Ore no Imouto

This Anime isn’t anything new or original and it is not anything great, but it is a nice show with a tiny bit of drama but made up no mostly comedy and some cuteness thrown in for good measure. Its about a little sister who secret of being an Anime/Manga/Visual Novel otaku is leaked to her brother, and from then on its all Kyousuke the older brother helping her out with ‘Life Couselling’ as she has to deal with the secret being known to there parent, old friends and how she comes to know some new friends with the same interest.

There are a lot of parts of this show that we see quite often, the brother sister bond, now this show doesn;t do what a lot of shows do, there isn’t any romance, its about them becomeing closer as family. Another thing is the otakuness about keeping her secret and is nothing we haven’t seen in Nogizaka Haruka, there are even those fan clubs with the uniform we see often.

The art for this show is really nice, it doesn’t stand out as anything flashy but its use of soft tones really make it a relaxing show. The characters are well drawn and although it does use the cliche of having odd hair colors it doesn’t go overboard with it and it doesn’t stand out too much. Animation is genrally smooth an there arn’t any huge pointers that spoil it.

The sound is ok, the opening song is fun to listen to but i guess is a little generic, the ending though has a different song after each episode wich i quite nice as it add a little extra after you finished watching just to see what will play, each though is mostly a fun bubbly song sung by the seiyu of Kirino. The voice actors all do a good job, no one sounded forced and was always natural sounding but other than that it didn’t stand out.

Characters are great, Kyousuke is a great character, he’s stoic but not all the time as his patience with Kirino is tested and can probably be compared to Kyon, though not as cool, and although reluctant he always gives a helping hand to Kirino. Kirino can be rather tsundere, she gets all embaressed when trying to thank her brother or gets all giggle when playing eroge, she can be rather cute at certain poits which i guess is one of the Animes selling points. The friends Kuroneko and Saori offer a different perspective, Kuroneko dresses in gothic lolita style clothing and seems to reference the world as a demonic fantasy type place, but she is willing to offer help as seen in various episodes. Saori is the super geek type, dressed rather guy like with thick glasses but throughout the show we are teased with the fact she has a different life style of an Ojou. Kirino and Kyousukes parents are very strict on her otaku habits and dislike it a lot but come to accept it, there father is extremly tsundere which is very amusing. All other side characters are all different and funny especially Manami’s grandfather.

The shows main theme is family. A brother and sister starting off as rather distant siblings but through various activities they become closer as siblings should. It offers a decent amounto of comedy and slice of lide all the while being cute. definitely a show that should be watched.