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Dec 19 2010

Categories: episodic review, ore no imouto
Tagged: oreimo

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“This world is full of things that defy all common sense.”

(How sexist would it be if I made a “… especially those lacking a y-chromosome” comment? Very? Highly? Extremely? I know it’s sexist. I just want to know the scale I’m working on at that point.)

So Kirino’s big plan was for Kyousuke to buy some eroge. Eroge named “I’d Never Steal Something Like Onii-chan’s Pantsu!!” and “3D Custom Imouto!!” that are nicknamed “OniPan” and “CusImo.”

Mmm…
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mmmph!!!

There’s no way my little sister can be this unself-aware? Can she be? My gosh, I liked how she raged over Kuroneko’s doujishi that featured her stealing Kyousuke’s pantsu and now wants to pick up a game about that? Or how both games are shortened in the same way OreImo is shortened? Why not just be totally blatantly obvious and nickname both games #OniPan and #CusImo? I mean… wow… just wow. I feel like we’re watching the Truman Show with Kirino as Truman.

Then the second part of her plan was to get him, who stayed in line for her all night, to play said eroges with him. Oh, the eroges just so happen to be about an imouto and her onii-chan splitting up… of course, Kirino, being such an eroge expert, must know about this route… hence why she wanted to play it with Kyousuke. Of course, she didn’t take it well when Kyousuke had a, “Well, what’s so bad about them splitting up? They can at least call, Twitter, and FaceTime”. Geez. That went over well. Needless to say, Kirino is evilly devious enough that I am lobbying for Chris Nolan to cast her as the main villain in the next Batman movie… The Imouto! Sounds like a big upgrade over The Penguin or Mr. Freeze.

“There’s no way anything my little sister owns can be this normal.”

The final part of her plan is to tell Kyousuke that she’s going to America… about four hours before her flight. Good tactic. Like that won’t piss him off. I also like this random American subplot… she’s going to America to train to run track? Seriously? That’s the best the writer could come up with? You’re so totally awesome as track as a middle schooler that for that tiny edge, you have to go to America? I can believe ice dancing or basketball… but track?

(I demand a race-off between Kirino, TWGOK‘s Ayumi, and Nayuki. I wonder who will win. Mmm… I might go for Ayumi. Never underestimate a sidetail. Never.)

(This is as bad as Ai Yori Aoshi devoting four episodes on whether or not Tina Foster wanted to go back to America for swimming. Instead of, you know, finishing up the meat of the plot between Ai and Kaoru… drove me crazy. No wonder ~Enishi~ ended the series. Just terrible judgment on JC Staff’s part. Of course, JC Staff was also responsible for the lukewarm Mahoraba ending about the same time… when Mahoraba already had a great ending in the manga ready to go. I feel cheated we never got to see Kozue-chan’s quintuplets.)

Then, she acts all tsuntsun because she doesn’t want to leave because she doesn’t want to be away from Kyousuke, but she cannot vocalize this. Instead, she enacts Kirino being Kirino protocol alpha and beats the shit out of Kyousuke. He just takes it like the sap he is, but he’s relieved to see that Kirino didn’t leave. These are some of the most emotionally dishonest characters in anime. They are perfect for each other.

I like how Kirino acted so deredere (even though this is like seeing Mr. Burns act nice) and slipped up with one, “tch”. Goodness. She’s more frightening than cute in deredere mode, kinda like right before someone snaps, rips your head off, and eat your brains. I do like her screensaver though. Cute octopus tentacle screensaver is swiftly approved.

Disappointed Kyousuke got totally cockblocked with Ayase by Kirino. I thought because of friendly they were, she and Kyousuke would get more going on thus leading Kirino to go Yuki on them both. Sigh. Now Ayase is even more ridiculously protective of Kirino and highly suspicious and judgmental of Kyousuke… which means… she’s insanely jealous that Kyousuke and Kirino have a forbidden fruit thing going! Would be excellent development to have Ayase go Yuki on the two special K’s.

(What I enjoyed about this scene was how Kyousuke totally dumped Manami to hang out with Ayase. Let’s just say if I were walking around with someone fully stuck in the friend zone and met up with my little sister’s hawt model friend, I would totally dump the friend with a, “I need to talk with this hawt, young model about my little sister. Cya later!”)

“No matter how you look at it, a middle school girl asking her brother to go buy an eroge is totally–”

I laughed. I cried. I grilled an unicorn over a rainbow.

Worst part is all the fujoshi were slapping Akagi, and he didn’t do anything! He should have been, “Ladies… I have a problem… maybe you can help me out.” That line would have worked with at least one of them, especially if he impressed her with his detailed knowledge of these hardcore otome games. And I liked how the fujoshi line was as long as the siscon line. Good job by all. Needless to say, you won’t find this kind of reception at the next opening of a Nick Cage movie.

There’s no way Kyousuke’s little sister can beat him up that badly. Two slap, a knee, plus a headbutt can’t cause a Rei Ayanami-amount of blood loss. Sheesh. Kyousuke must either be a hemophiliac or a clone created by Nerv to stop the impending imouto invasion.

(Everything is better with imoutos. Angry Imouto, ImoutoVille, ImoutoCraft, Imouto Effect, Day of the Tentacle: Special Imouto Edition, Gran Imouto, Imouto Imouto Revolution, Imouto May Cry, SMT Imouto Summoner, etc.)

Can’t wait for Kanako to grow up to be a bitter, has-been, chain-smoking idol who feels like she was completely wronged by the world. Will suit her well. Her soul crushing has only started.

This cracks me up for some reason. I can imagine the parents watching Kirino’s anime and see their jaws drop when it gets to the hawt lesbian loving between Kirino’s self-insertion fantasy lead and her harem of imoutos.

“How big is your head.”

Clever and insulting. I like it. But not as much as… “I’ll be calling him something different soon enough.” A reference to Kuroneko end? I want to know!

(With my luck, she’ll be calling him “Kyousuke-ko” because Kuroneko would have finished her doujinshi about Kirino and her imouto, Kyousuke-ko. OTL.)

Enjoyed Kuroneko’s scene in the end as well. Nekomimi meido is my one true weakness. Also enjoyed how her two imoutos were o_o;; about her. Double imouto! That’s a full imouto! OMG that’s a double imouto all the way! Whoa! OMG! OMG!!!

“She has something crazier than eroge and anime?”

“It’s embarrassing, but I’ll let you see.”

I see!

Saori went “nyor~n” at the end of the phone call? Uh… so… let’s just say any end not involving Ayase, Kuroneko, and know Saori should be considered total fail on Kyousuke’s part. I am hoping for Saori to offer me a smoked cheese sampler platter dressed up as a nekomimi meido while going “nyor~n”… anime has completely destroyed me ability to fantasize. Once upon a time, I dreamed of Kelly Kapowski…

“BAAAAAAAAAKA!!!”

Why do I think of Astrea and Tomoki?

PFP! Kirino x Keima and Tachibana x Kogarashi. (Read my Twitter feed for details.) Let’s make these happen.

I don’t blame AIC for milking this franchise by offering four more BD-only episodes as they need to drive BD sales for cold, hard cash. I do blame them for offering alternate endings as, really, this franchise isn’t over and if BD sales are good, we can expect a second season. Let’s not pretend it’s over. It’s over when Kyousuke and Kirino finally unleash their mutual attraction to each other as half the audience goes “OH GEASS NO!!!” while the other half nods in appreciation. (For those guys nodding, you must be Yosuga no Sora fans.)