There’s a mini-mummy, a back-pack sized dragon, a tiny oni and a whole bunch of other pint sized monsters all in one adorable anime package. What more could you want?
Review:
When Sora received a coffin from his father who was travelling through Egypt, he suspects the worst and apparently with good reason. His recounts of previous gifts certainly lead one to presume that nothing good can come out of the coffin. Don’t even ask why it is clearly an English style coffin rather than an Egyptian sarcophagus or how the mummy eventually breaks out given he never demonstrates that kind of feat of strength ever again; these are questions that should be asked of a show asking you to take it seriously rather than one that seems to excel at being cute for cute’s sake. For this story, it is all about how adorable the cast are on screen and the main goal of most episodes is to put the cast into cuteness inducing moments for the audience to tilt their heads and go ‘aww’ to.
If that sounds like I’m being condescending, I’m not. I actually really had a great time with this anime given just the opening theme could start me smiling and any episode that Mii-Kun (the titular mummy in question) barked was enough to leave me grinning for the remainder of the day. There’s just something so soothing and cute about a barking miniature mummy and to be honest I don’t think I’m ever going to get over that. I think I need a gif on an endless loop of that just for days that go badly and then I can simply cheer myself by watching it over and over again.
What works even better are Sora and Mii as a team. Sora by himself would be a pretty bland protagonist, but when coupled with Mii the two are a duo that would be hard to beat. The success of any episode in this series for me depended on the screen time these two characters were given. The other characters work, but all have diminishing returns in terms of cuteness and particularly the oni-child really don’t replace Mii as an adequate focus – or at least they don’t give me quite the same bliss out on over-cuteness.
Still, cute really can’t be enough to carry a series. This anime manages to find enough interesting situations to stick the cast in a back-drops for their cute antics that you don’t actually get overly bored (though I suspect that binge watching this could become a bit of a problem). Still, the characters visit each other’s houses, the school, a temple and finally a mountain with a range of activities and interactions to sell each of the characters.
Basically, there isn’t a lot of rewatch value in this and there isn’t a lot of depth, but if you are seeking the cute and fuzzy feels, this anime will succeed admirably.
Episode Reviews:
- Episode 12: Cheesy and Yet Pulls It Off
- Episode 11: Part of Me Wants To Say About Time
- Episode 10: A Return To Adorable Formula
- Episode 9: The Oni-Child Crosses The Line
- 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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This anime always gave me the warm fuzzies when I watched. That dang mummy is way too adorable.
I still never thought I would describe a mummy as a adorable but Mii was just too cute.
Fair review I think. As i said in my season review, this show’s deepest flaw is that it simply had too many characters cluttering up the place.
Yes, I think the anime would have managed a little better overall if it hadn’t kept adding to the cast but just kept the core cute cast on screen for longer.
There’s too much cute for the sake of cute anime lol.
Haha, I could hear how uncontrollably excited you were about the cuteness of this show 😂.
I tried an episode review without using the word cute and that was almost impossible. Cute is what this show does and it does it well.
😊 Haha, I’ll check it out. I felt that way about poco’s udon world
Hope you enjoy.
Poco’s udon world is fantastic, but it’s much more of a plot-driven tear-jerker than Mummy.
Oh that is true, poco had me crying too by the end… I need to watch happier anime before I spiral into a deep depression 😂😂😂