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Do you have any fav anime dads?

ok so i am going to go out on a limb here and assume you would like for these dads to be somewhat respectable father figures, as i Have been prone to liking some of the more questionable ones (tho purely for purpose of exploiting a good tragedy!), so i hope the following are perhaps enjoyable to you as well as new. i tried not to go for the standard and popular ones bc lbr, that would render the point of this list moot

seiji (balancing toy, yamakawa aiji) - one of the sweetest father figures i’ve had the pleasure of reading about. i can’t necessarily go into detail about why i love him so much without spoiling the series, but i love him bc it’s rare to find a story about a step-father and his step-daughter that doesn’t devolve into the prevalent pedophilic trend. he’s patient, kind, and feels almost like his step-daughter’s best friend, and it’s so sweet seeing the two of them try to parse what exactly they mean to each other in terms of their mutual trauma, bc his wife (and his step-daughter’s mother) has been dead for ten years. they wonder if their connection to each other is strong enough despite the person who forged it no longer being there, and it’s really wonderful to see that parent-child relationship between them mature

tsutomu mukae (kids on the slope, yuki kodama) - admittedly, tsutomu’s role in this series isn’t super pronounced. he’s not someone who moves the plot forward nor is his own fate important in the grand scheme of things. rather, he’s a constant to return to for the primary characters in the narrative. he’s wise, he’s stable, and most of all, he’s not judgmental. these kids go through such harrowing identity crises over the course of the story, and he’s always there to joke around, to ease the burden a bit on their shoulders, to just jam out in the basement below and let the music take over. he’s a father figure whom they can depend on, and i think it’s also interesting to view the tragedies of the kids through his own lens, bc he’s helpless to stop some of their plummets, but he loves them and cares for them nonetheless

kohei inuzuka (sweetness and lightning, gido amagakure) - one of the cutest single fathers omg! the series follows him and his daughter, tsumugi, shortly after his wife dies, and how he adjusts to being a single parent who can properly take care of her, with the focus being on him learning to cook for her. he’s rly earnest, kind, and hard working, and it’s also sweet to see how he bonds with one of his students, kotori, who’s kind of a loner bc her parents are divorced. her mother is a famous chef, so she helps kohei improve his cooking skills, and in turn he kind of takes her under his wing as a faux-daughter/big sister to tsumugi. the way the series navigates his trauma around losing his wife and the pressure of living up to her memory is rly sweet when it’s intertwined with the loneliness that both tsumugi and kotori experience, and the ending is so heartfelt! i love it

shiro fujimoto (blue exorcist, kazue kato) - personally i’m not going to call this a spoiler bc it literally happens in the first episode/couple of chapters, but shiro’s death is what triggers the major events of the series. as such, it’s really interesting to see the full picture of his character and influence on the series mcs, rin and yukio, gradually unfold in the aftermath of his death. although he’s initially depicted to be a rambunctious priest with a somewhat perverted sense of humor, there’s a depth to his character and motivations that’s really nice to see come to light, esp bc, despite his job as an exorcist of demons, he genuinely loved rin and yukio despite them being satan’s children. there’s a huge burden that his death leaves on their shoulders, but the impact of his love on each of them is everlasting in the long run, and it’s tragic but really wonderful to see how they come to understand just how much he did for them when he was alive, and why

kippei katakura (aishiteruze baby, yoko maki) - i’m including this on a technicality, bc kippei is a teenager lol. the series events are triggered when kippei’s aunt abruptly abandons her five year old daughter, yuzuyu, on his doorstep. despite the fact that he’s a playboy teenager with little to no sense of responsibility, he takes it upon himself to fill the role of “mother” and take care of her, transporting her to and from school, playing with her, cooking for her, etc. the new responsibility and his relationship with yuzuyu slowly shape him into a more mindful and caring person, and the impact of this can be seen not just in his growing good influence on yuzuyu herself, but in his relationships with other people. his character development and blossoming maturity are the focal point of the series, and i just think it’s nice to see how someone can step up to the task and adjust themselves to fatherhood despite such bizarre circumstances

i am also on the fence about mentioning daikichi from usagi drop, given the whole. . . issue with that series, but at least within context of the anime only, he would probably be one of my all time favorites as well. it’s just a shame where the manga took the relationship between him and rin in the end and i truly do wish the worst upon the mangaka :) but feel free to watch the anime at your own risk! it cuts off before the manga takes a weird turn so if you can stifle your curiosity and pretend it’s the only part of the series to exist, it’s stellar lol