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The Worst Episodes of Dear Brother

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Misonoo Nanako, a professor's daughter, looks forward to her first day at the prestigious Seiran Academy, a girls' school that caters to the rich, or in her case, those with high test scores. She soon

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    Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 5 - Thorns of Suspicion and Doubt
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    #1 - Thorns of Suspicion and Doubt

    S1:E5

    Nanako sees Kaoru stops Rei from taking some pills. Fukiko invites Rei into the Sorority House to help out with work, but intentionally injures her hand. Rei demands that Fukiko bandage her bloodied hand, but Fukiko refuses. Nanako treats Rei's wound, eliciting Fukiko's quiet anger. Nanako is officially inducted into the Sorority, but has a nightmare that night where Fukiko attacks her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  2. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 6 - Lost and Alone
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    #2 - Lost and Alone

    S1:E6

    The bullying continues: Nanako's gym uniform is stolen and cut to shreds, and Tomoko won't lend Nanako hers. Kaoru lends Nanako her uniform instead. Nanako is attacked by sophomores who did not make it into the sorority last year. Devastated, she attempts to resign from the Sorority, but Fukiko discourages her from listening to her tormenters and promises that Nanako that she will protect her—but this causes Nanako to remember how Fukiko injured Rei. Afterwards, Nanako goes out to think and bumps into Takehiko. He comforts her and somewhat lifts her spirits.

    Director:Fumihiro Yoshimura
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  3. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 7 - The Darkness in the Clock Tower
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    #3 - The Darkness in the Clock Tower

    S1:E7

    Depressed from her classmates' bullying, Nanako goes to the school's clock tower to spend some time alone. There, she sees Rei, smoking and throwing knives at a carving of Fukiko in the wall. Terrified but entranced by Rei, Nanako researches the origins of Rei's nickname and learns more about her from Kaoru. They part on good terms, but Aya and her friends begin attacking Nanako as soon as Kaoru leaves. She is rescued by Tomoko who threatens Aya and rekindles her friendship with Nanako.

    Director:Kazuya Miyazaki
    Writer:Chifude Asakura

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  4. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 8 - I Want You
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    #4 - I Want You

    S1:E8

    Mariko tries to warn Tomoko off Nanako again, but Kaoru comes by and stops her. Fukiko invites Aya to the Sorority House and threatens her to stop bullying Nanako. Mariko invites Nanako to her birthday party - it is in a grand hotel room, but the only guests are Mariko's mother and Nanako. They return to Mariko's house, and Mariko and Nanako take a bath together. Mariko then tries to convince Nanako to stay overnight, but Nanako refuses because she'd promised her mother to be home. Mariko becomes upset and threatens to kill Nanako, causing Mariko's mother to restrain her as Nanako runs home.

    Director:Takuo Suzuki
    Writer:Chifude Asakura

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  5. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 9 - Relapse; Broken Heart
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    #5 - Relapse; Broken Heart

    S1:E9

    Kaoru collapses from chest pains, so Nanako tries to fetch painkillers from Rei. Rei doesn't take the situation seriously, so Nanako slaps her. Rei is impressed by her boldness and gives her the painkillers, but Nanako is shocked by the amount of drugs Rei keeps in her pockets and the apparent severity of Kaoru's illness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  6. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 10 - Mariko...
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    #6 - Mariko...

    S1:E10

    Mariko refuses to eat anything until Nanako forgives her, but Nanako is giving her the silent treatment. Kaoru notices Mariko's hunger strike and confronts her about it, angry that anyone would throw their health away when Kaoru herself is so ill. Rei watches Kaoru, Nanako, and Mariko participate in a volleyball game from a balcony, but sees Fukiko glaring at her from a distance and nearly falls off. Mariko faints and is taken to the hospital, where Nanako finally decides to forgive her.

    Director:Toshiya Shinohara
    Writer:Chifude Asakura

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  7. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 11 - Under the Elm Tree
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    #7 - Under the Elm Tree

    S1:E11

    The Sorority members have a special study session at Fukiko's house. Fukiko invites Rei to join them, telling her to wait under the elm tree at five o'clock, but doesn't arrive. Nanako returns to school that night for her notebook, and finds Rei waiting under the tree, soaked from the rain and delirious with fever. Nanako tries to take Rei home, but she resists, unwilling to break her promise to Fukiko. Rei attempts to walk through heavy traffic and jump off a bridge in order to get back to the tree, but Nanako manages to stop her. She finally brings Rei home, but discovers that Rei lives alone in a dark, dreary apartment filled with mirrors. In her delirium, Rei thinks that Nanako is her treasured doll and hugs her.

    Director:Fumihiro Yoshimura
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  8. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 12 - The Scar
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    #8 - The Scar

    S1:E12

    Nanako calls Kaoru to help take care of Rei. Kaoru arrives at Rei's apartment and slaps and yells at her for her masochistic devotion to Fukiko. She reveals that Rei's bracelet was given to her by Fukiko; she rips it off her wrist and tries to throw it out the window into the river, revealing a deep scar on Rei's wrist. Kaoru is forced to stop when Rei starts throwing knives at her, and Rei takes her bracelet back. Terrified, Nanako wonders whether or not Rei's scar was the result of a suicide attempt. Fukiko calls her to ask why she didn't return to the study group, and Nanako makes up a reasonable excuse. Fukiko pretends to believe her but correctly suspects the truth. She orders Nanako the next day at school not to get too close to Rei. Later, Nanako overhears Kaoru confronting Fukiko over what she'd done to Rei. During the argument, she finds out that Rei and Fukiko are sisters.

    Director:Hideki Hiroshima
    Writer:Masami Mori

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  9. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 13 - A Tale of Double Suicide
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    #9 - A Tale of Double Suicide

    S1:E13

    Rei is well enough to go back to school. She confronts Fukiko, but is made docile with a few words. Tormented, she retreats to the clock tower and takes a lot of drugs. Looking for Rei, Nanako enters the clock tower, and finds her delusional and hallucinating. Believing Nanako to be Fukiko, Rei reveals that Fukiko had made a pact of double suicide with Rei when they were younger. She attacks Nanako with her knives, thinking that she is Fukiko and has arrived to fulfill that pact.

    Director:Takuo Suzuki
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  10. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 14 - The Secret Door
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    #10 - The Secret Door

    S1:E14

    Nanako desperately tries to escape from Rei, but fails. Rei attempts to stab Nanako several times before regaining her senses and breaking down in tears when she realizes what she is doing. They return to Rei's apartment and make peace. Later, Nanako tries to throw away Rei's drugs, but she catches her and angrily orders her to leave. Nanako goes to the beach and cries, but Rei finds and forgives her. Rei happily returns to school the next day despite the first day of midterms.

    Director:Shinichi Matsumi
    Writer:Chifude Asakura

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  11. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 15 - Fukiko: The Sea Rumbles
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    #11 - Fukiko: The Sea Rumbles

    S1:E15

    A Sorority member named Junko Nakaya fails one of her exams due to having been seriously ill, so Fukiko orders her to resign. Nanako tries to defend Junko, but Fukiko tells Nanako to watch her place, as Fukiko was the one responsible for her admission into the Sorority. Later, Fukiko invites the Sorority to a party on her yacht. She takes back her earlier statement, saying that Nanako was admitted to the Sorority on her own merit. But then she questions Nanako if she knows any men, and when Nanako mentions her "penpal", Fukiko orders her to stop writing to him - or else. Later, Junko speaks to Nanako and tells her that she has decided to resign anyway, but thanks Nanako for trying to help her.

    Director:Fumihiro Yoshimura
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  12. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 16 - Comeback
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    #12 - Comeback

    S1:E16

    It is Kaoru's first basketball game since her illness, and she is determined to win. Her playing is so great that the entire opposing team is forced to block her. Kaoru is injured during the game and blood spurts from her chest. She begs Rei to take her place in the game, and Rei does so, even though Fukiko had forbidden her from playing basketball ever again. Rei plays to her fullest, and despite losing the game, is more alive and happy then she had been in a while. Nanako realizes that Mariko is in love with Kaoru, and her envies her openness with her emotions.

    Director:Hideki Hiroshima
    Writer:Masami Mori

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  13. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 17 - Post Scriptum
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    #13 - Post Scriptum

    S1:E17

    Nanako realizes that she has fallen in love with Rei, but is too nervous to say anything. One of her letters to her "Brother" end up in Fukiko's possession and she must face her wrath.

    Director:Takuo Suzuki
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  14. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 18 - Into the Dream
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    #14 - Into the Dream

    S1:E18

    After Nanako accidentally misses her bus stop, Rei takes her to the park. The two spend a happy morning together, and in a burst of emotion, Nanako confesses her love.

    Director:Shinichi Matsumi
    Writer:Chifude Asakura

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  15. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 19 - The Transient Game
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    #15 - The Transient Game

    S1:E19

    Rei refuses to react after hearing Nanako's confession and begins to intentionally avoid her, breaking Nanako's heart. Kaoru, sensing Nanako's pain, tells her to give up on Rei, for "her soul is enslaved by a goddess," referring to Fukiko.

    Director:Fumihiro Yoshimura
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  16. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 20 - The Gardening Shears
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    #16 - The Gardening Shears

    S1:E20

    Nanako and Tomoko decide to go to Takehiko's university fair. They invite Mariko, but she is reluctant because she thinks the men will corrupt Nanako. Fukiko overhears her brother and Takehiko talking about the fair, and is furious that Nanako is going. She invites Nanako to her house for a tea ceremony on the morning of the fair and locks her in the storage room in order to prevent her leaving, but Kaoru hears Nanako and frees her.

    Director:Hideki Hiroshima
    Writer:Chifude Asakura

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  17. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 21 - The University Fair
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    #17 - The University Fair

    S1:E21

    Nanako, Tomoko, and Mariko go the University Fair with Takehiko and Takashi, Fukiko's older brother. Mariko does her best to protect Nanako from the men, but ends up comically failing.

    Director:Takuo Suzuki
    Writer:Masami Mori

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  18. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 22 - A Summer's Serenade
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    #18 - A Summer's Serenade

    S1:E22

    Mariko and Nanako are invited by Fukiko to her country house for the weekend to help her prepare for her birthday party. There, Nanako goes for a walk near the lake and sees Fukiko playing her violin sadly. That night, Nanako can't sleep and sneaks out and finds Fukiko insane and tormented in a room, reciting Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 over and over again. Nanako makes a noise, and Fukiko chases her through the house, but Nanako is not caught. The next day, Nanako questions a maid named Minako about the room - it is Fukiko's old bedroom that has been kept the way it was when she was twelve. Fukiko overhears them talking and fires the maid. Later, Nanako sees Fukiko swimming in the lake, and Fukiko pulls her in. Nanako nearly drowns, but Fukiko comes to her senses and saves her, apologizing that she'd only wanted someone to swim with her. At the end, Nanako re-encounters Minako and she tells her not to worry.

    Director:Shinichi Matsumi
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  19. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 23 - The Forbidden Gift
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    #19 - The Forbidden Gift

    S1:E23

    Home from the lake house, Fukiko and Rei visit Ms. Asaka's grave on the anniversary of her death, three years ago. The two are unusually civil; as they part, Fukiko invites Rei to her eighteenth birthday party. The party proceeds uneventfully until Rei, oblivious, plays for Fukiko the violin piece she had earlier played alone in the woods. Incredibly upset at hearing the song, Fukiko cuts the violin strings with a knife, then flees the room, effectively causing a scene. Rei runs after her, confused as to her sister's reaction, believing Fukiko's frequent playing of the song to be out of a fondness for it. Fukiko responds that she hates the piece more than anything else in the world.

    Director:Fumihiro Yoshimura
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  20. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 24 - Encore
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    #20 - Encore

    S1:E24

    Confused by the events of the party, Rei inquires of Takashi as to why the song upset Fukiko. It is revealed that, when Fukiko was twelve and Takashi eighteen, Takashi had brought Takehiko Henmi to visit their lake house. Fukiko had instantly fallen for the young man, and vowedto master a difficult violin piece that she would play solely for him. Due to an emergency, Takehiko was unable to attend. Relaying this story, Takashi realizes hat Fukiko had perhaps fallen in love with Takehiko. Later, Takashi mentions to Fukiko that he spent time with Rei, and that they discussed the events of six years previous. Feeling very emotionally violated, Fukiko leaves the room, to reminisce in private. The love she felt for Takehiko made her happier than anything else. When he failed to appear, her young heart was prematurely crushed, and her faith destroyed. In a fit of passion, she ran out of the room and attempted to drown herself in the lake.

    Director:Hideki Hiroshima
    Writer:Hideo Takayashiki

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  21. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 25 - The Scarlet Lipstick
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    #21 - The Scarlet Lipstick

    S1:E25

    Rei reminisces about the first time she met Fukiko, remembering how, even as a child, her pride had still been admirable. She then overhears two Sorority members telling Nanako to meet Fukiko at the Sorority House suspiciously late at night. Nanako goes, and is shocked and scared to find that Fukiko has put on scarlet lipstick for their private meeting. Fukiko puts make-up on Nanako to make her look like a doll and confesses her love to Nanako. She then asks her to leave Takehiko and be with her, instead. Nanako is frozen with fear by Fukiko's seduction, but Rei bursts in the room and breaks it up before Fukiko goes too far. Enraged that Fukiko could lower herself to such a level, Rei angrily tells Fukiko that she knows Fukiko loves Takehiko, and that she'd admitted Nanako into the Sorority so she could steal her away from him. Fukiko runs out of the room in anger, and Rei tackles Nanako and kisses the ear Fukiko had kissed.

    Director:Yutaka Satoh
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  22. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 26 - The Promise in the Snow
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    #22 - The Promise in the Snow

    S1:E26

    Rei reflects on that double suicide pact that she and Fukiko made shortly after Rei's mother committed suicide, when Rei was soon to be properly adopted by the Ichinomiya family. Fearing any further abandonments by those she loved, Fukiko convinced Rei that they could preserve their happiness in death. Fukiko cut Rei's wrist for her, but was overcome by the horror of what she had done and did not follow on her own, instead panicking and screaming for help as she carried the dying Rei. Both Rei's bracelet and doll were gifts from Fukiko as compensation - presumably due to the perceived singular suicide attempt, Rei was no longer to live with the Ichinomiya family. In the present, Rei confronts Fukiko, saying that she had wished to die not for the sake of their happiness, but instead in response to the pain of losing Takehiko.

    Director:Shinichi Matsumi
    Writer:Masami Mori

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  23. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 27 - An Incident of Bloodshed
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    #23 - An Incident of Bloodshed

    S1:E27

    Mariko's parents are divorcing and she is traumatized, spending the night at Nanako's home to try coping. Things get even worse because it's almost Mariko's birthday: as she, Nanako and Tomoko are celebrating, they find Mariko's father and his girlfriend (after he had said that he wouldn't be able to meet with her), which makes her run away crying. Mariko returns home and has a fight with her mother over how she never says anything about her father's affair, and at night she seriously ponders cutting her own wrists with a boxcutter. At school, Aya cruelly taunts Mariko, reading a newspaper article about Mariko's father's affair aloud to the classroom, in which Nanako angrily tries to stop her. This pushes the still very unstable Mariko over the edge and she attacks Aya with the same boxcutter she almost used on herself. She runs away from school and is about to jump off from a bridge, but Takashi Ichinomiya grabs her before she can do so.

    Director:Fumihiro Yoshimura
    Writer:Katsuhiko Koide

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  24. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 29 - The Assembly
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    #24 - The Assembly

    S1:E29

    At the Student Assembly, Kaoru asks for the abolition of the Sorority. Rei is horrified at first, believing that it would destroy Fukiko's pride, but ultimately decides that she has to learn to live without the Sorority in order to be truly strong. Rei, Kaoru, and Nanako begin collecting signatures for the petition. Two-thirds of the student body need to sign it before they can submit it to the school board.

    Director:Yutaka Satoh
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  25. Dear Brother Season 1 Episode 30 - The Petition
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    #25 - The Petition

    S1:E30

    Two Sorority members, Ogiwara and Komabayashi, persuade Aya's friends, Miyuki and Megumi, to steal and burn the petitions. Rei stops them. Aya intentionally takes the blame to protect the girls, saying that she'd ordered her friends to do so, but not before insulting Nanako once more, making Nanako very angry as she snaps back at Aya. Mariko reminisces their rivalry to Nanako and Tomoko. That night, Aya attempts to drown herself in the ocean, but the three of them save her: Megumi and Miyuki revealed the truth to them and Kaoru, and they've been searching for her. Mariko and Aya rekindle their lost friendship, and Aya signs the petition the next day.

    Director:Takuo Suzuki
    Writers:Hideo Takayashiki, Katsuhiko Koide

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Thorns of Suspicion and Doubt" is the worst rated episode of "Dear Brother". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Hideo Takayashiki, it aired on 8/11/1991. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Lost and Alone".