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REVIEW: Usagi Drop Episodes 1-11 Streaming

As I understand it, in the later part of the manga spoiler[Rin turns out not to be related to Daikichi] so, really, the only squickiness is spoiler[the age difference]. What's so alarming about that? spoiler[There was a similar age difference with my parents.]

As I understand it, in the later part of the manga spoiler[Rin turns out not to be related to Daikichi] so, really, the only squickiness is spoiler[the age difference]. What's so alarming about that?

@hissatsu01,

To me the important questions in such relationships are:

- Do they love each other?

- Does the younger person (and, for that matter, the older person) fully understand the implications of what they are doing? And resolve to live with those consequences?

- What is the power relationship between the two, ie are they truly equal?

If each of those questions can be answered positively, I have no issue with it.

errinundra wrote:

@hissatsu01, To me the important questions in such relationships are: - Do they love each other? - Does the younger person (and, for that matter, the older person) fully understand the implications of what they are doing? And resolve to live with those consequences? - What is the power relationship between the two, ie are they truly equal? If each of those questions can be answered positively, I have no issue with it.

Except you can't answer that last one positively. There is an INCREDIBLE power imbalance between parents/parental figures and children.

The problem with this is that once one grows towards maturity, this power imbalance flattens out to nearly nothing.

You stop looking up at your parents as you become a teenager and the balance of power gets murky for a while, teens are naturally rebellious and as they become adults, they move onto the same social level as their parents.

Except you can't answer that last one positively. There is an INCREDIBLE power imbalance between parents/parental figures and children.

I've seen this "explanation" before, and it completely misses the point. No, that is not the only "squickiness." I take you see nothing wrong with spoiler[adoptive parents raising children and then having sexual relationships with those same children once they're legal?] Because I don't understand that mindset one bit and find the idea more than a bit gross. spoiler[The idea that the blood relation bit was the only thing that really have mattered strikes me as something that only fans of semantics could appreciate.] It's frankly irrelevant to what makes it so off putting.

I've been reading the manga (I've red through v.3, and v.4 is waiting for a free moment) and it seems to me the anime has not been setting up a second season in the same subtle way that the manga seems to set up the second half. The anime really glosses over Daikichi's more sour moods, ugly looks, a tendency to get enraged at things more easily (without acting out on it), and most importantly a more insistent reminding that that he is really bad with women, and children to a lesser extent. He can't understand them, has no idea how to handle them and he realizes that Rin is a rare exception. An entire small arc about a very young and sexy coworker hitting on him is skipped and there are small moments and inner thoughts that are cut as well. For instance, his thoughts on allowing Rin to continue sitting on his lap are expanded and seem to suggest, in Japanese culture, it really is quite normal to discourage a girl Rin's age from sitting on your lap and that he may, through ignorance, be doing something very slightly abnormal by letting it continue.

So, if a second season were made it would most likely be hurt not only by what you think of it's conclusion but by the fact that the conclusion was never adequately foreshadowed by the first season.

If the manga ending squicks you out, go read up on the Tale of Genji.

This is an ignorant post. First, your contention that only foreigners and "bigots" (love how you link the two) complain is highly dubious. I have no doubt there are plenty of Japanese who would oppose the manga ending as well. Second, if you are non-Japanese and have a problem with the manga ending, that doesn't make you a bigot. I'm not even bother going to explain why, because anybody with an I.Q. over 10 would understand this simple point and too bad for those who don't meet that minimal thresh-hold.

Blood- wrote:

This is an ignorant post. First, your contention that only foreigners and "bigots" (love how you link the two) complain is highly dubious. I have no doubt there are plenty of Japanese who would oppose the manga ending as well. Second, if you are non-Japanese and have a problem with the manga ending, that doesn't make you a bigot. I'm not even bother going to explain why, because anybody with an I.Q. over 10 would understand this simple point and too bad for those who don't meet that minimal thresh-hold.

Is not an ingnorant post but legit, please quote me where japanese people complain about the ending with words like "creepy" (this terminology is bigotry) and so on. Sorry but i said only the truth and thanks god if they made a second season they probably wont deviate from the original to please a bunch of non-factor foreigners q_qers.

Wow, six posts before this thread descended into a several page debate over the manga's ending.