Note: Rental Oniichan is a web manga released on the author's Twitter and pixiv accounts (https://comic.pixiv.net/works/4597) and published in print by Square Enix - MAL.
Before a tragic accident took her parent's lives, Kanami got along well with her older brother. However, following the incident, her brother became mean, distant, and often abusive. Suffering in loneliness, little Kanami cries at a park, where a young man offers to be her rental brother. With loads of money lying at home from her parents' inheritance money, she agrees to have the young man be her rental brother and to pay him for the rental period.
Presented with an opportunity to relieve her broken heart, Kanami begins to relive the happy moments she had with her biological brother through her rental, all while desperately searching for ways to mend her relationship with the only family member she has left.
Rental Onii-chan has finished publishing and it has 20 Chapters. It is also Known as: レンタルおにいちゃん, Rental Onii-chan
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Family
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1. Rental Onii-chan
Note: Rental Oniichan is a web manga released on the author's Twitter and pixiv accounts (https://comic.pixiv.net/works/4597) and published in print by Square Enix - MAL.
Before a tragic accident took her parent's lives, Kanami got along well with her older brother. However, following the incident, her brother became mean, distant, and often abusive. Suffering in loneliness, little Kanami cries at a park, where a young man offers to be her rental brother. With loads of money lying at home from her parents' inheritance money, she agrees to have the young man be her rental brother and to pay him for the rental period.
Presented with an opportunity to relieve her broken heart, Kanami begins to relive the happy moments she had with her biological brother through her rental, all while desperately searching for ways to mend her relationship with the only family member she has left.
Rental Onii-chan has finished publishing and it has 20 Chapters. It is also Known as: レンタルおにいちゃん, Rental Onii-chan
