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178. How to Keep a Mummy
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35828/Miira_no_Kaikata
Winter 2018 (12 episodes)
My Score: 4/10, MAL Score: 7.47/10
Best Character: Mii-kun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B21sXOWWKJE

Premise: Kashiwagi Sora often receives strange packages from his adventurer father, and the latest one is a tiny, adorable mummy! Now Sora needs to learn how to take care of Mii-kun.

The Good: How to Keep a Mummy excels when it comes to cuteness. Mii-kun is adorable in everything he does. Other creatures began showing up as well, including a tiny dragon and a baby oni, and all of those are cute too. Large parts of this anime are the creatures doing cute things, learning about the world, or their owners learning about them, and I enjoyed most of that.

The Bad: The human characters really drag everything down. Sora is flat and boring, existing only as an audience surrogate to observe Mii-kun. Thats fine, I suppose, but Id have preferred if he had a bit more of his own character. His friend Tazuki was a jerk to everything and everyone, including Mii-kun. Their interactions were the only times that tiny mummy was on-screen without it being fun. The other two human characters werent memorable either. The humans definitely arent the focus, but its still such a drag whenever scenes involve them because theyre all so much worse than the monsters.

Overall: How to Keep a Mummy is a fine anime if all you want to see is a cute mummy, among other tiny monsters. It doesnt have a whole lot of depth beyond that, however, and I blame the humans for that. The owners of these cute pets are either boring or annoying jerks, and they drag How to Keep a Mummy down.

COMING UP TOMORROW:
177: This anime is only a few inches tall.
176: This anime is tired after being woken up all throughout the night.