English Dub Review: Migi & Dali “Water Flea’s Song/Who Killed the Parent Bird?”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Water Flea’s Song

After achieving first place in the test, the Sonoyama family was invited to the suspicious Ichijo residence. Dali, seeing this as an opportunity, thoroughly searches the Ichijo house. However, he falls into Eiji’s trap, and Migi ends up being captured.

Who Killed the Parent Bird?

Dali continues to search the Ichijo house. Migi, by perfectly playing the role of an infant, tries to draw out the secrets of the Ichijo family.

Our Take:

Another week means another doubleheader for this peculiarly creepy series. At this point, I’m pretty confident that this strategy is due to the show’s identical duo. Whether that’s the case or not, I’m not complaining that I’m getting more of its plot weekly instead of just enduring one episode a week.

The first of the two episodes sees Migi and Dali successfully earning a high score on their exam during their first weeks at their new school. They’re one step closer to befriending Eiji and finding the water flea wallpaper. However, it appears that Eiji may be on to their little secret because he found their snowflake button at the end of the previous episode. The Sonoyama family being invited to his house is part of Eiji’s plan to learn more about his new classmate “Solo,” knowing that he stole the button from his pajamas.

If you thought Maruta was a pain in the ass for the twins to handle, then you haven’t met Eiji, who traps Migi in a storage room and dresses him up as a toddler for “conditioning” purposes. Fortunately for them, Migi and Dali’s “visit” has a silver lining, as they finally find the water flea wallpaper in the storage room. This leads them to believe that the Ichijo family may be involved with their mother’s murder, but that’s not all. Dali and the housemaid Micchan discover the family’s hidden attic, which houses a diorama of Origon village and numerous data about its villagers. So, it appears that there’s more to the Ichijo family than just their son’s intellect.

The second episode also showcases the twins’ knack for pulling off disguises further, mainly Migi. We see Migi as an adorable yet creepy toddler hoping to get closer to the “suspicious” Ichijo clan, although that was due to the family’s conditioning program. Then, Migi disguises himself as the ghost of the twins’ mother to study the family’s reactions and reveal the culprit. Upon doing so, they discover that the Ichijo parents see her as Metry, their old house maiden. While the parents see Metry as a real person, Eiji thinks otherwise, leaving the twins to believe that Eiji is the killer.

As we reach the halfway point of Migi & Dali, the truth behind the twins’ mother’s death has slowly unraveled, yet there are still more questions that are left unanswered. The most important one is how Eiji is connected to Metry’s death and even the twins. More importantly, this is where I started to warm up to the show despite its flawed English dub. This is due to its humor and some tense moments involving the twins avoiding having their cover blown. Here’s hoping the second half can maintain this momentum to avoid blowing its own cover.