For the past two evenings, I had been binge watching Gakuen Babysitters (also known as School Babysitters). It is a wonderful story of brotherhood between a high school boy and a toddler.
Upon watching the first five episodes, I had been moved by the usual issues in life happening in a family with a baby and/or toddler. This is the reason why I instantly fell in love with this series.
This series is not really the typical anime genre that I usually watch. Often times, I prefer watching anime series with lots of good looking boys on it. Hey! I would never be ashamed to say that. Why would I be? Haha!
While watching and feeling in love with the filial relationship between Ryu (the older brother) and Kotaru, I decided to use my markers and sketch notebook.
I seriously love how the anime came up with the chibis (small but cute) characters. I know my work does not look closer to the original characters, I was just fond of them that I ended doodling them on my notebook.
Each of the toddlers and the baby has different personalities which made me fall in love with them so bad. I even felt sad knowing that it only has one season.
Tanaka is a naughty toddler whose brother is a good friend of Ryu. He usually argues a lot with his brother because he feels that he is unwanted by his sibling. On the other hand, Kotaru, the lead baby is really adorable. He loves to his brother reading him different stories.
Oh! By the way, there are also twins in this series. They are named Kazuma and Takuma. They are very close to each other although their personalities are somewhat different. Midori, on the other hand, is a very positive toddler. I do not know what magic she has that she ables to make me smile whenever she's seen on screen. Lastly, the baby is named Kirin. She does not talk that much but is loved by all of the toddlers.
Now speaking of babies and toddlers , I have thought how will it be to have one.
Well, I have thought about this idea few months ago and honestly speaking I would be very thrilled to have even though I am not that financially prepared.
The main reason why I had thought of this is because I had been seeing friends of mine who already have their babies and kids. I know that people over social media, particularly facebook, highlights only the positive thing in their daily lives, but still I find it amazing to have a little one from my own kind.
I would really appreciate it if God would give me twins. I may not be able to reproduce since I do not have anyone to work that on with. Perhaps, it would directly come from the skies and would fall down safely on my arms. Or someone would leave a basket with a healthy baby girl inside it! Crazy ideas right? But who knows it might happen.
At the moment it would arrive, I know that means I would be spending sleepless nights taking good care of that baby. It would also be a great though to share this burden to someone I adore and feels the same sentiments towards me.
My baby and I would then travel to places while I share our travels here. We would also be wearing matching adorable outfits and make sure that the photos would not only be on my social media, but have prints of it as well.
I will teach my baby how to draw, paint, write, read her stories, and do other things together happily. Sounds like a children's story right?
I could not do anything else but to daydream because my dreams of creating a family at younger age has been shattered. Oh well, that's life!
I think I have overworked myself from thinking of the possibilities. This then led me to recall what Jireh told me, that I should stop overthinking sometimes.
Anyway,I would just enjoy the company of Sunny. I regard her as one of my own though. Although having a dog is incomparable to having a baby, I just love the idea of taking care of this little one. She does not cry like a baby but she is quite noisy whenever she gets elated with food.
Come here Sunny and give me a hug!
or Johanna Gail is a free-spirited freelance artist. She took up Bachelor of Arts in International Studies in one of the Ateneo universities in the Philippines. She is currently a candidate for Masters in Public Administrations. She volunteers in various non-profit/nongovernmental organization which aims for human rights through political education. She draws and writes about the country to provide awareness and promote the Philippines to foreign tourists.