Oniisama e...


Dear Brother

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Onii-sama e, To My Brother...
Japanese: おにいさまへ…
English: Dear Brother
French: Tres Cher frère
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 39
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 14, 1991 to May 31, 1992
Premiered: Summer 1991
Broadcast: Sundays at 18:00 (JST)
Producers: NHK
Licensors: Discotek Media
Source: Manga
Genres: DramaDrama, Girls LoveGirls Love
Themes: PsychologicalPsychological, SchoolSchool
Demographic: ShoujoShoujo
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.851 (scored by 1124111,241 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #9272
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3259
Members: 50,366
Favorites: 1,147

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Synopsis

When 16-year-old Nanako Misonoo enters the prestigious all-girls Seiran Academy, she believes a bright future awaits her. Instead, the unlucky girl finds herself dragged into a web of deceit, misery, and jealousy. On top of that, she is chosen as the newest inductee of the Sorority, an elite group whose members are the envy of the entire school. Having none of the grace, wealth, or talent of the other members, Nanako quickly draws the ire of her jealous classmates—especially the fierce Aya Misaki.

To cope with her increasingly difficult school life, Nanako recalls her days through letters to her former teacher, Takehiko Henmi, whom she affectionately calls "onii-sama" (big brother). She also finds comfort with her four closest friends: her childhood friend Tomoko Arikura, the sociable but erratic Mariko Shinobu, the troubled musician Rei Asaka, and the athletic tomboy Kaoru Orihara.

An impassioned drama about the hardships of bullying, Oniisama e... chronicles a young girl's harsh life at her new school, as she endures cruel rumours, heartless classmates, and countless social trials.

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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Shioura, Masakazu
Producer
Dezaki, Osamu
Director, Storyboard
Yamada, Etsuji
Sound Director
Shinohara, Toshiya
Episode Director


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"Kin no Utsuwa, Gin no Utsuwa" by Satomi Takada
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Ending Theme

"Kimagure na Yousei" by Takako Noda




Reviews

Jun 10, 2008
This early 90's anime addresses several controversial issues (especially considering the original manga was published in the 1970's) including drug abuse, homosexuality, bullying, incest and suicide. The story is set in a prestigious girls' highschool where the student body is obsessed with the school's Sorority and its leading members, dubbed "The Magnificent Three". The main character, Nanako, is a new student who became caught up in the affairs of the three most popular girls on campus and, with the help of her best friends, unlocks the secrets of their past as well as that of her own family. The title refers to the letters that ...
Sep 2, 2022
Mixed Feelings
FunnyFunny
If you happen to have watched a lot of 80's action movies I'm pretty sure you'll remember the intro to one of the most reviled (not by me) flicks of the lot, Last Action Hero, where Arnold Schwarznegger made a spoof of Hamlet with the guy going guns blazing on the enemies of Denmark. This series, albeit having nothing of testosterone-action in it, feels a lot like that intro. Why, you ask? because this feels like a completely out-of-place lyrical opera adapted from the manga of a wanna-be (at the time) opera singer that was so in love with opera that she literally used it ...
Sep 6, 2018
Oniisama e… is an anime that I really wanted to like. Aesthetically, it’s right up my alley.

○ Beautiful flowers!
○ Musically talented and proper young women!
○ Lady Prince archetypes!
○ Creepy dolls?
○ Riyoko Ikeda's fabulous OG shoujo style!
○ Sexually ambiguous and lesbian overtones!

○ While my reasons for wanting to indulge seem terribly vapid, these are things that I have really enjoyed in the past. An example in anime is Maria-sama ga Miteru: a very simplistic, platonic, and elegant TV series about ordinary girls coming to terms with their blossoming sexual preferences and just generally being an adolescent.
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