In the West, kids have a tendency to be overly precocious adults in miniature, wise beyond their years and dealing with their own internal conflicts with the sagacity and maturity of a grown-up (Modern Family, I’m looking at you). Bunny Drop is a Animation & Cartoon, Anime, Kids & Family series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (11 episodes).

It’s not often that the first episode of a show can get an emotional reaction out of me, but I must confess I teared up as Rin comes to the realization that her father is really gone, and she has no one to depend on. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.

Daikichi is refreshingly unattractive for an anime protagonist. The untitled chapters were serialized by Shodensha in the monthly josei magazine Feel Young between October 2005 and April 2011. After hearing that his grandfather, Souichi Kaga, has died, Daikichi Kawachi and his relatives gather at Souichi's home for the funeral. Although she shies away from all the unfamiliar adults that have invaded her home, she quietly stalks Daikichi, trying and failing to keep an eye on him without him noticing. Episode 5.

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The first episode centers around the funeral for Rin’s father, as well as a harsh discussion among her family over who should take care of her. ... Usagi Drop. ... Buy Episode 1 SD $1.99.

The soft watercolor style of the intro should be to familiar to anyone who watched Kimi ni Todoke.

It’s an easy emotional target, for sure, but kudos to director Kanta Kamei for rising to the occasion. Bunny Drop was written and illustrated by Yumi Unita. She’s had a hard life: abandoned by her mother, neglected by her father as he slowly wasted away, isolated from the rest of the world.

Those bellflowers were Rin's father's favorite, and seem to be her namesake. She exists to do rude or disruptive things like start throwing flowers everywhere during her great-grandfather’s burial ceremony, steal Rin’s cat’s cradle in an attempt to get praised for doing it, or just flat out smacking Daikichi when he’s trying to drink tea. She’s a bratty and spoiled foil to the pure and perfect Rin, who is meek, shy, and passive. (For another example of a well-made series that suffers the same problem, see Yotsuba&!, the other popular manga series about a single father raising an idealized youngster who isn’t his biological child). Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It’s understandable that you’d want to build sympathy for a main character in the first episode, particularly if her main characteristic is to be passive and withdrawn from people. Rin insists on placing bellflowers on her father instead of the prepared flowers.