I’m going to go about this in my usual biased way, ignoring anything that didn’t interest me and selecting the shows that were great, the shows that were good, and the shows that might have been good were it not for some serious flaw. Ongoing series that have not completed a single season will have judgement deferred until next year. (Too often a promising show is ruined by a bad or missing ending.)
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Usagi Drop Ends
Usagi Drop turned out to be basically a feel-good slice-of-life anime with none of the melodrama I expected. It is charming and heartwarming; not silly but not entirely realistic; maybe just a little bit too one-sided about the joys of parenthood. Not the best show of the year, but probably in the top 10.
Usagi Drop–Anime Early Impressions
Usagi Drop (“Bunny Drop”) is the sort of smart, low-key josei anime that will never get a North American DVD release, but fortunately it can be seen on Crunchyroll.
Daikichi Kawachi (Hiroshi Tsuchida) is a grumpy workaholic 30-year-old salaryman, but when he learns that his grandfather has just dropped dead he dutifully travels back to his home town for the funeral. He was not close to his grandfather and thus is astonished to learn that the old man had a 6-year-old daughter named Rin (Ayu Matsuura) that he was secretly raising by himself. (So she’s Daikichi’s aunt, which he finds more embarrassing than amusing.)