, I felt pretty sceptical — how was Miri going to understand concepts like 'special circumstances', overbearing expectations, family businesses and so on? It would have been pretty ridiculous if she'd followed everything Kazuki said and responded like an adult.

But Miri, darling Miri, zeroes in on one particular part of Kazuki's dialogue:

The bit that really matters to a four-year-old child! The bit that she can understand!

Kazuki corrects Miri. The conversation concludes with Miri coming back on track; she simplifies the situation, no doubt relating it to her own experiences at daycare:

And that's another reason why the writing for Unasaka Miri is fantastic.

#buddy daddies #buddy daddy spoilers #unasaka miri #kurusu kazuki #sometimes... anime kids are a bit too advanced #and you conclude that the writers haven't really handled the characterisation all that well #ALSO #kazuki has a very good understanding of the situation #either kyuutarou researched the suwa family extensively (or rei opened up to HIM) #and then kazuki inferred a ton of stuff #(but that seems unlikely because rei was half-alive in those flashbacks; it's hard to imagine him having a heart-to-heart with kyuutarou) #OR #rei felt comfortable enough around kazuki to talk to him about this stuff at some point in the last few years #because it's just NOT stuff an outsider would know