[Himeji]

Originally Posted by Undertaker

... All this is sprung from Confucian teaching ...

Exactly. I mentioned that already at an earlier time.

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Originally Posted by Undertaker

Now the anime adaption deleted a few lines here ignore the scenes where they mention all those achievement were from elementary school to recently. Those added information made the situation more clear in novel. Kyosuke's logic here is to illustrate that ACG did not negatively impact Kirino's performance. She is still the same old Kirino with good grades and strong athletic performance.

The picture with Kuroneko and Saori is setup for later when he pulled out his father's scrap book of Kirino. The father originally had same view on modeling and fashion and ends up being secretly proud of Kirino's modeling job after he did his own research. Kyosuke point out that the two event were the same, that the father should judge ACG just by its cover and that ACG is the same as Kirino's modeling job in which both put smiles to Kirino's face.

So the father had the same prejudice towards modeling before? Doesn't surprise me one bit
They shouldn't have cut these things from the anime version, it really makes things clearer.

Originally Posted by Undertaker

Keep in mind, R18 is NOT ILLEGAL in Japan, it was only a rating system similar to parental guidance or ESRB in US.

That's another thing I already pointed out - and which was blatantly ignored by aerom,ono, who pigheadely insisted on how horrible R18 would be, without having the faintest clue about the rating system in Japan, and who even refused to read up on it when I pointed out the links to him
Some people really are learn-resistant.

Originally Posted by Undertaker

The choice Kyosuke was given includes HELP KIRINO, but he DID NOT SELECT IT. Instead Kyosuke picked HELP IMOUTO [LITTLE SISTER] which shows that he didn't do this because it's Kirino, but because it's his little sister.

Yes, he did it to protect his little sister, not to protect Kirino as a person. (The imouto game she had made him play also might have influenced this a bit.)

Originally Posted by Undertaker

As for reason why Kyosuke and Kirino's relation is this bad. That is a question that seems to be central mystery for the series, at least in original light novel as Kyosuke himself did not know how they grew apart and stated numerous times that they weren't like this before and noted that it's nostalgic whenever Kirino show her "cute" face. Although the novel has implied that certain character was a big reason why......

Let's see if the anime says anything about why their relationship was that bad before.