Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari (The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting)

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 7, 2022 to Sep 22, 2022

Premiered: Summer 2022

Broadcast: Thursdays at 22:30 (JST)

Producers: Pony Canyon, Bushiroad, Tokyo MX, Docomo Anime Store, bilibili, Micro Magazine Publishing, Bushiroad Move, Micro House

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: feel., Gaina

Source: Web manga

Genre: Slice of Life

Themes: Childcare, Organized Crime

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.76¹ (scored by 91,620 users)

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Ranked: #1097²

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Popularity: #1104

Members: 219,680

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Tooru Kirishima's notoriety is spread far and wide in the underworld. He is most commonly known as "The Demon of Sakuragi"—a man who is not afraid to resort to violence if deemed necessary. After almost jeopardizing a peace treaty, his boss tasks him with the most difficult job he has ever had: taking care of seven-year-old Yaeka Sakuragi—the boss' precious daughter—so that Tooru understands what it means to be responsible for another life.

At first, the two do not seem to meet eye to eye, as Tooru has no clue on how to communicate with Yaeka, and the young girl is not used to expressing her emotions. However, as time goes on, they come to understand each other despite their differences. The fearsome right-hand man of a yakuza boss and the child he must protect are about to learn that family is not always bound by blood.

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Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan from October 26, 2022 to January 25, 2023.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kirishima, Tooru

Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Sakuragi, Yaeka

Main

Watada, Misaki
Japanese

Sugihara, Kei

Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito
Japanese

Sakuragi, Kazuhiko

Supporting

Takeuchi, Ryouta
Japanese

Hanada, Ayumu

Supporting

Ozawa, Ari
Japanese

Houjo, Rei

Supporting

Hatano, Wataru
Japanese

Mashiro, Yuuri

Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Aoi, Touichirou

Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki
Japanese

Sakuragi, Miyuki

Supporting

Nakahara, Mai
Japanese

Kurosaki, Kanami

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Kobayashi, Misa
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Sekido, Kimihito

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Oonuki, Yuusuke

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Takigasaki, Makoto

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Opening Theme

"Mirai no Hero Tachi e (未来のヒーローたちへ)" by Takeyaki Shou (タケヤキ翔)

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"Kaerimichi no Iro (かえりみちの色)" by Shibuya HAL (渋谷ハル)

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Sep 22, 2022

GG-WP

Recommended

Do you enjoy childcare?
Do you like wholesome and heartfelt moments?
Do you like shows that make you want to protect and care for others, as if you were a parent?
Last but not least, are you interested in reminiscing about your childhood days with your parents/nanny or any other parental figure?
Then this show is for you.

The show revolves around the Tooru and Yaeka duo, with Tooru in charge of babysitting Yaeka on the orders of the household's and Sakuragi Group's head, Kazuhiko. You can see how the duo clicked right away. Whenever Tooru does something sweet for Yaeka and vice versa, you go awwww, that's so sweet, ...

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Sep 22, 2022

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Gokushufudou, Hinamatsuri or even Spy X Family, the wholesome Yakuza family version...but is it all true as the source material implies with the same tropes?

This is the first anime adaptation of a Micro Magazine Comic ELMO title, and mangaka Tsukiya's only work that once got its start as a web manga posted on the author's Twitter and pixiv accounts under the title "Gokudou Musume to Sewagakari" (you can see the Gokushufudou semblance here). Regardless, as much as Yakuza families go, there have been some that has made the rounds with their inert similarities with one another, taking one aspect and fusing it with the other ... in the author's own ways. Gokushufudou showed how a high-ranking member operates his life by putting both work and private life separate; Hinamatsuri has the same babysitting fare but with comedy that is just oh-so-perfect; and Spy X Family brought the family dynamic to the table.

And Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari a.k.a The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting is just that: a guide for Yakuza members to also be productive members of society while hiding their identities as a secret that's known inside and outside the household. It is by no means a new type of show, but at least it gets the job done about a Yakuza being heralded as the one who's meant not to be trifled with, experience a 180 of a character change with his boss's daughter for babysitting. This is exactly the case for the Yakuza Crusher "Demon" Toru Kirishima, being the right hand-man of the Sakuragi Family under Kazuhiko's control and introducing his 7-year-old daughter Yaeka for a literate babysitting job. That's it. No whimsical plot premises, no over-convoluted setting, just pure familial goodness, and for the most part, it's just "fine" that's nothing amazing, but still, this can be a pretty good time waster (to which I'm kinda regretting a bit on the inside).

Everyone inside and outside of the Sakuragi Family is at least interconnecting to one another, save for some bad apples that have tried to retaliate to the Sakuragi Demon that is Kirishima. Both Kirishima and Yaeka has the aforementioned father figure-cum-daughter feel, which can look wholesome, but this is where the "nothing happens" syndrome really hits the source material like rocks befalling onto a garbage can of a shallow premise, being an echo-chamber to reiterate the same pointers again and again. At least for the other assistants (or minions) under Kirishima rather, I do quite take a liking to his right-hand man and close buddy that is Kei Sugihara. He's such a hilarious idiot that's a sight to behold, unconsciously playing along with Kirishima's antics, and you could feel the difference between his conversations with him, Kirishima and Yaeka. Even rival families (one obnoxious character comes in the form of Yuri Mashiro) and close friends like Aoi Tochiro made their presence feel felt in the face of Kirishima's overall life that's just a matter of unforgivings for his past erratic behaviour. It gets a deserving pass overall for being just OK at best, and that's not saying much.

But otherwise, the show has a pretty consistent production phase along its run thanks to the studio co-collab between feel. and Gaina (formerly Fukushima Gainax), and as you would expect of a light-hearted show, it gets all of its notes right from the get-go. This trickles down to the OST of being a "fine and OK" level, though uplifting, they are not as memorable when the show wraps up.

Yes, while that may not be a bad thing as it could help construct the family dynamic as both the source material and anime now as should, as Gertrude Stein puts it: "Repeating is the whole of living, and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.", but as Rose Wilder Jane puts it: "Constant repetition dulls receptivity.", and it's a shame that the latter is what I felt while watching the show.

I like shows that have a family-found rhethoric (a la last season's Deaimon), but for some reason, Tsukiya's Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari...really doesn't bring anything new to the table, and that I feel is a mistake to repeat the tried-and-true formula without something that will make it stand out amongst the crowded space of similar works. It can be decent at spots, and that's the lingering on my tongue to say that it's fine, it's OK. Take it or leave it, it's your choice.

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Sep 22, 2022

Aikeji

Not Recommended

It pains me to say it but Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari is the prime example of the 'mid show'.

The concept of found family in the yakuza environment itself is actually a great setup that can end up with a fantastic action-packed comedy. Yet, in this show, the whole part of gang life is only treated as an explanation for why Kirishima used to be a violent and cruel person and the jokes are often unfunny or even cringe.

When I read the description of this show for the first time, I hoped it would be another entertaining thing to watch, similar to Hinamatsuri but what we ...

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