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Title (English) Dear Brother
Title (Japanese) Oniisama e
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Fantasy Novel

Notes This is a review of the Lilicious scanlation. The original (Japanese) edition can sometimes be obtained, and there was, I think, also an Italian edition. See also the Ikeda feature at: anime .in4mation for some more cover pics and images.
Manga author/artist IKEDA Ryouko
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Publisher Lilicious
Edn. Language Eng
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Synopsis Nice middle-class schoolgirl Nanako reaches senior high school age and is sent by her professor stepfather to the posh Seiran academy where she is dazzled by two exciting senior girls, not to mention also the rich, beautiful and imperious Miya-sama, who enrols Nanako in the elitist Sorority, to the fury of many other girls who have been passed over. Nanako is fascinated by the troubled, pill-popping Rei, half-sister to Miya-sama.

As if this wasn't enough, Nanako experiences strains in the friendship with her kindergarten friend Tomoko, and is befriended by the lovely Shinobu Mariko who seems to like Nanako a little too much. Altogether, the school is a hotbed of ill-repressed emotions.

Review This manga is the original for the Dear Brother/Oniisama e anime, and comparisons between the two are inevitable. Actually, the anime seems to follow the events in the manga quite closely, although the anime has expanded the story - after all there are 39 anime episodes and the manga, at three volumes, is relatively short.

The anime art (which is much admired) however does not look much like the manga art.

The story is quite a dramatic one, full of drama, tears, bullying, romance, and overtones of lesbianism. As romantic attachments between girls abound, one may imagine that the school is full of lesbians, but this would be to mistake the actual feelings of teenage girls in an all-female environment. In fact, there seems to be only one girl who turns out to be a real lesbian, and she isn't the....

Recommended, even if you haven't seen the anime. (GC)

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