Perhaps the series will be 4* overall - I feel like this one wasnt quite as entertaining as when we first met teen Rin but still dramatic and fun like a soap opera

The backstory of what happened with Rin and Kouki in middle school is explained. And of course, Daikichi is still the same.

UGH Kouki.

I think that five volumes would have been enough with Bunny Drop. It's still great, but bot nearly as interesting as in the beginning.

Hahaha wow I'm just going to keep getting madder and madder with this series until The Awful Thing actually happens, aren't I? There are perfectly serviceable romantic relationships Unita could have written! She spends this volume breaking them for very poor reasons! Again I ask WHY. 3 stars

Bittersweet volume

Kouri is an idiot but both Daikichi and Rin save his sorry butt even though he probably doesn't deserve it (and I guess they are both probably doing it for Nitani-San).

I love these characters and the mangaku is going to do something awful to them, I know it!!

This was a frustrating read for me.
First I was confused by the time-jumping (high school, then middle school, then high school again?)
If a chunk of this story was set in middle school, shouldn't it have been at the start of book 5, before the time skip?

Also, I absolutely detest pushy love interests who keep asking and asking and asking, despite constant rejection. NO MEANS NO, BUDDY. BACK OFF. But I was pleased that that was resolved by

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Rin saying no, forever.

If it had turned out any other way, this would be a 2-star.

Finally, all the weird rival stuff with love interest Akira. I do LIKE how they gave her more depth than just "she's a mean girl who wants to ruin your relationship." And she had legitimate motivations behind her scheming. Heck, she even made this series finally pass the bechdel test, so. Good on you. But I still don't get WHY she was so hung up on Kouki to begin with? And what was with all that stuff about her brother that never went anywhere...?

Tl;dr, this series has become waaay too much all about the high school drama. I want more "Daikichi being a good dad to Rin," damn it! He had some dad moments, like giving Kouki

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money so his gf could have an abortion

and consoling Rin after

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she officially dumped Kouki's ass,

and I like that. I like seeing him parent teenagers as much as he parented children.

Also, why did

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Nitani turn Daikichi down? Was she lying about the other guy, or...?

?! I'm confused...

Sigh. Here's hoping volume 7 is better.

I first started reading Bunny Drop back in 2012 and thought it was really cute, so I bought all the volumes up to 7 (which were all that had been published in English at the time). The story and characters go a bit downhill once Rin reaches her teen years, so I actually only ever read through volume 6, but always kind of meant to go back and continue the series eventually. Cut to years later and I learned about the problematic turn the story takes by the end:

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after being taken in and raised by Daikichi since the age of 6 Rin suddenly discovers that she loves him, and despite his misgivings he agrees to marry her after she graduates high school. While not ~technically~ incest, it's still pretty disturbing since Daikichi was essentially Rin's father for 10+ years, and there's a 25 year age difference between them.

Despite that, I've had fond memories of the first few volumes and still owned volumes 1-7 for almost a decade. I needed to decide whether to keep or unhaul the manga, so I finally re-read and completed the unread portions of the manga, since there's only ten volumes. And yeah, it for sure goes downhill after volume 4, and the uncomfortable topic begins in volume 8. I am sort of glad to finally have finished the series and seen for myself how the story devolves. While I do genuinely still like the beginning of this series, I won't be rating any of them because I don't want to encourage anyone to begin reading without knowing the trajectory the story takes, and I don't really want to further support an author who would write this kind of storyline (I read the last three volumes I didn't already own through online scans).

For new readers, I would definitely suggest stopping either after volume 4 or volume 7. Both of those volumes have decent ending points without any of the weirdness of the final volumes. But also this is one of those cases where you should definitely know spoilers before deciding to start reading.

✨I read this title for the Magical Readathon: Orilium!
✨Novice Path: Orilium Academy Arc

I think that five volumes would have been enough with Bunny Drop. It's still great, but bot nearly as interesting as in the beginning.

Kouki is a loveable, young, idiot. What a great set of characters.