 If you liked
Usagi Drop
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 ...then you might like
Natsuyuki Rendezvous
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Usagi drop is a lot "nicer" (i mean its completely kid appropriate). The protagonist is a guy who has plenty of weaknesses (it makes him all the more loveable) but the lead female in usagi drop is infinitely more loveable than rokka (i mean, a little girl vs a widow. who's gonna win out on cuteness, sorry rokka <3)
They both have a nice emphasis on family, a touch of that "MEANING OF LIFE" profundity, a short list of episodes, and an ability to make us burst out spontaneously in either happiness or tears.
Oh and i'm told by first-impressionists that the beginning of usagi drop
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Both series have similar tone, they are about ordinary (well except for one ghost) people strugling in their ordinary lives. Both are realisticly depicting emotions and frustrations in such ways that anyone can relate to them. They are for more mature audience. Usagi Drop is more about paternal and maternal love, where Natsuyuki Rendezvous is more about romantic love. Both series are bittersweet. Animations has similar feel for both of them.
Natsuyuki Rendezvous has supernatural element in one of three main characters and fairy tales sequences are small departure from reality, but their function is just to express through visual internal emotions of characters, same way
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