Audience reviews
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kiyozwrld
(This is a review of the anime in isolation as I've not read the manga and probably intend not too)
What is parenting? Even though Usagi drop didn't explore this theme to the fullest extent I believe that at it's core this is the question that it is asking. What happens when you are lead to take care of a soul that isn't your very own? As much as these are full grown adults who have already "grown up" I believe that when you have a child you are forced to grow up a 2nd time , Your responsibilities double , your work increases , your awareness has to sharp at all times your stress inevitably increases. But as hard and stressful taking care of a child is just being with them and seeing them grow can bring warmth too your heart and maybe this is because usagi drop falls under the "Iyashikei…
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(Originally written on 2025/06/05, the day I finished watching this title)
(Actual score - 9.4/10)
Overall, it was a great experience - no problems at all.
ARTSTYLE
- Beautiful; it was like a mix of a pencil and oil drawings, with a consistent color palette - sometimes it was more vibrant, sometimes a bit more muted, but always super aesthetically pleasing. It evoked a sort of a "warm" feeling, which played a big part in creating a cozy atmosphere. DESIGNS
- Amazing; I simply loved how everything looked in this anime, from backgrounds and small / big elements in them, to character designs. None of them were really complex / made of many different elements, but that simplistic approach worked perfectly with the artstyle - and each design was still distinct and detailed.
ANIMATION
- V…
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One of the best Slice-of-Life anime I've ever seen. After the unexpected passing of his grandfather, 30-year-old Daikichi finds out that his grandpa had a 6-year-old daughter named "Rin." This takes the entire family by surprise. As his family bicker over the scandal, Daikichi can't stand the thought of Rin feeling like some sort of burden. So, he volunteers to take her in. As a bachelor, Daikichi never took a wife, and he never had kids of his own. Being a single father is something that he never expected to be. Throughout the show, Daikichi would navigate the complexities of single parenting, all the while changing his entire lifestyle. Oftentimes, Daikichi would wonder if this little girl was the one raising him. The great thing about Usagi Drop is the way it blends comedy with IRL pare…
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Usagi Drop might just be one of the best slice-of-life anime ever released. Through its lovable cast, it delivers a display of everything being a parent entails; from the sacrifices you have to make and the dilemmas you face to the happy moments you share with your children. This is the type of anime that will leave an impression on anyone who watches it; it is a must-watch for anime fans just finding out about it or those remembering its existence.
The narrative revolves around Daikichi, a 30-year-old man who decides to take care of his deceased grandfather’s six-year-old child, Rin. It explores the challenges he faces, the sacrifices he makes, and the lessons he learns in order to become a father practically overnight. It doesn't try to lure you in with a complex story, but instead uses…
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Usagi Drop is, and will always be one of my favorite animes. It explores the difficulties of being a single father, rushed into a situation that you have no prior knowledge of. Despite it all, Daichi chose that life. He chose to make the sacrifices. It made me think about the relationship I have with my own father, and how he may have struggled.
The anime is wholesome, and is perfect for when you're feeling down, or abandoned. Not everyone knows what it's like to be loved, and even fewer know what it's like to be chosen to be loved. Sometimes you simply forget, and need to be reminded that there are such people in your life already.
Do not read the manga beyond where the anime ends, because it ruins its own narrative in favor of the Mangaka's strange fantasies.
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"Bunny Drop" is a beautiful and heartwarming look into the spectrum of family and child-raising problems that people have to go through everyday. From trying to get a child enrolled in school to marriage issues, it's all here.
Most anime try to hook the audience in with a premise so crazy that it can only happen in fiction. "Bunny Drop" hooks the audience with a somewhat far-fetched, yet very possible, setting of a Grandfather having an illegitimate child before dying. The rest of the story of "Bunny Drop" is of people that feel very real, as each character can easily related to someone in the audience's life. The person who has to take responsibility for his family's actions (Daikichi), the person who doesn't want to take accountability for anything (Masako), the kid that is seen as the…
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Watch the anime and forget about something called manga -- or forget that this have any source material to begin with, think this is an anime original anime. And even studio wants their viewer believe that(I guess).
The anime is good, and it's recommended to watch
The above review text is enough(and with addition to the given summary in MAL), the below is a normal summary I gave which just a basic summary(or I can say it's just because MAL saying or pushing me that the above review text isn't enough and says to write more about the anime, So......)
Story begins when Daikichi Kawachi, a 30-year-old single bachelor, attends the funeral of his grandfather. It is there that he is unexpectedly introduced to a quiet, six-year-old girl named Rin Kaga, who is revealed to be his grandfather's il…
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Its warm, great art, voiceacting and story. Story about a non tradtional family and the complications going with it. It was heartwarming. There is a nice character development. Characters feel real and have their own flaws and motivations. Peaceful watching experience. The pacing was good, the episodes well paced. The artwork leans to a more drawn style but gives a timeless feel.
Warning: Take this anime as it is. The manga is seperate and has a contraversial ending (Yes, if you are thinking - you can't mean- oh no, I do mean that) Just don't look it up. I went from warm comfort after watching to feeling slimy and dirty. If you can mentally seperate those media forms as different things then watch it.
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Bunny Drop looks like one of those warm, fuzzy, “found family” anime where nothing bad ever happens and everyone eats pancakes for breakfast. But once you settle into its quiet rhythm, you realize it’s not just a feel-good story—it’s a deeply grounded exploration of responsibility, identity, and the small, hard-won joys of stepping up when no one else will.
Daikichi is a 30-year-old bachelor who shows up at his grandfather’s funeral only to find out the old man had a six-year-old daughter with a younger woman. The child, Rin, stands awkward and silent while the rest of the family whispers and avoids eye contact. In a moment of frustrated decency, Daikichi does what no one else will: he takes her in. That impulsive decision? It changes everything.
The beauty of Bunny Drop is how mundane i…
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Families have often been more complex than the standard “nuclear family” that’s portrayed in media. This thought-provoking anime depicts what it means to build a family. It’s important to me, and I am sure to others as well, who experienced growing up with a non-conventional family.
In this emotional slice-of-life, a man of flawed character willfully puts himself in the challenging situation of parenthood. He does so by volunteering, and therefore elevating his own character by separating it from those he resents as they declined the challenge of taking care of a young girl.
The anime is an authentic depiction of the way people feel as it delves into balancing one’s desires with the needs of others, how relationships evolve over time, and how humans coalesce into a unit. The main chara…
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A 30-year-old salaryman and bachelor, Daikichi, attends the wake of his grandfather, only to find out (alongside the rest of his relatives) that grandpa had been keeping a little secret from the rest of the family: a 6-year-old daughter, Rin. The family, not readily acceptant of this as being an authentic bloodline connection, is apprehensive about who should raise her. Daikichi, on the other hand, does not understand his family's hesitation and instead takes the initiative to raise this little girl—his aunt by nature of association—on his own.
Usagi Drop is a bona fide slice-of-life story: it is a day-by-day journey of a man making changes to his life to shoulder the weight of the responsibilities associated with raising a child on his own. It is also about this girl, Rin, growing up und…
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I can't remember the last time I've watched an anime that was as wholesome as Usagi Drop. I found this anime last night randomly browsing MAL and I am so glad I did. In just 11 episodes they managed to convey a really heart felt story about a single Dad trying to raise this orphaned girl as her actual Dad has just passed away and her mother doesn't want anything to do with her due to being too obsessed with her work (more on her in a moment). After watching episode 1, I could tell this was going to be a show I was going to enjoy and that I did.
Episode 1 starts out with Rin's Dads funeral. I did have a problem with this episode however as everyone with the exception of Daikichi treated this girl like she was some sort of demon. Something to be feared. Her only family has just died and not…
Read at the sourceLegionIscariot
He adopts his aunt as his daughter.
Souichi Kaga at the age of 76 impregnates a young woman and sires an illegitimate child named Rin. (however there is more to this than it seems but will not be fully addressed in the anime)
Souichi passes away 6 years later. And with Rin's mother having abandoned her for her career, Suichi's grandson Daikichi Kawachi a 30 year old bachelor decides to adopt Rin.
Rin's mother Masako Yoshii known as "Maron Saionji, Sensei" is a manga artist. She's not a bad person. She does care about her daughter. But got pregnant at a young age and wasnt sure what to do.
All the characters are nicely written. Your typical slice of life anime characters.
Rin is the spitting image of her mother. Except for hair color.
And Daikichi is the spitting image of his grandfa…
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This is one of my favorite shows I've watched, and it's simply because the story is unique and the characters are endearing. Every second with these characters makes me want to spend more and more time learning about them, and their found family dynamic as they learn to be together is adorable. God, this whole show is adorable. It doesn't cut corners on a lot of the stress of being a parent and it shows how our MC has to adapt to taking care of this new person in his life.
The show also has an art style that's soft and easy on the eyes, and definitely makes the viewer feel comfortable while watching. There is light drama, but nothing that destroys the lighthearted vibe crafted by the show.
I love it.
Watch it.
10/10.
Read at the sourcewhiteflame55
This is the kind of show that just feels like a warm hug throughout. It's not just cute for the sake of being cute, though the animation style is certainly soft and sweet enough that one might be forgiven for seeing it that way. So much of this story is about parenting and what it pulls off masterfully is its depiction of that parent-child relationship in a way that feels authentic without leaving either of them out as individuals. Both parties have their own issues, but together, they are more than the sum of their disparate parts. It helps that, as the show goes on, they explore more facets of Daikichi finding out what his life is as a parent, both for all the things he no longer can do, and for everything that fills those empty spots to overflowing, both from his daughter and from other…
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Before I start let me clarify that I don’t care about slice of life shows. I find them to be the second most simplistic and passable genre, with moeblobs topping them by a few miles for going overboard. In this particular case I sat down to watch it simply because the anime became top ten in almost every site in just a few weeks. I wondered “hey how is this possible; it is just another everyday show”.
I read the description of the story and it doesn’t seem like much. Some guy finds out his grandfather had a kid in an old age and decides to raise it after he passed away. Ok, so why is this so great to bother? Some said it was because of the really weird thing that happens in the end of the manga (which I will not reveal since it is a spoiler) and others because it is very good at what is s…
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I watched this right after Barakamon.
I liked Usagi Drop
it was a wholesome anime about a girl that was left alone, and an adult taking care of her. It is a simple premise. Yet it made me quite happy watching it
It was wholesome
seeing Rin smile made my heart melt. I just want Rin to be happy. Who could leave her?! The Story: As said from above, Rin was left alone since her father is the grandfather of the MC in this story, Daikichi
Daikichi is your usual average working guy who cares more about his job more than anything.
But then Rin enters his life, and suddenly he found life a little more colorful.
He encountered difficulties but he also met amazing people around him
it is amazing to see
Music: I liked the OP! IT was happy!
Animation: It was a little like a painting style, i…
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Really glad this is an original anime! And such a good place to stop the story, just a wholesome story. Definitely glad there's no manga that has a disgusting terrible ending that makes the whole series feel dirty and wrong. I'm just so glad that there's no inappropriate story line that ruins the character development built through years of the series' existence! On a more serious note I'm legitimately glad that the anime ends here. I think it says something that not even the animators who, by the way, made a DECENT amount of money from what I've heard from the anime and know about the popularity of the manga decided not to animate a second series says a lot about the fact that its not just the fans that hate the manga ending, but everyone.
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This is a slice of life anime about unconventional family situations and what it really means to be family. I have no intention of wanting to have kids and I'm not usually a slice of life anime girl but I would recommend this. It straddled the line between "poignant" and "cute" really well, and even in its version of "cute", it didn't exactly go for cheap cutesiness but more went for the realistic moments of cuteness you might experience between the hours of hard work raising a child. I liked how there were no clear "bad guys" in this anime even though it would've been very tempting to pass judgement on some characters. I also feel like an anime like this is very much about Japanese family cultures, which Western audiences may want to keep in mind.
It's only 11 episodes, so I'd recommend…
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Marvelous! "Usagi Drop" has become my feel-good anime. My ultimate stress reliever. The reasons why it is rated "PG-13" were very evident from the first viewing but it is simply too good to let those stand in the way. There's no violence. No fanservice. No product placement. The product labelings and illustrations are generic and sometimes amusing. There's language that could have been left out but was included for "realism" and to help get the anime out of "PG". There's cigerettes but not for long. There's a message there. There's alcohol but again there's a message with it, too.
"Usagi Drop" is categorized as a "josei". I guess it had to be categorized but it's too narrow. W-a-y too narrow.
"Usagi Drop" is very well written. The music is perfect. The opening and closing songs and visua…
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