2008-09-09, 18:30 | Link #1 |
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Usagi Drops
When Daikichi returns home for his grandfather's funeral he meets an unfamiliar child in the garden. Later, his mother explains to him that Rin is grandfather's illegitimate daughter! The presence of the child causes embarrassment to all relatives and nobody wants to adopt her. Daikichi, annoyed by such attitude, decides to take care of her himself. How will the cohabitation between the bachelor and the quiet Rin evolve?
from onemanga.com Anyone reading this one? I started reading it cause it just sounded unusal and gave it a try, now I am hooked on the story, the art is a little unusual but I really enjoy the atomosphere of it. Last edited by yongshun; 2010-09-12 at 21:19. |
2008-09-09, 23:03 | Link #2 |
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I picked this up cause I was bored and really glad I did.
Very nice, light-hearted story. Art is a little unusual but art style has never really bothered me before. will be sticking with this to see what happens
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2008-09-09, 23:06 | Link #3 |
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Just blazed up to Chapter 8.
The art felt weird in the beginning but the story is quite heart-warming. And as the current underlying plot is locating Rin's mother, I am looking forward to the manga solving that mystery. I liked the part about the modem in the grandfather's house |
2009-01-04, 15:14 | Link #5 |
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new chapter is out and the meeting of the mother. interesting meeting now I wonder if Rin is really his grandfather's child, cause wouldn't that make Rin is Aunt and his mother's sister? and yet she calls his mom grandmother. Plus the mother is really weird just like how his grandfather described her not mature enough to keep Rin and she really loves her.
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2009-01-04, 19:39 | Link #7 |
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Picked it up because I was bored to death. The art didn't bother me at all, and the story is awesome. Reminds me a whole lot of My Girl, with the single salary man ending up as a father in a night and stuff.
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I decided to check this out about an hour ago and quickly blasted through the available chapters. I enjoyed this quite a bit. The characters and situations feel particularly real and believable (for manga), and nobody feels particularly stereotypical. There's quite a strong theme on work-life balance - I wonder if this will continue, or if the story will become less about the shorter term issues and more about longer term possibilities...
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Anyway... My thoughts on the mother (referring to chapter 11): hard to warm up to, isn't she. Despite that, I won't condemn her - things can get rather complicated in situations like these and it's hard to appreciate what the people involved went through. However, if she turns around later and insists on taking Rin back, then I won't have any sympathy for her. I'd take Rin's judgement on this one. I do wonder why she slept with a (then) 73 year old guy though - maybe she wanted to experience sex so that she could write about it...? PS On some unrelated notes... Apparently I somewhat take after my mother's father (though I've never seen a picture of him when a bit younger). It can happen. Also, though the probability would be quite low, I'm pretty sure it's perfectly possible for a 73 year guy to father a child. As long as some living sperm can reach the egg, fertilisation is possible (though actually the majority of fertilised eggs naturally abort after a week or two)
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2009-01-05, 04:37 | Link #9 |
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A man can make babies till the day he dies, thats if he doesn't gain any health issues down there that is.
Anyway, Rin's mother... what a total bitch and ditz. She was (still is?) obviously a prostitute. Kinda wonder how old she is too. Looks like a teenager, but the art is a little wonky so can't really say.
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She wasn't a prostitute. She was a maid. And I'm also suspecting that she's really not her grandfathers child. I mean when the way she talks, she doesn't seem to have had bore a child with him. It was more like when she was the maid she bore a child with another guy and she wanted to abort the child because she doesn't want to have a child. But Grandpa coerced her to bore the child instead. And now since the mother didn't want responsibility to the child, Gandpa raised her instead. |
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2009-01-05, 09:19 | Link #14 |
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Sounds interesting and personally im weak to this kind of stories... but before i start and most likely get hooked on the story i wanted to know how many chapter have been released and how far does it seem to be from the end.
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2009-01-05, 16:50 | Link #16 |
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4 manga have been released for a total of 24 chapters, the story is still ongoing.
For now 2 manga have been released in France, the third one should be released in March. Rin mother is a pro-mangaka (you will see her work in volume 3) she was only starting her career when Rin was little and she was meeting her manager/editor late at night nothing less nothing more. If you want some "strange" story about Rin mother you are looking at the wrong manga/mangaka. |
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