Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Kirino Kousaka embodies the ideal student with equally entrancing looks. Her grades are near perfect, and to cover her personal expenses, she works as a professional model alongside her best friend Ayase Aragaki, who abhors liars and all things otaku. But what Ayase doesn't know is that Kirino harbors a deep, entrenched secret that will soon be brought to light.

At home one day, Kyousuke, Kirino's perfectly average brother, stumbles upon an erotic game that belongs to none other than his seemingly flawless little sister. With her reputation at stake, Kirino places a gag order on her sibling while simultaneously introducing him to the world of eroge and anime. Through Kirino, Kyousuke encounters the gothic lolita Ruri Gokou and the bespectacled otaku Saori Makishima, thus jump-starting an entirely new lifestyle. But as he becomes more and more involved in his little sister's secret life, it becomes that much harder to keep under wraps.

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Kousaka, Kirino Main

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Kousaka, Kyousuke Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Gokou, Ruri Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Aragaki, Ayase Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Tamura, Manami Supporting

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Makishima, Saori Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Kurusu, Kanako Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Meruru Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Tamura, Grandfather Supporting

Kashii, Shouto Japanese

Evans, Bridget Supporting

Kuno, Misaki Japanese

Iwakami, Atsuhiro Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Miki, Kazuma Producer

Ougi, Jiyuu Producer

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Nov 10, 2024

Supersonic_Pain

Recommended

There are many questions in anime that have puzzled even the wisest of scholars.

What IS the One Piece? Would Gojo win? Did Hachikuji actually stutter?

And among those riddles, one stands tall. One stands above the rest.

Is there possibly a way that Kyousuke Kousaka's little sister can be THAT cute?

...I actually thought she was fine?

To be honest, if they REALLY wanted spineless wish fulfillment, they could have easily made Kirino some fluffball "do your best, onii-chan!" little sis but giving her some kick at least makes it seem like he's TRYING to fulfill a somewhat realistic big brother x little sister ship (...I assume, I don't ... have a little sister).

Which I guess should bring me to a big warning flag in case you somehow are not aware:

This is a story that is a big brother x little sister romance. If that is something that you are not only not into but you can't even stomach watching it, obviously do not watch "There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute"

But yeah, poorly written tsunderes can get on my nerves because it's simply just pride that stops them from asking MC to fuck them but, like, Kirino has so much on the line, even taking Kyousuke out of the equation. Like, her otaku lifestyle proves time and time again to be a snakebite for her socially, so no wonder she's so defensive about it. And as for her feelings for her brother... I mean... do I even need to explain why it'd just be easier to be all tsun about it? Even if Kyousuke said "yes, sister, I love you too, let's get married", it's not like they could legally or socially do that.

Although I say that, but people seem surprisingly open to saying shit like that?

There are multiple occasions and multiple people who say something like "aw, how cute! You and Kirino are on a date!" or something like that and, yeah, they basically are but I could not imagine implying a brother and sister pair were on a date unless, like, the sister's hand was actively down her brother's pants.

I'm not saying Kirino NEVER got on my nerves but I thought she was totally fine. She even made me laugh a few times (like when she went out of her way to kick Kyousuke's door while walking to hers) AND she's a woman of culture! Not necessarily the little sister eroges but you can clearly see she loves the School Days series and as a School Days defender, I can respect the hell out of that.

I think to reduce Oreimo to "ha ha big bro wants to fuck his little sis" is a bit reductive. Yes, that is indeed part of Oreimo, but it's also got things to say about otaku culture.

Kirino is this perfect little princess but has to hide her otakuness so her family and friends aren't ashamed of her and thanks to Kyousuke, she finds her own little group of friends to spend time with and I just think that's pretty cool.

Seeing Kuroneko acting like a chuuni dork in broad daylight and Saori wearing a ridiculous outfit and speaking funny and just being themselves? That's so fire. I think there's a timeline where Kyousuke is just... a good brother and he marries Manami while he helps out Kirino so she can be her true self and find friends who appreciate her for her and this show wouldn't get the flack that it does (although, admittedly, it also likely wouldn't be nearly as popular).

IMO, speaking of her friends, I think Ayase is really the only character I didn't care for. She has some yandere moments and I do like those but for most of the season, she's kind of the puritan tsundere where she relies on Kyousuke to patch things up with Kirino but she's also like "ew, anime!"

But Kuroneko, Saori, Manami, the Kousakas, very cool.

Although, I'm kinda confused as to why they're building a harem? It seems both Kuroneko and Manami are into Kyousuke as well as Kirino and like I get Manami and ONE love rival would be fine. But Kuroneko? Hello? What is this? I never really got that vibe, I saw Kyousuke x Saori as more of a possibility.

I am far from being above a trashy harem show but, like, what's the point in a series like this? It's literally a series about how his little sister cannot be this cute and it is clearly not just speaking platonically if such a thing could exist.

Obviously Kyousuke is going to choose Kirino, why are we going through with this song and dance?

I thought it was cool how much effort they put into it that they didn't need to. Most of the episodes had unique EDs and the OP had a lot of changing visuals over the course of the series and, like, they did NOT need to do that but they went out of their way to do that.

One thing that grinded my gears was the novelist/anime little arc.

So Kirino decides to become a novelist, right? Sounds fine to me. But the first novel she writes is shitty schlocky poorly written fanfiction (mood) about how Kirino is so awesome. And that makes sense as a starting point, but within the SAME EPISODE, she becomes a highly successful novelist who is professionally published and she ends up getting an anime??

I get there's only so much time but that feels like something that could have taken a season alone if so inclined.

If you can ignore the big incestual elephant in the room, personally, I unironically enjoyed this show a lot more than I thought I would. I thought the cast was good, it was funny, it was surprisingly touching at times.

Like, I guess this is kind of the point but it kinda feels like covering your own tracks to have "There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute" be the show to talk about how people are too close-minded about otakus and how it can actually be this really cool thing but I mean, when you're right, you're right.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 23, 2021

CuteAndFunny

Mixed Feelings

An easy way to describe this anime would be the brother MC is essentially a punching bag.

There are also way too many tsundere's in this anime, even the dad is a tsundere, where most of them are more tsun than dere.

What this show has going for it is literally just the titles for each episode are funny and memes at this point. The rest of the show is honestly not the best for an enjoyable pleasant watch.

Specifically, both main characters brother and sister are not that great. The sister, Kirino, is violent and continuously hostile to her brother. While he himself feels like an ... empty shell of a character which we know very little of since the story basically never shows much about him or his achievements.

While I do understand it is in a sense realistic, since most siblings would do anything for each other in the real life even if it meant harm to themselves. It wasn't a fun or great thing to watch take place. Rather it often created unnecessary drama in what is supposed to be a Comedy and Slice of Life. I will say though it did feel like they acted like their age somewhat being teenagers.

The animes side characters being the friends really is what saved this show from being worse off than it is. Most of them(Manami, Ruri, Saori) are pretty likeable characters with some hinted background depth we did not get to experience much, but i'm sure that will come later.

The OP was alright and it seems they changed the ED's every episode, but they honestly sounded a bit of the same I hardly noticed. The different scenes during the ED were a nice touch though.

Overall, this wasn't as funny of a show in my opinion. It was rather lacking and focused too much on the drama between siblings with beatings seemingly placed as the punchline for comedy. It wasn't bad at times, but those moments were short lived when it would go back to the main characters tiring sibling feud. There's just too many unlikeable characters creating annoying moments that it ruins the mood of this show in the end.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 21, 2025

loveandclovers

Not Recommended

Oreimo is one of those shows with a good concept, good production but just bad execution.

I'll just start out with saying that the characters have barely any development and thereis pretty much no story. I wouldn't even say this is a good time waster anime because it's not even like it's that entertaining or funny.
Starting out, I thought this would be a cute anime about a girl befriending her brother because he's the only one that accepts her nerdy hobbies, maybe they could've shared hobbies and even bonded over what eroge and anime they like. But it wasn't like that at all. Instead, we get ... Kirino forcing Kyosuke to engage with her hobby and forcing him to read eroge, which he clearly doesn't want to do.
Speaking of Kirino, she starts out as a bitch and at the end of a series she's only ten percent less of a bitch to Kyosuke. She's such an unsatisfying character, if she wasn't cute and a bit relatable I would have genuinely hated her. She's cruel to him and everyone besides her school friends for pretty much no reason. I genuinely do not understand her friendship with Kuroneko, they clearly don't like each other and only argue so I don't understand the framing of "Friends" for them.
The other characters are whatever, Kuroneko is pretty neat, Kyosuke is a living doormat for his sister the rest are forgettable.
Here comes the only spoiler for the story but as I already stated there basically is none so I wouldn't even count this as one. Kirino writes a light novel which, for some reason, becomes popular and gets an anime adaptation. Now, Kirino writing a self-insert novel? I totally understand. It's very in character. But an anime adaptation? And getting published? This is just nonsensical. I genuinely do not understand the point because based on everything we get told about this light novel of hers it doesn't seem to be well written either. it gets brought up again in the last episode but not even in a relevant fashion. I genuinely do not understand why this was included.

I really don't understand why so many people like this show, I guess it's just because of the incest aspect but that wouldn't even make any sense because despite the title, there is no incest. I personally wouldn't recommend this to anyone besides those just trying to complete their "2000s Anime/Otaku Classics" watchlist.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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