Now.. don't get me wrong, when I first watched this back in 2014 in high school, I cringed SO HARD in the first episode, and I immediately dropped it. I just COULD NOT watch this!! The amount of second-hand embarrassment oozing out from this was HIGH!
But, over the years after my initial viewing of Brothers Conflict, I had a new found APPRECIATION for anything reverse harem, and so I tried watching Brothers Conflict again (which I will now lovingly call it BroCon, the nickname for this series), and completely LOVED IT!
I just loved how IMMEDIATELY from the beginning, ALL the brothers (well minus a couple from the get-go at least), fell in love with her xD!! Now, don't get me wrong, kinda creepy and questionable, but hey!! A delusional fan of the genre, like me, was THRIVING for this kinda energy. I was tired of seeing how you had a cute MC and the boys around her were kinda mean/cautious of her (which is very realistic and suuper reasonable). But with BroCon, no, all that is THROWN OUT THE WINDOW!! It was just immediate "everybody loved her" haha!
Now, if you're someone who doesn't really like reverse harems, or something super fluffy and light-hearted with little-to-zero "plot," then I highly recommend you don't watch this series. Because, this series is pure fluff and sugar. So save yourself, and just don't watch it haha. But as a huge fan of the series, I absolutely love it. I loved all the quirky and unrealistic fun and exciting energy this series has.
And actually, even in the otome community, many people don't really like Ema because she's seemingly "bland," "has no personality," and etc. But I genuinely LOVE Ema. She was just a girl, who up until recently, lived alone with her father who wasn't even home most of the time, so she had a very lonely upbringing but didn't want to pester her dad so she always hid how lonely she felt and always told her dad she's fine..! And then all of a sudden she gains 13 new siblings haha. But throughout her childhood, she was a very responsible and mature girl who was very understanding of her father for always leaving her home because of his job. She's always longed for family, however she was never selfish enough to tell her father "no, please stay with me, don't leave." And so back to this series, all of a sudden, she's thrown into this huge family with 13 brothers. Now all (most) of her new brothers just fall for her, but from her perspective, she finally gained a new family, and she's never had that before and so she doesn't really know what to do, but she's always wanted a family so she does her best to keep this family bond and not break it.
And so throughout the anime series, she's trying to maintain that family bond, and so she seems "wishy-washy" as some people are (understandably) annoyed by, but I just think she's a very thoughtful girl who was going through a very unorthodox situation, with no one to consult to, and was just trying her best to maintain her new family. Anyways, this is all for me to say that I love Ema as a main character. She's a very caring and selfless person, and she always tries her best for others. I have massive respect for her (and LOVE HER!). This anime series has a wholesome undertone message about family love, but then it's also still an otome game so of course there's romance. So for some people, it can be a "weird" mix of family love and romantic love, which can make some people understandably uncomfortable, but I still just absolutely love this series. To me, it held a wholesome message about families, how family will always be with and support you. But then along with that message, it provided high QUALITY otome content in the romance department lol.
BroCon is just a very fun and HYPER UNREALISTIC series, and I just absolutely adore it. However, definitely not for everyone lol.
Is it the best anime/series out there? Definitely not. But for me, it's the best series and I just LOVE the fun and bubbly energy it gives! Whenever I'm sad, or when I just want to watch something that gives me happy feelings, I go to BroCon xD! This is a VERY light-hearted series with pure SUGAR as its driving force, everything about this was perfect TO ME and I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Also small PS, despite this having THIRTEEN brothers and only 12 episodes, the brothers' personality are surprisingly very well portrayed. You can really feel just how unique and dynamic all 13 of them were. Obviously, some (*cough cough* Tsubaki for example) were emphasized more than others (*cough cough* Iori), but still, it was enough for me to get to know them all (and LOVE ALL OF THEM HAHA)! I'm just a mega big BroCon fan and super biased. I just loved all the DOKI DOKI energy it gave!
