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Spoiler review:
I feel that the ending was rushed and a bit too tidy. It's definitely one of those stories where the moral is 'if you're nice and never give up, you can change people!!!!' which is a nice idea but isn't really true in reality. Abusers are not going to have a sudden change of heart and want to be a good person again, so the change of heart from real oniichan didn't ring true to me. I didn't like that he was magically nice again and so Kanami could forgive him and just go back to living with him and have a happily ever after, especially since the abuse went as far as hitting a child. I would have preferred something like, Makoto takes in Kanami and they live together, but real oniichan is allowed to visit and begin to build his relationship with Kanami again. That way it wouldn't have felt too tidy to me, but you could see that he's serious about repairing the relationship