ore no imouto 8
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“Why does everything for so perfectly for her?”
I like Ore no Imouto more when it’s actually funny. This series has its best moments as a comedy not some sort of awkward drama. Thankfully, this episode is one of the awkward drama variety and makes the comedic episodes seem so much better by comparison. It nicely brings out Kirino’s sparkling personality. In fact, I have a song for her…
Isn’t she lovely /
This Hollywood girl /
And they say.. /
She’s so lucky /
She’s a star /
But she cry cry cries in her lonely heart /
Thinking, if there’s nothing missing in my life /
Then why do these tears come at night?
(I think Kirino’s was always designed to be an unlikeable character. My guess is that the intention for her is to be a decisive character. People will either love her or love to hate her. Basically, they created the Bill Laimbeer of high school anime anti-heroines. It’s genius if this was their plot.)
Gosh, this is major fail. This is huge, major fail. It’s 2010! We have a non-white POTUS, we have app phones that can play Angry Birds, and we have the Shake Weight. Why does this show insist on horrible fashion choices?! I haven’t been to one Japanese business meeting where the attire Team Kirino is wearing is acceptable. Sure, you might be able to dress down to khakis and a turtleneck, but shirt unstuffed with jeans and a crap jacket? No dice. Shiori’s never changing look that makes her look like a hikikomori who should be hanging out with the Air King? No dice. Kuroneko’s gothic lolita attire? Only if she’s surviving tea and or carrying a whip.
(I’m not even going to pick on the fact that everyone except Kirino has only one outfit. Gotta love the anime production team for not changing clothes over the course of two days, unless, of course, anime pre-production is such serious business that they don’t change. Gotta love Shiori’s and Kuroneko’s non-changing outfits more… I wonder if Shiori has nothing in her closet than green flannel shirts? Is her dad Al Borland?)
(Andohbytheway, I’m so disappointed AIC didn’t animate the changing of business cards, since, well, it’s damn important for Japanese businessmen. To the point that I got weird stares when I asked if I could exchange via the bump app during one meeting with some Japanese associates. What kind of card would she give them? Would she introduce herself as “Kuroneko”? And would it seem perfectly normal? I want to know these things.)
I’m pretty sure we knew where this episode was going right off the bat. Kirino gets an anime made, evil, vile producers want to augment her work. Kyousuke goes to bat for her, he wins them over, Kirino remains a little spoiled bitch. Guess what? This is such a cliched plot, it makes the typical harem collision seem normal. It’s the hallmark of almost every Western comedy– The Simpsons has done this, 30 Rock, Doogier Howser M.D., Friends, Family Guy, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, etc. etc. etc.
(Needless to say, anime is filled with 15 year old girls writing for it. Then again, maybe a 15 year old girl could avoid typical plot cliches.)
(Gotta love how desperate this studio is that they’re willing to animate a single novel volume. Has there ever been an anime made with only a single volume of source material? This studio must be a make-believe Gonzo. Has to be. Genericizing of source material? Of course, Gonzo.)
“I was basking in her misfortune… I hate Kirino.”
Best part of this episode. No, series.
(And thanks Kyousuke for confirming that you are the doormat that you’ve been.)
I think Kuroneko’s rant underscores my earlier point to… “Hey, we put this rubbish into an anime! Suck on it! I know you viewers are jealous! You’re all banging your heads, ‘A cocktease little sister who is secretly Glenn Beck’? Genius!” This show is either very straightforward and shallow or very deep and meta. I can’t think which pile it’s in. At the very least, who would have thunk that Ore no Imouto would beat out Star Driver for the confusing imagery and metaphor award?
Dear Kirino,
You shouldn’t feel bad that they only ripped up your story. The producer could have easily told you that if you didn’t _____ ___ _____ and then ____ ___ _____, the anime wouldn’t get made. Because that’s how things work in Hollywood. Though at least in America, we have laws against that sort of thing for people under 18. I don’t know if that’s as enforced in Japan. Good luck.
Sincerely,
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(Yes, I’m watching the new Family Guy episode as I write this… the one where the penguin goes to the blonde, “Hey, if you want this in black and white, my black and white needs to be in you.” Ah subtlety.)
(And, yes, can we swap the lead from Koe de Oshigoto with Kirino? I feel like Kirino would be an A-list eroge actress, and the lead from Koe would be an A-list little sister.)
The anime lurking in the background of the cafe looks quite interesting, though AIC should have ran clips of Sora no Otoshimono or something in the back.
(Kirino does not take rejection or bad news well. I can only imagine what will happen if she ever discovers that her boyfriend has been cheating on her. I just hope the words “boat” and “nice” are involved.)
Her name is “Iori Fate Setsuna”? I don’t even have a joke.
Not sure what part of Kirino’s My City isn’t epic self-insertion. Even the heroine on the cover resembles her. A girl who captures little sisters? This could have been one of the greatest eroge premises of all time.
(Or at least an epic FaceBook game. Imagine CityVille crossed with My City… basically, you build a city filled with little sisters who worship you. And you can use cold, hard cash to buy virtual items that’ll help you farm little sisters like candy, cute puppies, and heroin. The once you get them into town, you can dress them up like with a fully licensed line from Juicy Couture, Urban Outfitters, meido cosplay shops, and bondage accessories. Of course, those all cost cold, hard cash. Oh gosh, this is an awesome idea! I’ll make millions with ImoutoVille. I’m going to call a VC immediately. If I knew a VC. OTL.)
As much as I enjoyed the producers ripping apart Kirino’s plot, if I were a producer, I would be ecstatic and giddy. I would probably tell turtleneck dude, “STFU. Look at Gundam Seed Destiny, Mai Otome, and Code Geass. They all have nonsensical plots that make no sense… and look at how much money they made! I’ve been waiting my whole life for a nonsensical plot, and Kirino’s is genius! We’re going to be rich! Let’s expand it to 26 episodes, add tons of hastily-written filler, and get ELISA to sing an Engrish OP for us! Look at it this way. No one, except for that dorky @blogsuki guy on Twitter, is clamoring for more Mushishi and Kino’s Travels.”
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>(And, yes, can we swap the lead from Koe de Oshigoto with Kirino? I feel like Kirino would be an A-list eroge actress, and the lead from Koe would be an A-list little sister.)
Lead from Koe de Oshigoto is a little sister.
Also noticed the cover for her novel, the imouto has chains around her neck and winged hair piece. (reference to Sora no Otoshimono)
If only Kyoto could put their costume design group on rent. Then shows wouldn’t be “forced” into the single costumes for characters syndrome.
Yeah, it was pretty easy to tell where this episode was going. I’m faithful that one of these episodes Saori is going to dress up like a girl and Kyousuke is going to need a blood transfusion.
I’d have ELISA sing an engrish OP for my anime any day.
The google search results are in and those lyrics are…… Britney.. Spears……..
Well now.
Hi Shinbo.
Actually I think turtleneck guy MIGHT be the producer.
In answer to you question about anime being made off of low amounts of source material: Full Moon o Sagashite, which was made into an anime before all the chapters of the first manga volume were out. And it lasted 52 episodes.
Bakuman needs 24 episodes to accomplish what Kirino can do in 2?
This episode was easily the weakest and least funny of the series. It’s a good thing Kuroneko was there with her evil grin and her acidic tongue, or I’d be hard pressed to list the good points.
With the possible exception of this episode, I don’t believe you lay into this show but heap praise on TWGOK every week. Just can’t see it.
Except Kyousuke, Manami and Ayase. Kuroneko and Saori do definitely need more variety though.
This. Please :3
This episode made me like Kirino even less (she’s still as much of a bitch as usual) and like Kuroneko more. If it wasn’t for Kuroneko, Kyosuke’s weak arguments alone could have never changed the minds of those producers.
It’s funny – yet entirely believable – that a crappy book gets lots of sales and even an anime adaptation. Happens all the time in RL too, haha.
No mention of Kuroneko’s delicious face when they were in the train at the end? Meh.
Also, what’s with the unstuffed shirt bashing? He’s a high schooler, for god’s sake. Stuffed shirts are for people 30+ years old. And anyways, every anime DVD extra I’ve seen about ‘Let’s visit the animation studio~’ is just a parade of awkward and shy people with lame but totally functional and comfortable clothes.
But yeah, any original ideas this anime had were totally obliterated in this episode.
I wondered if the character was designed to see if Ayana Taketatsu
would be accepted as a new voice for Haruhi as Aya Hirano seems to have given up anime.
Yo VC, I’m happy for you and all, with your Imouto eroge-loving anime. Imma let you finish, but Kirino has one of the best plots of all time. OF ALL TIME.
“Yo AIC, I’m happy for you and all, with your Imouto eroge-loving anime. Imma let you finish, but Kirino has one of the best plots of all time. OF ALL TIME.”
EDIT: Gah, I ruined my copypasta of a copypasta by messing up the producer’s name. Go me.
Add Kamen no Maid Guy to the ‘need more of’ list. (Yes, I’m still holding onto that last string of fragile hope.)
Yes, I’m ready to see Saori in some different clothes too, probably Kuroneko too even though she still looks cute in that outfit.
I thought this episode was kinda boring and too big a jump from the last episode.
The header picture seems to depict Kirino in a Jedi council catfight.
i like kirino, haters just hating :/
But nonsensical plots that make no sense are way better than, say, a deceitful, low down dirty…. deceiver!!
(Firefly)
Jason: For focusing on the perils of cross-media adaptation this episode is, ironically, almost completely anime-original. The only thing that was retained was Iori, who had a different role in the novel.
The original story didn’t focus on the issue of anime adaptation, but rather plagiarism. The thing is, Dengeki Bunko, the publisher of the OreImo books, was hit by a plagiarism-related scandal relatively recently (something about a writer ripping off BakaTest wholesale), so I won’t be too surprised that the production committee had a say in changing the story for this episode (as it hits rather close to home).
No episode with this much Kuroneko dialogue can be considered bad. She was in fine form, especially in her second visit to the conference room.
This is an anime-original episode? I can’t help but think Kuroneko was a Hideyuki Kurata self-insert, maybe even kvetching about something like BakaTest outselling Read or Die. Or maybe this episode was just an attempt to explain what happened to R.O.D. the TV (where Kurata gets to play both the Kirino and White Turtleneck roles).
dm: Yep, this is anime-original. Only Iori, Kirino’s book, and Kuroneko teaming up with Kyousuke was retained. Everything else is NOT from the novel.
Gah, the angst. A deviation from the wincest I was expecting. But anyway.
Why do I have a feeling that Fate-san’s name (she’s apparently a quarter gaijin) was for the sake of terrible puns like, “I guess we’ll have to leave it to Fate-san”.
@dm The anime adaptation subplot is anime-original, but the rant is not.
*spoilers* In novel 3, what happens is that Kirino’s novel gets stolen by Fate-san (she’s evil in the novels) so Brousuke and Kuroneko end up begging her to admit that it wasn’t her work, when Kuroneko gives the rant, (which is totally justified, as much as I like Kirino). The other difference is that in the novel, Brousuke tells Kirino what they did, while in the anime he hides it, which sets Kirino up for the obligatory spoiled brat routine. *spoilers end*
Kirino is too unbelievable, even for an anime character. 14 years, grade A student, model, hardcore otaku, sports ace in running, author of a novel that’s being made into an anime?
And each episode is the same. Comedy/fun part > story > onii-chan speech > end. Almost like the x-files episodes with Mulder experiencing the unnatural and Scully’s never there to witness it.
Is that first sentence supposed to be English btw? :b
Kirino is just another Karma Houdini Jerk Sue. Like Kuroneko, I was ecstatic when they ripped her apart. I really would have enjoyed it if it stuck.
Are you kidding! I want more Mushishi and Kino’s Travels. Those animes were amazing and actually worth watching. Now I just feel bad about the anime I watch :P.
> (Gotta love how desperate this studio is that they’re willing to animate a single novel volume. Has there ever been an anime made with only a single volume of source material? This studio must be a make-believe Gonzo. Has to be. Genericizing of source material? Of course, Gonzo.)
Yes. “Le Comte de Monte-Cristo” is a single novel. “Gankutsuo” was done by Gonzo.
“STFU. Look at Gundam Seed Destiny, Mai Otome, and Code Geass. They all have nonsensical plots that make no sense…”
Plot be damned! Give me back my bunny girl pilots and OH GEASS NO bromance!
I’d enjoy surviving Kuroneko’s tea. I always enjoy surviving tea. Drink the tea, try to survive. Easy.
(I really don’t like challenges)
Watching ep 9, we get to see Kuroneko and Saori in different clothing… :3