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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2012-08-18 05:35 pm

Anime ID

Trying to ID an anime in which a guy ends up adopting his .. Half-sister, I think. An old man dies and his family finds out that he has a young daughter nobody knows about, nobody wants to adopt her and a single man steps up and adopts her. ( Judging anime videos and none of us can recall the title!)

The Promoted to Parent page of TV Tropes didn't help much.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2012-08-19 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thirding the other two identifications - it's Bunny Drop, Usagi Drop. The anime has 13 episodes and remains with the part of the manga were the girl is around six years of age. Totally beautiful slice-of-life family-building.

The manga jumps to her teenage years and had a wtf-ending for people with the usual western sensibilities. Personally the ending of the manga worked for me and was hinted at being a possible direction (if certain things didn't work out) consistently. I rather doubt that the last volume will be released in the west though. Although they did make the time jump.
Edited 2012-08-19 10:02 (UTC)
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2012-08-19 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh and technically he and the rest of the family believe she is his aunt, the late-lovechild of his grandfather.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2012-08-20 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!