If you’re a guy, or a chick who likes action, you probably won’t enjoy this, but I’ll go to the grave saying this – no one makes doing drugs, smoking, going mad and dying tragically look as sexy as Sainte-Juste does. Oniisama E is soapy and angsty and really, really shoujo. :-) Both manga and anime have a happy ending, but of a strictly hetero sort. Below is a basic synopsis of the series: 'When 16-year-old Nanako Misonoo enters the prestigious all-girls Seiran Academy, she believes a bright future. It’s kind of hard to remember she’s so cool when the clothes are so distracting. Dear Brother (Oniisama e) is a 1991 shoujo anime adapted from a manga written by the same author who wrote Rose of Versailles (which I have not seen yet, but Im planning to eventually watch). The manga is surprisingly short and painfully hip – Sainte-Juste has scary bell-bottom pants and mod vests. And that’s not even counting Mariko’s crush on Kaoru-no-kimi and Nanako’s crush on Sainte-Juste. What Rei had with Miya-sama and, later, with Nanako, was something as close to love as makes no nevermind. There is a great deal of akogare in this series, and very little outright Yuri, but I’m going to have to weigh in on the yes, Yuri camp. Despite the subbers’ belief that there was *no* Yuri in this series at all, no one who has ever seen Rei (Sainte-Juste) as she dressed in her nice white suit, fixed her tie, and bought flowers for Nanako, can really doubt that what she was doing was getting ready for a date. Most people know the anime version of this series as fansubbed by the passionate, if heavy-handed, Technogirls. So much of what we consider to *be* Yuri had early roots with Ikeda, so it’s only fair that she be on any Yuri-related list as often as possible. It was adapted into an anime series that aired on NHK-BS2 channel from J to. Steadily holding the #3 poster child position for Yuri for many years, was this timeless classic anime and manga created by Ikeda Riyoko. Dear Brother (, Oniisama e) is a Japanese manga series by Riyoko Ikeda.
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