Ore no Imouto - Light Novel & Manga Discussion Thread

[seangel92]

Originally Posted by Birdway

I wonder why?

----

Now, being serious.

This volume left various loose ends and this is the supposed final? Even if the anime series come with the epilogue of the series I don't think that is gonna fix it up.

They could make it like the novel, deleting last kiss or without break up.

Who knows?.

[Tsuntenshi]

Originally Posted by Wilshere

Hmm,that isnt me thats some kuroneko fan posting this pic titled: ''Burn Kirino burn'',
why would I do this I am a Kirino shipper plus its kinda waste burning your own merchandise,some hardcore fans are pure idiots

Kuroneko fans are weird in the head TBH Its like they have this weird hatred against Kirino where suddenly everything is her fault.

Also whens the epilogue (or first volume for the anime) supposed to come out ? I didn't catch the details about it I probably missed anything about it skimming through.

[tommythecat]

Originally Posted by Tsuntenshi

Kuroneko fans are weird in the head TBH Its like they have this weird hatred against Kirino where suddenly everything is her fault.

Also whens the epilogue (or first volume for the anime) supposed to come out ? I didn't catch the details about it I probably missed anything about it skimming through.

The 16th, it is selling well right now.

[jandkas]

So kyousuke deciding to not choose anyone is real? Then that means this ending will be reflected in the 3 ovas coming out when?

[Breimoon]

why can't people just ship for all charas?? ... i like kirino, ayase, kuroneko , sakurai, kanako etc etc....YES , kirino is my favourite but it is not like i must hate the others....

[finalfury]

Originally Posted by tommythecat

The 16th, it is selling well right now.

Wait, what? Japanese audience who watch and have preordered the blu ray for this show, what is wrong with you? I expected the blu ray preorders to go down by at least 66%.
I'm thinking that following the first girl trope is some sort of unspoken rule now or something. Other light novels have ended based on that trope.

[Reisengard]

I am a Kuroneko fan, but I don't think this ending was bad. It may not be exactly how I wanted it, but I think it was a good ending, after all.

I can say, though, that I am feeling very melancholic since I heard the spoilers. I think my only problem with it is not knowing exactly how things went with Kuroneko. I hope the epilogue fixes it...

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by GDB

It's more that the ending completely sours any good feelings you may have towards the series. Even reading the parts you liked before would bring up memories of what you hated. Besides, this sort of behavior isn't bad at all if it helps people vent as opposed to those who just lose their shit and start threatening violence to real people (usually the writer).

That being said the only Oreimo merchandise I have is vol 1 of the manga, which I'll just trade or sell, but I had already decided to do that after not being pleased at all with the art or wording of the translation.

Yeah, that always made sense to me. A story certainly is a big thing from the start, journey, and ending. But a terrible ending definitely hurts. You can't just jump back into the good parts in the middle because you know how it all turns out. When the journey ends up driving into a garbage dump, what's the point?

Now I probably wouldn't burn my stuff, though it does sound like a good way to vent . And I think that's better than some of the alternatives. Unfortunately all you can do is chalk it up to another disappointing conclusion to a series and move on.

[virox]

Wouldn't it be more telling to just read some amazon.co.jp reviews? At least to get some opinions, it's usually the people who didn't like it to voice their hatred instead of those who liked it, but still.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BF%BA%E3...owViewpoints=1
Seems like the crowd is getting divided pretty quickly.

[tommythecat]

Originally Posted by virox

Wouldn't it be more telling to just read some amazon.co.jp reviews? At least to get some opinions, it's usually the people who didn't like it to voice their hatred instead of those who liked it, but still.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BF%BA%E3...owViewpoints=1
Seems like the crowd is getting divided pretty quickly.

Well barring the heavy shipping on either side of 1 and 5 you have a lot of different feelings about it in the middle. I can't claim it is shit since I've not read it but I certainly don't like how it played out so I'd probably end up rating it a 3 regardless of how funny it turns out being in between major events.

[finalfury]

Originally Posted by virox

Wouldn't it be more telling to just read some amazon.co.jp reviews? At least to get some opinions, it's usually the people who didn't like it to voice their hatred instead of those who liked it, but still.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BF%BA%E3...owViewpoints=1
Seems like the crowd is getting divided pretty quickly.

I pretty much gave up reading the opinions after seeing Accel World get a 1 star and Mahouka getting 2.5 stars. I mean really, come on.

[GDB]

The key is looking for reviews that are longer (to make parsing through them easier), and then look at the longer ones to see if it gives reasons or if it's just maniacal ranting.

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by finalfury

I'm thinking that following the first girl trope is some sort of unspoken rule now or something. Other light novels have ended based on that trope.

The trope dates back to Love Hina (manga from the late '90s) and before. Another story where the plot line just screamed for the protagonist to pick another character, over half of the series was spent developing that route, but the protagonist was basically kept jerking back to the "first girl" to the end.

There's probably some underlying gurgle that advocates this as some sort of "loyalty" but sometimes my only recourse is "thank god girl-left-out-in-the-cold wasn't trapped by that massive idiot".

[dragon1412]

Originally Posted by GDB

The key is looking for reviews that are longer (to make parsing through them easier), and then look at the longer ones to see if it gives reasons or if it's just maniacal ranting.

Really, i have given up amazon review a long time ago, especially with novel, there are some rant that can reach an entire paragraph back in the day of Shana and Toradora>

[Kakurin]

Onwards...

Spoiler for Chapter 1 continuation:

- They finally enter the shop and see loads of manga, novels etc. Kyousuke thinks that with the setup it really is convenient for the people in the line to grab the newest releases.
- Kyousuke says to himself, that there probably is no other couple that comes here to buy eroge...?
- "This... what should we do if you want to buy games? There are none of those next to the line." "Just tell the name directly to a staff person." ".... I see."
- Kyousuke thinks, that increases the difficulty... three years ago he would have been quite happy doing this (note how he once again refers to the past him), but now he wouldn't get excited at the prospect of doing such an embarrassing thing.
- As they speak, the line progresses pretty quickly. It's already the turn of the infamous couple ahead of them. The guy says:
- "Ahm, I want to buy a game." "Ok, please tell me the title." "Please give me 'All-men's Christmas'" (we can guess, who this is, right )

- "..... what? Ahm..."
- "Please give the new BL release 'All-men's Christmas' (note, this is probably a bad translation, but I am too lazy to find an appropriate translation)"
- "All-men's Christmas it is... please wait a minute"
- Kyousuke thinks, the poor cashier, her smile has completely faded
- The guy then asks for some limited edition dakimakura, Kyousuke is shocked.
- "Se... Sena-chi?"
- "Ki, ki, ki... Kirino-chan!? Why are you here!"
- "I should ask you that, Sena-chi!"
- Well, as it turned out, the couple ahead of them were none other than the Akagis, Kyousuke of course wants no part of showing he knows Akagai Kohei, but alas, no way around it.
- ".... what are you doing..."
- "You, you will understand once you look at it. For the couple's discount and the couple's limited product." "With your imouto?" "Yo!"
- "It's Christmas and you come to Akiba to buy a game? ... Really, what are you doing?" (as if they had a right to complain...)
- "Wh.. Why do you care?"
- "I'm saying, the idiot couple ahead of us, that was playing lovey-dovey, were you guys!"
- "You are siblings, what in the world are you doing!"
- Me and Kirino buttered into them at the same time. (What a couple...)
- Sena quickly waved her hand: "It... It's not like that! If you are not recognized as a couple then! Th... th... th... Therefore we had no choice!"
Ah, so dumb, uttering something like that in this setting.
- "Dear customers, may I ask whether you really are a couple?"
- See, you revealed it to the cashier!
- "Eh, this, this.... this..." Sena broke into cold sweat.
- Kouhei then 'rescues' the situation by calmly hugging Sena with one arm and says: "Even though we are siblings, we also are lovers ---- Nee-san, got a problem with that?" (the illustration is of this scene)
- "...............no" (What? Well, perhaps the shock.)
- Akagi is so cool--! Like that the staff can't do anything else than accept!
- What is this nii-san doing! Even though its disgusting, it's also very cool---!!
- "O...o..o...o...Onii-san, what are you saying?" Sena is so embarrassed, that she seems to be on the verge of dying.
- So pitiable... no, that's her own fault. The main culprit for this situation is 100% this woman.
- Kirino turns around and whispers into Kyousuke's ear: ".....Sena-chi's brother is really terrific [handling this situation]." "Yes, right?" "No wonder he's your friend...."
- "Don't group me and him together!"

Edit: Some Chinese Kirino-shippers already set a scanned version of the wedding-kiss as their background

[finalfury]

Originally Posted by SigUp

Onwards...

Spoiler for Chapter 1 continuation:

- They finally enter the shop and see loads of manga, novels etc. Kyousuke thinks that with the setup it really is convenient for the people in the line to grab the newest releases.
- Kyousuke says to himself, that there probably is no other couple that comes here to buy eroge...?
- "This... what should we do if you want to buy games? There are none of those next to the line." "Just tell the name directly to a staff person." ".... I see."
- Kyousuke thinks, that increases the difficulty... three years ago he would have been quite happy doing this (note how he once again refers to the past him), but now he wouldn't get excited at the prospect of doing such an embarrassing thing.
- As they speak, the line progresses pretty quickly. It's already the turn of the infamous couple ahead of them. The guy says:
- "Ahm, I want to buy a game." "Ok, please tell me the title." "Please give me 'All-men's Christmas'" (we can guess, who this is, right )

- "..... what? Ahm..."
- "Please give the new BL release 'All-men's Christmas' (note, this is probably a bad translation, but I am too lazy to find an appropriate translation)"
- "All-men's Christmas it is... please wait a minute"
- Kyousuke thinks, the poor cashier, her smile has completely faded
- The guy then asks for some limited edition dakimakura, Kyousuke is shocked.
- "Se... Sena-chi?"
- "Ki, ki, ki... Kirino-chan!? Why are you here!"
- "I should ask you that, Sena-chi!"
- Well, as it turned out, the couple ahead of them were none other than the Akagis, Kyousuke of course wants no part of showing he knows Akagai Kohei, but alas, no way around it.
- ".... what are you doing..."
- "You, you will understand once you look at it. For the couple's discount and the couple's limited product." "With your imouto?" "Yo!"
- "It's Christmas and you come to Akiba to buy a game? ... Really, what are you doing?" (as if they had a right to complain...)
- "Wh.. Why do you care?"
- "I'm saying, the idiot couple ahead of us, that was playing lovey-dovey, were you guys!"
- "You are siblings, what in the world are you doing!"
- Me and Kirino buttered into them at the same time. (What a couple...)
- Sena quickly waved her hand: "It... It's not like that! If you are not recognized as a couple then! Th... th... th... Therefore we had no choice!"
Ah, so dumb, uttering something like that in this setting.
- "Dear customers, may I ask whether you really are a couple?"
- See, you revealed it to the cashier!
- "Eh, this, this.... this..." Sena broke into cold sweat.
- Kouhei then 'rescues' the situation by calmly hugging Sena with one arm and says: "Even though we are siblings, we also are lovers ---- Nee-san, got a problem with that?" (the illustration is of this scene)
- "...............no" (What? Well, perhaps the shock.)
- Akagi is so cool--! Like that the staff can't do anything else than accept!
- What is this nii-san doing! Even though its disgusting, it's also very cool---!!
- "O...o..o...o...Onii-san, what are you saying?" Sena is so embarrassed, that she seems to be on the verge of dying.
- So pitiable... no, that's her own fault. The main culprit for this situation is 100% this woman.
- Kirino turns around and whispers into Kyousuke's ear: ".....Sena-chi's brother is really terrific [handling this situation]." "Yes, right?" "No wonder he's your friend...."
- "Don't group me and him together!"

Wow, that was interesting.

[seangel92]

Originally Posted by SigUp

Onwards...

Spoiler for Chapter 1 continuation:

- They finally enter the shop and see loads of manga, novels etc. Kyousuke thinks that with the setup it really is convenient for the people in the line to grab the newest releases.
- Kyousuke says to himself, that there probably is no other couple that comes here to buy eroge...?
- "This... what should we do if you want to buy games? There are none of those next to the line." "Just tell the name directly to a staff person." ".... I see."
- Kyousuke thinks, that increases the difficulty... three years ago he would have been quite happy doing this (note how he once again refers to the past him), but now he wouldn't get excited at the prospect of doing such an embarrassing thing.
- As they speak, the line progresses pretty quickly. It's already the turn of the infamous couple ahead of them. The guy says:
- "Ahm, I want to buy a game." "Ok, please tell me the title." "Please give me 'All-men's Christmas'" (we can guess, who this is, right )

- "..... what? Ahm..."
- "Please give the new BL release 'All-men's Christmas' (note, this is probably a bad translation, but I am too lazy to find an appropriate translation)"
- "All-men's Christmas it is... please wait a minute"
- Kyousuke thinks, the poor cashier, her smile has completely faded
- The guy then asks for some limited edition dakimakura, Kyousuke is shocked.
- "Se... Sena-chi?"
- "Ki, ki, ki... Kirino-chan!? Why are you here!"
- "I should ask you that, Sena-chi!"
- Well, as it turned out, the couple ahead of them were none other than the Akagis, Kyousuke of course wants no part of showing he knows Akagai Kohei, but alas, no way around it.
- ".... what are you doing..."
- "You, you will understand once you look at it. For the couple's discount and the couple's limited product." "With your imouto?" "Yo!"
- "It's Christmas and you come to Akiba to buy a game? ... Really, what are you doing?" (as if they had a right to complain...)
- "Wh.. Why do you care?"
- "I'm saying, the idiot couple ahead of us, that was playing lovey-dovey, were you guys!"
- "You are siblings, what in the world are you doing!"
- Me and Kirino buttered into them at the same time. (What a couple...)
- Sena quickly waved her hand: "It... It's not like that! If you are not recognized as a couple then! Th... th... th... Therefore we had no choice!"
Ah, so dumb, uttering something like that in this setting.
- "Dear customers, may I ask whether you really are a couple?"
- See, you revealed it to the cashier!
- "Eh, this, this.... this..." Sena broke into cold sweat.
- Kouhei then 'rescues' the situation by calmly hugging Sena with one arm and says: "Even though we are siblings, we also are lovers ---- Nee-san, got a problem with that?" (the illustration is of this scene)
- "...............no" (What? Well, perhaps the shock.)
- Akagi is so cool--! Like that the staff can't do anything else than accept!
- What is this nii-san doing! Even though its disgusting, it's also very cool---!!
- "O...o..o...o...Onii-san, what are you saying?" Sena is so embarrassed, that she seems to be on the verge of dying.
- So pitiable... no, that's her own fault. The main culprit for this situation is 100% this woman.
- Kirino turns around and whispers into Kyousuke's ear: ".....Sena-chi's brother is really terrific [handling this situation]." "Yes, right?" "No wonder he's your friend...."
- "Don't group me and him together!"

Edit: Some Chinese Kirino-shippers already set a scanned version of the wedding-kiss as their background

Link, please D:

[Shinhwa]

Incest ending... how nice... Hmm..... *leaves with disappointment >_<*

[Sakuratsuki]

Originally Posted by SigUp

Onwards...

Spoiler for Chapter 1 continuation:

- They finally enter the shop and see loads of manga, novels etc. Kyousuke thinks that with the setup it really is convenient for the people in the line to grab the newest releases.
- Kyousuke says to himself, that there probably is no other couple that comes here to buy eroge...?
- "This... what should we do if you want to buy games? There are none of those next to the line." "Just tell the name directly to a staff person." ".... I see."
- Kyousuke thinks, that increases the difficulty... three years ago he would have been quite happy doing this (note how he once again refers to the past him), but now he wouldn't get excited at the prospect of doing such an embarrassing thing.
- As they speak, the line progresses pretty quickly. It's already the turn of the infamous couple ahead of them. The guy says:
- "Ahm, I want to buy a game." "Ok, please tell me the title." "Please give me 'All-men's Christmas'" (we can guess, who this is, right )

- "..... what? Ahm..."
- "Please give the new BL release 'All-men's Christmas' (note, this is probably a bad translation, but I am too lazy to find an appropriate translation)"
- "All-men's Christmas it is... please wait a minute"
- Kyousuke thinks, the poor cashier, her smile has completely faded
- The guy then asks for some limited edition dakimakura, Kyousuke is shocked.
- "Se... Sena-chi?"
- "Ki, ki, ki... Kirino-chan!? Why are you here!"
- "I should ask you that, Sena-chi!"
- Well, as it turned out, the couple ahead of them were none other than the Akagis, Kyousuke of course wants no part of showing he knows Akagai Kohei, but alas, no way around it.
- ".... what are you doing..."
- "You, you will understand once you look at it. For the couple's discount and the couple's limited product." "With your imouto?" "Yo!"
- "It's Christmas and you come to Akiba to buy a game? ... Really, what are you doing?" (as if they had a right to complain...)
- "Wh.. Why do you care?"
- "I'm saying, the idiot couple ahead of us, that was playing lovey-dovey, were you guys!"
- "You are siblings, what in the world are you doing!"
- Me and Kirino buttered into them at the same time. (What a couple...)
- Sena quickly waved her hand: "It... It's not like that! If you are not recognized as a couple then! Th... th... th... Therefore we had no choice!"
Ah, so dumb, uttering something like that in this setting.
- "Dear customers, may I ask whether you really are a couple?"
- See, you revealed it to the cashier!
- "Eh, this, this.... this..." Sena broke into cold sweat.
- Kouhei then 'rescues' the situation by calmly hugging Sena with one arm and says: "Even though we are siblings, we also are lovers ---- Nee-san, got a problem with that?" (the illustration is of this scene)
- "...............no" (What? Well, perhaps the shock.)
- Akagi is so cool--! Like that the staff can't do anything else than accept!
- What is this nii-san doing! Even though its disgusting, it's also very cool---!!
- "O...o..o...o...Onii-san, what are you saying?" Sena is so embarrassed, that she seems to be on the verge of dying.
- So pitiable... no, that's her own fault. The main culprit for this situation is 100% this woman.
- Kirino turns around and whispers into Kyousuke's ear: ".....Sena-chi's brother is really terrific [handling this situation]." "Yes, right?" "No wonder he's your friend...."
- "Don't group me and him together!"

Edit: Some Chinese Kirino-shippers already set a scanned version of the wedding-kiss as their background

I will change my avatar at animesuki in a short while to kirino also. KIRINO ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!

[Kakurin]

I've a hard time catching up to the original translator... perhaps with night in China I can get even.

Spoiler for Continuation Volume 12:

- Akagi completes the purchase, while maintaining that cool aura.
- Kyousuke says to himself that in certain kind of situations he certainly acts like a pervert, but he compared to Akagi he is a little kitten (I took my liberty in translating that construction)
- Kyousuke continues his inner monologue, that posing as a couple is already incredible enough, but acting lovey-dovey like a stupid couple is really mind-boggling. He assures the reader, that he is not envious of Akagi in any way!
- He then continues about, how incredible Akagi is in the way he requested that game.
- Then Kyousuke himself, of course, calmly and decisively asks for an eroge 'Christmas, Holy Night' (once again, too lazy to look for a proper translation) and a limited special edition product.

- ".... was there a need to say that in such a big voice?" "The more decisive you are, the less embarrased you are, right?"
- "I am not talking about you! I'm saying that I was very embarrassed! 'The boyfriend of that super-cute girl is really buying an eroge!' Speaking this these people were pointing towards me!"
- "This eroge was bought on behalf of you anyway." "Right now it's not time to talk about this issue!"
- The continue their quarrel, even as the go into other stores to shop. Even though their main objective was participating in that event, they of course have to go and look in other stores. Kyousuke says to himself that this is probably the way how Otakus behave.
- After finishing the shopping spree they start to walk back towards the station. Kyousuke's arms and shoulders are packed with Kirino's merchandise. It's 2PM.
- "You have been pouting long enough. Now, look at this." Kyousuke takes out that special limited product they bought and gives it to his imouto-loving imouto.
- "You, you really believe that you can calm me down using this................ Heh~ It's so cute ♡" (I think the merchandise is some kind of H Christmas eve figurine, not sure though)
- Now, you calmed down in an instant! Even I am astonished. It was very effective...
- Kirino then says something about that figurine, and points out the discount it was given.
- Kyousuke asks her, that whether she really thinks he can identify the worth of such a product by the pattern of the clothing.
- Kirino says, by the look of him she would say yes.
- Kyousuke: "Ah, let it be... we are at the station. If somebody spots that they will say 'Uh, this cool guy's girlfriend is happily pulling the skirt on that ero-figure' while pointing at us"
- "How can that be?" Kirino gives him a cold stare. "Ok, take that."
- With this they leave Akiba.