Hikage is always hungry, Hinata is a selfish douche- I mean, she always buys stuff for herself...no, yeah, I was right, she's a selfish douche. She doesn't care at all about her little sister starving most of the time and only buys things for herself. Why parental services haven't moved Hikage into a home where she isn't malnourished is beyond me. But, that's the whole dynamic. And everything that happens in-between will, more often than not, bring up Hikage's hunger. But, besides that, the rest of what you will find here isn't too repetitive and is pretty entertaining, given its short runtime. If it were a longer series, the writing would get stale pretty quickly. But, they knew what they were working with.
The voice acting is pretty solid. If you enjoyed the first four episodes of Lucky Star, you get a nice return to formula with Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku since the original director helped with all of the shorts here. Pacing is pretty good, for the standard it takes heed from. Scenes will abruptly jump sometimes, as you would expect, but it's not a bad thing if you enjoyed Lucky Star, as it's about the same amount of jumping. Soundtrack is pretty nice to listen to. The original characters introduced are pretty welcoming, almost making the spin-off feel like its own anime altogether that simply shares the same universe as Lucky Star. What I consider a spin-off is when at least one primary character is involved in it. But, spin-offs can also be, well, spun off of a minor character as well. Or, hell, even characters you only saw once in the entirety of Lucky Star.
The same voice actors, who did these very minor characters, returned for this spin-off. The dedication here is just fantastic and is easily the biggest positive this anime gets, alongside the majority of the staff being from Lucky Star. Really, only Kyoto Animation is absent, but due to the simplicity of the art style, Ordet and Encourage Films did a stellar job of copying it. It was easy enough with the same art director as well. If somebody told you Kyoto Animation also came back, you wouldn't feel weird if you forgot it wasn't done by them.
Overall, take this one lightly. It's a spin-off done with limited resources, but amazingly, the majority of the Lucky Star crew came back for it besides Kyoto Animation, who are understandably busy with loads of anime that require loads more time to produce. And their absence isn't detrimental to the quality of Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku at all. What you have here is a nice treat for hardcore Lucky Star fans that is short enough where you really shouldn't scoff it if you enjoyed Lucky Star a lot. The repetitive jokes and scenery will get a bit tiresome, but the new soundtrack and characters will compensate for that.
If you're not expecting a full-fledged series, you have something funny here. I'd love to see it continue, simply because a single half-hour isn't enough for it with the effort it received. I could say the same about Lucky Star, but that anime finished just fine and has a good amount of episodes, way more than any other anime ever gets these days. Twelve is about the maximum due to how much time is spent on the animation, so for this anime to even get a half-hour with its resources is astounding.
