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I have been translating mini comics to practice my Japanese and I came across
this sentence:

> 仲間でも家族でもないそれは魅力的に映った、とても。

What exactly do they mean? I know the meaning of the words and kanji but I
can't translate it because I don't understand. I think it may mean, "neither
friends (comrades) nor family, that seemed very attractive," quite literally.
Can someone give me a proper translation and/or explanation of how exactly
this sentence works?
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Meaning of 「～でも～でもない」?
If you don't know Japanese relative clauses yet, please [learn them
first](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14550/5010). If you already know
relative clauses, 仲間でも家族でもない is just another relative clause that modifies それ
(="it"). ～でも～でもない is simply "to be neither ～ nor ～".

If it's really the very first sentence of the story, no one can understand
what それ refers to at this point. Probably それ will be explained later in the
story.

> 仲間でも家族でもないそれは魅力的に映った、とても。  
>  It, being neither "buddy" nor "family", appeared attractive, really.
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