This show slows your heart rate down and then ambushes you with the smallest possible thing. Rin asleep under the table at a funeral nobody wants her at, Daikichi's whole family suddenly very interested in their tea. It's a series where the drama is a daycare pickup deadline, a wet bed she tries to hide out of shame, a work transfer that quietly kills a man's career track because a six-year-old needs someone home by six. The scene where Daikichi cuts his own hair short after wrestling with her pigtails tells you more about fatherhood than most 24-episode family dramas manage. Kouki's mom Yukari is written with real generosity, two exhausted single parents comparing notes instead of falling in love on schedule. Watch the crayon-drawing endings and the storybook watercolor palette, then be grateful this adaptation stops at eleven episodes and never touches what the manga did later.

Thirty-year-old bachelor Daikichi Kawachi returns to the family home for his grandfather's funeral and learns a startling secret: the old man had an illegitimate daughter, a quiet little girl named Rin, with a younger lover. When his embarrassed relatives refuse to have anything to do with her, an angry Daikichi announces that he will raise her himself, despite having no experience caring for a child. What follows is a slice of life story about his first steps into fatherhood, the struggles and joys of parenting, and the warmth and mutual reliance that hold a close family together. Whether the new arrangement leaves any room for his love life is another open question.