Oniisama e
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|} Oniisama e (おにいさまへ…; lit. "To [my respected] elder brother") was an anime series loosely based on the Tale of Genji that aired on NHK from July 1991 to April 1992, based on the manga by Riyoko Ikeda.
It came to be known in English as Brother, Dear Brother due to the translation given to it by the fan sub group TechnoGirls.
The series originally started out as a manga in the early-mid 1970s, about a 14 year old girl (Nanako Misonoo (御苑生奈々子 Misonoo Nanako)) who attends a prestigious academy and deals with life as a high school student via writing letters to her "brother" (generally, brothers in this sense are merely older men who agree to read someone else's letters, like a sort of one-sided pen pal). The manga has never been officially released in English, though it has been translated into Italian.
The anime series spans 39 episodes and ends when Nanako is about seventeen years old. The show's themes can be dark, ranging from incest to suicide attempts to life-threatening illnesses. The series was also dubbed and released in Italy and France, though it was pulled after 26 episodes, due to strong adult content.
It was also released in Arabic speaking networks in the early 90s under the title "Akhy El Aziz" (My Dear Brother). It was shown a number of times before being taken off the air; the anime is rarely available to Arab audiences due to its content, as it is uncommon for an animated series with such content to be broadcast in an Arabic-speaking country, although the anime's content did receive some little editing. However unlike the Italian and French dub, all 39 episodes were broadcast.
External links
- [Oniisama E... ~Caro fratello...~] - English/Italian fansite
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