There’s this manhwa I’ve been reading. It’s not complete yet and it’s eating away at my skin. I literally sacrificed some of my reading time during exams to binge read it. That was the first time I ever did something like that and I can’t say I regret it because fortunately, I still managed to cover my syllabus. I've stopped reading it for a while because I got fed up with having just a chapter to read each week when I used to read 80 chapters at a go, and in one sitting. I’m not here to talk about it but I will soon, just letting it sit pretty at a corner before I’m ready to share my glorious characters. They’re not mine obviously but I’m gatekeeping, for now. Oh and it’s having an anime adaptation by next year!
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But that’s besides what I want to say. I’m watching pantheon now and also reading this book series, but before all these, I had the opportunity to rewatch an anime that I watched last two years ago and I’d like to share or talk about it a little.
Buddy Daddies. The first time I saw it, I couldn’t get past the first episode, I got bored immediately. I don’t know why but eventually it came to me. It has just one season with a total of 13 episodes.
It revolves around these two characters, Kazuki and Rei. Kazuki and Rei are professional assassins who work as partners and live together, but they couldn’t be more different. Kazuki is the responsible one who handles all the domestic stuff like cooking and cleaning, while Rei is more of a loner who just wants to play video games and avoid dealing with people. They have their routine down and their partnership works, even if their personalities clash sometimes.
Everything changes during what should have been a straightforward job when they end up responsible for a young girl named Miri. She’s connected to their target in a way that complicates the mission, and suddenly these two guys who kill people for a living find themselves trying to figure out how to take care of a kid.
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Neither of them knows anything about parenting, and their lifestyle obviously isn’t compatible with raising a child. Kazuki tries his best to adapt and create some kind of normal home environment, while Rei struggles with the whole situation and doesn’t really know how to interact with Miri at first. The kid herself is dealing with her own complicated family situation and doesn’t fully understand what’s happening around her.
As they try to balance their work with this unexpected responsibility, both men start changing in ways they didn’t expect. The presence of Miri forces them to look at their lives differently and question some of the choices they’ve made. Their relationship with each other also evolves as they navigate this new dynamic.
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The story explores what happens when people who live in a violent, underground world suddenly have to consider someone else’s wellbeing and future. There are complications from their professional lives that threaten this makeshift family they’re trying to build, and they have to figure out what they’re willing to sacrifice to protect what matters to them. And this isn’t the only anime with this kind of story, they are a handful or a lot, I have no idea. And honestly and like I said in the beginning, the genre wasn’t resonating with me. I don’t think I like this kind of anime but this one was good to say the least.
Thanks for reading.
