Bunny Drop
Here it is. Bunny Drop. A near-perfect slice-of-life manga. There are no heroes, crazy villians bent on world domination, or even overblown cooking contests. Just regular old everyday life. That may sound to interesting, but it is.
Bunny Drop follow the a man called Daikichi and his younger aunt who he's raising as a daughter, Rin. He winds up with custody of the girl when one of his relatives dies and her mother can't be found, leaving her without a parent, and none of the other relatives want her. Daikichi decides to take up the mantle of father after seeing how everyone treats her. It's a situation so complicated Jerry Springer's head would spin.
Having realized what he's gotten himself into only after getting the girl home, he starts having the worries any father has. What school do I send her to? How much will uniforms cost? Who will take care of her while I'm at work? It's all genuine and charming.
Over the course of time, Rin gets a friend and Daikichi finds something that resembles love from in the form of a boy and his mother. Of course Daikichi and Rin grow closer as family. Most of it feels real and is nice to read.
After a time skip, Daikichi is older and Rin is a teenager. This obviously brings a new set of problems, the most prevalent and interesting of them being Rin's quest to find her mother. When Rin finally does meet her mother, she comes to a revelation. Guided by her heart, she does research and finds that she is not related to Daikichi.
This is where Bunny Drop takes a turn for the worst. Upon realizing they are not related, Daikichi started to think back on the last 10-12 years and how he really felt about Rin. It turns out he loved her, not as an aunt/daughter, but as a candidate for a wife. This is compounded by the fact that when Rin (who sixteen at the time the revelation) confronts him with this knowledge, he asks her two years so her can return her feelings (as she was already crushing on him and trying to figure out ways for them to be together). So for clarity, let's break down what happened here. Rin goes from being Daikichi's aunt, to being his daughter, to being his wife. Yeah...okay. Gone are those warm feelings from the first eight volumes, replaced with an urge to vomit.
Make no mistake, Bunny Drop is well-crafted masterpiece. It just had a little misstep. Yes, it is a breath of fresh air that Rin didn't wind up with her childhood friend, but the direction they chose to go was puzzling and disturbing. To liken it to something, it's like a sundae topped with marble-sized turd instead of a cherry. As long as readers ignore the ending, they'll be in for a treat.
Bunny Drop follow the a man called Daikichi and his younger aunt who he's raising as a daughter, Rin. He winds up with custody of the girl when one of his relatives dies and her mother can't be found, leaving her without a parent, and none of the other relatives want her. Daikichi decides to take up the mantle of father after seeing how everyone treats her. It's a situation so complicated Jerry Springer's head would spin.
Having realized what he's gotten himself into only after getting the girl home, he starts having the worries any father has. What school do I send her to? How much will uniforms cost? Who will take care of her while I'm at work? It's all genuine and charming.
Over the course of time, Rin gets a friend and Daikichi finds something that resembles love from in the form of a boy and his mother. Of course Daikichi and Rin grow closer as family. Most of it feels real and is nice to read.
After a time skip, Daikichi is older and Rin is a teenager. This obviously brings a new set of problems, the most prevalent and interesting of them being Rin's quest to find her mother. When Rin finally does meet her mother, she comes to a revelation. Guided by her heart, she does research and finds that she is not related to Daikichi.
This is where Bunny Drop takes a turn for the worst. Upon realizing they are not related, Daikichi started to think back on the last 10-12 years and how he really felt about Rin. It turns out he loved her, not as an aunt/daughter, but as a candidate for a wife. This is compounded by the fact that when Rin (who sixteen at the time the revelation) confronts him with this knowledge, he asks her two years so her can return her feelings (as she was already crushing on him and trying to figure out ways for them to be together). So for clarity, let's break down what happened here. Rin goes from being Daikichi's aunt, to being his daughter, to being his wife. Yeah...okay. Gone are those warm feelings from the first eight volumes, replaced with an urge to vomit.
Make no mistake, Bunny Drop is well-crafted masterpiece. It just had a little misstep. Yes, it is a breath of fresh air that Rin didn't wind up with her childhood friend, but the direction they chose to go was puzzling and disturbing. To liken it to something, it's like a sundae topped with marble-sized turd instead of a cherry. As long as readers ignore the ending, they'll be in for a treat.
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