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Good as a first manga in Japanese but predictable story and characters.
Short manga series This is a short manga series about a little girl who rents a big brother to play the part her real, hikikomori, brother doesn't play. Rental services don't come as a surprise for people into Japanese culture, but it gets sad at times, and for western culture kind of distopic, too.
Language learning ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This wasn't my first manga in Japanese but I can see how a beginner could benefit from reading this. It has furigana, not super complicated words or sentences and no weird use of kana. I would say you can read this comfortably at a N4-ish level without having to look up many words per page.
Entertainment ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a manga series that first appeared on Pixiv and then was published. The drawing and art style are reaaally good but the story... well, it's quite predictable and characters are very cliche. The big brother (the real one, not the rental) has to be one of the poorest written characters out there. When the parents die he suddenly becomes aggresive and abbusive towards her little sister, who, until then, he loved to death? Doesn't sound right. Then, by the end of the series he becomes a loving brother again??? Nah... that's not how an abuser's mind work. The ending part felt really rushed, and felt like the author just made up some plot fillers that didn't fir that well with the story (Parents being abusive and the brother protecting the little sister). This tends to happen with auto published , short stories, so I believe this is normal, just like it could happen with an auto published book on Am*z*n Some parts were so absurd and cliche that I ended up having fun reading this and commenting it with some friends who are missing out because they can't read Japanese.
Will I reread it? Nope.