Sometimes, you just want a cute five minute gag anime that comes around every week, and Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God absolutely fits the bill. I wouldn't consider it a genre-busting example of the medium, but it definitely has a few things to recommend it, especially if you, like me, had a pretty strong Ancient Egyptian mythology phase when you were a kid.

The character designs are the absolute stand out aspect of the show. They're very charming and distinctive, with the unified color pallet of gold, white, and black setting them apart from more candy colored mascot types. A friend of mine who teaches English in Japan mentioned seeing merch and how much the color pallet set it apart from a lot of other stuff. I wouldn't call it muted as much as... stately, perhaps, which is a fun contrast with the goofy antics the gods get up to. Aside from some more oddly-shaped characters like Medjed, Apep, and Sa-ta, the character designs kind of remind me of canopic jars, which is a cute nod to Egyptian design.

If you're looking to this for a little edutainment about Egyptian mythology, it's not super deep, although it does more or less get the dynamics right. Thoth is the brainy one, Anubis is really good at mummifying things, Ra is everyone's goofy dad, Apep keeps trying and failing to kill Ra and spread chaos through the land, and Horus and Set have a goofy rivalry that is... perhaps less strange to modern eyes than the original myths. There's no weird stuff going on with lettuce, for one. There are some deeper pulls even discounting the ever-memetic Medjed, with Sa-ta and Otter being figures I had to look up to figure out who they even were... it's kind of cute that Sa-ta is a beloved idol in the show despite being relatively unknown even in the scholarship. I feel like the edutainment value is more in getting people to look up the various figures in the show and develop an interest in the subject matter rather than explaining it in great detail, which I can appreciate.

As far as the actual comedy goes, it's a little hit or miss, perhaps. Some gags go on just a bit too long, and I'm not entirely sure where Bastet's characterization comes from aside from "cat." Which, fair. That is what cats are like. However, I did appreciate some references to Western comedy like the answer to life, the universe, and everything. It's the sort of thing that feels kind of old and overplayed in Western nerd stuff, but when it shows up in something from another culture with its own storied media history, I find myself delightedly pointing and going "I understood that reference!"

Aside from that, I do wish it was more than ten episodes. The ending was kind of sudden! Which... is fitting. That's fair, Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God. I do hope that there is an equally sudden Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God Again or something along those lines at some point, though.