Buddy Daddies

A charming planner named Kazuki and a socially awkward sharpshooter named Rei make for unlikely roommates in a shared Tokyo apartment — two professional assassins under one roof. Their Christmas Eve hit on a mafia boss goes sideways when a four-year-old girl named Miri wanders into the middle of the operation looking for her dad. Her dad happens to be the target. By the end of the night, Kazuki and Rei have a completed mission and an unplanned child they have no idea what to do with. Buddy Daddies is a 12-episode original TV series from P.A. Works that follows these two emotionally stunted killers trying to raise a tiny, chaotic hurricane of a girl while hiding the fact that they murder people for a living. Miri is relentlessly adorable in the way only anime four-year-olds can be, and watching Rei — a guy who can disassemble a rifle blindfolded — get completely dismantled by a toddler's mood swings is genuinely funny. The action scenes hit when they need to, but the real draw is the found-family stuff and how naturally it develops. If you liked Spy x Family's mix of espionage and domestic comedy, this scratches a similar itch with a slightly more grounded emotional core. Fans of The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting will also feel right at home. It's not reinventing anything, but the character dynamics are warm, the comedy lands, and by the end you'll care about these three way more than you expected to.