UFO BABY

Anime Review

UFO Baby a.k.a DAA! DAA! DAA!
Genre Romantic comedy, Science fiction

Story

Miyu Kouzuki is an 8th-grade student whose parents leave for the United States to work for NASA and arrange for her to stay with their long-time family friend, Hōsho Saionji, a monk who lives at an old temple atop a hill. However, the monk himself leaves soon after for India on a year-long voyage, leaving Miyu in having to stay together in the same house with his son, Kanata.

Suddenly, the landing of a UFO which transports an alien baby, Ruu, along with his cat-like "sitterpet", Wannyā, who arrive after they were separated from their own planet, Otto, due to falling into an interplanetary worm hole, a time warp which can transport objects across several regions, planets and timeplanes. They cannot return to their home planet due to it being too difficult to reach, and Wannyā therefore requests Kanata and Miyu that they allow them to stay in their house. They agree. Miyu and Kanata learn from Wannyā that people from Planet Otto look identical to human beings, and that he himself can transform into human beings, animals and objects.

Miyu and Kanata feel a very deep love for Baby Ruu, who also cares for them deeply and likens them to his parents due to their similar looks, and often go to great lengths to help and protect him and Wannyā. As the story progresses, the group are often involved in comedic and funny situations but grow to greatly love each other. The story ends with a rescue team from outer space coming to Earth and returning Ruu and Wannyā to Otto safely and Miyu going to a boarding school alone. Though years later Miyu and Kanata reunite, get married and have a daughter named Miu. They also reunite with Wannya and Ruu.

Main Characters:

Miyu Kōzuki (光月未夢, Kōzuki Miyu)^?, (Seiyū - Kaori Nazuka)

• Birthday: March 15
• Blood Type: O

The main female character in the story is Miyu, a blonde and good-natured girl, whose parents leave for the United States to work for NASA at the beginning of the series, arranging for her to stay with their long-time family friend, Hosho Saionji, a monk who lives at an old temple on a hill but the monk leaves soon after for India for a year, leaving Miyu and his son, Kanata liveing together by themselves.

Miyu often fought with Kanata at the beginning of the series, but finds out from her mother that she was childhood friends with him at a very young age, and starts to like him more and more and develop feeling for Kanata as the story progresses(which Christine gets all hyper). At first, Miyu always denies her feelings for him, but soon, she began to realize that she indeed liked him.

In the manga, it's shown that Miyu and Kanata has kissed once. In Volume 9 (Chapter 45), Miyu is shown that she wanted to tell Kanata her real feeling toward him but failed.

She also had a slight crush for Mizuki Yamamura, Mikan's younger brother because in one of the episodes when she and Kanata help Mikan in her manga there was a character which Miyu admired, she says that that is her ideal kind of guy, when she went to Mikan's apartment she met him, Mizuki Yamamura and had liked him because he is exactly like the guy from Mikan's manga. But in the manga, Hanakomachi Kurita (Momoka's older brother) has shown a crush toward Miyu and made her feels uneasy about it.

She feels a deep affection for Ruu, who likens her to his mother due to their similar looks. Miyu is shows as an ordinary girl with a kind and generous like a real mother, she is a full of smiles and cheerful girl but also have a soft heart that's easy to be touched.

In episode "Nozomu-kun Goes to the Dream World", it shown that Miyu's most important dream is to be together with her family, including Kanata's family (Mr Hoshou & Mrs Hitomi), Ruu's family and Wanya. It seems like she is very caring towards Christine, which she showed when it was the episode "The Hike of Fear", where she said to Wannya not to hurt her.

It revealed in Chappter 41 that Miyu was born after Kanata and they had become friend since then. Miyu's name was originally from 'Mi' - Miki and 'Yu' - from Yume which meant 'dream'.

At the end of the anime story, she goes to a boarding school all by herself. After school she and Kanata meets again and gets married and had a daughter, Miu. They also get reunited with Wanya and Ruu too!

But in the manga ending, she didn't transfer school and got to stay there until she got married to Kanata and had a daughter, Miu. Even thought they're already married, Miyu and Kanata was always fighting while Miu found herself to meet with Ruu!

Kanata Saionji (西遠寺彷徨, Saionji Kanata)^?, (Seiyū - Yuko Sanpei)

• Birthday: December 25
• Blood Type: AB
• Height: 167 cm
• Weight: 54 kg

The main male character in the story is Kanata, who is among the most popular boys in his school, especially the girls, due to his good looks. Shortly after Miyu arrives at his home, Kanata's father declares that he wishes to leave on a year long trip to India for enlightenment, thus binding him and Miyu to living together in the same house. His best friend is Santa Kurosu.

Miyu starts attending Kanata's school and they have difficulty keeping their secret about living together, and address each other as cousins. He finds out from Miyu's mother that they were both childhood friends and starts to like her more and more and also starts to develop feelings for Miyu as the story progresses (but still teases her to mask it). His mother, Hitomi, was the good friend of Miyu's mother (Miki Kazouki), and passed away while he was about 3 years old.

Kanata never wanted to admit his true feelings for others, especially Miyu. He cares for his loved ones very much, such as his family, friends, Wanya, Ruu and Miyu. Kanata does have feelings for Miyu as he said in episode "The Weird Object That Seiya Left Behind".

Kanata's favorite food is pumpkin, and likes all its variants, from squash to the chips varieties. In episode "The Blackout Holloween", it is revealed that Kanata had like pumpkin ever since he was a baby when his mother fed it to him for the first time. Ruu also calls Kanata "papa" because he looks very similar to his real father.

Kanata is shown as an easy-going person and doesn't like to talk very much unlike Miyu. Even if he seems a quiet and a bit cold attitude, Kanata is actaully a very loving and caring person to everyone he loved. Even thought there are many romantic between him and Miyu, he often makes a joke out of it to cover his real emotion and feelings or by sticking out his tongue to her.

Since he was little, Kanata loved his mother very much, even thought he only had known her for a short time. In the manga (Chapter 41), as Miyu and the others went back in time, Kanata went to the time where his mother was still alive. Miyu, who was wearing a yukata (given by Kanata), had the chance to meet Kanata's mother and they both where wearing the same yukata.

In the anime, Miyu goes to boarding school and he is separated from her but reunites with and marries her years later. Afterwards, they have a daughter, Miu. They also reunite with Ruu and Wannya.

In the manga, he confessed to Miyu after sending Ruu and Wannya back to their home and kissed her. Years later, he got married to Miyu and still live at the temple, he also had a daughter name Miu who meets with Ruu when she is 12 years old (this story is continued in Shin Daa Daa Daa

Ruu (ルゥ, Rū)^?, (Seiyū - Mika Kanai)

Ruu is an alien baby from the Planet Otto, who can levitate and perform telekinesis on objects, and who develops a deep love for Miyu and Kanata, likening them to his parents and often assisting and helping them. He uses his abilities at very inappropriate times, causing Miyu and Kanata great trouble.

Although he is only a baby, he can understand everyone perfectly. Ruu loved Miyu and Kanata as much as he does for his own parents, and doesn't like it when Miyu and Kanata fight, like in the episode "With Ruu-kun at The Department Store".

In that episode, Ruu manage to make peace between his two beloved 'earth' parents. Ruu is also shown as an ordinary baby that cries and laughs like normal babies do.

In order to keep the others from knowing the truth about Ruu's identity, he is referred to as Miyu's little brother although Ruu will deny that and insist on calling Miyu "mama". So he believes Miyu and Kanata are his real parents but does not learn the truth until the end of the series.

Wannyā (ワンニャー, Wannyā)^?, (Seiyū - Chiemi Chiba)

Wannyā, also known as Baumiao (which is a play on "Bowmeow"), is a cat-like alien "sitterpet" from Planet Otto who is entrusted to take care of Ruu and can transform into all sorts of human beings, often a blond-haired man who was once the subject of Mikan's affection and a dark red-haired woman, and all forms of animals and objects. He develops a passionate liking for mitarashi dango and often writes about the events of the progressing day in his computerized "sitterpet" diary. Wannyā often does all the cooking and cleaning in the house.

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