Buddy Daddies Is Basically Gay Spy x Family | Anime

I’m very much going to watch this when I can it looks fun

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erm.. have you even watched it Isaiah? I'll just post what I know about this show after watching a few episodes, for those interested. Spoilers: I dropped it. I'll also put out several spoilers in my comment, so there's your warning.

This show starts with one of the guys (Kazuki) waking up with a naked woman in his bed. The blonde guy is kind of a playboy, whereas the other guy is a reclusive super intelligent type that lives in the same apartment (Rei).
The only way I can see this being labelled as a "gay show" is via the usual fujoshi route… at least up to the episode I watched, there are no gay feelings shown anywhere in the anime, not even slight insinuations that happen when you have a light gay show that doesn't want to declare itself as so. Quite the opposite, again, one guy is a pretty obvious playboy, he's constantly ogling female characters.

These guys share an apartment because of their job, which btw is contract killing. They are straight up assassins, no real backgrounds setup to justify it (like a country in a cold war with a neighboring nation), but they follow the type that only kills "bad guys", as usual. Their targets seems to be mostly mobsters, mafia bosses, criminals who escaped law, that type of thing.
Also, the killing is explicit, in a way that is very much a banalization of violence. On their hit jobs tons of people get killed because they often botch the job and ends up having to kill everyone instead of only the target. So, their jobs often ends up with tens of "goons" plus the target getting killed. It's mostly guns versus guns plus Rei's sword attacks.
And exactly because of this, I would never call this anime anywhere near Spy x Family. It's more an adult show, and one that I don't think many people will feel comfortable watching.

The kid (Miri) appears right in the middle of the first episode, she's apparently the daughter of a mafia type guy that he abandoned with her mother somewhere else. The mother, for whatever reason – it seems mental illness is implied-, sent the 4yr daughter by herself to seek the father with a note demanding money and accusing of abandoning them both. There isn't much explaining there, only that the daughter exits a train by herself and walks all the way up to the hotel or whatever the father is supposed to be in – she sees this as an adventure or something.

And here starts all the problems I see with this anime. This is all portrayed like a funny and awkward thing, it straight away gets in conflict how well behaved and well dressed Miri is, apparently how well taken care of up until she's 4yrs old, while having a mother who basically abandoned the girl to her own devices to seek the father, and a father that is a mafia boss type that ends up killed in the first episode by the titular "couple" – Kazuki and Rei, part of a hit job.

Because Kazuki looks a bit like the mafia guy, Miri mistakes him for her father, and he, not knowing what to do in the confusion of the bloodbath that happened, sorta takes her to their apartment.

This could and kinda sounds a bit like perhaps León: The Professional, but the kid is just not that age… Miri is too young, apparently even to understand what is really happening around her, sometimes pathologically so. There is a lot caché deposited on Miri's cuteness to make people not think about all the questionable stuff that is happening in the anime.
She isn't like Anya with mind reading powers and a somewhat warped maturity above her age – she's just a kid.
That's the other part that really bothered me. Miri is a sweet kid, but still a kid. There is a pattern that just doesn't make much sense though – she behaves as a kid when she wants to be spoiled or wants some attention, but when she is in the middle of a gun fight everything looks like fun and play to her. There is no fear and no reaction to gun fights, violence happening all around her, or people getting killed left and right.

Perhaps there will be some explanation on why she behaves the way she does later on, as well as these other incongruent things about where she came from and why she became the way she is, but that doesn't seem to be the way the anime is going. There is no hint of a mental problem in Miri's part, she just accepts and view things the way she does because "she's just a kid". There is no trauma, no negative emotions, no behavior that stems from abuse… it's just all weird.

Then there's the more obvious plot points that will bother some people. The duo begins their life with Miri trying to get rid of her in every way possible. It's not only because they don't care for a kid bothering their usual life around, but also obviously because their job precludes a ton of danger and is not a healthy environment for a kid to grow in. I think that's the right way to think about it.
But then they leave Miri alone by herself an entire day while they are out doing a hit job.
Of course it all turns out fine, in a very inconsequential way, but then the next job she doesn't want to be left alone and they decide to take her with them on an island complex hit job, which ends up in a bullet fest with neither the duo nor Miri getting killed because of course, they are showered with bullets by bad guys that never hits anything or anyone, and this is all treated like routine.

So you see, it's an anime that only works out the way it does because nothing is taken seriously… it all works fine in the end somehow, no matter how bad things look.
Which is fine if you understand it's this type of show. I'm not saying that you will or won't like it, but I don't think it's Gay Spy x Family, not by far. It is well animated and has good character designs, but it's just not the same type of story, and other than wishful thinking from selected viewers, there is nothing particularly gay in it too.
Give it a try though, perhaps you'll like it. I had high hopes but ended up dropping it.