Oh, this one... It hurts. The parenthood storyline was great, the guy wanting to do his best for the child. The highs, the lows, it was very heart warming to see them becoming closer together and starting to seem like a true family, a father and a daughter. When the love interest character comes in, it was funny to see how the daughter becomes jealous of how her father's attention was taken... And then, timeskip, what the heck happened.
Yup, this was about to be an amazing story especially when they set up the romance with the mother of the little girls friend. Then time skip and she's nowhere to be seen and the kid is marrying the father figure. What THE FUCK JAPAN!!? Stop marrying your children FFS!
I'm glad I read the comments warning about the manga. In my head cannon the anime would continue where he gets together with the one lady, the two kids become siblings, and they all lived happily ever after.
He was going to ask her out, but the lady turned him down because she knew her son likes the girl, and she didn't want to put them in any awkward situations as siblings when they grew up. Which sucks, because she really liked him, too. The boy gets really into girls when he's a teen and even has a pregnancy scare, so, I don't blame the mom for forseeing that as a potential problem if him and rin were going to grow up together in the same house.
If you like the thought of a single-parent family meeting another single parent and getting together, I recall an old story called (I think) The Little House With The Orange Roof. It is essentially The Brady Bunch as told by a Japanese author. Family 1 is a father with two or three boys whose wife has abandoned him; Family 2 is mom with two or three girls whose husband cheated on her so she left; they both bought a house without realizing they've been scammed by a realtor selling the house twice. Hilarity ensues until the two parents realize they make a great couple with a BIG family.
Came across this video and about a minute in I decided to look it up. Never got around to watching this one until now. Just watched for about 4 hours and I'm screwed on sleep for work tomorrow.
Unfortunately statistically false based on crime statistics on child abuse, children in single father homes are more likely to suffer sexual and physical abuse as well as neglect and food shortage, adults raised in single father homes report higher rates of depression and other mental health issues.
It's true but my whole life I pondered why it is so.. My only conclusion after years is that a father that steps up has pure, unconditional love by choice, whereas a woman becomes a mother out of instinct & obviously birthing the child, so there is a higher chance of conditional love instead.
@@bo-dine7971 Keep in mind many women get pregnant, without letting the man know that was her plan. After planning the pregnancy she tells the guy it was by accident. After this great deception, the men still turn out to raise the child better. Let's not mention, men have done better jobs, not knowing some of those children were not theirs.
@@WeiJian393I have the manga. I got when it just came out. If you can't find it now is because It come off as grooming in the end. If you understand the hero, villain mindset of an abused child. What he did was wrong, to not help her have a better psychology.
"Proper Bloodlines" are pretty ingrained in the Japanese. If you're born from out of wedlock then you're seen as improper, because they attach the taboo of the relationship directly onto your person.
This was the best lesson that a story will not always go the way you want or expect. The story isn't wrong for doing it and you are not wrong for disliking it
Naw make that shyte happen. Pure Soap Opera Gold. There have been worse made in Redo of Healer, The Furry Wrestling One (Jiggle Were wolves tattas all three)😂🎉
this manga was like 90% wholesome that last 10% ruins. its like o wow this dude stepped up and did a good thing tried his best to be a good dad. you think its going one way then boom left turn.
Yea it was weird that he didn’t like her romantically and try turning her down him. But literally everyone in the freakin universe gaslights him to marry her. Like it was a twilight zone episodes towards the ending of the manga. So freakin disturbing. Would have been way better if was a psychological horror manga.
The author of this manga story is a woman. And she even put a big red flag to the early story when this man asking this girl to be his daughter in law but the little girl turned him down immediately. She says "Daikichi is Daikichi. Daikichi will not be my father". Some of the other manga also have the same story like this, some ended up the same as this series and some choose the other ways. It is something you can't understand what is in the Japanese mind.
If you enjoyed this very 'abridged' version, I would definitely recommend watching the full anime series as there is so much more going on than can be told in such a short time, espicially regarding his growing relationship with the single mother. I also watched the big screen version of the story thinking it would be like the anime, but it really wasn't. I know it's only my opinion, but I really don't think you can turn an eleven or twelve episode anime into an hour and a half film without leaving loads out, a lot of which is needed for it to make sense., and I don't think the characters transferred very well either. But as I say, just my opinion, and the anime series really is well worth the watch.
@@frankschannel1710 The age difference alone was bad enough. but he marries his own biological aunt...who he himself raised since she was a child. Peak Grooming manga for degenerates.
No you don’t. You don’t want it be longer because if they actually did a season 2 you would be traumatized like the manga readers. Usagi Drop is so infamous that it’s an actual used as a warning to others manga that could be similar.
This manga made me really appreciate tags.Everything is not for everybody.This is not slice of life or wholesome.He raises this child who is his family and then he marries her can we out of left field because she is a child when they meet like I still wet the bed young.
its been a long time .. but i cant remember that part being true .. there was something about a girl that lived with his old father and the child was hers (and his dads(?)) but she left the child with his father .. so the child ended up being his step sister from a mother that left after the birth because she was young and wasnt ready to be a parent .. --- on the other hand i could halucinate the entire thing and mixed in from another story .. but it definitely was worth watching it.
@@Maverrick2140 you are quite close. the kid's mother was the maid of his Grandfather but since the mother was not ready to raise a child, the Grandfather took custody of the kid and took her as his own but they are not biologically related.
@@Maverrick2140 main character takes grandfather child his aunt, in as his ward He raises her and learns how to be a parent but never actually adopts her, because he gave her a choice and she wanted him to be him and not father Years go by with a lot of fluff and when we get to the end of the series she's in highschool By the last 6 chapters she realized she has strong romantic feelings for him. And through those final chapters she reveals this to him and whittle him down till he accepts those feelings. Her mother in this story happened to be a mangaka which is a blatant self insert of the author And how this series ended happened to be a self insert of the author romantic feelings for someone much older then her in the past If it wasn't obvious enough the author is female and anybody trying to say this series was some grooming BS is an idiot that doesn't understand the English language better then this immigrant I still agree that the ending is trauma but you have some idiots here who use words they don't understand for bad takes
I really appreciate the complex topics and concepts that anime does in movies/series it proves that animation is just art medium to entertain and just so silly kids or over sexed product.
What is really fucked up is the manga is written by a woman I heard and she was all for the disgusting ending she made from the very start, one of the rare examples of : ONLY WATCH THE ANIME, pretend the manga does NOT exist.
Ok for those who don't know i just found out the ending from the manga by watching a few videos and well long story short it is like Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Batgirl (Barbara Gordan) from the killing joke movie but they got married.
@@TheMormonSorceressthe author want to write a romance story with the girl having a love interest that is a good father. That's it. The ending wasn't very good but that is what she plotting the story since the beginning. People just mistaken it for a wholesome story of a father raising an adopted daughter, instead of a romance story of teenager falling in love with her adoptive father. The anime only adapted the first part, the good part.
The signs were there in the first part. She was trying to grow up quickly handling domestic duties (cooking and such). Rin during this doesn't know that are not related. I mean after seaing the mother I kind sussed something else then when the boyfriend appeared I figured the score. Rin is trying to be like her mother at least that's what the author is showing here. It's very difficult subject in the western world. My guess is the after time she would mature more and see that is not daikaichi wants for her. I mean this outside the manga end, but it would make societial sense in Japan.
@@patrickradcliffe3837 I think you could maybe make the argument that she was just trying to help him with chores, I mean she's a kid. The issues with the ending is it really does just happen fairly suddenly. I'd have to read it again but I remember it being almost all at once with a time skip in like 2 or 3 chapters. The author really just eliminated all obstacles to get them together.
It just gets weird when in the end the father is telling the little girl who confesses her love to him, to wait until graduation and the last panel is of her asking him for a child.
Don't be fooled...this is not a wholesome show. the true nature of this story is disturbing. for what its worth the anime stops before it goes to dark places.
If anyone is interested in this and reads the manga, there is a Korean webcomic with almost the same exact plot. It is called, "How I became a doting father"
So if I were this guy, if I was to get custody of a kid in a weird situation like this after I got full custody, I would 100% sue the mother for child support. I mean why not lady sue us all the time for child support I mean, it’s simply the right thing to do.
Review of "Bunny Drop" aka "Usagi Drop" is a 2011 Japanese 11 episode TV Anime based on a 2005-2011 Japanese manga series by Yumi Unita. Story genre = slice of life, single fatherhood.
The fact his grandfather got a woman pregnant at the ripe old age of 72... impressive. And the fact some woman young enough to be his grand daughter would have to be the mother.
I unfortunately read the manga after watching the show because the show was so cute and didn’t know what I was in for. At least I know if I see any comments saying a manga is a Usagi Drop I never read the mangas at least 😅
"Usagi Drop".....Why do the NEVER put the name in the description????? Thank you to the kids folks that puts always puts the anime name in comments ❤❤❤
Adorable .... but.... the grandpa was crazy to say the least ... also the lady like who in their right mind would even think about been with a very old guy when we are young women...
The gramps isn't the bio dad, he just adopted the girl. But it is implied that the mom did start to have some warm feelings towards him during their time together raising Rin.
I wonder WHAT ON EARTH were the writers thinking when they did the manga. It was just gross and nonsense, killed the whole manga. At least in the anime, it ends before "that"
