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** There is a huge gap between Kaguya and her three older brothers (enough so that the youngest of the three appears old enough to be her father). [[spoiler:[[HeroicBastard It helps that she doesn't have the same mother as them]].]]

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** There is a huge gap between Kaguya and her three older brothers (enough so that the brothers. We're never given any of their ages, but Unyo (the youngest of the three appears old enough to be her father).three) was already a full grown adult when she was a child. [[spoiler:[[HeroicBastard It helps that she doesn't have the same mother as them]].]]
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* ''Anime/SummerWars'': Wabisuke is the illegitimate son of Sakae's late husband who she later adopted, and there's implied to be a rather large gap regarding him and his three half-siblings, with him appearing to be somewhere between their children and eldest grandchildren in terms of age.

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* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' has Maki Ano and her younger brother Kazuki. The Anos were unable to have children, so they adopted Maki, but Maki's mother finally succeeded in getting pregnant not long before the start of the series. Maki is about 12 when her younger brother is born.

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* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' has ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''
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Maki Ano and her younger brother Kazuki. The Anos were unable to have children, so they adopted Maki, but Maki's mother finally succeeded in getting pregnant not long before the start of the series. Maki is about 12 when her younger brother is born.born.
** Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka, who is 12 like the other main chracters, has two brothers in the anime and one in the manga, who are working adults and thus at least 22 years old.



** Also from ''Stone Ocean'', Ermes' older sister Gloria is ten years older than her, which is why she was PromotedToParent after their mother's passing.



** Also from ''Stone Ocean'', Ermes' older sister Gloria is ten years older than her, which is why she was PromotedToParent after their mother's passing.
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** Also from Stone Ocean, Ermes' older sister Gloria is ten years older than her.

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** Also from Stone Ocean, ''Stone Ocean'', Ermes' older sister Gloria is ten years older than her.her, which is why she was PromotedToParent after their mother's passing.
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* The Miyauchi sisters in ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'' are rather far apart in age. Kazuho is 24, Hikage 16, and Renge is 6.

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* The Miyauchi sisters in ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'' are rather far apart in age. Kazuho is 24, Hikage 16, is 15-16, and Renge is 6.
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** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Near the end of the series, the Hanasakis learn they're going to have another baby, and so in the finale, 14 year old Tsubomi is a sister to 1 month old Futaba.
** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Nao is the oldest of seven siblings. At 14, she is at least a full decade older than the three youngest, Yuuta (around four), Kouta (toddler-aged), and Yui (born in Episode 42).

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** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Near the end of the series, the Hanasakis learn they're going to have another baby, and so in [[Recap/HPCEp49ImTheStrongestPrettyCure the finale, finale]], 14 year old Tsubomi is a sister to 1 month old Futaba.
** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Nao is the oldest of seven siblings. At 14, she is at least a full decade older than the three youngest, Yuuta (around four), Kouta (toddler-aged), and Yui (born in [[Recap/SmilePrecureEp42 Episode 42).42]]).



** ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'': Sora mentions having a baby brother, whom she is at least twelve years older than.

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** ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'': Sora mentions having a baby brother, whom she is at least twelve years older than. However, this is later {{Subverted|Trope}} as it turns out she was exaggerating the age difference, and that "baby" Red is actually six years old.
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* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Tommy, who's 9, has a college aged brother Yutaka.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'': Doraemon and gang meets their new friends, Gusuke and Milk, both of them in their teens, and their younger brother, a ''newborn'' infant (who's less than a week old in the story's conclusion).

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Sora Inoue is 15 years older than his sister Orihime, which led him to get a PromotionToParent when he ran away from their AbusiveParents with her. At the time of his death, he was 27 and Orihime was 12. He provides the page quote when describing his relationship to Orihime in the manga, and also describes Orihime as being more like a daughter to him than a sister in the anime.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
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Sora Inoue is 15 years older than his sister Orihime, which led him to get a PromotionToParent when he ran away from their AbusiveParents with her. At the time of his death, he was 27 and Orihime was 12. He provides the page quote when describing his relationship to Orihime in the manga, and also describes Orihime as being more like a daughter to him than a sister in the anime.anime.
** Late in the series, it is revealed that Shunsui Kyoraku had a much older brother, who married and had a young daughter, [[spoiler:Shunsui's lieutenant Nanao Ise]], when Shunsui was an adolescent, implying an age gap that's equivalent to 10-15 human years.



* In ''Manga/SakiAchigaHen'', Ako has a much older sister, who's as old as Harue (who was Ako's teacher for the mahjong club).


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* In ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', Kana Ikeda is a second-year in high school, and thus 16-17, while her triplet younger sisters appear no older than five or six years old.
* In ''Manga/SakiAchigaHen'', Ako has a much older sister, who's as old as Harue (who was Ako's teacher for the mahjong club).

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** Nijika, one of Hitori's friends and bandmates, is a second-year high school student (16-17 years old), while her older sister Seika, who manages the live house, is 29 (turning 30 during the course of the story). It's subsequently revealed they're 12 years apart, or [[EasternZodiac a complete zodiac cycle]].
** Hitori, who is 15 as a first-year in high school, has a little sister Futari who is 10 years younger than she is.

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** Nijika, Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh, who is 15 as a first-year in high school, has a little sister Futari who is 10 years younger than she is. In fact, Futari is too young to attend one of Kessoku Band's live concerts, or to be left home alone without a sitter.
** Nijika Ijichi,
one of Hitori's friends and bandmates, is a second-year high school student (16-17 years old), while her older sister Seika, who manages the live house, is 29 (turning 30 during the course of the story). It's subsequently revealed they're 12 years apart, or [[EasternZodiac a complete zodiac cycle]].
** Hitori, who is 15 as a first-year in high school, has a little sister Futari who is 10 years younger than she is.
cycle]]. Seika notes that the large age gap was one reason why their sibling relationship was initially strained.


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* At the start of ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Tanjiro Kamado, the protagonist, is a teenager, and the youngest of his siblings, Rokuta, is a toddler.
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* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'', when toddler Chibi-Chibi hypnotises the Tsukinos into believing she's their youngest child, she has this dynamic with the teenager Usagi. This is even more pronounced than it was between Usagi and "cousin" Chibiusa.
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** Nijika, one of Hitori's friends and bandmates, is a second-year high school(16-17 years old), while her older sister Seika, who manages the live house, is 29 (turning 30 during the course of the story). It's subsequently revealed they're 12 years apart, or [[EasternZodiac a complete zodiac cycle]].

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** Nijika, one of Hitori's friends and bandmates, is a second-year high school(16-17 school student (16-17 years old), while her older sister Seika, who manages the live house, is 29 (turning 30 during the course of the story). It's subsequently revealed they're 12 years apart, or [[EasternZodiac a complete zodiac cycle]].
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** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'': Like Nao, Elena is the oldest of six siblings, and at 14, she's a full decade older than her toddler-aged sister, Anna.
** ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'': Sora mentions having a baby brother, whom she is at least twelve years older than.
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* Justified in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' as the [[ImmortalProcreationClause inverted age to fertility propotion]] can cause almost exaggerated examples. Using main heroine Rias as one example, she subverts the normal supernatural ReallySevenHundredYearsOld trope by actually being 17-18 at the start of the series but her older brother Sirzechs fought in the Devil Civil War when he was 60 and thus is around 560+ years old at series start.

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* Justified in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' as the [[ImmortalProcreationClause inverted age to fertility propotion]] can cause almost exaggerated examples. Using main heroine Rias as one example, she subverts the normal supernatural ReallySevenHundredYearsOld trope by actually being 17-18 at the start of the series but her older brother Sirzechs fought in the Devil Civil War when he was 60 and thus is around 560+ years old at series start.

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