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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