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Peter Hunt
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While I agree with how Usagi Drop (I refuse to refer to it as Bunny Drop, despite the litera -ness of it) turned out, ranking Wolf Children low because you think it doesn't capture the essence of turmoils a single-parent faces is totally wrong. I'd argue that at least HALF of the film concerns Hana and how she raises her children, and I'm not just talking the montage sequences and/or when they're pre-teen.
I'm positive this is HER film and HER story, and I was all for her all the way through. |
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Dop.L
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Ah yes, the lament of the Bunny Drop fans.
"The story ends at volume four, it doesn't go on after that, la-la-la I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!" But it totally deserves its place on this list with that caveat of only the anime, or the first four volumes of manga. Yumi Unita, what were you thinking??? |
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Vaisaga
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Usagi Drop gets singled out on this, but things turning out that way is actually extremely common in shoujo manga. Be it a girl hooking up with her father figure, or a girl getting a bunch of new brothers and inevitably falling for one of them (usually the much older one).
It's actually more surprising that Aishiteruze Baby didn't end with Kippei and Yuzuyu together at the end. Heck, I even read a Korean web comic that ends with the guy abandoning the relationship he was developing with another woman to hook up with the girl he took in as his daughter. I'm not really bothered by the inherent idea of it. I just don't like how it abandons all prior development because there's some law that says the two leads must be romantically involved. If the premise of your manga is the growing father/daughter or brother/sister relationship between two characters, stick with that. Don't switch it to romantic at the last minute. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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With the Light is fantastic.
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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It's not that I don't think it does, I'm sure it doesn't. It's a complete fantasy of a perfect mother as remembered from a child's perspective. Hana never has a break down from the stress of raising two children alone, never considered a moment of bitterness for her lot in life, or any of the other perfectly normal, emotional depth anyone in her situation would express. She's completely unrelatable to any woman who actually lived through her experience. |
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encrypted12345
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Yeah. Parent figure/child figure can be done well, but Usagi Drop was catastrophically terribly executed. Both characters already had romantic interest in other characters, but that fizzled out after the time skip for reasons. It needs to be gradual and such. |
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invalidname
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Thanks for including With The Light. I have the first 6 volumes, though I've only actually read halfway through volume 2 because, having an autistic child of our own, it's a severe case of "too close to home". But it really is remarkable in both being an accurate portrayal of autism and yet also readable and interesting as a story.
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FireChick
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I LOVE With The Light, and I'm so happy it made it on the list and at number one! It's my favorite manga of all time!
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Hameyadea
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This one is an upcoming one, but Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari has piqued my interest.
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whiskeyii
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I'd been trying to remember what the title of With the Light was. Definitely on my to-read list.
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DmonHiro
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I can't believe people are still making a fuss about the 2nd half of the Usagi Drop manga. FFS, they're not even related.
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killjoy_the
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I don't think them being related has much to do with that development coming almost out of nowhere and still being just icky.
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Touma
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I have not seen or read Bunny Drop, yet, but if the girl is the daughter of his grandfather then they are related.
She would actually be his aunt. But I think that the fact that he raised her as his daughter would be a bigger issue. |
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Paul D. Atreides
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Wolf Children is, and will always be, my favourite Mamoru Hosoda film. In fact, I would put it on my top 5 list of favourite anime ever. It's beautiful, it's touching, I love the use of half-man-half-wolf as a metaphor for growing up. It deserved the Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival, and Carl was right to place it as the best film of 2013.
Period 
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maximilianjenus
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it's missing rising of the shield hero and kodomo no jikan; though they kind of fall in the same trappings as usagi drop.
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