Oreimo Explained
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| Ja Kanji: | 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない |
| Ja Romaji: | Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai |
| Genre: | Comedy[1] |
| Type: | manga |
| Author: | Tsukasa Fushimi |
| Illustrator: | Sakura Ikeda |
| Publisher: | ASCII Media Works |
| Demographic: | Seinen |
| Magazine: | Dengeki G's Magazine |
| First: | January 30, 2009 |
| Last: | April 4, 2011 |
| Volumes: | 4 |
| Type: | tv series |
| Director: | Hiroyuki Kanbe |
| Music: | Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio: | AIC Build |
| Network: | Tokyo MX, TV Saitama, tvk, CTC, TV Aichi, TVQ, TVh, MBS, AT-X, BS11 |
| First: | October 3, 2010 |
| Last: | December 19, 2010 |
| Episodes: | 12 |
| Episode List: | List of Oreimo episodes |
| Type: | ona |
| Director: | Hiroyuki Kanbe |
| Music: | Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio: | AIC Build |
| First: | February 22, 2011 |
| Last: | May 31, 2011 |
| Runtime: | 24 minutes each |
| Episodes: | 4 |
| Episode List: | List of Oreimo episodes |
| Type: | manga |
| Ore no Kōhai ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai |
| Author: | Tsukasa Fushimi |
| Illustrator: | Sakura Ikeda |
| Publisher: | ASCII Media Works |
| Demographic: | Seinen |
| Magazine: | Dengeki G's Magazine
Dengeki G's Comic |
| First: | May 30, 2011 |
| Last: | May 30, 2015 |
| Volumes: | 6 |
| Type: | tv series |
| Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. |
| Director: | Hiroyuki Kanbe |
| Music: | Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio: | A-1 Pictures |
| First: | April 7, 2013 |
| Last: | June 30, 2013 |
| Episodes: | 13 |
| Episode List: | List of Oreimo episodes#Oreimo 2 (2013) |
| Type: | ona |
| Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. |
| Director: | Hiroyuki Kanbe |
| Music: | Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio: | A-1 Pictures |
| Released: | August 18, 2013 |
| Episodes: | 3 |
| Episode List: | List of Oreimo episodes#Oreimo 2 (2013) |
| Type: | manga |
| Ore no Imōto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Kuroneko If |
| Author: | Airi Mori |
| Publisher: | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic: | Shōnen |
| Magazine: | Monthly Shōnen Ace |
| First: | July 26, 2021 |
| Last: | January 26, 2024 |
| Volumes: | 4 |
short for [2] is a Japanese light novel series written by Tsukasa Fushimi, with illustrations provided by Hiro Kanzaki. The story depicts high school student Kyosuke Kosaka who discovers that his standoffish younger sister Kirino is actually an otaku with an extensive collection of moe anime and younger sister-themed eroge she has been collecting in secret. Kyosuke quickly becomes Kirino's confidant for her secret hobby.
ASCII Media Works has published 17 volumes in the series under its Dengeki Bunko imprint from August 2008 to September 2021. A manga adaptation drawn by Sakura Ikeda was serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine between 2009 and 2011. AIC produced a 12-episode anime adaptation in 2010, with four additional episodes streamed online in 2011. A-1 Pictures produced a 13-episode second anime season in 2013 with 3 more episodes streamed online later that year. Bandai Namco Games developed three visual novel video games from 2011 to 2013 for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 consoles.
Plot
Kyosuke Kosaka, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba,[3] has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years. For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seems as if the relationship between Kyosuke and his sister, now 14, will continue this way forever. One day, however, Kyosuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime which had fallen in his house's entranceway. To Kyosuke's surprise, he finds a hidden eroge inside the case and he soon learns that both the DVD and the game belong to Kirino. That night, Kirino brings Kyosuke to her room and reveals herself to be an otaku with an extensive collection of moe anime and younger-sister-themed eroge she has been collecting in secret. Kyosuke quickly becomes Kirino's confidant for her secret hobby. The series then follows Kyosuke's efforts to help his sister to reconcile her personal life with her secret hobbies, while restoring their broken relationship and coming to terms with their true feelings for each other.
Characters
Main
- Kyosuke is the 17 year-old protagonist of Oreimo. He has a distant relationship with his sister, and feels that this will never change. However, this suddenly changes when he finds one of her eroge and, after confronting her with it, learns that she is an otaku. Through this experience he realizes that he knows very little about his sister, including her being a model as well as an exemplary student. He decides to become more of an older brother to her. Despite Kyosuke being older, his sister is generally the dominant person in their relationship, with Kyosuke only standing up to her in truly serious situations. Kyosuke initially claims to prefer a relatively peaceful and simple life, but grows to enjoy spending time with his sister as well as the drama she causes to the point where he becomes lonely when she is not around. Kyosuke helped Ruri make friends and joins the Game Research Club with her during his third year when Ruri becomes his junior. Kyosuke dates Ruri during summer vacation but she breaks up with him. In the Oreimo: Kuroneko spin-off manga, the two wind up back together ten years later as an alternate ending to the canonical story written in the original light novels.
In the past, Kyosuke had good grades and was the fastest runner in his elementary school. He also had the tendency to shoulder everything himself, thinking that there was nothing that he could not achieve, and often said "Leave it to me". However, after a hiking accident, Kyosuke was convinced by Manami that he should not try so hard at everything, which drastically changed his personality. He turned into someone who only desired to live a normal lifestyle, and his studies and athleticism worsened over time.Notes and References
- Web site: Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Gets Anime. Anime News Network. April 30, 2010. October 2, 2016. July 8, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180708110343/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-30/ore-no-imouto-ga-konnani-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-novels-get-anime. live.
- Web site: http://www.oreimo-anime.com/news/index01.html#n100927. ja:「俺妹」×「禁書」コラボ広告 掲載. Oreimo x Kinsho Collaboration Ad is Published. Aniplex. ja. September 27, 2010. February 12, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111025002602/http://www.oreimo-anime.com/news/index01.html#n100927. October 25, 2011.
- Book: Fushimi . Tsukasa . 2009 . Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai . 3 . Chapter 3 . Tokyo . ASCII Media Works . 9784048677585 . 150 . いちいち感想呟かなくていいからね？ 黙ってればカッペだってことはバレないんだからさー、もうあんた一人で千葉に帰れば？.
