Miira no Kaikata or How to keep a mummy, is based upon the webmanga of the same name. When high school student Sora Kashiwagi finds himself staring down a mysterious oversized package, the last thing he expected is for it to contain a mummy so small it can fit in the palm of his hand.

So the beginning establishes that Sora takes care of all the shopping and chores himself, while his mother, Kaede, is doing work on her computer in her room all day. The door bell rings and outside is a package delivery woman, she gives Sora a wrapped coffin that was sent to him by his father who hasn't been home for months, and he reads the note attached that states he discovered a mummy while exploring the egyptian desert and decided to let Sora take care of it. I guess I can't blame him for not being there for Sora, I mean if he isn't capable of taking care of this tiny mummy--then of course his son would be too big of a responsibility for him, but that's not all--the show goes on to explain that his father has sent him many dangerous in the past, so it would seem his father is also trying to kill his son.

Then the mummy, who Sora later name Mii-kun since miira is japanese for mummy, opens the coffin from the inside and comes out. After confirming that it isn't dangerous, Sora attempts and succeeds at putting him back in to the coffin to send back to egypt to which Mii-kun starts crying over, and I don't blame him considering that the father is a murderous psychopath, but this brings up one of my complaints about this show. Mii-kun cries multiple times throughout the first episode, it's not good to have one of your characters cry more than once or twice in the first episode because it makes them out to be weak, and it seems to not only cry to express sorrow, but to express discomfort as well.

After attempting to read a 100-page long guide written by his father, which is pretty funny once you see this for yourself, we are introduced to Sora's pet, Mochi. It's a pretty adorable dog until it starts getting into a argument with Mii-kun by way of barking at each other, which apparently Mii-kun is also capable of doing.
So after giving it the name, Sora tries to figure out what to feed it by trying everything and having it shake it's hand if it doesn't like it. At least it isn't crying. After tomorrow comes, Sora tells his friend, Tazuki Kamira, about what his dad sent him and has him come over and see, but due to Tazuki's intimidating expression it becomes scared of him, to which he starts getting the thought in his head that he should use this to tease the little thing.

I might of overstated how often Mii-kun cries or barks, it does do a variety of gestures to try to communicate as well, but they need to come up with better ways for it to do so. There are other creatures that haven't shown up yet, so that might take the ease off of Mii-kun's spineless personality along with Tazuki teasing the poor thing. It's a cute series, and is reminiscence of some older anime which feature kids keeping monsters as pets. Recommended for fans of light-hearted anime. That's it for now, please be sure to check out my look at Darling in the FranXX. Thank you for reading, and have yourself a wonderful day.