Bunny Drop (うさぎドロップ) by Yumi Unita
Bunny Drop is a heart-warming story of growth, discovery, and family for two unlikely people, the 30-something bachelor Daikichi and the alone-in-the-world 6-year-old Rin.
Like so many stories, this one beings with a typical life-changing event, a death in the family in this case Daikichi’s grandfather. During the funeral ceremonies little Rin, the recently discovered illegitimate daughter of the grandfather, attaches herself to Daikichi who not only resembles his late-grandfather but seems to be the only adult not angry at her existence. As the family coolly discusses Rin’s future, Daikichi hotly proclaims he will become her guardian and raise her himself.
Dai is most certainly inexperienced but he has genuine affection for Rin and his commitment to bringing stability to her life makes you instantly root for him. Rin in what seems like child’s intuition connects with Daikichi right away. Their bond is an unspoken one that is written tenderly. They are learning about the world together as well as each other creating everything from hilarious outbursts to sweet realizations. It is also wonderful to see real change in each volume that stretches their relationship. This is equally felt as Dai’s family becomes more involved, we begin to learn about Rin’s past, and Dai starts treading the waters of love.
So despite the fun and sweet but not fully grounded premise, there are beautiful moments of wisdom interspersed among the comedy and drama. With an anime TV series coming out this summer and a Japanese live-action movie also due out mid-year, it is a perfect time to fall in love with Bunny Drop.
It is hardly a stunning revelation that ease of obtaining digital fan-subs and streaming anime has changed the anime fandom in an irrevocable manner. The good, the bad, the ugly of the major effects are talked about on this blog and countless others for several years now. What has struck me more and more is that the subtler effects are more interesting at this point because they are not the hot button or polarizing topics that effects like piracy and licensing are but they are just a powerful and influential. The topic I have been recently fascinated with is the way we inherently perceive anime has changed. The fact is anime fans anywhere in the world can be part of the fandom almost as if we were Japanese fans. The time between when the Japanese fans get an anime or manga and when many places in the world get a translated copy can be as little as an hour. We the foreign fans are for the first time living at the speed of Japan. And this change as changed the way many people interact with and react to the mediums of anime and manga.
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