Product Description

One Lost Girl + Four Confused Brothers = A Whole Lotta Wackiness! When Sakura, a fourteen-year-old orphaned girl, discovers she has four half-brothers, her world is turned upside down as they're all forced to live under one roof... From international manga-ka Hari Tokeino comes a manga series that shows you can't choose your family--even though sometimes you might want to!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #407753 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-10
• Released on: 2007-07-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781427800718
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

A Must Have For Any Shojo/Manga Fan!!
Me & My Brothers Volume 1 by Hari Tokeino is one of the best manga that I have ever bought. I got this in August and it has quickly become one of my most read manga out of my collection of over 100 manga. I can't wait to get volume 2. I discovered Me & My Brothers in the end of Fruits Basket Volume 16 where there's a preview of the first few pages of Me & My Brothers Volume 1. I read it and it peeked my interest. This is the first manga by Hari Tokeino and she did a great job. I'm really glad I got this. It is such a wonderful story and very well written. It's a very heartwarming and moving storying. I was squealing most of the time while I was reading it. (I'm a dork and I care not.) I cannot find a bad thing to say about this manga and I hope if you read thing that you can say the same thing too. This is worth every penny. As a quick note, at the end of the book is a preview of volume 17 of Fruits Basket.

Ouran Host Club Meets Card Captor Sakura
I'm on the fence about this particular title because of the lack of imagination the author utilized when creating her characters. Given the timing of Ouran Host Club coming out, all of Sakura's half-brothers are practically the club members reincarnated into another storyline. Even Sakura's personality (not to mention facial expressions) seem to be an exact rip from Sakura Kinomoto (CLAMP's Card Captor Sakura series). The only one who received a slight personality change-up is the 'megane' brother, Takashi (the Kyoya Ohtori look-alike), whom I would assume Hari might think to be a little too evil to copy. Otherwise, no matter how many times the author re-introduces her characters (in every, freakin', chapter!) my mind still goes:

Masashi = Tamaki
Takashi = Kyoya
Takeshi = Mori
Tsuyoshi = Hikaru (Kaoru gets dissed and dismissed I'm guessing, no Hunny in here either)

Nevertheless, despite all of it's blatantly obvious character-porting tendencies, the series still has it's own storyline that makes it (mildly) stand out. While it might not ever trump Ouran and CCS by comparison, it's a fun and heart-warming read as you meet Sakura and her brothers after everyone in the family of any parental bloodline to all of them have kicked the bucket. Each brother was adopted by a different member of extended family, so now that Sakura's grandmother is dead, they all find their way back to her to try and become one big happy family like it was when she was an infant.

Overall, I like the series, and I'll continue to read it because it still runs on its own plot line and the characters are fun to watch as they interact with their little "sister." The only thing that sort of kills it for me is that the author decides to rush and reveal all of her main plot twists into the first manga volume, leaving you wondering what's left to read about when volume two comes along.