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“Carefree playboy Kippei must suddenly raise abandoned 5-year-old cousin Yuzuyu, learning responsibility and healing her heart.”
Babe, My Love
愛してるぜ ベイベ★★
7.45
2,527 rank · 108,056 viewers · 567 favorites
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Childcare
Shoujo
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Synopsis
Carefree playboy Kippei must suddenly raise abandoned 5-year-old cousin Yuzuyu, learning responsibility and healing her heart.
Katakura Kippei is in every way a high school playboy. Spending his days flirting with any girl he can see, responsibility is the last thing on his mind. Life takes an unexpected turn for him as one day he returns home to find himself with the full-time task of caring for his 5-year-old cousin. Kippei's aunt Miyako had disappeared, appearing to have abandoned his cousin, Yuzuyu. With Kippei's lack of responsibility and knowledge of childcare and Yuzuyu's injured heart with the disappearance of her mother, their time together is in for a bumpy ride.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 61 sampled reviews
8.4
/10
What 61 viewers settled on.
98%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.8 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 1.56
Running avg · Apr 2007 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “ı feel so sorry its just 26 episodes. for me, its the best anime. sooooo cute and touchy, i wish so much there were much more episodes :((((( watched every episode several times and ı still like...”
- 8 “I thought this was a very sweet little story with some realistic teenage boy characteristics from Kippei Katakura and a good plot. A lot of anime series fail to achieve such good and realistic...”
- 10 “This anime moved my heart :3 its a heart warm anime The characters are outstanding , I think all the characters fits the story. It has a sort of a cliche , the story is great . I think the people...”
Verbosity
Short · 54%
Medium · 33%
Long · 13%
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- Format 26 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 50m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2004 – Oct 2004 Spring 2004
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0082 catalog
Produced by
- Animax Producer
- Toei Video Producer