8/10
Oreimo
20 October 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Protagonist Kyosuke Kosaka is an ordinary seventeen year old school boy who doesn't get on too well with his younger sister, Kirino, or more to the point she doesn't get on well with him. All that changes however when he discovers her deepest secret… she is obsessed with eroge games featuring little sisters obsessing over their brothers! He takes the revelation surprisingly well and agrees to keep her secret. After this they start to grow closer; she encourages him to try the games and he encourages her to try to make friends with other fans… her current friends certainly wouldn't approve. Over the course of the series this leads to some awkward situations; such as when their parents find out and Kyosuke tells his father they are his to protect his sister and when Kirino gets Kyosuke to pretend to be her boyfriend!

This series could very easily have been rather dubious as the siblings get closer but thankfully nothing inappropriate really happens; in fact their relationship is more sweet than perverse. As is often the case in anime our protagonist finds himself amongst a harem of girls but they aren't all throwing themselves at him, just some of them, and he isn't the usual oblivious boy who doesn't notice them or accidentally walks in on them at awkward moments. The characters, both main and secondary, are fun and not so exaggerated that one can't believe in them. Given that the protagonists play eroge games one might expect a fair amount of fan service but there wasn't any to speak of, or if there was it was so innocent I forgot it. Overall this is a charming show with plenty of laugh out loud moments.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles, watching both the first and second series but not the OVA episodes which come between the series or those that follow series two.
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