Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Original title	俺 の 妹 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い
transcription	Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Logo of the light novel series
Light novel
country	Japan
author	Tsukasa Fushimi
illustrator	Hiro Kanzaki
publishing company	ASCII Media Works
First publication	August 10, 2008 - June 7, 2013
expenditure	12
Manga
country	Japan
author	Tsukasa Fushimi
Illustrator	Sakura Ikeda
publishing company	ASCII Media Works
magazine	Dengeki G's Magazine
First publication	January 30, 2009 - March 30, 2011
expenditure	4th
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	2010-2011
Studio	AIC build
length	24 minutes
Episodes	12 + 4 ONA
Director	Hiroyuki Kanbe
music	Satoru Kosaki
First broadcast	October 3, 2010–19. December 2010 on Tokyo MX
Manga
title	Ore no Kōhai ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Original title	俺 の 後輩 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い
country	Japan
author	Tsukasa Fushimi
Illustrator	Sakura Ikeda
publishing company	ASCII Media Works
magazine	Dengeki G's Magazine
First publication	May 30, 2011 - ...
expenditure	1
Anime television series
title	Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.
Original title	俺 の 妹 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い。
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2013
Studio	A-1 Pictures
length	24 minutes
Director	Hiroyuki Kanbe
First broadcast	April 7, 2013– on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, TV Kanagawa
synchronization

Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai ( Japanese 俺 の 妹 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い , Ger . "My little sister can't be so cute"), also known as Oreimo for short , is a light novel - Series by the author Tsukasa Fushimi , with illustrations by Hiro Kanzaki . The novel series has been adapted as a manga , a computer game and two anime television series, among other things .

action

The focus of the events is the four-member Kōsaka family. The actual clue is the relationship between the two siblings Kyōsuke Kōsaka ( 高 坂 京 介 , Kōsaka Kyōsuke ) and Kirino Kōsaka ( 高 坂 桐 乃 , Kōsaka Kirino ). While Kyōsuke is an almost adult ordinary student, his younger sister Kirino has a great secret to hide. She is secretly an enthusiastic otaku , which at this point nobody but her knows. The mood between the two is initially not the best and both always try to avoid each other, which in particular eats up Kyōsuke inside. By chance, however, he finds out Kirino's secret when she is looking for an eroge that she has previously forgotten in his room and Kyōsuke surprises her. Kirino then convinces her brother to help her keep her secret from her parents and school friends. She then shows him her entire collection, which consists largely of eroges, which thematize relationships between brother and little sister. Inevitably, Kyōsuke now has to deal with his sister's hobby. So Kirino urges him to play one of her eroges with her. Her reasoning was that she finally has someone with whom she can discuss her secret hobby.

Simplified representation of the figure constellation

Kyōsuke got the idea to look for more friends on the Internet who share the same hobby as his sister. Kirino is promptly invited to a so-called offline meeting. With Kyōsuke in tow, she meets Saori Makishima ( 槇 島 沙織 , Makishima Saori ) in a café , who she has invited to the meeting and who dresses and behaves like a stereotypical otaku, but actually comes from a rich and elegant family and the dimensions of the model Norika Fujiwara owns, as well as Ruri Gokō ( 五更 瑠 璃 , Gokō Ruri ), a girl who lives near Kirino. During a conversation, Kirino and Ruri clash because Ruri, who calls herself Kuroneko ( 黒 猫 ) and is dressed like a Gothic Lolita , has a completely different idea of ​​anime than Kirino, which does not prevent her from being in with the group Keep in touch. On the same day, Kyōsuke manages to do Kirino's homework , playing through an eroge.

Kirino continues to meet with Saori and Kuroneko and is surprised that they don't have to hide their hobby. Unlike Daisuke Kōsaka ( 高 坂 大 介 , Kōsaka Daisuke ), Kirino's father, those around him accept her preferences. When he found out about Kirino's passion, he forbade her to continue practicing this hobby. But since she refuses to give it up, Kyōsuke stands up for her. He manages to convince his father that Kirino can continue her hobby by calling an eroge, which of course belongs to his sister, his own. This causes the family man, who is decidedly against such indecent games, to slap Kyōsuke in the face. When Kirino shows her brother a little gratitude in retrospect, which is extremely rare with Tsundere Kirino, Kyōsuke is surprised.

Kirino persuades her brother to play a beat-'em-up game with her that he has absolutely no experience with. This prompts him to get some tips from Saori to keep up with his sister. When Kirino visits her school friends, Saori brings a package for her that contains a collection of dōjinshi . However, since the packaging does not indicate the actual content, Kyōsuke Kirino hands the package over without paying any further attention to the whole thing. However, when he learns the true contents from a phone call from Saori, he tries to stop Kirino from opening the package in front of her friends in order to keep her hobby a secret. He gets into embarrassing situations that make him look pretty weird in front of Kirino's friends. But then he apologizes to one of Kirino's friends, Ayase Aragaki ( 新 垣 あ や せ , Aragaki Ayase ), who accepts this and then gives him her phone number. As an excuse , so to speak , Kyōsuke is allowed to accompany Kirino and her friends to the Comiket . When a special disc that Kirino really wanted suddenly sold out, Kuroneko won it in a beat-'em-up game competition. After the group left the mass, however, they met Ayase.

Because Ayase now strongly suspects that Kirino is hiding something from her, she puts her under pressure and ultimately finds out her secret. Because Ayase has seen a report that puts Otakus in a very bad light, she fears Kirino will behave in a similar way and forces her to choose her hobby or mutual friendship. After Kyōsuke discovers in a conversation with his father that the report, because of which Ayase wanted to give up her friendship with Kirino, contains misinformation, he tries to get Ayase to accept Kirino's hobby after all. He only succeeds in doing this after he selflessly campaigns for his sister, so that Ayase realizes that his friendship with her is very important to him and Kirino.

Kyōsuke is invited home by his childhood classmate and friend, Manami Tamura ( 田村 麻 奈 実 , Tamura Manami ), to try some Halloween candy from the family's own store. When someone in his class asks him that he and Manami are pretty close friends, he emphasizes that there is no romantic relationship between them. However, he mentions that he would not like it if she went out with someone else. At Manami's home he lets himself be persuaded to help with the preparations for the Halloween event. Because he is busy doing this until late in the evening, he also sleeps there. The grandfather of the Tamura family has a room set up so that Kyōsuke and Manami have to sleep next to each other, which causes the two to talk to each other. Kyōsuke says that if he were asked if he wanted a relationship, he would refuse in order to continue to follow his regular life. Meanwhile, Kirino is visibly frustrated that her brother is sleeping in Manami's house.

When Kirino read a Kuroneko fan fiction online, she decides to write one herself. As in many other subject areas, the two have fundamentally different views in the literature, which means another argument. To everyone's surprise, Kirino receives an offer from a publisher to publish her story. On Christmas Eve, she moves around with Kyōsuke under the pretext of gathering more ideas for her next story. A. Find different locations that she could use as the setting for her new novel. She then persuades him to buy her earrings for emotional support . However, when Kyōsuke says she would only ask for it to feel better, she empties a bucket of cold water over her own head to refute this. As a result of this action, they are forced to take a hotel room at short notice so that Kirino can dry himself and change clothes. On the way home again, she wears the earrings he gave her earlier.

Kirino's novel is becoming quite popular, which leads the publisher to adapt it as an anime. She then goes to the conference with Saori and Kuroneko to discuss the details with the producers. She is surprised that the production team wants to make some changes for the anime. The biggest problem for Kirino is that the main female character in her story should be turned into a young man. At the next meeting, out of desperation, Kyōsuke instead of Kirino, who persuades the production team to adopt more details from the original template. He can also convince Saori and Kuroneko to keep his meddling a secret from Kirino.

Kirino receives a long awaited eroge in the mail, which she promptly begins to play, regardless of the volume of her brother in the room next door. Meanwhile, Kuroneko takes care of her little sister at home, who like Kirino is a big Meruru fan. Saori is now preparing a party for Kirino and Kuroneko.

Origin and publications

The light novel series Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai is written by Tsukasa Fushimi and illustrated by Hiro Kanzaki . The series was published from August 10, 2008 to June 7, 2013 by ASCII Media Works under the imprint Dengeki Bunko in 12 volumes.

• Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-04-867180-4 , August 10, 2008
• Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-04-867426-3 , December 10, 2008
• Vol. 3: ISBN 978-4-04-867758-5 , April 10, 2009
• Vol. 4: ISBN 978-4-04-867934-3 , August 10, 2009
• Vol. 5: ISBN 978-4-04-868271-8 , January 10, 2010
• Vol. 6: ISBN 978-4-04-868538-2 , May 10, 2010
• Vol. 7: ISBN 978-4-04-870052-8 , November 10, 2010
• Vol. 8: ISBN 978-4-04-870486-1 , May 10, 2011
• Vol. 9: ISBN 978-4-04-870813-5 , September 10, 2011
• Vol. 10: ISBN 978-4-04-886519-7 , April 10, 2012
• Vol. 11: ISBN 978-4-04-886887-7 , September 7, 2012
• Vol. 12: ISBN 978-4-04-891607-3 , June 7, 2013

540,000 copies were sold from November 2011 to November 2012, making it 8th in the best-selling light novel series of the year. By November 2013, a further 360,000 copies had been added, making it 14th.

Adaptations

Manga

Based on the plot of the novel series, a manga with the text by Tsukasa Fushimi and drawn by Sakura Ikeda was published in ASCII Media Workss Manga magazine Dengeki G's Magazine , who was there from issue 3/2009 (January 30, 2009) to 5/2011 ( March 30, 2011) ran. The published chapters have been combined into four Tankōbon issues that have been published by Imprint Dengeki Comics :

• Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-04-868172-8 , October 27, 2009
• Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-04-868732-4 , August 27, 2010
• Vol. 3: ISBN 978-4-04-870111-2 and ISBN 978-4-04-870120-4 (special edition), December 10, 2010
• Vol. 4: ISBN 978-4-04-870480-9 , April 27, 2011

The manga was licensed in the US by Dark Horse Comics , with the first volume being released on September 5, 2012.

Both authors continued this from issue 7/2011 (May 30, 2011) with Ore no Kōhai ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai ( 俺 の 後輩 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い ), in which the character Ruri "Kuroneko" Gokō im The focus of the action is. The first anthology was published on May 26, 2012:

• Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-04-886261-5 and ISBN 978-4-04-886305-6 (special edition), May 26, 2012

In addition, the manga anthology Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai: Comic Anthology ( 俺 の 妹 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な な い コ ミ ッ ク ア ン ソ ロ ジ ー , ~: Komikku Ansorojī ) published with contributions:

• Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-04-870483-0 , April 27, 2011

radio play

Also based on the light novel series, ASCII Media Works published a radio play that builds on the events of the first and third volumes and was supplemented by a short story written by the main author. The CD was released on March 31, 2010, where Kyōsuke was spoken by Yūichi Nakamura as in the anime that followed later . Ayana Taketatsu took on the role of Kirino .

Anime

An adaptation as an anime television series was produced under the direction of Hiroyuki Kanbe at the animation studio AIC Build . From October 3 to December 19, 2010, 12 episodes of the series were broadcast on Tokyo MX television. A few days later, the stations BS11 Digital , Chiba TV , MBS , TV Aichi , TV Hokkaido , TV Kanagawa , TV Saitama and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting also began broadcasting in Japan. At the same time, the series began broadcasting under the title Oreimo as a streaming service by Aniplex USA via Anime News Network in North America. Due to a leak of the second episode one day before the broadcast in Japan, the streaming was interrupted, but resumed after about a month on November 8, 2010.

A total of 12 episodes were broadcast on Japanese television. Four additional episodes were streamed as ONA from February 2011 on the anime's website, Nico Nico Douga , Showtime and Moviegate and were included on the 7th and 8th DVD and BD of the series.

The 12th episode of the TV series moves away from the original novel and is called "happy ending" ( Good End , a term from the field of Japanese Adventures of designated) anime series. The four new episodes begin with a different version of the 12th episode shown on TV and end with the 15th episode of the "true end" ( True End ) in the series. That means: There are two action paths that split up in episode 12. In contrast to TV episode 12, the other path follows the model of the light novel .

A second season of the anime series called Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai. with a period at the end was announced on April 1, 2012 during the Anime Contents Expo . It is produced by A-1 Pictures , but the baton from the first series is taken over. The series was broadcast on TV Tokyo, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV and TV Kanagawa from April 7 to June 30, 2013 sharp midnight (and thus on TV Tokyo, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV and TV Kanagawa, and with an offset of up to ten days also on TV Saitama, Chiba TV , TV Aichi, TVQ Kyūshū, TV Hokkaidō, Asahi Hōsō, BS11 and AT-X.

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Kyōsuke Kōsaka	Yūichi Nakamura
Kirino Kōsaka	Ayana Taketatsu
Mr. Kōsaka	Fumihiko Tachiki
Mrs. Kōsaka	Akeno Watanabe
Manami Tamura	Satomi Satō

music

The opening credits of the series varied slightly from episode to episode. Individual existing scenes were exchanged for new ones, most of which were related to the content of the respective episode. However, all variations used the title Irony . Consistent with the otaku culture theme of the series, the piece was composed by Kz by the dojin music group Livetune and sung by the dojin duo ClariS - both groups that became known through the video portal Nico Nico Douga . The single by the two ClariS students was released on October 20, 2010, reached number 7 on the Oricon charts and sold 40,455 times by the end of the year.

The accompanying background music within the episodes was composed and arranged by Satoru Kōsaki . An original soundtrack album (OST) for this was released on January 12, 2011.

The end credits changed from episode to episode, with the first and last episode continuing the plot while the credits were faded in and the ending music could be heard. All other episodes used specially designed credits, which were composed of illustrations by various artists who depicted the characters from Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai . The pieces of music that were used in the respective episodes are listed below.

1. Imōto Plea ~ se! ( 妹 プ リ ～ ズ！ , Eng. "Please, little sister!", Sung by Ayana Taketatsu )
2. Shine! (Eng. "Light!", sung by Ayana Taketatsu)
3. Horaism ( ほ ら い ず む , Eng. "Horaism", sung by Ayana Taketatsu)
4. Shiroi Kokoro ( 白 い コ コ ロ , Eng. "White Heart", sung by Saori Hayami )
5. Orange ( オ レ ン ジ , dt. "Orange", sung by Ayana Taketatsu)
6. Maegami ☆ ( マ エ ガ ミ ☆ , dt. " Forehead curls ", sung by Satomi Satō )
7. Masquerade! (Eng. "Masquerade!", sung by Kana Hanazawa )
8. Chameleon Daughter ( カ メ レ オ ン ド ー タ ー , Eng. " Chameleon Daughter ", sung by Hitomi Nabatame )
9. Suki nanda mon! ( 好 き な ん だ も ん！ , dt. "Because I love you!", Sung by Ayana Taketatsu)
10. Iie, Tom wa Imōto ni Taishite Seiteki na Kōfun o Oboete Imasu ( い い え 、 ト ム は 妹 に 対 し て 性 的 な 興奮 を 覚 え て い ま す , dt. "No, Tom remembers his sexual excitement towards his little sister", sung by Yukari Tamura )
11. Akihabara ☆ Dance ☆ Now !! ( ア キ ハ バ ラ ☆ だ ん す ☆ な う !! , German " Akihabara ☆ Dance ☆ Now !!", sung by Ayana Taketatsu)
12. Tadaima. ( た だ い ま。 , dt. "I'm at home." [Typical exclamation to make yourself noticeable at home], sung by Ayana Taketatsu)

computer game

A Ren'ai adventure developed by Bandai Namco Games was released for PlayStation Portable on January 27, 2011 .

reception

The Mainichi Shimbun reported that the fourth volume was the best-selling light novel of the month in August 2009. According to the Anime News Network , a total of 920,000 copies of the first five issues had been sold in Japan by April 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Light Novel, Volume 1, p. 174
2. ↑ List of novels by Dengeki Bunko ( Memento from April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
3. ↑ Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2012. In: Anime News Network. December 2, 2012, accessed April 6, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2013. In: Anime News Network. December 1, 2013, accessed April 6, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Oreimo Volume 1 TPB. Dark Horse Comics, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Oreimo Novel Inspires New Manga Series in Dengeki G's. Anime News Network, April 27, 2011, accessed April 28, 2011 . 
7. ↑ Oreimo Episode 2 Leaked 1 Day Before Japanese Debut (Update 3). Anime News Network, October 9, 2010, accessed January 26, 2011 . 
8. ↑ ANN to Resume Streaming Oreimo, Togainu no Chi. Anime News Network, November 3, 2010, accessed January 26, 2011 . 
9. ↑ Oreimo # 12 'True Route' Stream Scheduled in Japan. Anime News Network, January 25, 2011, accessed January 26, 2011 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} ス ペ シ ャ ル 「俺 の 妹 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い」 ア ニ ニ メ 公式 サ イ ト - ス ペ シ ャ ル イ ン タ ビ ュ ー . (No longer available online.) ASCII Media Works, December 5, 2010, archived from the original on December 9, 2010 ; Retrieved December 19, 2010 (Japanese). 
11. ↑ Oreimo Anime's 2nd Season Green-Lit. Anime News Network, April 1, 2012, accessed April 1, 2012 . 
12. ↑ ｉｒｏｎｙ （初 回 生産 限定 盤） ＣｌａｒｉＳ の プ ロ フ ィ ー ル な ら オ リ コ ン 芸 能 人事 典 . In: Oricon Style. Oricon, accessed January 19, 2011 (Japanese). 
13. ↑ Top-Selling CD Singles by New Artists in Japan: 2010. In: Anime News Network. December 23, 2010, accessed January 19, 2011 . 
14. ↑ 音 楽 「俺 の 妹 が こ ん な に 可愛 い わ け が な い」 ア ニ メ 公式 サ イ ト . ASCII Media Works, accessed December 22, 2010 (Japanese). 
15. ↑ ラ ノ ベ ラ ン キ ン グ ： 「俺 の 妹」 が １ 位 「狼 と 香辛料」 な ど 電 撃 撃 上位 独占 09 年 8 月 . (No longer available online.) Mainichi Shimbun, September 6, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 6, 2010 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
16. ↑ Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Gets Anime (Updated). Anime News Network, April 30, 2010, accessed October 6, 2010 . 

Web links

• Dengeki Franchise Website (Japanese)
• Anime website (Japanese)
• Computer Game Website (Japanese)
• The manga and anime in the Encyclopedia of Anime News Network (English)