Hoo boy – only two weeks into the new season, and we already get an Ayase episode? I suppose there’s a rose-colored glasses effect, but I think I’ve tended to remember the things I loved about the first season of Oreimo more than the things I hated about it. Unfortunately […] Read more
I could lead this post with the same headline I used for Hunter X Hunter, but I wouldn’t mean in quite such a complimentary way. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since the first season of Oreimo graced our screens – though partly that feeling is because […] Read more
Anime Contents Expo is happening this weekend, and all sorts of stuff is filtering out – including the entirely unsurprising news that Oreimo has been given a second season. This was inevitable given the popularity of the franchise, and while the first season was deeply flawed I enjoyed it a […] Read more
So we come to the end of Oreimo for real this time, a series that’s had more endings than Return of the King. Until we get a sequel, anyway. The animated commentaries for this series have been among the most interesting of any anime I can remember. They’re playful, smart, […] Read more
And so, impossibly, the animated commentaries for Oreimo are actually getting even weirder and more surreal. STILL eeevil I wasn’t even sure there would be another set of commentaries for these DVD-only eps, but there you are. Way back in Volume 4 I speculated “Does this mean a “MasChera” commentary […] Read more
I’ll just say up front, any DVD extra where Manami says “Kuroneko-san, I guess the real dirty whore here is you instead of me!” is OK in my book. Not to mention we found out that Yuuichi Nakamura doesn’t want a guy to lick him. Oreimo always manages to mine […] Read more
Lucky bastard Let me get the unpleasantness out of the way: I didn’t especially like this “True End” for Oreimo. I didn’t hate it, and I don’t leave the series (for now) with bad feelings or anything – but I did find the ending fundamentally unsatisfying. There was a fundamental […] Read more
To give full credit, these commentaries may be some of the funniest and most thoughtful DVD extras anywhere. While these things sometimes have the feel of a throwaway, in this instance they have substance and depth. It’s clear that a lot of thought went into the writing and production, and […] Read more
Kuroneko’s campaign for “Best Female Character” of the last year picks up steam with the third “True End” episode of Oreimo this week. I have absolutely no idea how Kyousuke has the will power (and/or density) to resist her – I swear, every time she does that face-down pose on […] Read more
An interesting – and very different – pair of animated commentaries for the Oreimo stable this time. Our first is a bit of meta-realism – three fictional characters from the anime-within-an-anime “Stardust Witch Meruru” as “themselves” doing a commentary track. We get Comet – the good guy here, more Yuuno […] Read more