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Directed by Han Qing and starring Joseph Zeng (曾舜晞) as the older brother Shi Fen and [Sun Qian](https://www.edgepedia.org/sun-qian) (孙千) as the younger sister Shi Miao, it follows two bickering siblings who, after their parents' divorce, live alone together and fight over everyday trifles while standing firmly by each other when real trouble arrives.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [2](https://www.tvmao.com/drama/Yl5nbSVb)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original run | Premiered June 28, 2018 on Tencent Video; 30 episodes of 45 minutes; final episodes aired August 16, 2018[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [3](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/38549/take-my-brother-away) |\n| Source material | Web manhua by the You Ling sisters (幽·灵), originally serialized as short four-panel-style strips[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2378689.html) |\n| Lead cast | Joseph Zeng as Shi Fen; Sun Qian as Shi Miao; supporting roles include Wang Xudong (Zhen Kaixin), Lu Xiaoyu (Miao Miaomiao), Hu Yongtao (Wan Sui), and Ma Boquan (Wan Xing)[5](https://www.cpophome.com/take-my-brother-away-joseph-zeng-sun-qian/) |\n| Production | Tencent Penguin Pictures and China Wit Media (中汇影视); produced by Fang Fang, Huang Xing, and Chen Anjun; filmed in Qingdao[5](https://www.cpophome.com/take-my-brother-away-joseph-zeng-sun-qian/) • [6](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445) |\n| Early performance | Three weeks after launch: 700 million cumulative views, a Douban score of 7.5, over 1.62 million Weibo topic discussions, and over 1 billion topic reads[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |\n| International release | Distributed on Netflix, rated TV-14, listed as a comedy in Chinese language[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/take_my_brother_away) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and characters\n\nThe story centers on Shi Fen and Shi Miao, a brother and sister in the same ordinary middle school after their parents' divorce. Their daily life is a running series of petty battles: the brother swallows the sausage he promised to share, wins rock-paper-scissors for ice cream duty and returns with one scoop missing, and serves six straight days of unidentifiable potato-beef stew. Yet whenever real difficulty appears, each stands unshakably on the other's side. Shi Miao's greatest wish is the title wish, \"take my brother away,\" but when separation actually approaches, the two discover they cannot do without each other.[2](https://www.tvmao.com/drama/Yl5nbSVb) • [8](https://linshuhaos.com/tv/kuaibawogedaizou/)\n\nThe supporting cast fills out the school circle: Zhen Kaixin (Wang Xudong), the wealthy Wan Sui (Hu Yongtao) and his brother Wan Xing (Ma Boquan), Miao Miaomiao (Lu Xiaoyu), Wang Keke (Li Menglu), and You Le (Xu Xiaonuo). Guest and featured roles include Luo Haiqiong, Zhang Benyu, Cao Weiyu, and [Zhang Heng](https://www.edgepedia.org/zhang-heng).[5](https://www.cpophome.com/take-my-brother-away-joseph-zeng-sun-qian/) • [6](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445)\n\n## Adaptation from a strip manhua\n\nThe source comic is a strip-format (条漫) work of short, self-contained gags about a domineering younger sister and a lazy, teasing older brother. Producer Huang Xing of Tencent Penguin Pictures described the central adaptation problem: the existing material could be read in about 40 minutes, so expanding it to 30 episodes required added plot and characters plus a thematic anchor for the whole series.[4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2378689.html)\n\nThat anchor came from a childhood memory in the comic: after the parents' divorce, the young Shi Miao asked whether her brother would also leave her, and he promised he would not, unless that day was [April Fools' Day](https://www.edgepedia.org/april-fools-day). The production built the series around this childhood pinky-promise, treating companionship, growth, and protection as the show's core rather than romance.[4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2378689.html)\n\n**Visual and tonal choices.** The production reproduced the comic's look closely, down to the two leads' signature stray hair strands (呆毛). Because the original strips often end with the sister delivering flying kicks, shoulder throws, and chokeholds to her teasing brother, the crew inserted two-dimensional comic-style interstitials to soften the violence for broadcast, a choice also intended to reduce the \"chuunibyou exaggeration\" often criticized in manhua adaptations.[4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2378689.html) The show also embedded jokes aimed at older viewers, including basketball scenes and lines such as Zhen Kaixin's \"Coach, I want to play basketball\" that pay homage to the classic manga *Slam Dunk*.[4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2378689.html)\n\n## Themes and reception\n\nThe series was created with the [two-child policy](https://www.edgepedia.org/two-child-policy) debate in China as its inspiration, and it deliberately departed from established school-drama formulas built on romance and fighting, making the sibling relationship the main storyline of a story about post-2000s teenagers.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink) In the drama, the siblings grow up largely without their mother's company and with a father who often stays out drinking, and they become each other's most reliable support in a world that seems to have forgotten them.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\nCommercially, the show reached 700 million cumulative views within three weeks of its June 28, 2018 debut, held a Douban score of 7.5 at that point, and generated more than 1.62 million Weibo topic discussions with over 1 billion reads.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink) A Sina Entertainment industry review in January 2019 cited the web drama as a positive example of balancing original comic fans with general audiences, noting that its depiction of Chinese high school life avoided Japanese-style club activities and elite-school tropes, and that its basketball sequence worked as a full homage to a hot-blooded sports manga.[9](https://ent.sina.com.cn/v/m/2019-01-14/doc-ihqhqcis6114362.shtml)\n\n## The wider Take My Brother Away franchise\n\nThe manhua has been adapted across several formats. A China-Japan co-produced animated series, made by the Japanese studios Imagineer and Fanworks and directed by rarecho, began streaming in China on March 28, 2017 and aired on TOKYO MX in Japan from April 7, 2017, in 12 four-minute episodes; a second season followed on [Tencent Video](https://www.edgepedia.org/tencent-video) in July 2018, with later seasons in 2019 and 2020, and the first season won the Best Anime IP award at the 15th Chinese Anime Golden Dragon Awards.[10](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/20597740?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\nA live-action film, released internationally as *Go Brother!*, premiered in mainland China on August 17, 2018, weeks after the drama. Directed by Zheng Fenfen and starring Zhang Zifeng as Shi Miao and Peng Yuchang as Shi Fen, it adds a fantasy premise in which the sister's birthday wish actually transfers her brother to her best friend Miaomiao's family. The film earned 360 million yuan at the box office by September 8, 2018, still ranking in the daily top ten twenty days after release; Maoyan lists its final gross as 375 million yuan.[11](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP201809101191936743_1.PDF) • [12](https://piaofang.maoyan.com/mdb/search?key=%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0) In 2015 the web drama and animation rights had been granted to Tencent Penguin Pictures and the film rights to Wanda Pictures, so the drama, the animation's second season, and the film all reached audiences within the same summer of 2018.[13](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2437789.html) A stage musical adaptation premiered at the Shanghai Grand Theatre's Buick Theater in December 2019.[14](https://wenhui.whb.cn/zhuzhan/xinwen/20191226/310826.html)\n\n## Credits note\n\nSources disagree on the screenwriter credit. Rotten Tomatoes and the Baidu entry's descriptive text credit Ah Miao Sha (阿廖沙), while the Baidu infobox and the CPOP drama database credit Peng Lilan (彭丽楠), and IMDb lists Linan Peng for the screenplay of all 30 episodes.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/take_my_brother_away) • [6](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445) • [15](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8894324/fullcredits/) The YouTube trailer description describes Ah Miao Sha as chief screenwriter (总编剧), which is consistent with Peng Lilan holding a separate screenplay credit.[16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM1cf_wRsuc)\n\n## References\n\n1. [快把我哥带走（2018年韩青执导的青春剧）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n2. [快把我哥带走剧情介绍（1-30全集）大结局, 电视猫](https://www.tvmao.com/drama/Yl5nbSVb)\n3. [Take My Brother Away, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/38549/take-my-brother-away)\n4. [《快把我哥带走》制片人黄星：漫改剧如何\"讨好\"原著粉？, 界面新闻](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2378689.html)\n5. [Take My Brother Away - Chinese Drama 2018, CPOP HOME](https://www.cpophome.com/take-my-brother-away-joseph-zeng-sun-qian/)\n6. [快把我哥带走（2018年韩青执导的青春剧）, Baidu Baike](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/19515445)\n7. [Take My Brother Away, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/take_my_brother_away)\n8. [快把我哥带走剧情简介, 林书豪剧情网](https://linshuhaos.com/tv/kuaibawogedaizou/)\n9. [漫改真人剧反响不错 漫画或成影视改编IP新源头, 新浪娱乐](https://ent.sina.com.cn/v/m/2019-01-14/doc-ihqhqcis6114362.shtml)\n10. [快把我哥带走（中日合作改编的电视动画）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0/20597740?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n11. [2018年9月9日市场报告 (电影《快把我哥带走》票房3.6亿元), 东方财富PDF](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP201809101191936743_1.PDF)\n12. [快把我哥带走, 猫眼专业版](https://piaofang.maoyan.com/mdb/search?key=%E5%BF%AB%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%91%E5%93%A5%E5%B8%A6%E8%B5%B0)\n13. [专访幽灵姐妹：《快把我哥带走》漫改启示录, 界面新闻](https://www.jiemian.com/article/2437789.html)\n14. [音乐剧《快把我哥带走》首演, 文汇报](https://wenhui.whb.cn/zhuzhan/xinwen/20191226/310826.html)\n15. [Take My Brother Away (TV Series 2018) Full cast & crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8894324/fullcredits/)\n16. [快把我哥带走（2018年曾舜晞、孙千主演电视剧）预告 01, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM1cf_wRsuc)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles Sp to Z*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/take-my-brother-away", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/take-my-brother-away.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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