And here we see how much a kid’s perspective is affected by the media they have consumed. Honest-Abe-kun and Mihashi clearly have completely different expectations regarding what an encounter with a living mummy would be like.

Honest-Abe-kun, apparently having enjoyed a healthy diet of classic B-movies, is highly concerned by the outlook of encountering a vengeful, nigh-unstoppable revenant, ruthlessly murdering anybody standing between him and his undisclosed objective.

While Mihashi apparently draws all of his knowledge of living mummies from How to keep a mummy. In spite of this, he’s even more concerned and scared than Honest-Abe-kun…but then, well, he’s Mihashi.

Reality turns out to conform to neither of their sets of expectations. Although you could say it settles somewhere in between the two sets – this living mummy isn’t quite as white, round, tiny and wimpy as Mihashi expected, but it’s also not quite the vengeful revenant Honest-Abe-kun was concerned about. Which only proves one point: rather than watching old B-movies or postmodern anime, kids would be better of reading the B-movie Comic. As I’ve always maintained, anyway.

More on Monday.