Source: http://myanimelist.net/anime/10162/Usagi_Drop
While attending his grandfather's funeral, Kawachi, Daikichi, encounters this unknown and quiet girl while walking around his grandfather's house. Daikichi discovers that she is the illegitimate daughter of his late grandfather whose mother is nowhere to be found is unknown to everyone. Fearing the shame and the obligation of bringing up this girl up, Daikichi's family become unwilling to take her in their care. Angry at his families reaction and seeing how the little girl named Rin would be left alone, Daikichi ultimately decides to take in Rin. The story follows on how Daikichi develops into a proper guardian for Rin while balancing it with both his work and love life.
If you can deal with the idea of not having this epic battles scenes or this evil dark force that the main character has to fight throughout the anime then this anime might be for you. This is a slice of life anime where the main character instead of fighting an evil force is fighting the hardships that we all know that life can present to an individual and see how he develops as a person. In the end of the anime you get some perspective of some nice life lessons and even some insight what it means to be a parent.
This is a wonderful anime and a perfect example of how the animation medium is respected in Japan where in America it is still considered "for kids". These "slice of life" animes are, in my opinion, far superior to the mecha and "contest" animes.
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