Ane Naru Mono
The Elder Sister-Like One

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Ane Naru Mono is quite a famous ecchi manga. It’s a manga series that’s been adapted from a doujin of the same name.

Ane Naru Mono follows Yuu and Chiyo, as Chiyo figures out how being human works. It consists of their wholesome bonding as siblings and a few ecchi moments due to Chiyo not understanding how people work. This makes up a lot of the story, but there are a few serious moments in the story. The backstory of Chiyo is dark and mysterious. It’s not touched upon too much. There’s also another character with a very serious background, but I won’t go into it ... due to it being spoilers. There are a few plot points and dark moments that feel forgotten about though, which is unfortunate since they seem interesting. Hopefully, they do go into them later in the manga.

The manga is paced well. It’s episodic and the story normally does not carry over between chapters. It’s able to space out the comedic, ecchi, and dark moments all well. The very few small arcs that matter to the plot are also well spaced out. They don’t happen too rapidly and they aren’t just missing from the plot half of the time.

The characters in Ane Naru Mono are fun. Chiyo is a demon who’s been summoned by Yuu to be his older sister. She’s trying her best to be an older sister. You see her fail some common, normal things and get upset about it. It’s really fun and cute to see her try to be the best older sister she can.

On the other hand, the main character, Yuu, is just a main character. His character is how you’d think a stereotypical shota would work. He’s kind, innocent, cute, and that’s it. He does get the extra factor of being ignored and other things like that in school due to being able to speak to ghosts, but it’s not shown in his character too often.

Interactions between Yuu and Chiyo are always great and fun to see unfold. It’s often very wholesome to see them interact.

The art in Ane Naru Mono was great. It was used effectively for every situation. In the wholesome moments, the art uses soft and thin lines. The lighting during these moments is very bright and not much is shaded in. During the ecchi moments, the lines become thicker and the shading becomes darker. It’s like a light grey as opposed to dark shading. And finally, during the serious moments, you move to a very dark grey, sometimes even black. The lines become bold and sometimes even roughly drawn depending on how serious it is.

Overall this is a fun, SoL manga with great art that gets serious when it needs to. The main downfall of it is that the protagonist is nothing special and the story sometimes forgets some of its plot points.

Oh boy, can't believe I'm doing my FBI agent's job for them.
Let's address the elephant in the room. Yes this was based on hentai by the same name, yes the main character is a young teenage boy, yes the older (step)sister is clearly...interested... and yes the author is a female vtuber who drew the Milfsekai.
If any of those bother you, you will most likely not like this manga. While there is no full-blown sex, there are moments where you will be like "I can't believe this isn't a Hentai", and it doesn't help that the sister's Demon form puts girls from Highschool Dxd to ... shame.
But, there is a gem here, and that is a heartfelt brother-sister relationship, and a Lovecraftian horror story (minus the racism of course). I won't break down the story or anything like that, as that is better experienced as a slow burn, but let's just say if you like Lovecraft's pantheon of monsters and gods you will like this. If you enjoy a feel-good story, where a kid finds family, home, and happiness, with twists and turns along the way, you will like this. If you enjoy highly detailed art, with panels that go from jaw-drop sexy/gorgeous to absolutely horrifying, you will like this.
There is something incredible here, and even with its drawbacks, it is 100% worth the read.

Having read both this one and the hentai version. The hentai version went on to say what happened after volume 3.
Chiyo is a Demon requested to be his older sister. In the Safe for work version it seems like she does a good job of it. Until volume 3 but the review tips say to not include spoilers so I won't.

Chiyo the demon requests something in exchange for her coming to be his sister and it took me 2 or 3 times reading it to find out what she took. Good manga Each time i read it. I did want it to go on ... longer.

The way they made the hentai scenes not hentai was basically by going up to it then cutting out the entire part that was hentai so some ecchi scenes don't make much sense. Due to how they did the censorship they could have combined like volumes 4 through 8 of the hentai version to make a volume 4.

They demon hunter girl isn't in the hentai and makes for an interesting girl in this version. Sadly when it starts to have anything involving a plot with her the safe for work version seems to just stop. Without a volume 4 no real story progression really is made with her character.