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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

I had to write my own so people can give it a fair chance. I'm not a review writer but I'll do my best.

By now most people know how Usagi Drop begins. Daikichi is a 30 year old bachelor with no childcare experience and no prospects as far as women go either. When his grandfather dies the family discovers the old man had a love child. 6 year old Rin... Rin's mother disappeared, overwhelmed at the thought of being a single parent and no one can find her. When no one in the family will man up to care for the little ... girl, Daikichi, appalled at his family's behavior, volunteers to take her in. Despite his family's reservations and his own worries, he sticks it out and awkwardly learns how to be a parent.

What no one knows is that Daikichi discovers that Rin isn't actually related to him at all. He doesn't care tho and raises her as if she were, not wanting her to be taken away and passed around to strangers.

I'm sure most people, like myself, were hoping that Rin's friend's mother Yukari would get together with Daikichi. There was a real potential for a romance between the two of them. However Daikichi is too laid back to ever make a move and Yukari is too insecure and caught up with her life as a single mom to ever have something happen. Skip ten years into the future, they're still not together and it's clear they will never be.

The second arc starts out with Rin an Kouki at odds. Although they grew ups friends and like each other as teens, Kouki messes up and looses Rin's respect. This part was a little useless I thought. It never felt like it was going anywhere and Kouki comes off as a rash you can't get rid of. Kouki's stupidity aside, Rin also compares everything he does to Daikichi. Many girls do this, comparing guys to the men they look up to in their lives. But then the idea is entered that maybe Rin's feelings extend further than this.

People think it's gross that because he raised her they shouldn't be together, but I will be honest and admit the idea had occurred to me all the way back in the first arc and I was not disappointed that it happened. Rin has always been mature beyond her years. Of course boys her age wouldn't interest her. Daikichi has always been immature for his age... their personalities meet up quite well in the middle. It is not unheard of in real life for a man, who has had a large part of raising a young girl into womanhood, to end up marrying her. Yes their age gap is a steep one but if the first part of the story had been them never knowing her, people wouldn't have had such a problem with her falling in love with him.

As for the art style, I enjoyed it's whimsical simplicity. The characters are all original and pull you in from the beginning. There were very few flaws with this story and over all I enjoyed it immensely so I gave it a 10. Hope this helps cut down some of the negativity about the ending of the story and that people will enjoy it for what it is. I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for something out of the norm.