Usagi drop, vol. 10

うさぎドロップ [Usagi Drop] #10

by Yumi Unita, Valeria Vespa (Translator)

Alla morte di suo nonno, Daikichi decide di prendersi cura della piccola Rin, la figlia segreta dell'anziano parente. Anche se single, nel corso degli anni Daikichi si dà da fare per crescere da solo la bambina. Dieci anni sono trascorsi da quando ha accolto Rin, che ora è una giovane liceale. Koki e Rin sono attratti l'uno dall'altro, così come Daikichi e la mamma di Koki. Ma nonostante i loro sentimenti non riescono a vivere il loro amore...

Genres: Manga, Josei, Graphic Novels, Slice Of Life, Comics, Drama, Romance

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2012

About the author

Japanese Name (宇仁田ゆみ)

Yumi Unita was born in Mie Prefecture on May 10th, 1972. In 1998, she debuted with "VOICE" in Hakusensha's Young Animal. Since then, she has worked in many genres, having her works featured in seinen, josei, and shounen magazines.

Reviews

[Brittni Kristine · Rating 1 out of 5]

What in the Woody Allen was this!? I originally watched the anime and loved it, and heard that the manga had a different ending so I read the last few volumes. Spare your eyeballs, nobody needs to read this creepy-ass book. Stick with the wholesome anime.

[Janine Chalmers · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok Spoiler time...You've been warned.

At first I loved this series. Honestly, it's rare I come across a story that focuses on familial relationships that make me feel so happy. The first four volumes of the series in my eyes were a celebration of parenthood in all forms--those with familial ties and those without. I love how they don't shy away from the sacrifices parents make in raising a child. I even love the blooming romance that sprouts between our main guy and a single mother.

Now I can accept the romance mentioned above not working out because both people were too chicken to admit their feelings (no matter how hard that one hit me) and even the romance between the young girl and her childhood friends not working out, but I really hate the way this series ended.

I feel that the entire premise was cheapened by our main character marrying the girl he'd raised since she was 6! I don't care if they aren't related, this ending is still garbage. This beautiful relationship is cheapened by what is essentially pedophile propaganda. I don't care that Rin is the one who pursues the relationship. I don't care that this series isn't overly sexual. In fact I think this further perpetuates the idea that some people are trying to normalize pedophilia. In real life many cases start out in situations similar to this one. The girl meets her abuser at a young age and is groomed to think that an illegal relationship is ok. I don't care that Rin is 18 when she marries him. It's still terrifying to me that this man who raised a girl from when she is six suddenly shifts his mind from thinking of her as a child to a wife? No. No. No.

Think of the message that this gives to the target audience. Either a young girl is gonna read this and think that it's ok to get in a relationship where older men prey on little girls or that older men might think it's ok to prey on younger girls because "Hey one day it will be legal!"

I just wish the series didn't end this way. It cheapens the message that started it so strongly. Family is hard to make and hard to keep, but it's worth protecting and encouraging.

Sorry for the long rant.

If you really want to read the series I wont stop you (and probably can't seeing as I am just some random review out there on the internet) but I would suggest that you lower your expectations after the forth volume.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, but probably should've come earlier in the story. I mean, it's a flashback and cute, but kind of irrelevant.

[Greg · Rating 2 out of 5]

2/5 There really isn't much going on in this volume. It is just a couple of short chapters that weren't included in the manga. They don't add anything and none of them are particularly interesting. Even the prolog chapter which you'd think would expand upon the ending of the manga doesn't add anything either.

For what it's worth when it's all said and done I did enjoy the first 4 volumes the rest not so much. Still it always feel's nice to finish a manga series so I'll enjoy the silver lining.

Daikichi and a young Rin on the cover of the final volume.

Read 8/23/21

[Selena Pigoni · Rating 4 out of 5]

So mixed feelings on this one.

I loved the parts that had little Rin in them and that focused on Daikichi (why I loved Bunny Drop in the first place), but any of the other parts... meh. They were short, thankfully, those parts without little Rin and Daikichi-centric story-lines, but the other parts... While the other parts were good, I just... I don't know... couldn't care as much.

After the second half of the series, seeing those reminded me of how the series declined. Especially the last one.

So I shall live in denial and continue to believe that Rin never grew up.

[Eden Grey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the extra material, much more than I thought I would! A fitting end to a lovely series.

[✿ K.B ✿ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay so some filler chapters of young Rin and gang. Last chapter was also disappointing like the last 2 volumes. Because it just shows that Dikichi has accepted Rin.

This series started off interesting and by the end it slipped into something that I just can't really seem to like. I would have liked, if it showed her trying to find out about her parent more. The struggle of accepting the mother who abandoned Rin yet saved money for her. Daikichi and Nitani-San somehow getting together... I mean there are many ways this could have gone and still ended by volume 10.

Anyways, this is done. I would recommend reading till volume 6 and maybe 3-4 chapters of volume 7. Like before when shit hits the fan. Rest isn't worth it.

[Sol · Rating 2 out of 5]

This volume was such a kick in the face. "Remember how good this series was when it was just about a man trying to get through parenting unexpectedly? And his daughter had such a good friend whose mom he had a really cute crush on? Well, screw you cuz he and his daughter got married."

It's still so unnatural. It still doesn't sit right with me at all. Thank god it's over now.

[Shae · Rating 2 out of 5]

For my complete thoughts on this series, check out this reaction vlog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caP-l...

[Miss Ryoko · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume was a collection of extra stories that happened throughout the series. They were pretty cute. The third extra, Two Families, made me long for Daikichi and Nitani-san even more than ever before. I really, really, really wish they would have gotten together. Blending their two families made so much sense. I'm a little angry it didn't work out.

I enjoyed this series. Didn't end how I wanted it to, but often manga doesn't. It was the perfect length for this story, and it was touching and sweet. I definitely recommend this series if you are someone who really is character driven - this series is all about the characters and their emotions, and less about an actual storyline. I really liked that aspect of this series.

[Thomas Andrikus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now this last volume, composed entirely as series of flashbacks, is a lot better than the last one. Though there is still an aura of Japanese weirdness surrounding the last extra episode of this volume (you'll understand it when you read it), overall this volume brings back much of the cuteness of Rin and Daikichi's earlier years.

[Nenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never really saw the plot twist and I just love how it ended. I know it's unconventional but I honestly don't see their relationship as bad and you know he was never a pervert or groomed her into this. I loved it

[Emi えみ Takami 鷹見 · Rating 4 out of 5]

A volume full of cute extras.

While I still don't like the Daikichi/Rin pairing , over all, I still really liked this series.

[Dawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did enjoy the series of short stories (called “extras”) not included in the main story ranging in time from when Rin was first adopted to adulthood. I have to admit my favorites are those of her as a child and how living with Daikichi helped her to emotionally evolve. We also learn how Kouki got his scar as well as how he had gotten involved with Akari-san. There is also a good one focusing on Masko-san, Rin’s mother. It goes into more depth her decision to abandon Rin as well as the heartache and regret it always caused her. She never forgot Rin and never tried to eliminate the evidence in herself that she had once given birth and had a child. Kouki is still a family friend and is still searching for his “one” and it is strongly implied that reuniting with another childhood friend may end up going down that path. The final story is after Rin graduates and is in college depicting how her home life has changed.

[Samantha Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

‘Don’t you think this world is better than you expected?’ Finding out that the conclusion to the ‘last’ book wasn’t just a blip? No I don’t think I do 💀

There were so many better ways this could have gone - ending up with Kouki, ending up with some Rando Jones, marrying Hulk Hogan, marrying nobody, living the simple life as Daikichi’s daughter, going to live in her grandpa’s house, taking a vow of silence to never mention her feelings again and joining the Dosh Khaleen, simply ceasing to exist - all which would have been better than the ending we were given, simply because the writer chose the controversial option and then conveniently wrote a ‘way out’ to try and make it less (it’s still terrible).

I’m glad I got these second-hand (I think it’s out of print now anyway) because knowing the way the story was ruined from being a wholesome slice of life, I would have been pissed to support the author.

[Emily✨]

I first started reading Bunny Drop back in 2012 and thought it was really cute, so I bought all the volumes up to 7 (which were all that had been published in English at the time). The story and characters go a bit downhill once Rin reaches her teen years, so I actually only ever read through volume 6, but always kind of meant to go back and continue the series eventually. Cut to years later and I learned about the problematic turn the story takes by the end: after being taken in and raised by Daikichi since the age of 6 Rin suddenly discovers that she loves him, and despite his misgivings he agrees to marry her after she graduates high school. While not ~technically~ incest, it's still pretty disturbing since Daikichi was essentially Rin's father for 10+ years, and there's a 25 year age difference between them.

Despite that, I've had fond memories of the first few volumes and still owned volumes 1-7 for almost a decade. I needed to decide whether to keep or unhaul the manga, so I finally re-read and completed the unread portions of the manga, since there's only ten volumes. And yeah, it for sure goes downhill after volume 4, and the uncomfortable topic begins in volume 8. I am sort of glad to finally have finished the series and seen for myself how the story devolves. While I do genuinely still like the beginning of this series, I won't be rating any of them because I don't want to encourage anyone to begin reading without knowing the trajectory the story takes, and I don't really want to further support an author who would write this kind of storyline (I read the last three volumes I didn't already own through online scans).

For new readers, I would definitely suggest stopping either after volume 4 or volume 7. Both of those volumes have decent ending points without any of the weirdness of the final volumes. But also this is one of those cases where you should definitely know spoilers before deciding to start reading.

[The Book Dragon · Rating 3 out of 5]

So this final volumes is mostly a bunch of extra chapters that weren't included in the original story and a final chapter that acts as a "where are they now?" kinda thing.

Kouki is still (for the moment) single. Daikichi and Rin got married. Everyone else... pretty standard continuation. I still don't agree or like that Daikichi and Rin got together. It's a moral no-no in my book even if it's technically okay. The last minute ret-con of them not actually being related didn't help.

Overall, it's a really cute story that devolves into a moral gray area. I can fully recommend giving it a try and, hey, if you don't like it, you don't have to finish it... unless you're an OCD completionist like me. Total score for the series: 3.5/ 5.

This series has 10 volumes.

[Hannah Whitson · Rating 2 out of 5]

It took me a while to read this book because of the ending to the series as a whole. It was all fine, I guess, because we saw some of the sweet younger parts but when the time skip came back it just ruined it. I don’t understand the “gang” plot and the ruined relationship. I also don’t like how the author claims at the end that Daikichi was never a “father figure” to Rin which is why this is fine but it’s not. I believe he had a father figure vibe and that after the fourth manga everything was ruined. At least the anime is still nice and was left with the sweet parts. And some part of my mind can think the story ended very differently. It just feels wrong, ya know?

[Nolany · Rating 1 out of 5]

Non, non et .... non !! Mais c'était quoi ça !! Y a pas de fin ! La première partie du manga était sympa, on revoyait des moments de l'enfance de Rin avec Daikichi et c'était très agréable même si ça sortait un peu de nul part. Par contre, J'ai rien pigé à la seconde moitié du livre, c'était brouillon et en plus ça ne se termine même pas ! Il n'y a aucune conclusion ! Je suis très très déçue.

Lu le 18/03/2018

[Soobie has fog in her brain · Rating 2 out of 5]

Due stelline perché non si parla della relazione tra Daikichi e Rin.

Si torna un po' indietro nel tempo in questa raccolta di storie brevi. Come al solito, quelle con Rin bambina sono migliori delle altre.

Quasi interessante quella in cui si parla del mondo in cui la madre di Rin ha conosciuto il suo attuale compagno.

Ma resta tantissima delusione. L'avessi letto fino al quarto volume, sarebbe entrato tra i miei preferiti. Ma continuando così proprio...

[Angie Heaps · Rating 3 out of 5]

This final volume of flashbacks is bittersweet. Now that the audience knows how the plot ties up in volume 9, the memories of Rin's childhood (once sweet and full of wonder) are only leading her to an uncomfortable end. Daikichi's struggles with parenthood (before, humorous but relatable) are sullied by his final choice.

Still, it was nice to revisit these characters and to tie of some lose ends with the side plots.

[Nadina · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I really enjoyed all these extras, and even really liked the last, final, episode. I still have mixed feelings about Daikichi and Rin being together, mainly due to the age difference, but I think I'm okay with it. I do wish Rin had ended up with Kouki, but that is not the way it was meant to be and I guess that's okay.

[Christine Bowles · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice little addition to the series, this volume holds a few stories spread out over the years that the rest of the story takes place over, including one last chapter after Rin graduates from high school. Just a little something extra to make the story feel fully finished.

[Thuy · Rating 2 out of 5]

why this ending?... The beginning is so good and heart warming...They should have cut short and end it that way...just why they have to romanticize everything and destroy such relationship... Honestly we should just stop at watching the anime and leave it that way

[Devon · Rating 1 out of 5]

First 4 volumes are fine. After that, not so much. It all becomes pretty grossin retrospect. Don't recommend it. I couldn't sleep so I decided to read a series that I had very little context for other than people hated the ending. I see why.

[Pragya]

The fuck did i just read. It was so nice and wholesome in the start. Why did it have to take such a bad turn
I started reading this because i saw somewhere that this manga has a weird plot. I thought how weird could it be? I should have just stayed curious and ignored it

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked getting more background stories but definitely still hate the ending. And did not care for the last story.

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really cute way of wrapping up the series. Plus we get to find out how Kouki got the scar on his forehead.

[Nahia · Rating 3 out of 5]

La verdad es que no aporta gran cosa. Lo único que hace es que me guste menos que al final la historia fuera por un camino y no por el que de verdad tendría que haber ido.

[Child960801 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This final volume is a set of short stories from Rin and Daikichi life together, when she's just little up until after the last volume. Cute little stories.