PokeNirvash

And now, the recap. Episode 1: My Little Sister Can't Be My Love Synopsis: After discovering a stray magical girl anime DVD lying in the middle of his foyer, high school student Kyosuke Kousaka discovers that his bratty younger sister Kirino is actually a closet otaku, particularly towards anime and video games involving little sisters. As repayment for keeping this little secret of hers, Kyosuke now has to help Kirino out with certain tasks that require his assistance; a little something she refers to as "advice". Content Rating: TV-14DL for intensely suggestive dialogue (multiple mentions of porn stuff, particularly eroge) and strong language ("bitch") Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 2: My Little Sister Can't Bring Me to an IRL Meet Synopsis: As his first piece of advice to Kirino that doesn't involve playing her eroge, Kyosuke convinces her to attend a meeting between female otaku in Akihabara. The actual meeting doesn't give Kirino much of an opportunity to converse with the others, but an impromptu afterparty held by the meeting's leader gives her (and Kyosuke) two associates she'll keep for the rest of the series. Content Rating: TV-14DLS for slightly incestuous suggestive dialogue (Kyosuke's review of an eroge Kirino leant him), strong language ("bitch" again), and brief sexuality (a Meruru doujin cover) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 3: My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute Synopsis: Kyosuke and Kirino's father finds out about the latter's possession of adults-only materials, prompting Kyosuke to come up with a solution that will keep her from having to give it all up. His solution, which involves claiming the little sister eroge CD is his, is the first of many instances where Kyosuke sacrifices his own dignity for Kirino's sake. Content Rating: TV-14DL for suggestive dialogue (more eroge talk) and profanity ("shit") Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 4: My Little Sister Can't Be Going to Summerket Synopsis: Kyosuke attempts to keep Kirino from unboxing a collection of doujins in front of her friends, but ends up getting to second base with her (by accident!) instead. Later, he accompanies Kirino and her otaku girl-friends to Comiket, where we get a first glimpse at Kuroneko's superb gaming skills. Oh, and something about a little sister fighting game that Kyosuke can't seem to get past level 6 on. ?.?/10 Content Rating: TV-14DLS for suggestive dialogue (even more eroge talk, plus the word "pervert"), profanity ("shit" again), and sexual situations (the accidental groping) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 5: My Little Sister's Best Friend Can't Be This XX Synopsis: After running into her post-Comiket and discovering her recent doujin haul, Kirino's best friend Ayase breaks off her friendship with her. Kyosuke fixes it, but ends up making Ayase hate his guts as a result. Point is, Ayase is the true worst girl of this show, and it's nice to see my thoughts back in 2010 before I even watched it were same was when I finally did. Content Rating: TV-14D for suggestive dialogue (the usual plus an false incestuous declaration of love) and partial nudity (Kirino showering) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 6: My Childhood Friend Can't Be This Cute Synopsis: Kyosuke finally gets an excuse to be rid of Kirino for an entire episode by hanging out at his childhood friend Manami's place, where everyone in her family wants them to do it. He doesn't bite, since he and Manami are just friends. Content Rating: TV-14 for notable sensuality (the intense Kyosuke/Manami shipping) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 7: My Little Sister Can't Be a Novelist Synopsis: Kyosuke finds himself trapped in a fan-fiction flame war between Kirino and Kuroneko as they're livewatching a Meruru DVD. Later, as reparation for watching porn on her laptop, he also finds himself having to assist Kirino in research for her light novel. Foiled attempts to have him play in traffic ensue. Content Rating: TV-MA for explicit suggestive dialogue (the fates Kirino and Kuroneko picked out for each other in their fanfics and the uncut Meruru home video release being for lolicons) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 8: My Little Sister Can't Be Animated Synopsis: Kirino's light novel gets an anime adaptation, which she approaches with the exact same enthusiasm I do with my own fictional ideas (READ MOAR NIBAI MUGENDAI), but an assholish scriptwriter demands changes to the adaptation that not even Kirino can accept. Thus, Kyosuke, Kuroneko and Saori are left to settle things themselves. Content Rating: TV-14 for mild suggestive dialogue ("erotic character designs", Kuroneko calling Kyosuke a masochistic sister lover) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 9: My Little Sister Can't Be This Absorbed Into Eroge Synopsis: A brief look into the various happenings of our main female characters. Kuroneko has two little sisters of her own, Saori's actually rich and ladylike, and Kirino is so excited about playing her new eroge that the tension between her and Kyosuke actually gets worse than usual. Content Rating: TV-14DLS for intensely suggestive dialogue (the now-meaningless eroge talk and Kirino getting hot and bothered over her game), simulated off-screen sexuality (also Kirino getting off on her game), and profanity (the return of the S-bomb!) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 10: My Little Sister Can't Be Cosplaying Like This Synopsis: Ayase wants to make up with Kirino after unintentionally insulting her Meruru figurines, so she has Kyosuke try and pick out the perfect apology gift. Said gift is an extremely rare Meruru figurine that can only be won in a cosplay contest, which Ayase decides to participate in... with Kirino's other friend and near Meruru look-alike Kanako as her proxy. Content Rating: TV-14DLS for suggestive dialogue ("pervert"-calling), strong language (the return of "bitch"), brief sexuality (more doujin covers), and moderate violence (towards Kyosuke, of course) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 11: My Little Sister Can't Be This Maid Synopsis: Kirino tries to ruin Kyosuke's chances with Manami by rigging her laptop with eroge footage and embarrassing comments which Kyosuke fails to spoil because he's apparently never heard of closing a laptop manually. Later, she makes up with him over it and a bunch of other harsh sibling moments by thanking him for all the advice he's given him over the past several months. Content Rating: TV-MA for intensely suggestive dialogue (the usual dialogue junk), profanity (another S-bomb), and sexual content (Kuroneko's incest doujin) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 12: My Little Sister's Advice Can't End Here (GOOD END) Synopsis: After buying an eroge for her as his last piece of advice for her, Kyosuke learns why that is: she's going to America to improve her skills in track and field. Except not really, because Splitter can't have nice things. The end of the animated franchise in the alternate universe where it was too unpopular to justify a season 2. Content Rating: TV-14DL for suggestive dialogue (eroge talk and gay panic) and strong language (another "bitch") Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 13: My Little Sister's Advice Can't End Here (TRUE ROUTE) Synopsis: The alternate canon cut of last episode, where Kyosuke doesn't learn about Kirino's trip to America and she goes without fanfare. The next thing Kyosuke has to worry about in her absence, however? Kuroneko now going to his high school. Content Rating: TV-14D for suggestive dialogue (eroge talk and gay panic) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 14: My Junior Can't Be This Rotten Synopsis: Noticing that his new kouhai Kuroneko is avoiding her peers, Kyosuke gets her to join the school's Gaming Research Club in an attempt to have her socialize more. It's there that we're introduced to Sena Akagi, Kyosuke's friend's little sister who is the biggest teenage fujoshi barring the MC of Kiss Him, Not Me! Content Rating: TV-14DS for adult content (Sena's homo love), intensely suggestive dialogue (Sena talking about homo love), moderate language (the phrase "piss off"), and mild sexuality (Saori groping herself) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 15: My Junior Can't Be This Cute Synopsis: The Gaming Research Club has Kuroneko and Sena work together on a video game for an upcoming contest, forcing them into a contest of ideas that Kuroneko wins out on. But even after fixing all the bugs with Sena's help, they still win Worst Game In Show. Content Rating: TV-MA for adult content (Sena's homo RPG game), explicitly suggestive dialogue (the details of the game's story), and profanity (precision F strike, bitches) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 16: My Little Sister Can't Be in the Last Episode Synopsis: After getting a mysterious text from Kirino asking him to get rid of all her eroge goods, Kyosuke flies out to America to find out why. As it turns out, her end goal for her time in America is eating her alive, so he uses everything in his power to convince her to come back to Japan. And it works! Content Rating: TV-14L for profanity (yet another S-bomb) and suggestive dialogue (apparently not enough to get a 14D consideration) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 17: My Little Sister Can't Come Back Home Again Synopsis: Upon bringing Kirino back to Japan, Kyosuke starts to regret doing so, as she's falling back into her old habits. Turns out that's just her way of settling back in before having Kyosuke accompany her to Akihabara as a one-year-anniversary life advice shopping spree. Content Rating: TV-14D for intensely suggestive dialogue (Kanako calling Kirino and Ayase lesbians, Sena talking more about homo games) and off-screen sexuality (more Kirino getting off on her eroge) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 18: The Onii-san I Trusted and Sent Off Can't Get This Hooked On Portable Bishoujo Games and Start Sexually Harassing Me Synopsis: In the best episode of the series yet, Ayase asks Kyosuke to get Kirino to pay more attention to her and not the make-your-own-girlfriend game she got from Akiba last episode. Kyosuke's attempts lead to him getting hooked on the game too, but the sexual harassment towards Ayase that results ends up leading her to fix things herself. At least, until she showed Kirino how yandere she's willing to be. Content Rating: TV-14D for intensely suggestive dialogue (Kyosuke's sexual harassment of Ayase) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 19: My Friend Can't Take Off Her Glasses Synopsis: Here we learn the story of how Saori went from being a shy loli to her otaku girl self, all thanks to her older sister's multiple interests and her desire to pick up where she left off with her little otaku collective. Content Rating: TV-PG for simulated peril (chunibayu prince, meet model AK-47) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 20: My Little Sister's Rival Can't Come to Japan Synopsis: The arrival of Kirino's elementary-school-age track and field rival from the States to the Kousaka family abode makes Kyosuke's life even more hectic than it already is, especially with Kirino's super-protectiveness prompting her to call Kyosuke any range of names from "pervert" to "lolicon". Content Rating: TV-14DS for intensely suggestive dialogue (the phrase "little girl lover"), moderate language (5 uses of "pisses me off" in a row), nudity (Kirino and Ria out of the bath), and fanservice (striped panties~) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 21: I Can't Be My Little Sister's Boyfriend, and My Little Sister Can't Have a Boyfriend Synopsis: Kirino convinces Kyosuke to pose as her boyfriend in order to avoid having to model in Europe, and they go on a fake date to convince themselves further that the insistent talent agent bought it. Later, they go to Comiket again and sell out of a joint doujinshi they, Kuroneko and Saori made. Content Rating: TV-PGD for suggestive dialogue (the usual stuff and incest panic) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 22: My Little Sister Can't Be Bringing Her Boyfriend Home Synopsis: Kirino introduces Kyosuke and her otaku friends to Mikagami, a fellow model who also likes anime, but the reveal that he's her boyfriend is too much for Kyosuke to bear. However, after deciding that he'll only accept Mikagami if he can love Kirino more than he does, Kirino admits that the boyfriend thing was a lie. Also, Ayase put Kyosuke in handcuffs and somehow I didn't want to do to her what I want to do to Jman every time he says Toonami should cancel JoJo for no reason. Content Rating: TV-PGDL for suggestive dialogue (more harassment and perversion), mild language (six uses of "damn"), and partial nudity (a fantasy shot of Kuroneko) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 23: I Can't Become a Couple With My Underclassman Synopsis: Kuroneko asks Kyosuke out on a date and, after turning to Kirino and Manami for further advice, takes her up on her offer. He also introduces Mikagami to the Gaming Research Club, which somehow avoided having Sena talk about her love of homosexual men. Content Rating: TV-14D for intensely suggestive dialogue (the standard plus Kyosuke talking second base with Mikagami) and partial nudity (a fantasy hug between Kyosuke and Kuroneko) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 24: I Can't Create a Summer Memory With My Underclassman Synopsis: In accordance with her Penguindrum Future Diary, Kyosuke and Kuroneko go on the latter's ideal dates, and it manages to make their ship look appealing even to those who don't have a problem with them not being the endgame! Which makes it all the more heartbreaking when it turns out she plans on breaking up with him. Content Rating: TV-PGDLS for suggestive dialogue (incest accusations and chesticular compliments), strong language (two uses of "bitch"), and mild sexual situations (Kyosuke wondering if Kuroneko wants to re-enact a MASCHERA sex scene with him) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 25: My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute! Synopsis: Kuroneko's breaking up with Kyosuke, on top of transferring out of their school and moving out of her house, tears Kyosuke up pretty badly, so Kirino decides to help him figure out why she did all that. What results is a surprisingly moving reveal that for as much as she dislikes Kyosuke, Kirino actually cares about him very much. Oh, and Kuroneko's father's work was what made her move and break up with Kyosuke, besides wanting them to get along better. Content Rating: TV-PGDL for suggestive dialogue (Kirino calling Kuroneko a "horny cat"), moderate language (two uses of "pissed off"), and mild sexuality (an off-screen imouto sex dream) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 26: My Little Sister Can't Wear a Wedding Dress Synopsis: Ayase thinks she's to blame for Kyosuke and Kuroneko breaking up, and to convince herself that that's not the case after Kyosuke outright said it wasn't, she has him attend a Meruru promotion concert Kanako's performing in as a favor. He misses most of it, though, trying to get Kirino there in time to see it for herself. He mostly succeeds. Content Rating: TV-14D for intensely suggestive dialogue (Kyosuke: Sexual Harassment Overlord) and brief nudity (Mikagami's censored Meruru bicycle wheel covers) Rating Screencaps: Act 1 Act 2 Episode 27/11 coming next week. [and then it begins]

August 10, 2008. Tsukasa Fushimi debuted his light novel Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute), better known as Oreimo, to many otaku about to get a wake-up call on their imouto fantasies. October 3, 2010. The animated adaptation of Oreimo, directed by Hiroyuki Kanbe at AIC Build, premiered on Japanese television. The now-defunct blog Chocolate Syrupy Waffles disliked it, on the pretense that Kirino was not the little sister any of them wanted. August 21, 2014. I, PokeNirvash, who actually has a little sister unlike those poseurs on CSW, started watching Oreimo, for no other reason than it was about damn time I did so. With it, I also made a thread simply titled "I've Finally Done It", where I commented on all of the episodes to prove to those who clearly don't know me well enough that not even this show can crawl under my skin as much as it did with them. June 1, 2016. After a needlessly long hiatus associated with the fact that I technically watched Oreimo alongside three other anime, and in response to the Hulu expiration that never came to be, I resumed watching Oreimo with the intention of finishing it for good this time. As the first couple episodes I watched as part of this resurgence were done on Wednesdays, a whole new title for this ritual came to pass: Oreimo Wednesdays. November 9, 2016. After the official unprecedented shutdown of the [adult swim] message boards where I talked Oreimo Wednesdays, I have decided to revive the thread in which I did it. Only six episodes remain of the Oreimo animated franchise, and starting next week, those six Wednesdays will be spent seeing where it goes and what it does and why nobody liked them besides the obvious. Today, however, I will post brief descriptions and thoughts on the episodes that came before, not unlike what Blatch did with BAKUON!! in the General Ratings thread. With that, I can finally finish this damn thing. Here's to my health, and the best of luck. [or whatever they say these days]

We can only hope that's the case, and I am confident that will actually be the case.

Not. Going. Anywhere.

No, that's me who likes everything, and Michiko and Hatchin was not that awful, it just wasn't to your taste.

More like time for you to shut the fuck up pipe down. JoJo's not going anywhere, and there's nothing your sour sorry ass can do to stop it.

This is why I hate the ratings thread. You people think ratings are all that matter. Just as long as you enjoy it out of your own accord, who cares if the ratings suck for one night? [apparently you assholes]

No matter how decent CWCLV does for its timeslot, people are still gonna find a way to blame IBO and One Piece. [thus all is right with this thread]

Technically not anime, but I gotta make my mark here somehow. Off The Air - "Work" Gotham S3E8

My thoughts exactly on both accounts. Also, the CGI fast food simulator short was freaky but appeared normal compared to KOKOFREAKBEAN's Pizza Apocalypse. [do they take coins]

>not calling it Zaregoto

Alright, now that my opening post has been edited thanks to our complaints about the so-called "privileged" edit button, I might as well post my thoughts on this week's block. INTRUDER III - Good start so far. I have a feeling I'm gonna enjoy this, even if it's not as plot-heavy as Intruder II nor as much of a game-changer. DRAGONBALL Z KAI - Removing 16's bomb was brilliant in practice but terrible in hindsight. R.I.P. Brobot. :'( In other regards, I didn't expect the Cell Jr.s to be so blue, nor for their beatdown of the Z Fighters to look so hilarious. Only problem was, all those shots of Gohan crying made it hard for me to really laugh at it. Well, at least there's always Mr. Satan's antics to serve as comic relief. TOP BILLING: Android 16, with Mr. Satan finally getting a credits mention! ;D JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE - If Dio's the most hateable character based on principle alone, then Speedwagon is the most loveable. Becoming a fan of him is the second step to really enjoying JoJo, after all. Speedwagon fanboying aside, this episode was just as fun and exciting as it was the first two times I saw it. (Yeah, still the only one here who saw the dub before [as] because I don't give a crap about DVD packaging.) Not dubbing in "I reject my humanity!" is regrettable, yes, but the dub's alternate sounded just as impressive and intimidating. Not too bummed personally about the missing "Even Speedwagon is afraid!" either. RATING SCREENCAPS: Dio before and after the Stone Mask. MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS - I don't really have much to say about the actual plot of the episode (just that circumstance made Makanai unable to follow Tekkadan's plan exactly and his shadiness is the only way for every party to have their way), but you know something's wrong if the series kills off Biscuit's brother yet allows Ein to live. Well, at least Atra going full annoying harem girl on Mika was fun. Also, if I was taking up Foley's reins in the top quotes department too, Angel's comment in the old thread about Fumitan lacking the Joestar mustache would've automatically gotten #1, not just for the excellent tie-in to JoJo but the hilariously wrong/sexy image of Fumitan with a mustache. HUNTER x HUNTER - Recap was recap. The full version of Just Awake was fun, just for seeing it up to and including the moment Hisoka let out his banshee scream. Canary getting a fireblast to the head is still hard to watch, even after learning it was nonfatal. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Dragged out as Jiraiya's death may have been, at least it was better than the inaccurately heavy-handed flashbacks to Gaara's loneliness at the start of this show. Really, I'm just curious as to who Pain really is, plus what code was used for Jiraiya's last will and testament. ONE PIECE - Weird that Luffy was nowhere to be seen this episode, if you don't count Oars. The teamwork this episode was fun, even if it didn't go exactly as planned. Between Nami putting fear in the eyes of those annoying squirrel minions and Robin's nonchalant refusal to partake in the docking maneuver, the female crew members this episode were on point. Very weird and mysterious that Kuma showed up, but I wasn't expecting his voice to be so... soft. CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES - Or according to 4chan, Children Who Chase Lost Debts. It's been forever since I've seen a Shinkai film - all I remember about The Place Promised In Our Early Days was that it was beautiful as fuck and I added a majority of its staff to Anime News Network when I first watched it - but the experience was fun, especially watching it live. The pacing could've been a little slower, and the plot a little more concrete, but it was still fun, if mostly because it was the first time we had a movie on Toonami since FMA: Sacred Star of Milos tanked the already-low ratings of the final Hellsing Ultimate episode even further. Hopefully it pulls through decently in the ratings. Also, the dub was better than I expected, mostly because I was fearing the worst from Steven "The Reason Sentai's Dubs Are The Same But Worse Than ADV's" Foster before I went into it. Besides a few hiccups, it was a decent dub. Makes me feel better about going into his other Sentai works. Except for maybe Penguindrum... 9/10, would watch again if it reruns. [the national debt has been repaid]

I frequent another SMF-powered board, and if you log on, you have the option of staying on for a certain amount of time. "Forever" is one of them. I'd suggest selecting that if you want to avoid a random logout.

One time they threatened to shut down the boards just because someone posted a picture of a man innocently eating a watermelon. (At least, that's what I'd heard.) I mean, I'd kinda understand it if the guy eating the melon was black, but that's just very random, insane, and dictatorial regardless. EDIT: Sweetness, I can finally edit my posts again! ;D

Wait, so I was able to edit my own posts from 1 on the old forum, but here I need 100 to do the same? I don't mean to offend, but that's asinine.

I would indeed like that.

Is that so? How much, exactly?

I figured as much. But how can I access it? All I get on the upper right corner of my posts is "Quote".

So... yeah. Is there any reason we can't edit our own posts?

I don't know what's more troublesome: recreating this thread after the original ASMB just randomly shut down, or recreating the recreation less than a week later because Luuv says the operators of the new boards hate us. [sigh] No rest for the wicked, I always say. Welcome to Trunks' Watching the Anime Block Experiment #19.1: the land of the free and the home of the free. [now get in the box]