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The anime of Aishiteruze Baby consists of 26 episodes.

The story started off with Yuzuyu, whose mother went missing after the death of her husband. In the anime, the cause of the husband's death wasn't mentioned. I'm not so sure whether it was mentioned in the manga or if the anime had been following the manga story faithfully. I didn't do a Wikipedia search, since to me, this is an anime that's good enough to watch. I feel that the manga would be kinda draggy.

Yuzuyu was sent to her mother's sister, in short Yuzuyu's to live with her aunt. And the task of taking care of Yuzuyu was delegated to Kippei - Yuzuyu's cousin.
Kippei's sister is a terrifying woman, she's extremely fierce but she's actually very nice.

Kippei was a irresponsible 17 year old high schooler and was never really serious with girls. He's quite popular with the girls in school.
As he started to take care of Yuzuyu, he learnt to take up responsibilities and become a more reliable person. He learnt to take care of other people around him and take relationships seriously. Though he's still the same brainless guy - he's still quite stupid at times.
Then he took an interest in Kokoro - a classmate. As the story progresses, you could roughly tell that Kokoro's slightly interested in Kippei, even though he was still quite a playboy at the beginning.

Kokoro has a sad family life, very much opposed to Kippei's family life. In one of the episodes, Kokoro was really upset and she skipped school. This was really rare, so Kippei got worried and went to her house. Kokoro said that she actually disliked Kippei because looking at him made her feel she's lonely.
My question to myself was that, if that's the case, why was she together with him in the first place. Though Kippei can be quite stupid, he was very nice to Kokoro even after she said that. I don't hate Kokoro because she went through quite a difficult time with her dad, so her character is more reserved. Once she let it out, it'd be likea flood gate suddenly left open.

After that episode, Kokoro still said that she's used to being alone because she's already grown up. She finally admitted that she's lonely, and that growing up didn't chase away the lonliness. That statement confused me once again because she's already with Kippei. Hmm...
But I guess that's probably because Kippei is only like Kokoro's part time boyfriend? Kippei spent lots of his free time taking care of Yuzuyu and hardly had any time for other things, not that he seemed to mind.
It's already made known that they were together, but they had never gone on a date before.

The ending was really nice. I don't think the manga series had ended yet. I went online to search for its manga and it seemed that it's remain stagnant for quite some time.
BUT I don't think I would want to read the manga.
Yuzuyu's really cute but sometimes I find her... irritating. Kids... I just don't really like them, so I can't stand them when... They can't be reasonable.

Also, even in the last episode of the anime, Yuzuyu's mother didn't go back to bring Yuzuyu back home. Yuzuyu's mother said that she'll bring Yuzuyu back when she's strong enough, when she wouldn't cry every day.

This anime also brings our attention so family violence.

I thought anime is more fun because you have the audio effects. Yuzuyu's voice is cute.