BROTHER, DEAR BROTHER
(ONIISAMA E...)

Review by J.L.Roberts
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I can't stand this show.  Period.  End of sentence.  Don't ask
me why.  Okay, well, you could ask me why, but it'd take too
long to go into.  The shorthand is that it's boring, way too 
melodramatic and....I'm just not into Shojo, and this is
EXTREME SHOJO.

This is the story of Nanako, a girl who's just getting into a
private high school.  Before she enters the school, though, she 
asks her cram school teacher to be her "brother."  She's never 
had a real brother, and she wants him to be her brother so she 
can write letters to him to sort of get out her feelings on
paper.  He agrees.  So off she goes to high school, where she 
winds up in this waaaaay twisted sorority (yes, they have them
at the private high school level...don't ask me, I think the
college ones are bad enough).  Things just get out of hand 
after that.

Like I said, I personally can't stand all the angst.  I had a bad
enough time with my OWN experiences in regular, American, public
high school.  Nanako has it about three times worse (at least it
seems that way....maybe that's my own suffering at watching it). 
This IS an anime that isn't terribly violent, although it has its
moments.  There's no nudity.  There's not much plot (in my, uh,
rather biased opinion)!!  Just angst and melodrama, although 
there are occasional moments of comedy.  Thank goodness.

ANGST - 15/16