Audience reviews
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Caffeine
life aint all sunshine and rainbows little buddy
you people just want everything to be easy and laidback, but the truth is that it isnt.
you can watch your little anime and pretend all you want that everything is great in your stupid little isekai world, but reality isnt like that. this show is a silly glimpse into the harsh realities of life that most of you i guess have never had to experience, or youre just too sensitive to handle.
if you claim to enjoy lucky star and didnt just larp it, and you didnt at least like this show a little bit, im sorry to say this, but
youre not gonna make it.
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Don't go into this anime expecting much, its not Season 2 Lucky Star, if you do you are going to be disappointed. The Miyakawa Family's Hunger should be seen more as supplementary material to watch after you've completed a few episodes of Lucky Star, and for that I think it works pretty well and provides a nice side story completely disconnected from Lucky Star's main cast. The show isn't revolutionary and doesn't hold a candle to Lucky Star, however is a sweet and slightly sad look into two side characters who are pretty forgettable.
What I'm trying to get across is that if you're expecting something in the same league as Lucky Star then you'll be disappointed and not give it a fair shot, don't be led on by the score it's much more enjoyable than it's score may suggest.
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This show is depressing to watch.
It revolves around two sisters living by themselves together, but the older (adult) one keeps spending all of the money on manga, so the younger and more responsible one (in elementary school) is always upset. While the elder sister isn't necessarily malicous, she's so irresponsible that she's very hard to feel positively about, even if it's played off as a joke. This is pretty much the entire show, and it just gets repeated over and over.
I'm not sure how (or even if) this was supposed to be funny, because it was just sad to watch. It's kinda painful, because you just spend most of your time pitying the kid. You can clearly see that it's gotten so bad that she has a warped perception of what normal people can afford. It feels like watching nearly an hou…
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The Miyakawa Family's Hunger, despite being a spin-off of Lucky Star, one of my favorite anime of all time, is a bit of a letdown. Given how short the anime itself is, let's get right into the various reasons why. First, the story is set up with these sisters living together, the older sister taking care of the younger one, though she is such an uninhibited otaku that her younger sister is often on the brink of starvation. Now, it's clear that the show has written her as deep down being a good sister, or at least wanting to be, but the fact that her sister is starving so often and has to scold her about her use of money just makes the whole situation come off as some kind of tragedy. I get it's supposed to be funny, but it just isn't. I think there actually were ways to make it funny too,…
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I adore it! Obviously our perspectives are probably different.
But, I don't think some people understand or appreciate how great/fun this short show is! Well, I don't even understand it myself very well... Yet, this is what I think. Like the lyrics of the Ending song "we are not miserable - we are just poor"... Well myself and this review it is "I can't logically tell you why I give this show a 8/10 - but I can simply FEEL it to be a good show"!
The show is 8/10 because it does well in what it presents. Personally I enjoyed it a lot, so I think it is a 9/10 but that is the extreme bias of my review showing. For another person it may be a 7/10 or a 6/10, but I refuse to admit this show is anywhere at or below a 3/10...unless you say it's too short.
9 for story not because it has a grea…
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Spoiler-free.
I thought Lucky Star is underrated until I watched this.
Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku is a spin-off of the great Lucky Star. Now, it's time to review it in an animated form.
The spin-off follows the Miyakawa sisters: Hinata, the elder one & otaku, and Hikage, the elementary student. Because Hinata wastes much money on the weeb shit of hers, the Miyakawas are poor. That's the only joke. Or is it?
The most common misconception about Miyakawa-ke is that there is only one joke. Well, it's not even a comedy in the first place (check genres), but okay. In reality, the anime often transforms 'the only joke' and does experiments with humour, which I find quite imaginative. It wouldn't have worked if Miyakawa-ke was full-length, however, every episode is about 5 minutes in total.
The…
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compared to Lucky Star, this is absolute garbage, and compared to nothing? It's still painfully boring; The only bits of this show that were at all enjoyable were the brief moments when the Lucky Star cast made a cameo in the background. All this has done is make me ache further for a proper spinoff or second season of Lucky Star, is it really too much to ask for a show featuring Akira as the main? Though this far in the future, anything related to Lucky Star is old news.. and there is no worse pain than that. In total, i'd equate this show to torture.
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I wish this was better than it was, but it's not like I disliked it.
The art is as good as lucky star, and the backgrounds are occasionally even better, but the writing is repetitive with little to no character growth from the adult main character. Luckily, there was significant character depth in the younger main character, so the parts where she was at school tend to be the better ones.
I liked it for the art and the fact that it was more Lucky Star, but it definitely could have been better. You should definitely watch it though, since the whole thing is less than an hour long.
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Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku (2013)
For an addition to the Lucky Star series it is not bad but also not great. It does give a good opposite lifestyle of the Otaku from a less wealthy lifestyle without the freedom that the others have in the series.
It almost gives off a feel sorry for them vibe but with the Otaku sister being the reason the cause of the impoverished lifestyle that is difficult. It is however funny when it wants to be and a bit depressing when it needs to be.
Ultimately, it uses the same art as Lucky Stars main series which is actually really great. The characters do develop quite well considering the short episodes.
It is an enjoyable show but not on the level of the main series. The ED song is enjoyable with its developments also.
Worth a watch but a second season of Luc…
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Hikage and Hinata are those two girls you saw a literal few times in Lucky Star when they were trying to get into the school festival (their longest scene) and when Hikage is asking Hinata when she is done with work. Then the original director of Lucky Star thought it'd be neat for them to get their own spin-off. The conception of this feels exactly like how Lucky Star would handle a spin-off. They chose characters you barely saw in the entire series. Let's look at it.
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 ma…
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Apparently, this ONA is forgettable. Because I literally don't remember watching it. I just kinda randomly caught it on YouTube as a 25-minute compilation, and then when I went to MAL after finishing to log in to give it a score--I thought 5/10 summed up my feelings about it--I see the same exact 5/10 staring me back in the face.
I mean, I never liked Lucky Star that much, but to completely forget about watching a whole thing? Wow. I'm dumbfounded right now. Apparently, I watched this at some point in the past. And I remember none of it. But physical records disagree with my memory, so I can't even say "meh".
Well, that's my review. It's not horrible. It's not even bad. In fact, it was kinda cute. But it is middle-of-the-road and, quite literally, forgettable.
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I came into this anime with zero expectations, I knew this had almost nothing to do with Lucky Star and that the humor wasn't going to be amazing, I was more curious than anything. The only assumption I made was that it was going to be as cute and situational as Lucky Star, but I was dead wrong.
This anime has a very unique setting of being unbearably depressing while not actually trying to be. You can tell it was trying to make humor out of being relatable to budgeting families and people with not much extra money to spend, but the entire thing is just one, long drudge of the protagonist being miserable and unhappy. This anime actually put me in a worse mood than when I started, wholly for the fact that it's that much of a downer. It's especially ironic considering Lucky Star featured at…
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Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku is a nice little side-story for Lucky Star fans. It's not the season two that many have been hoping for—though, the OP would suggest otherwise—but there's no reason you wouldn't enjoy it if you enjoyed Lucky Star.
Despite not still being produced by KyoAni, Miyakawa-ke retains the overall feel of Lucky Star, most likely due to the number of returning staff members: Yamamoto Yutaka is the director, having previously directed the first four episodes of Lucky Star, of which he did a fine job, episode one's infamous first half notwithstanding. Rest assured, you won't be sitting through five minutes of meandering food discussions here. The visuals, too, are on point, featuring the light but vibrant color palette you've come to expect from the franchise, and the same kind…
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I personally loved this anime; I cannot understand why some reviewers gave it souch a low score, but I will not discuss about taste in anime...; I could wax lyrical about it, but since each episode lasts less than 5 minutes it is a simpler thing to do to watch it than to read all I could write about it [and more enjoyable, too!]. I watched Lucky Star before, but enjoyed this anime on its own. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes real settings [not those unrealistic well-off situations where the conversation between the characters is about how much they will expend, rather than how much they CAN expend and on what to do it!]. Enough said! For the record: I signed on to MAL solely to leave my support for this anime and its style/genre [plus the ED theme!].
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Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku is a spin-off of the original Lucky Star series, which was a 4-koma style manga, which was wonderfully turned into a slice of life comedy revolving around a certain friend group.
Lucky Star is one of the most enjoyable animes I've watched. It's funny, there's no serious plot, and it has a great replay value. The best thing about it was how recyclable it was. Take any situation, any every day idea, and give it to these girls. Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku does the same thing, except with Hikage and Hinata Miyakawa, two sisters living in poverty dreaming of meat and manga.
While not as entertaining as the origin series itself, Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku offers about 30 minutes of living with the Miyakawa family. If you enjoyed the original series, give this one a try.
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Now while I have not finished Lucky Star yet due to not finding the dub of the final episodes on Youtube,I rather like it. It may not have a story but its funny and it has quirky and cute characters. But this "spin off " is the opposite. So lll explain in a mini view!
Story ~3
It had potential to be something giving the idea but it really waste it. Its not dull but annoying. The comedy feels force and the situations take a stretch. In other words its 30 minutes of annoying crap.
Characters~3
Everyone minus the main 2 here and characters from the main show Lucky Star are meh. The older sister,Hinata is very annoying and is literally the cause of problems financially. She is selfish and dose a bad job at taking care of her sister. The little sister,Hikage is decent and sympathetic because…
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Most Lucky Star fans all expected to have a 2nd season, but is left with a Lucky Star spin-off. Is it more satisfying than having a 2nd season? Well.....let's see about that.
Story: The plot is nothing special since the series is very short having each episode to be around 4-5 min. It's just about the daily life between two sisters named Hinata and Hikage. Rate: 5/10
Characters: The two main characters are just the two sisters. We have the younger sister named Hikage who is mostly the mature one trying to tell her older sister to not spend lots of useless stuff. Then, we have the older sister named Hinata who is pretty much the main problem for having the whole family to have financial problems due to her habits of spending things. Rate: 6/10
Animation: The only thing I would give prais…
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I tend to enjoy the little things in life. I watch the little specials that come with the BDs and all that. But to have an anime with the same or even half the length of these specials is something I'm not exactly looking forward to. Nevertheless, Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku wasn't all that bad, and I managed to get my fair share of enjoyment out of it. Even though the video quality was so poor, you could barely see their mouths move.
Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku is a "spin-off" show based on Lucky Star. To say spin-off is stretching it, though, as the mini-anime doesn't have anything to do with the original one, other than two minor appearances of some of the main characters... In the background. It revolves around two sisters, the older one Hinata, and the younger sister Hikage. They suffer from p…
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I just read all other reviews. Most reviews were saying that they were disappointed and blah blah like being a lucky star spin off or something like it.... Each episode were only of 4 minutes and they must've expect something big...
Well, In my view I like this anime. Pretty funfull to watch. I liked the ending song and the story too.
Very good to watch just 4 minutes per episode and you wont regret watching it either....
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I had such high hopes for Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku, and they sure did disappoint. It can barely hold a candle to Lucky Star. The series is about a really poor family of sisters as they talk about how poor, and hungry they are. Meanwhile, the older sister is an otaku that show no resistance to splurging on anime merchandise. That's basically every episode. I found myself wishing the last episode would just arrive.
The artwork was actually quite good, but not outstanding either. The artwork is close to the original cute, simple artwork of Lucky Star. In fact, there is at least one scenario where the two animes take place at the same time, and place. It also has other smaller reference to Lucky Star.
The sound is okay, I don't really recall any background music at all during any of the episod…
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