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Interview: Taku Kishimoto, Scriptwriter for Usagi Drop

Mad_Scientist wrote:

Zac mentioned this interview on his twitter a few days ago. I can sense his tears even now. I'm still hopeful that things will somehow work out in the anime like I hope.

Out of curiosity, what did that Twitter post say?

Usagi Drop, based on the hit josei manga of the same name, follows 30-year old Daikichi Kawachi's perilous journey through the most dangerous game of all: parenthood.

which tries to depict not “an adult-like kid”, but an actual “kid-like kid”.

If you hear just the basic story, that a 30 year old male happens to live with 6 year old girl, in the context of Japanese anime, you may assume that the show will target the male audience with some sexual connotations, but of course, this show doesn't.

lelliel wrote:

Mad_Scientist wrote: Zac mentioned this interview on his twitter a few days ago. I can sense his tears even now. I'm still hopeful that things will somehow work out in the anime like I hope. Out of curiosity, what did that Twitter post say?

"Editing an interview with the scriptwriter for the Usagi Drop anime. God, how I wish I hadn't read that spoiler."

http://twitter.com/#!/ANNZac/status/85163831034265600

RestlessOne wrote:

lelliel wrote: Mad_Scientist wrote: Zac mentioned this interview on his twitter a few days ago. I can sense his tears even now. I'm still hopeful that things will somehow work out in the anime like I hope. Out of curiosity, what did that Twitter post say? "Editing an interview with the scriptwriter for the Usagi Drop anime. God, how I wish I hadn't read that spoiler." http://twitter.com/#!/ANNZac/status/85163831034265600

Thank you.
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The spoiler gets a little more creepy once you realize: spoiler[Daikichi looks like a younger version of his grandfather who is Rin's biological father.] Honestly, how much creepy can you put in an ending anyway?

But what I don't get is spoiler[ why did the author choose this route? Daikichi could have easily ended up with Rin's childhood friend's mother or at the very least, another woman. And Rin could have easily ended up with the childhood friend or like Daikichi, anyone else. ]

Teriyaki Terrier wrote:

But what I don't get is spoiler[ why did the author choose this route? Daikichi could have easily ended up with Rin's childhood friend's mother or at the very least, another woman. And Rin could have easily ended up with the childhood friend or like Daikichi, anyone else. ]

I don't quite understand that either. Getting over the fact that spoiler[Rin has barely experienced the outside world and what it has to offer, there are several viable routes she could have taken. No one mandated that she had to definitively end up with anyone in the first place. In my perfect world, Daikichi and Kouki's mother would have hooked up, Kouki and Rin would share a sibling-like relationship, and they would date people in their own age range or be satisfied not dating at all (for the time being).] Obviously, my perfect ending was a bit off from the actual ending. Though I honestly would have been fine without the time skip at all.

Thank you, I asked a friend about this a while back and he (rightfully) wondered how it even got to that point, much less the ending.

spoiler[With the ending you had in mine, that is exactly what I would have wanted as well. I had a feeling that both Daikichi and Kouki mother liked each other and really did think towards the end they would get together. As for Kouki and Rin, you have a point and it would have just as work able to have them end with someone else entirely.]

Since I like time skips, the concept of one is fine, but had I known that the time skip would lead the series to become like it is, I'd be fine without one like RestlessOne.

But I keep thinking there is supposed to be some meaning and or logic with this ending, but I am truly not sure what (if one truly does exist) it is.

From the Interview wrote:

The original dialogue in the manga is written by a mother of two, so it's already realistic.

That makes the ending more interesting... and maybe more creepy...

The manga finished in April. 9 volumes, 55 chapters.

Can't remember specifically where the story takes it's turn, but it's after the time skip towards the end.