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9	Ema Hinata's father has decided to remarry a woman named Miwa Asahina. When she goes to move into the Sunrise Apartments, she meets her new brothers: All 13 of them!
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11	''Brothers Conflict'' began as a series of novels, divided into two cours: the first one is set when Ema is in high school, while the second has Ema going to university. It has been adapted into two otome games by Creator/{{Otomate}}: ''Brothers Conflict: Passion Pink'' and ''Brothers Conflict: Brilliant Blue'', each one featuring a set of seven brothers (''Brilliant Blue'' features six brothers and a SecretCharacter) An anime by Creator/BrainsBase started airing as part of the Summer 2013 Season.
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13	!!Provides examples of:
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15	* AcademicAthlete: Subaru attends the Meiji University and is in the basketball team; because he dedicated his whole life to absolutely nothing but sports, he has no clue about how to deal with Ema, having no experiences with women at all.
16	* AlternateRealityEpisode: The otome game is basically this: What would have happened if Ema had fallen in love with one of the Asahina brothers?
17	* ArrangedMarriage: Masaomi goes through this in the books. However, he politely declines the arrangement because he promised Ema that he would be by her side.
18	* ArtEvolution: Compare the early artwork to the official art that's been released throughout the years and you can see Udajo's work has improved immensely.
19	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Masaomi's ending has him and Ema having a kid.]]
20	* BalancedHarem: The brothers have roughly equal amounts of screentime and no one has a significant lead over the others regarding Ema.
21	* {{Bookends}}: Sorta. Yusuke was the first of the brothers to [[LoveAtFirstSight meet Ema]] in their first year of high school before the story began and he's the last one to see her off before she moves in with [[spoiler:Subaru]] in the finale. Lampshaded by Yusuke himself.
22	* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Ema's step-siblings are all pretty boys.
23	* CastingGag: Subaru's seiyuu also voices another [[Manga/KurokosBasketball basketball player, but one with a penchant for horoscopes nanodayo]].
24	** In the dub, Subaru is a basketball player and has had a falling out with a relative that caused him to be who he is now with him being a potential love interest to a brunette, similar to Creator/DavidMatranga’s StarMakingRole [[VisualNovel/{{Clannad}} Tomoya Okazaki]]
25	* CharacterDevelopment: Because of Ema's influence, all of the Asahina brothers have changed or matured dramatically. Although, how much development each one gets depends on whose route is chosen.
26	* DisappearedDad: What happened to the Asahina brothers' birth father? Do they even have the same one?
27	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The anime ending is sung by the boys' and Juli's seiyuus.
28	* DreamWithinADream: Tsubaki has the "Dream within a dream within a dream" variation after [[spoiler:Azusa is hospitalized]]: in the first dream, [[spoiler:he receives a call from his manager saying that Azusa has already been replaced, with Yusuke and Futo saying that he should be happy for getting the role he always wanted]]; in the second dream, [[spoiler:Masaomi tells him that Azusa has passed away]]; and in the third dream, [[spoiler:Ema tells him that she cannot go out with him]]. He "wakes up" each time with a [[CatapultNightmare jump]] as well.
29	* DumpThemAll: [[spoiler:All Ema ever wanted was to have a family, and towards the end of the first season she finally made it clear. How effective that act was, however, is another question altogether.]]
30	* FlirtyStepsiblings: As a result of her father marrying, Ema gets thirteen stepbrothers; nearly all of them develop romantic feelings for her. Although the third youngest one, Yuusuke, was her classmate and already had a crush on her before their parents married, so he might be excused.
31	* FreudianTrio: The triplets: Natsume is the Superego, Azusa is the Ego, and Tsubaki is the Id.
32	* HappilyMarried:
33	** Rintarou Hinata and Miwa Asahina.
34	** [[spoiler:Ema's birth parents: Kenji and Yukie Nagami.]]
35	** [[spoiler:Masaomi and Ema in Masaomi's ending.]]
36	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Ema has one upon learning that she's adopted.]]
37	* HollywoodGenetics: The Asahina brothers barely resemble each other at all, even the triplets. [[spoiler:Though in Louis' case it's justified as he is adopted]].
38	* HouseHusband: Ukyo acts as the mother figure to the family.
39	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ema is this with one of the taller, muscular brothers in a different route: Kaname, Subaru, Natsume, and Ukyo.
40	* IdolSinger: Fuuto is this, and he's also quite popular.
41	* IncestSubtext: Of the {{Twincest}} variety. Reminiscent of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'''s Hikaru and Kaoru. Tsubaki and Azusa practice extremely intimate lines with each other for their voice acting jobs without a care in the world. When Ema hears them she gets quite flustered. They don't even really bother correcting her. Also very gentle with each other outside the studio.
42	* {{Jerkass}}: Ukyo's ex-girlfriend, Reiko Amamiya, only dated him to get closer to his mother and didn't care about him at all.
43	* LookalikeLovers: {{Inverted}}. In Ukyo's route, Ema (new love interest) looks like his ex-girlfriend, Reiko.
44	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: [[spoiler: In Kaname's route, it's heavily implied that he and Ema had sex in his car at night.]]
45	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Ema now has ''thirteen'' stepbrothers.
46	* TheNicknamer: Juli and Rui call Ema "Chii".
47	* NotBloodSiblings: The whole point. [[spoiler:Doubly so once Ema finds out that she's adopted.]]
48	* NunTooHoly: Kaname is not a very good Buddhist monk.
49	* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Ema is this in Iori's route.]]
50	* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Ema is the main protagonist, the "Brothers" in ''Brothers Conflict'' refers to her 13 stepbrothers.
51	* {{Seiyuu}}: Two of the three triplets, Azusa and Tsubaki, in-universe.
52	* SexyDiscretionShot: In a few of the routes, Ema will have this with one of her step-brothers in the game.
53	** ''Twice'' with Kaname -- [[spoiler:The first time is after they reconcile after it looked like Kaname was cheating on her. And the second is after her graduation. The latter is even more explicit since it fades out and into the very next day, with both of them having a disheveled appearance and in bed.]]
54	** With Hikaru -- [[spoiler:He rents a suite for them because he didn't want her going home to his brothers, mainly Kaname, and starts to make innuendo-like comments, the last one being that while she looked great in her dress, he's going to take it off later.]]
55	** With Tsubaki -- [[spoiler:In his recording studio, he and Ema begin to make-out and he reveals the room is sound-proof so they won't get interrupted when they talk or "do other things". He then asks if she will be his. And the screen fades to black.]]
56	** With Fuuto -- [[spoiler:He decides that they should have "room date" and his last words are how he's going to "screw her" and screen fades to black.]]
57	* SiblingRivalry: Yusuke vs Fuuto and Tsubaki vs Azusa. To be honest, except for the otome game, where the player can choose one of the brother's route, the Asahina brothers are all "love" rivals for Ema. And even in the games all of the brothers have feelings for her, they just don't act on them as much. Only present in the novels, there's Iori vs Fuuto since not only are they competing for Ema's attention, they're also competing in the entertainment industry ever since Iori became a model at Fuuto's agency.
58	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
59	** In whoever's route she's in, Ema always falls for the Asahina male because of their positive qualities.
60	** Gender-flipped. The main reason why the Asahina brothers fall for Ema is because of the positive impact she has had on them.
61	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Ema talks with Juli, her pet squirrel, all the time. Later, we find out that [[spoiler:Louis is also able to understand what Juli says]].
62	* TheirFirstTime: Ema has her "first" with a few of the brothers in their routes. They are [[spoiler:Tsubaki, Kaname, Masaomi, Fuuto, and Hikaru.]]
63	* TitleDrop: Brothers Conflict is the name of Hikaru's chart detailing the chances each of the 13 brothers have with Ema.
64	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In episode 10 of the anime, [[spoiler: Fuuto is about to rape a sleeping Ema, because in his words, "You [Ema] belong to me." Thankfully, he doesn't go through with it, because he realizes that he truly loves her.]]
65	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hikaru, his crossdressing is so good, it made Ema think he was really female.

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