Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku

Well, this was disappointing.

I tried liking this. My hopes were up with that it was a spinoff of Lucky Star, but those positive thoughts were dashed swiftly.

Being about the families struggles to maintain any money for food, with an otaku shopper, you think it would be a fun few minutes, but the overuse of similar jokes over and over again drew thin, and eventually it became a chore to finish. Also, the ED joke was funny to begin with, but wore down as all the jokes did. Though the ED was a nice tune.

Since it was a Lucky Star spinoff, you would expect a cameo, ... but alas, those were disappointing as well.

The few positives this show had was the aforementioned ED song, though they were sub-par, the *cameos* of the Lucky star gang, and the art was above average.

Final thoughts would be that it is dissapointing, but if want to waste 30 minutes, as the show varies from 3-5 minutes long, go right ahead, but there are MANY better shorts out there than this one.

Now while I have not finished Lucky Star yet due to not finding the dub of the final episodes on Youtube,I rather like it. It may not have a story but its funny and it has quirky and cute characters. But this "spin off " is the opposite. So lll explain in a mini view!

Story ~3
It had potential to be something giving the idea but it really waste it. Its not dull but annoying. The comedy feels force and the situations take a stretch. In other words its 30 minutes of annoying crap.

Characters~3
Everyone minus the main 2 here and characters from the main show Lucky ... Star are meh. The older sister,Hinata is very annoying and is literally the cause of problems financially. She is selfish and dose a bad job at taking care of her sister. The little sister,Hikage is decent and sympathetic because of Hinata is doing a crappy job of taking care of her. Overall the characters at best meh (minus the ones from the main series and Hikage)at worst annoying.

Animation and art ~7
To be positive the animation is very nice,the designs are cute,and fits Lucky Star but upgraded. Im glad the animation looks nice because if you've seen LS it has terrible animation admittedly. So all in all its nice and looks smooth.

Sound ~4
The op is amazing! Its very upbeat and cute. Outside of that sound is meh minus the voice acting. Its good in Japanese and it souunds nice. There is no dub for this OVA at the time of writing this. That`s all I have to say on the sound since there is nothing to talk about minus the op.

Enjoyment~2
I really don't like this show. It had good ideas but wasted mainly because of the poor choices of the Hinata. She was awful. But everything else was meh minus the op and animation. So honestly this was eh at best if the pink hair brat didnt make those choices. It may sound like Im nitpicking but.she is a terrible example of a sister and a main character.

Overall~3
The show is not that good. Stick with Lucky Star if you want a good comedy that has some merit unlike here.

compared to Lucky Star, this is absolute garbage, and compared to nothing? It's still painfully boring; The only bits of this show that were at all enjoyable were the brief moments when the Lucky Star cast made a cameo in the background. All this has done is make me ache further for a proper spinoff or second season of Lucky Star, is it really too much to ask for a show featuring Akira as the main? Though this far in the future, anything related to Lucky Star is old news.. and there is no worse pain than that. In total, i'd equate this show to ... torture.

This show is depressing to watch.

It revolves around two sisters living by themselves together, but the older (adult) one keeps spending all of the money on manga, so the younger and more responsible one (in elementary school) is always upset. While the elder sister isn't necessarily malicous, she's so irresponsible that she's very hard to feel positively about, even if it's played off as a joke. This is pretty much the entire show, and it just gets repeated over and over.

I'm not sure how (or even if) this was supposed to be funny, because it was just sad to watch. It's kinda painful, because you ... just spend most of your time pitying the kid. You can clearly see that it's gotten so bad that she has a warped perception of what normal people can afford. It feels like watching nearly an hour of child neglect, if not abuse.

Also, I don't know why they made this a spin-off to Lucky Star. The only connection between them seems to be brief character cameos. This could easily have been its own series.

The art style is what you'd expect from Lucky Star, and the OP is pretty nice, but it doesn't make up for its faults. In the technical department, everything feels okay. Not great, but nothing bad.

tldr: writing is repetitive, but the technical aspects are okay. may likely be (mildly) depressing to watch
overall rating: 4/10

The Miyakawa Family's Hunger, despite being a spin-off of Lucky Star, one of my favorite anime of all time, is a bit of a letdown. Given how short the anime itself is, let's get right into the various reasons why. First, the story is set up with these sisters living together, the older sister taking care of the younger one, though she is such an uninhibited otaku that her younger sister is often on the brink of starvation. Now, it's clear that the show has written her as deep down being a good sister, or at least wanting to be, but the fact that her ... sister is starving so often and has to scold her about her use of money just makes the whole situation come off as some kind of tragedy. I get it's supposed to be funny, but it just isn't. I think there actually were ways to make it funny too, which makes this anime all the more unsatisfying. The art's good though, measuring up to the same quality as Lucky Star, with those same excellent watercolor backgrounds. The sound is also of a similar quality, so no complaints there either. The characters come off as very flat and uninspired, like they had this idea and ran with it, forcing these characters to fit the idea so neatly that they lose any sense of humor or relatability. Overall, the best part by far is when the girls from Lucky Star show up in the background. The Miyakawa Family's Hunger is an underwhelming experience that left me feeling thankful the episodes are only a few minutes a piece.