The gap in between a child character turning from cute to annoying is ABSOLUTELY tiny. No other show personifies this better than Buddy Daddies. With one of the most obnoxious characters I have ever had the displeasure of watching.

Buddy Daddies starts off with a criminal contractor Kazuki and a professional assassin Rei finding a child called Miri while doing an operation. They end up saving her during the operation which forces them to take care of her until they can find her mother.

Now Miri definitely crosses the line and is horribly annoying. She is loud, incompetent and very obnoxious. Compared to Spy x Family (this is the most direct comparison, so get ready for a lot more SxF comparisons), Anya is also very incompetent and childish, but to a lesser degree which makes her actually funny. She even sometimes crosses the line and becomes annoying as well, which proves how razor thin this line is.
As opposed to Miri, Anya understands her parent’s jobs and tries to help them by formulating absolutely ridiculous plans which obviously won’t work for shit. Miri on the other hand just watches her “parents” straight up murder people and does not question it even slightly and keeps walking into their operations, thus “ruining” them (Rei just shoots them, so not really). She genuinely feels like ChatGPT tried to be a human, eerily human, but lacking sentience.

Rei and Kazuki also lack the comedic aspect of Loid and Yor, both fully know each other’s jobs and in fact co-operate all of the time, which removes the entire aspect of each other panicking after doing something that could spoil their cover.
They are also very incompetent, especially Kazuki and ESPECIALLY when it comes to parenting. Whenever Kazuki is around Miri he somehow manages to match the annoying nature and becomes a parent who lacks the ability to look after her in every possible way and just enables her annoying nature.
Rei just never talks, so he’s fine. Which is cheap as fuck to say someone is fine when the character speaks in 1-liners all of the time. Kazuki is fine as well, whenever he is not around Miri.

To say the ending is rushed is an understatement. With the show reducing its episode count from 13 to 12 the ending had some major cuts made to it in order to restore the status quo in between Miri, Kazuki and Rei so they could possibly push out another season of this garbage. Certain plot lines were extremely abruptly ended to also fill the episode count.

Speaking of Spy x Family comparisons, these shows are so similar, Buddy Daddies could just be called a cash-grab clone of Spy x Family, but is entirely lacking in the comedy, charm and actual character writing departments. Instead of making money from anime by creating a wonderful show with good characters and story, just copy another good show and hope your’s makes a profit.

Overall this show’s character and story writing is absolutely abhorrent. The animation is pleasant, but that doesn’t change the fact that every time Miri or Kazuki appears on screen I want to shoot myself due to their combined wave length designed to annoy me. At least this show still contains a few moments that do not make it completely irredeemable.