Friday 2 March 2012
Ani-Com, Older brother complex - Yuu Yabuuchi
Alternative title : Ani-Com, Older brother complex
Caterogories : Shoujo, romance, comedy, school life
Info : 2 volumes
Status : complete
I love Yuu Yabuuchi work I thought this was a nice way of telling a story of Maachi and her older brother, it was sweet and it was a quick story relaying everyone feelings consecutively.
Maachi is a 15 year-old girl who loves her brother Riichi. Actually, the two of them are not related by blood, but due to their parents work situation they are forced to live alone together. Riichi, whose looks, personality, and grades are top-class, is the idol around school. But he has a huge secret that only Maachi knows about. Riichi is actually an otaku!
So the first volume, goes through how Maachi goes through the process of telling us how she lives alone with her brother Riichi who is 17 years old and how there parents are overboard. the chapter starts of nicely with how she wakes up to eat breakfast and how she talks about it with her girlfriends at school and her friends realize that Maachi really does like her brother and are envious they go on to say how he is popular and a very eye-catching person, which makes Maachi jealous.
Later she gets introduced to a classmates sister who is in the same year as Riichi, which makes Maachi jealous in her little ways. She later discovers which classmate's sister it is and she finds out how his personality is opposite of Riichi's and scrutinizes him. we later go in a little journey of how Maachi comes to terms with jealousy with this girl her brother is with and how she could avoid anything that could go wrong! this is where later on she finally kisses her brother while he is asleep and finds herself embarrassed but Riichi is unaware of this so takes it as nothing.
We later find out slowly that the girl Nishizono Mei is actually an otaku who seeks for a companion and finds out that Riichi is one. They met suddenly at a bookstore exposing themselves to each other by accident and of fear keeps a secret and they blurt it out the next day.
So later on the series we see how the friendship develops between Riichi, Maachi and Mei and how we come to terms that Mei's parents do not like otakus or anything like that, however Mei still has doubts about the relationship between Riichi and Mei which causes a certain problem between them but is easily subsided when they dress up for cosplay where Mei is enthusiastic to create something from a popular manga and make Maachi dress as well.
afterward at the end of volume one we see Mei has managed to run away because her parents were refusing things she couldn't do, so she stays with Maachi and Riichi, at night Mei finally confesses that she is Gay she likes girls and that it frightened her at first but she is ok now and Maachi finally realizes this and asks to be sure if she said was true, Mei says yes and tells her that she knows Maachi likes her brother which makes Maachi nervous but Mei tells her its ok for none blood related siblings to marry which makes Maachi less nervous of confessing.
The final part we manage to capture Mei's brother Jun takes Maachi outside to confess to go out, he doesnt get a straight answer as Maachi is confused, at the end the Author of the show Mei and Riichi loves comes to stay at the house next door but isn't revealed till volume 2!
Overall :
The first volume was very cute, i loved the artwork and I loved the story it just showed a different point of view from a Otaku sense and I loved how the author tells us that their are people who are different and how there are different types of otakus and creepy people and how you could distinguish them without stereotyping them when you find out that you still like anime or manga for instance.
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