How To Keep a Mummy Episode 9: The Oni-Child Crosses The Line

Review:

Anime has a lot of heart breaking moments that really capture the spirit of what it is to be human, to be alone, and to suffer loss. How To Keep A Mummy doesn’t quite manage to land this lofty emotional goal but still delivers something that is cute in its very gentle and obvious dealing with emotional baggage.

With Conny in trouble again for stealing pudding (gasp), Kamiyagives him a talking to but of course with his rough and direct way of speaking goes too far. In the morning Conny is gone and after a night of being missing the rest of the gang decide to look for him but Kamiya stubbornly refuses claiming it isn’t his responsibility. A facade which lasts for all of about three seconds.

Part of me wishes they’d at least pretended at this whole conflict thing for a little bit longer, but the reunion was pretty adorable. Still, essentially we’re back to business as usual as we roll into another episode.

Previous Reviews:

• Episode 8: It’s Monster Day Care and It Is Soooo Cute!
• Episode 7: Barking Mummies and Dream Eating Baku
• Episode 6: A Little Knowledge Can Be Adorable
• Episode 5: Dragon + Mummy = Too Cute
• Episode 4: And Without The Star What is Left?
• Episode 3: The Word Cute Will Not Appear In This Review Even Though Mii-Kun is The Cutest Ever
• Episode 2: There’s No Real Story But It Remains Pretty Cute
• Episode 1: That’s Adorable and I Want One

Thanks for reading.

Karandi James

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