How Have You Been, My Brother?

Season one's thirteenth chapter brings Yuki's estranged brother Ayame into the household. His flashy personality and unwelcome attention rattle Yuki, yet beneath the spectacle sits an earnest desire to repair a relationship that faded years ago. Tohru, caught in the middle, glimpses a side of Yuki she never knew.

Walking home, Tohru finds a snake that slips up her dress, which turns out to be Ayame, transformed after growing cold on the way over. Once back at Shigure's, an annoyed Yuki hands the snake off and demands he be punished for troubling Tohru. Ayame takes a shine to Tohru and treats her to lunch, admitting the brothers have drifted apart for years, partly because of Yuki's isolated childhood, and expressing his hope to close that gap. His efforts make little headway, though he stays into the next day, sharing tales of his time at an all-boys school with Shigure and Hatori and his stint as class president. Hatori eventually arrives to collect him, acting on Hatsuharu's suggestion, and only after Ayame departs does Yuki acknowledge that his brother genuinely wanted to mend things.

The title borrows one of Ayame's lines, and the episode marks his first anime appearance. Adapted from the twenty-first and twenty-second chapters, it reworks several details: Ayame and Tohru dine at a Chinese restaurant, various small exchanges and reactions were trimmed or added, and Tohru's later reflection on her mother's wisdom about admiring another person's qualities was written for the anime. A flashback of a young Yuki being turned away by Ayame draws on material that appears later in the manga.