Her parents have passed away… Her kind big brother has changed completely… A girl, alone and hurt, in search of the kindness of who her brother used to be, she rents a “big brother”…for money. “Even if it’s a rental, I want family (warmth).”
Little Kanami has lost the warmth of family at home, following first the death of her parents, and second her once-kind big brother becoming distant and abusive. She lacks the warmth of friendship at school, where classmates either bully or ignore her. When things seem to be at their worst, Kanami meets Makoto, a young man whose kindness is exactly what’s missing from her life. Makoto, seeing a reflection of his own childhood in Kanami, offers a proposition: any time she’s feeling down, she can rent time with him as a big brother.
レンタルおにいちゃん was originally released as a free comic on Pixiv. Later, it was redrawn and released commercially. The commercial release includes furigana (missing from the original release) and new chapters. Chapters from the original release and select chapters from the commercial are available through Pixiv.
Links for reading online.
Note that some of the commercial links may become unavailable at a later date. They are available at the discretion of the author and Pixiv.
If the commercial chapter link takes you to Pivix’s main page for the series, just scroll down to the appropriate link. For example, chapter 7 part 3 is listed as 「第7話-③」.
Yeyyy, thanks @ChristopherFritz for setting it up!! I´ll take advantage of this interim time to continue with more Bunpro (where I´m most lagging) and Wanikani to gain a bit more knowledge for volume 2!
I’m not sure how good I am at judging difficulty but to me the difficulty in later volumes seems pretty consistent with the first one. There are some parts that seem a little more challenging similar to the school scene people seemed to struggle with in the first volume, and there is a bit of Kansai dialect starting in volume two but aside from that I felt like it was a pretty similar level, maybe a little harder in the later volumes.
The difficulty doesn’t really ramp up too much, except for the introduction of a Kansai-dialect character who appears in a few chapters. He’s the sole reason I’ve split chapter 9 into three weeks, rather than two. (Ah, I somehow messed up the reading schedule chapter numbers. I’ll fix that.)
Aside from that, some chapters do have more complex situations taking place, but nothing too much more difficult that the harder parts of volume 1.
If you survive volume 2, it’s coasting all the way from there.
I originally planned to represent the current volume being read. However, there will be a separate thread for volume 2 specifically, which will use the volume 2 cover. Having the same cover page image on both the home thread and the volume thread can be confusing on where to post.
I’d considered using a different series artwork from the mangaka, but the home thread for other multi-volume series threads tend to show the volume one cover. (example, example, example).
Edit: Since the series is only four volumes, I’ve updated the image to incorporate all four. I think that should work for a home thread =D
I sped read the first volume (my very first book!) but I went so fast I’m not sure if it counted as reading or just looking at the pictures This time I’m actually going to make sure I understand the majority of what I’m reading and hopefully participate in the discussions.
Would anyone recommend I reread the first vol. in the meantime? I understood the storyline, but again, mostly due to the photos.
Volume 2 contains almost 500 different words and expressions. Counting different inflections (conjugations), it’s a whole lot more. Many of these words are returning from volume 1, but there are also a lot of new words in volume 2.
Looking at volume 2 on its own (without considering volume 1 vocabulary), here’s how many words/expressions will appear for the first time each week:
This time I’m actually going to make sure I understand the majority of what I’m reading and hopefully participate in the discussions.