Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai - Vol. 5 Ch. 28 - Young girl, A New Encounter

[DonHazzy]

@Hamin

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To be fair, the mc wanted to be her father but never was there for her, the couple at the bar acted more as her parents than him

 

[Hamin]

@DonHazzy

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Yeh I know, and I agree with that sentiment. I was talking to a friend of mine before about how I found another 'usagi drop' series but mentioned to him that this mc doesn't play the father role all that much since he's out doing a lot of different stuff. However, it's important to keep in mind he's still known and portrayed as a super doting father figure who really sees her as a kawaii daughteru despite how little of a role he may play.

 

[nobaka]

page 3 corner panel heals my soul

 

[boag]

please dont let her cry again, please dont let her cry again, please dont let her cry again.
@DonHazzy
to be fair

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Latina ends up Grooming dale, not the other way around.

@Hamin

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They are not blood related in usagi drop, the mom got preggo and the grandpa just adopted the kid because the mom had no means of taking care of her, which is why she felt so guilty when she got pregnant again and was raising a new child.

 

[crunchberry]

I would like to say something for the people comparing this to Usagi Drop. While there are similarities to Usagi Drop, this is very different. For one, Dale is only 8-10 years older while Usagi Drop had an age difference of 25+ years. Dale does not actually adopt Latina, and he is more like an older brother. Actually, Kenneth and his wife are more like parents than Dale is. Latina is of a different race with a much longer life span.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@crunchberry That and IMO more importantly, there's way more foreshadowing in this. You don't just drop something like that in as a twist out of nowhere. My problem with Usagi Drop isn't that it happened at all, it's mainly that I was like "I don't believe a frame of this. Neither of them ever felt like they had feelings different from father-ish/daughter-ish for each other, and they still don't now that they're supposedly getting together, plus he totally had the hots for that nice lady nearer his age with the vavoom body. This didn't come out of left field, it came from outside the stadium!"
So I'm fine with it if they sell it--if it has some groundwork laid, if it feels in character, if the emotion comes across. In Usagi Drop it was the opposite--it felt forced, had no buildup, no feelings, and just basically felt like the mangaka wanted a shock twist ending and used the characters as marionettes to get it. To be fair both MCs in Usagi Drop were so low-key and unemotional that it would have been hard to put strong romantic feelings across at the best of times--but that's all the more reason if you want to make readers dig that they're feeling unexpected emotions you have to put some work into it.

 

[Sussudio]

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I'm laughing at people talking about Dale grooming Latina. When it's soon gonna turn out that it's Latina grooming herself in a 4d chess plan to be the best wife to Dale. lmao

People gonna start to pick up that Latina never refers to Dale as her parent and it's Dale that is blind to this fact. And lets not forgot that there's only a 9yr age gape between them. In American law for example, dude isn't even old enough to drink yet. The guy is still a kid himself, who happens to be overpowered and have great connections.

 

[TetraSky]

Well first of all Latina.... Don't tell anyone that you're a God damn demon.

 

[starburst98]

Basically dale saw the fancy diner as being nice, but latina took it as a date.

 

[nhoctu97]

sometime some pages feel like picture book for no reason

 

[lurker123]

Ah okay. As long as theres proper and appropriate development i can deal.

 

[firosahoge]

Date at a fancy restaurant? Usagi Drop ending confirmed.

 

[Homelander]

Wish her horns would grow back.

 

[TheGTF]

@Purplelibraryguy More less in the same camp.

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If anything I feel like most don't get why it's really as bad as it is. It's not that it opted for a Tale of Genji style ending that bothers me, that in of itself isn't the problem as far as I'm concerned- it's that it's poorly executed and entirely unconvincing; there should be some critical impact that is flatout missing from the reveal. What bothers me most about it is it simply dropped a huge bomb that Rin sees Daikichi as a total stranger, and has done so for the entire 10 years they've been together, with no fallout at all regarding it. Daikichi himself, who only viewed himself as her father and spent the entire first five volumes growing into that role, should be devastated to suddenly find out their familial arrangement was entirely one-sided. I don't think comes entirely out of left field: she spends the entire series calling him by his name rather than some familial title and from it's pretty obvious a few volumes in after the timeskip considering her musing about her future all revolved around her being content to forego a family of her own and just taking care of Daikichi as he gets older. But those alone aren't really enough sell me that she never attached herself to him in a familial way when otherwise they only ever acted as such- he was her "father" and she just grew up into being a daddy's girl. So instead of what I feel should have been a huge blow to the guy, instead there's just muted and weak reaction, followed by him simply not resisting and letting her do as she wanted and everyone else isn't even phased. But honestly, the entire back half of the series was overwhelmingly weaker than the first 5 volumes- it's not just this fizzle of an ending that was the problem, nearly all of the story content was shifted to a much less compelling subject: Rin having all the same teenager problems we see in every other teen shoujo manga. Her going behind his back to track down her mother and meeting her was good, as was the one callback moment where she calls him out on him claiming she can't get too big for a hug from him (during a moment where she was particularly distressed) back when she was still 6; but that's about it.

 

[themanj]

how bout you dont tell people you're a friggen demon shit little lady u gonna get yourself killed

 

[HeartfeltFancy]

I prefer this much more than the light novel. Really glad that it's been getting updated more frequently.

 

[Daneya]

Ty for the ch

 

[cksn]

these comments being like

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it's ok if girl 'grooms' guy, but not if guy grooms girl

, you're just bizarre.