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This is not a review of the anime persay, but more about how it has affected me, and quite recently at that.

I watched this anime a long time ago and I enjoyed it but I didn't experience it the way I have recently rewatching it. The experience has made me decide to restart my anime journey so to speak, going through all the anime as if I hadn't watched them before. It helps when I forget most of the anime even if some are just too memorable.

As soon as I started my rewatch I was hooked. The only thing I could think about was continuing, ... I loved the characters, the premise, and the opening. By the time I was finished with all of the anime, I wanted more. I wanted to see an ending, good or bad. Though I was scared of doing so. Scared because I wanted it to last forever but also scared because I was afraid that it MIGHT end bad. Either way, I continued on with the manga.

Honestly? I'm satisfied with the ending, even if I didn't really like the goddess plot line and feel like they could have had the girls remember the encounters without essentially giving them MPD. I mean, they hinted that the girls somewhat remember something about their respective conquers by making them react to him in ways they wouldn't have before. If they didn't remember anything, they wouldn't have even changed themselves, frankly.

That said I'd say this is still a really great anime despite my seemingly negative small rant. Like with my oreimo review, it's hard to say I'd recommend this to normie fans since it's very much otaku-centric, but if you've watched a decent number of anime and understand otaku culture at all, I'm sure you'll enjoy this show and unlike oreimo, there's no "moral" dilemma from having watched it. Because it's an easier sell, I would rate this anime higher in terms of recommendation, but lower in terms of my personal view of it and how it has affected me and my view of anime. It has definitely had a positive influence, seeing as it motivated me to go back and give some old anime I watched before another try, but it hasn't quite the effect that Oreimo has.

This is not a review of the anime persay but a review of how it has affected me.

This anime has been my favorite since 2013, and it has completely changed my outlook when it comes to anime. Prior to watching this anime I kept getting drawn towards it by fanart and how cute the little sister, Kirino is. As ironic as that is given the title of the show, that's what eventually forced me into watching the series and the title is what kept me away.

See, at the time I was but a normie anime fan, only having watched a few anime and all of ... them were well within the bounds of normality. So seeing the title, "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute" had some major alarms ringing. I'm normal, I said. Incest is gross, I concluded. I could never watch something so immoral. Looking back, I was already watching plenty of shows without thought that could be considered immoral based on the content. That is excessive violence, especially against minors. Things like Naruto and the like. We don't view it as weird or immoral because it's been normalized in today's society, however the question of violent media's morality has been questioned at one point in recent history. But I'm not here to criticize violent media, and instead here to praise taboo topics media.

And yes, all of this is important, as this anime has made me realize that applying real world morality to anime is an extremely bad idea, as if you do that you'll simply miss out on such a grand masterpiece as this. That said, the first season is actually pretty tame, in fact it's pretty normal of an otaku-premise anime. It's only until the second season where the title really shines through.

I wouldn't recommend this anime for newcomers, even if the first season is normal enough to do so, though I would argue that any otaku-premise anime would not be good for newcomers as they wouldn't be able to understand the characters like an anime fan would, but with season two going the incest route (which as a Kirino simp I am definitely not contested to) and people would likely watch the following seasons if they already liked the first, it doesn't make for a great impression. After all even I refused to watch it for months before caving, just because of the title of the show, how can I expected a total normie to not start hating anime after this show being among their first?

If you have watched a fair amount, even about 20+, I think you could gain from watching this, it's a fun anime with a nice soundtrack and great, fun characters and you should learn to avoid the "I'm morally above that" mindset on your anime journey, it's not a good look even if you and your normie friends think it is. If you've watched over 100 anime and have not watched this masterpiece, I don't know what you're doing with your life, even if you ended up hating it, it's still an experience to be had.