There were several moments in that episode that left me almost stunned. Watching Kirino play that eroge was really… Something. I mean, no nudity, no foul language, but that was about as dirty as any anime episode I’ve seen in a long time. What a performance she put on! I […] Read more

Wow, were the long knives ever out for this episode. A large portion of the audience seemed to turn on Oreimo after this one, but as usual I’m going to be a contrarian and say it was pretty damn good. Taking a page from “Bakuman” a good chunk of the […] Read more

I feel like my brain is about to explode. If not from the meta-referential ouroboros anime-in-an-anime avalanche, from the preposterous kawaii of Kuroneko. I want to loathe myself for going ga-ga over her and this series, but I can’t – both of them just have too much smarts and charm. […] Read more

I have to confess that this episode absolutely drove me crazy. That’s good in one way, because it takes a pretty good series to make me care enough to get pissed off. But it does raise a couple of red flags going forward. Basically, I still don’t like Kirino very […] Read more

The 3 episode prologue – and a humdinger it was – out of the way, Ore no Imouto is free to commence the “proper” story with episode 4. The parents are nowhere to be found this week, so it appears that subplot is either finished or tucked away for safekeeping. […] Read more

The intensity was ramped way up in the third episode of Ore no Imouto. We had an interesting structure here – no OP, with the entire episode building up to Kyousuke blurting out the title, then a jump to the ED. Almost as if the entire first three episodes were […] Read more

Words can hardly express how great that episode was – but this being a blog, I guess I have to try. For starters, I can now officially say this series is not at all what I expected. Rather than focusing on incest and titillation a la “Kiss x Sis”, it […] Read more