Buddy Daddies

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: Buddy Daddies


Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 7, 2023 to Apr 1, 2023
Premiered: Winter 2023
Broadcast: Saturdays at 00:00 (JST)
Licensors: Crunchyroll
Studios: P.A. Works
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, ComedyComedy
Themes: ChildcareChildcare, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 8.111 (scored by 145316145,316 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5202
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #809
Members: 323,587
Favorites: 3,415

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Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, four-year-old Miri Unasaka arrives in Tokyo completely alone, in search of her father. The bright lights and merry atmosphere guide Miri to a big hotel and a man with a delicious-looking cake. However, the child has just unknowingly walked into the center of an elaborate, foolproof plan for assassinating a dangerous mafia boss.

Professional assassins Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa live together, fleeing memories of their grim childhoods and avoiding emotional connections. When their mission goes awry and they end up bringing Miri home, there is only one reasonable thing to do: return Miri to her mother. But the girl's innocent laugh and pure worldview quickly enamor her to Kazuki, who secretly enjoys playing a parent, and it is not long before Rei's impenetrable heart makes room for Miri.

Miri's every move is unpredictable, and Kazuki and Rei find raising an energetic child harder than any of their missions. Although it presents a great risk to their careers, Kazuki and Rei—both assuming the affectionate nickname "papa"—decide to provide Miri with a normal childhood despite all the odds stacked against them.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Buddy Daddies was released on Blu-ray and DVD in six volumes from March 22, 2023, to August 23, 2023.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Hashimoto, Masahide
Producer
Higashi, Mao
Assistant Producer


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"SHOCK!" by Ayase
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Ending Theme

"SHOCK!" by Ayase (eps ep 1)
"My Plan" by DURDN (eps eps 2-)

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Reviews

Apr 23, 2025
Spy X Family if it was good.

This anime is adorable, putting two unlikely candidates into the role of fathers and having them step up to the job. It has incredible emotional value, a tense, eventful plot, and a wholesome ending.

The dichotomy between the two MCs, and how that applies to how they work and how they raise their newly adopted child is very fascinating, fun and entertaining. Miri herself is a very cute character and the show really sells you on her just being a good kid who deserves loving parents, just as all children do.

So seeing them step up to the job in their ...
Mar 25, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Brief & Spoiler Free.
I watched this anime back in 2023 when it first came out, and Buddy daddies coming out around the high of Spy x Family definitely had me (and I'm sure a lot of other people) skeptical and prepared to see any repetitive plots or character tropes to eye roll at. But surprisingly, the anime was really good and introduces characters with unique personalities, backstories, character dynamics and an overall plot that deals with completely different themes than its popular counterpart.

If anything, this anime really just made me realize how much I actually enjoy the whole "Killer parents and found families" trope, ...
Jul 28, 2024
Nothing more than a shallow, poorly executed trope. It had the potential to explore deeper themes while still maintaining a light-hearted mood like Spy x Family successfully achieved, but the lazy writing opted to resolve conflicts at the snap of a finger and brush the characters' grief under the rug.

Miri is adorable, but that is my biggest gripe with this anime. There is something off-putting about a child character that is written to be always bright and cheerful, even though she had gone through multiple traumatic events in her life. Real children, even those with a normal childhood, show some degree of problematic behaviors, ...

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