Usagi Drop 03-05 – Father (?) and Daughter Moments


I can't believe that Daikichi is slowly becoming quite a believable father to Rin! Anyways, in these three episodes, Rin finally enters a proper kindergarten school and made some friends while Daikichi makes a life long career related decision for the sake of Rin.


The past two episodes of the series basically shows Daikichi slowly adjusting into becoming Rin's sorta adoptive father and gathers clues regarding Rin's mother to find out the reason on why she decided to abandon her at the first place. If there is one thing I observed about Rin is that she is now used to Daikichi's family and that she is now more open to them, especially Daikichi's mother. Also, she starts making a lot of friends in her school.

More on Daikichi, he decided to be moved into a different department so that he will have enough time to spend for Rin. I find his move quite admirable as it is pretty rare for a parent to ask his boss to move him in a different department for the sake of his child, what more if that child is just someone he took care of because of his dead grandfather?


Now to episode 5 in which we meet Makoto, Rin's mother who is a manga artist and based on one short scene, a quite popular too. Based on her actions when she talked with Daikichi, she is the kind of mother who slightly cares about her child. The only sign of affection she gave regarding Rin is that she doesn't want her to be teased by her classmates because she doesn't have the same family name like that of his guardian, and that's about it. This led to Daikichi having plans on formally adopting Rin because he now cares for her like she is his own daughter or something along those lines.

In addition, the entire episode has this same warm feeling that the first episode had in regards with the interactions between Rin and Daikichi, from Daikichi asking Rin if she wants to adopt his family name till Rin’s graduation from kindergarten. It was sweet and I can’t wait to see how Daikichi would raise Rin into a fine woman that her mother says she was, even if she is not his daughter by name.