Uchuujin MuuMuu

Me and the Alien MuMu — Educational with a yes, adult consumerism with a no. The game of life likes to play hooky with us homosapiens a lot, and yes, fate may have struck on luck a few times, but more often than not, it always ends up being weirder than it is. And sure, I don't mind educational content when it really matters and isn't offensive by any stretch of the imagination, knowing its target audience is aimed at kids. But when the The publishing company itself behind this series has a rich history with its target audience aimed at PG-13 level teens, with seriesthat range from the classic Hellsing to the legend that is Satoshi Mizukami's works of Hoshi no Samidare a.k.a. Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, and Spirit Circle. I have to doubt if mangaka Hiroki Miyashita and his series of Uchujin MuMu a.k.a. Me and the Alien MuMu, really deserve their nightly anime primetime slot that should've been nuked for another. A girl and her cat — while it's not the kind like another show this season (comparing it to Ame to Kimi to a.k.a. With You and the Rain), it certainly comes off as jarring as we're introduced to Sakurako Umeyashiki and her alien cat MuMu, who has crashed onto her house from his planet in the cosmos, seeking refuge and wanting to learn about Earth's technology as a way to combat the opposing faction that he is chased out of. Seems simple, but Earth's technology advancement is progressing so much that it needs a human brain to translate the notion of "How It's Made," and that's where Sakurako comes in as the bonafide human to kindly explain the Earth's technology rhetoric to him, all while he's just bleeding resources out of the poor girl. On an Earth with an average human and a talking cat, both Sakurako and MuMu face quite the character cast that would shape their views as they go. The university college that Sakurako goes to is a haven for the Human Regenerative Study Group that's led by the eccentric senpai of Wataru Tenkubashi, whom he claims is the university's most infamously "resourceful" person for whacking away at electricity, along with getting close to the not-so-airhead young man Akihiro Tsurumi, his fatso alien cat Decimal, and the always jealous girl Miwa Samezu, who bitches around trying to make herself relevant to the former, which Sakurako is always surprised by (with a similar romantic rhetoric to Busu ni Hanataba wo, a.k.a. April Showers Bring May Flowers). With more characters at stake, it's definitely a class of students that can be as calm as educational technology can be, with the casual problems on the side. When you expect something decent like this anime, it's just an average production you'll get from that front. With OLM's usefulness when it comes to kiddie shows, as well as an OST that piques just about the level of interest as a young and growing kid's mind, it's easy to see why this show just doesn't intrigue a sizable audience, other than the fact that educational content within adults of this day and age just is not a formula that can be gelled together decently (though Sabasister's 1st OP is somehow kind of good). I mean, Uchujin MuMu a.k.a. Me and the Alien MuMu, is definitely a show you can let the young kids watch and not incur senses of violence or harmful scenes whatsoever, but I've got to give a question mark to people who gave a green flag to this anime adaptation that it should've been marketed to kids instead and aired when the day is still bright, and not adults who have a much better comprehension of anime in general to watch this late at night. An electromagnetic field this show is, but it just could not sync to one another seamlessly and breaks out at times. It's decent at times, but for the most part, it's just meh.

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