Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai.

If you liked or even slightly appreciated this show at all don't read or comment or rate this review in anyway just get out. This isn't for you this is for everybody who hated or has yet to see this show.

Secondly if you are thinking of watching this show DON'T DO IT. You'll hate your life and it will make you beyond depressed. DON'T DO IT.

Overall (after season 1) I had hope for this show. A lot of hope actually. But it didn't even try to make the story worthwhile. It became a game to see how many girls he could make cry in the ... space of three episodes (the last three) and then after he picks the girl he wants aka his sister (yes this is incest) they stop dating. Basically leaving him with no girls at all from where before he has five bitches/lovely ladies to choose from. He could have had a loli, a childhood friend, a hot model girlfriend but no. He chooses his annoying little sister, who he knows is annoying and doesn't even make it last. I really hope this writer is happy because I'm not. Pathetic writing. I get that it's different but you shouldn't write to just depress your audience. I can even do that, shit I could make the whole world cry from a story if i wanted to. Getting them attached to a character or even a set of characters then systematically tear their love life apart easily without feeling. That's why this anime sucks. Waste of animation budget that could have been used on something else. This may seem like a nerd rant but seriously think of it this way. If you don't have a girlfriend/wife/lover/etc (if you do pretend you don't) and then imagine you have all these girls around you wanting to be your special lover. Most are willing to do about anything. Now reject each and everyone, watch them cry without feeling sad. That is feeling this anime gave me. If you love watching girls cry go ahead watch this anime, otherwise run, run and never look back at this crapfest. goodbye fellas next review is Seikon No Qwaser.. I'm not excited about it either.

OreImo is back! Now with more fanservice and less fun!

No but really, when I heard OreImo gets a second season I was pretty excited. I loved the first season, it was really entertaining and I had a blast with it. It wasn’t anything great but a good laugh and a lot of Otaku references.

With season 2 though a lot of this changed. I’m not sure if it is me that changed or if A1 Pictures is at fault, or even if the source material is not that good. But season 2 was the biggest disappointment of the year so far.

Story/Content

Kyouske and his sister Kirino are ... back, this time it revolved all around their relationship and more drama/romance as in contrast to the first season which had more comedy.
It’s not that Season2 didn’t have any comedy, but just not as much.
The start is slow and not very good, it gets scattered episodes that are actually enjoyable only to mix in the ones that are bad.

It just doesn’t work. The romance part of the show should a) not be with Kirino and her Brother and b) not so dramatic.
Everything is just really unrealistic and over the top, you cannot make real drama seem appropriate in a show that is so nonsensical. It harmed the overall feel of the show big time and I was mostly at the verge of dropping it.

Thank goodness the last episode was actually good, so I’m not writing this with fury but rather a calm disappointed aftertaste of what the show was in general.

Characters

While everyone was as they were in season 1, it kinda felt like a magical reset. I know they want you to get into it again, but the feeling of starting from 0 was still there.
We got some insight on other characters this time but nothing that had any impact on the show overall.
I mean what was the point of a backdrop for Saori if she is missing most of the time?
I mean nice to know what other people have as backdrop but in the end the focus was on Kirino.
Even the hoped for romance between Kuroneko and Kyousuke was disappointing and went nowhere.
And the worst of it all was Kirino, as she was a worse TSUNdere than ever.

The focus was weak this season, everyone got a tiny bit only to be sacrificed by Kirino which pissed a lot of people off.

Art and Animation

The original was done by studio AIC, this time A1 Picture did the job.
Normally A1 has pretty good production values, and it’s not like OreImo looked bad, but an average looking show can’t be helped.
What we did get though were a lot of asses.

I mean A1 Pictures kinda needs to squeeze in a lot of Ass-Fanservice in every show they make, at least that’s what I see.
It’s not really that it would ruin the show, since it is already not a serious show to begin with, so fanservice doesn’t ruin it. But the amount of it was definitely increased.

The rest is the same, character designs look pretty bland, the sceneries are just as underwhelming, and animation is average stuff.

Not the worst looking show of the season, but sure right in the middle of mediocre.

Sound

Even worse is the music in OreImo 2. I can’t quite remember what it sounded like in season one, but I guess it wasn’t much better.
The opening is cheezy and the general BGM just fitting but not great.

Voice actors are you normal to good modern presentation. I mean we have Kana Hanazawa and Yuuichi Nakamura. They are all talented so yeah it’s good.

Enjoyment

Well apart from a few episodes or scenes season 2 was a let down. I sometimes even hated it and just wanted to throw my computer out the window on how bad it was.
While the enjoyable episodes were good enough to fill my sparse free time with some good moments.
The last episode really helped the show not to leave behind this image of the worst thing ever in my memory.
But I guess this is it for me. If a season 3 comes out, nope thank you. It’s not worth it anymore and it lost its magic.

Scores:

Content 4/10

Premise and Setting 0 (same as before, also not great)
Genre Execution -1 (compared to season 2 a failure)
Dialogues and Cleverness 0 (not as funny as season 2 but had its moments)
Interest keeping 0 (sometimes I thought I’d drop it, but then it saved it with a good episode)

Characters 4/10

Personality 0 (cliches but fun to watch)
Behavior and Chemistry 0 (enjoyable from time to time)
Development and Progression 0 (not really there)
Motivation and Backdrop +1 (we actually got some backdrop for some of the characters)
Likability 0 (while some of them are very likable, Kirino is not)

Art and Animation 4/10

Artstyle 0 (generic)
Quality 0 (okay)
Background 0 (unremarkable)
Character Designs -1 (cheap looking)
Visual Effects 0 (used not often)

Sound 5/10

Voice Acting +1 (many talented people)
Opening and Ending -1 (waaaaay too cheesy)
Soundtrack 0 (uninteresting)
Sound Effects 0 (the usual)

Enjoyment 4/10

Art and Animation 0 (okay)
Sound 0 (almost bad, but voice actors are good enough to enjoy it nonetheless)
Story and Content -1 (too many annoying episodes)
Characters 0 (a different focus would have made it better)
Value 0 (unlike season 1 I will hopefully forget about this one)

Conclusion

OreImo2 is my disappointment of the year... It’s sad and it made me angry. Suddenly I focused too much on the bad aspects of the show and couldn’t enjoy myself like I used to in season 1.
While it ends not as terrible as it starts out, it still was just very bad overall.

4,2/10
~4/10 (bad)

For more detailed reviews I recommend reading the earlier reviewers. I have only this to say:

I didn't do any research before starting this story so I had no idea what I was going into. First I read the short manga and then just had to see the anime how the story progresses. I really had high hopes that the tale wouldn't be about romantic relations with siblings. Of course I was wrong and wasted a lot of time to see incest romance unravel itself.

Why did I keep watching? Because I honestly thought that this would be a nice tale about brother and sister who regain ... their relationship as normal siblings. Oh how was I disappointed.

Story is rubbish and even though it's a cliche: You see the rushed ending coming a mile away. Seriously don't waste your time. Learn from my mistakes. There isn't even any depth to the topic of incest. I wish I never watched this.

Season 1 was stellar. Every episode was outstanding.
Season 2, Episode on episode got worse and worse, then all respect I had left for the little plot development dropped like a lead balloon on conclusion.

After the first season, it was right up there as one of my top 5 animes, but dropped so hard and fast that by the end of season 2, I wanted to wipe all memory of it and claw my eyes out with a rake.
Kuroneko was awesome, but I always saw Kyosuke with Manami, though I would have been happy with a conclusion with either.
I never really liked Ayase, but heck, that ... would have been better than what we got.

This anime is a clear example of when you have a masterpiece of a series or film, despite wanting to see more of it, it's best to leave it well alone.

If you've not seen this anime, then don't.
Or watch Season one, then resist every temptation to see the world, plot and characters come crashing down to fanservice hell.

Oh my, this series took a real nosedive in the second season.

All inclusive, the whole series (all episodes from both seasons) was an interesting ride to say the least. It started off so strong, limped through the back half off of it's story, and then fell flat on it's face right before the end in one of the biggest ass pulls I've seen in anime. I don't even have a metric for this because this is the literal worst endings I have seen, but I'll get to that.

TL;DR: Overall I enjoyed this series, it had a lot to say about the perspective ... of how people pursue their hobbies and frames the otaku culture as something that, while not without flaws, cannot be labeled as an immediate negative in someone's life. Even if this topic is constructed within a pretty vanilla harem series with only one male character worth mentioning, it explored the ideas of what makes someone who they are and the risk of losing their identity if even a small part of that was removed from their life. I actually enjoyed the whole ride along... until the end.

My breakdown through MAL's separation of episodes are as follows:

Season 1
- Episodes 1-13: 6
- Episodes 14-16: 7

Season 2
- Episodes 1-13: 3
- Episodes 14-16: 1

I have decided to put this all encompassing review in this part because it is last full season and not a part of MAL's classification of "specials." As per request of MAL's guidelines, I will attempt to voice my reasons for these scores without spoiling major plot points, but here is your official spoiler warning.

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD***

Story:
This was by far the strongest part of this series as a whole. It was probably the only reason I watched the second season in it's entirety seeing as the major themes had been explored to an acceptable degree, the characters have all had "their arc," and the ending (whichever one you prefer) had closure for the main arc. Season two just tried to milk all the goodwill that the series had earned through its first arc. I will say that it did not help that I was watching this through Crunchyroll which did not have the specials so upon watching the first episode of the second season I was confused about all this story that I missed. I was undoubtedly frustrated upon returning to this episode which may have colored my consumption of the first two episodes in a slightly more negative light than deserved. However, this was not earned back upon a rewatch of the first episodes of the second season.

To me, this story appeals to me more as a study of the community aspect of otaku culture and self identity, and less so as a "bed the sister tale." I would be lying if I said that there weren't moments where the brother-sister relationship didn't speak to me as my sister and I went through a similar experience of being good friends as little kids, growing a part as I moved into high school, and becoming better siblings upon the realization that we were both into anime. I really enjoyed how their relationship developed from circumstance and blossomed into a believable, if a bit extreme, functional brother-sister relationship.

I want to take a moment to address that the “bed the sister” part of the story did not really bother me from a storytelling point of view. I cannot shake that I am a bit bothered by the reality of incest and avoid it wherever I can, but did not distract me from the relationship that Kirino and Kyousuke developed. I thought it was something that developed over time instead of coming out of nowhere like some other characters in this show. Make no mistake that it is entirely possible to have a distaste for incest relationships and observe one develop.

Getting back on track, I thought that the structure and pacing of the first season was on point. It established our characters, led them through a few trials and tribulations, and brought all the tension to a head right when the relationships between Kyousuke and his harem had been touched on. I was thoroughly crushed when I saw the bad ending for the first time. All that progress that he had made in mending his relationship just dropped like a rock with no pretenses, no warning. That stuck with me. I felt abandoned, but in a way that I didn’t feel betrayed by the story. If the series had ended there, it would have been a fairly average series that made its mark on the anime landscape with a small cast of intimate and likable characters that struggled through something together and all of them became better because of the experience.

But no, the show must go on. How could we end with Kirino disappearing without telling anybody? Will Kyousuke bed his sister? What will become of Kuroneko and Saori? I’m sure fans that didn’t read the manga were left wanting to find out what happened to the group. I have to admit, I was one of those people. I wanted to see what the heck happened, and so I went onto season two… But not without detour since episodes 14-16 were not on Crunchyroll. I actually liked these specials even more because it answered some of these questions. Unfortunately, they also brought up more questions and left me wanting more.

However, it was a trap! Oh my, did the story take a big dump on itself and devolve into a bait harem show. The writing was on the walls when I could tell that Manami was going to be a real contender for Kyousuke’s affection, but no it didn’t stop there. Every girl that was wasn’t Kyousuke’s mother (and the one girl from the computer club who was a yaoi fantasizer) had to have it, and they will not be denied. By the end, there were six girls fighting over him. I get it, it is supposed to be a male fantasy, but that was obnoxious at best and disgusting at worst. I will remind you that with the exception of Saori who’s age was not explicitly made clear to me (I may have missed it), all of these girls are in middle or high school, but all want to take care of him like a housewife would. Maybe I was just not aware of this in the first season, but the characters in the second season have the agency of adults. We only get a glimpse of the Kousaka family’s parental figures (Kuroneko’s parents are oddly missing from the picture), but Kyousuke had to sneak out in the middle of the night and lie to his parents to do some of the favors for Kirino, but in the second season, it seems like they can just do whatever they wanted without much consequence.

Another thing I have to give the story credit for is that is atypical of harem shows is that, despite his indecisiveness, Kyousuke actually chose who he wanted to be with in the end and rejected all the other girls with absolute clarity. I have to applaud this because I’m so sick and tired of shows slogging through themselves and ultimately come to no conclusion because the main guy is indecisive or none of the girls will admit that they love him. This show had the balls to not only have all the girls state their affection and get rejected. This surely will come to a satisfying conclusion right?

Baited and outsmarted. Not by episode 13, that one didn’t need to exist. It could have been put in the beginning of the series and made a heck of a lot more sense, or omitted entirely and the show would not have lost anything other than showing young Kyousuke, Kirino, and Manami. But, goddammit I have never been more pissed at an ending ever in my life. I don’t have the expansive knowledge of anime like some people, but I have wanted enough romantic comedies and harem shows to be thoroughly disappointed by how the main couple, or any of the relationships never take flight. It is almost a staple of the genre and I was ready for this story to take that chance and actually make an actual couple out of the characters that went for it and sacrificed everything in order to accomplish it. So, what did they do with it? The ending has no metric for disappointment, simply because it blows all the other unsatisfying and rage inducing endings out of the water. I’ve seen this ending compared to the ending of Berserk which has an infamous ending that angered a lot of the fanbase. However, from what I’ve heard from different reviews was that it was infuriating, but it made sense. The ending has no logic. No rhyme. No reason to go off of. Kyousuke and Kirino had nothing to gain from having that kind of relationship last for the time that it did. Even if you go to the extreme and say that they had sex (mission accomplished right?), it doesn’t make this logic any less broken and undercut the last 4+ episodes of cutting down possible relationships just to have this one. In the end, what did that get them? They went right back to being siblings. The only possible thing that I can think of that makes any amount of sense for myself is that they had sex, got over the appeal of it, and returned to their season one interactions, just without the incest undertones.

A Quick Note:
For the rest of this review I will be separating my critique between season one and season two. This is because the story, and to some extent its characters, can be mostly judged as a whole because it is a light novel adaptation and the high points and flaws can be attributed to the source material. Outside of the character development, the rest of the anime is left up to its adaptation. Season one was adapted by AIC Build and season two was adapted by A1 Pictures. While both of these studios are under Aniplex, I got the impression that the two seasons were treated VERY differently. I will make it clear that I hate A1 Pictures and what they have created for shows like this. Their apparent lack of effort towards some of their works is just horrific and most of it comes in the form of its art.

Art
The first season was nothing special. The character designs of the girls were all fairly cute, even if some of them were a bit generic. I was never blown away with any of the animation, but I was never distracted by it either. The settings and set pieces followed suit. The animation was fairly consistent and standard. It was solid. 5/10

The second season was an abomination, mostly in the animation department. There were multiple times per episode where I would be distracted by background characters frozen in space in an expression that I was hard pressed to believe anybody would keep. The classroom scenes were the biggest offenders of this. There was also an over-reliance on panning shots on still images. While this is an acceptable, even if low effort, way to do establishing shots, but when there are times where characters would actually cover each others’ mouths in order to not show them talking. Now I don’t know the actual amount of frames that this actually saves, but this is just unacceptable in scenes where there is no need for it. Other times speaking characters would be on the wrong side of the shot, reverse shot camera technique to show the black expression. My biggest complaint was the overuse of previously animated footage that seemed to infect all parts of the second season after the first couple of episodes. Some of these were even shot for shot copies of previous part in the anime with different outfits. These techniques and more were pervasive throughout the second season and whether I just didn’t notice any of this in the first season or they did not bother me, this wasn’t abused to the extent it was in the second half.

My main complaint of A1 Pictures as a whole is that their animation is garbage as a whole. That’s not to say that they cannot animate at all, there are some scenes and still images that are well designed, but when these shots make up maybe 10% of the runtime of the entire episode, I have to call them out somewhere. It is all that more apparent in a series like this where two different studios are in charge of two different seasons. I would have to say that the second season had about 10% of its animation on par or slightly above the first season as a whole, and the other 90% was drastically worse. This is most apparent in shots where the characters are in crowds of people. Rarely did I see these characters have any sort of attention to their movements outside of the Meruru concerts, and even then there were times where the concert would be in full swing and there would be people in the background standing still not doing anything. I do not understand that at all.

I generally parse the bad from the good when I see a scene where extras are visible, but the focus is supposed to be on the main characters. Do these extras have any distinct features? Are they dressed appropriately for the weather and time of day? Are they moving? If they are standing still, are they standing still for a believable reason? Even if they look like a real person, if all these conditions aren’t met, it throws me off. If extras are going to be treated without much if any care, it has to be a conscious style choice. Good examples of this are Acchi Kocchi (where everyone outside of the cast is a white figure) and Kill La Kill (where all the extras have the exact same design because they are mindless drones). In both of these series, a significant less time was devoted to the design of the extras, but they communicate to the viewer that they are not relevant to the story and I don’t need to pay any attention to them. In season two, and other A1 Pictures shows, extras are given character designs, but they are given just enough detail to be distinct from one another, but not enough to be believable to me at least. I was so distracted by this, that anything new artwise (read not much considering they go a grand total of five new locations and 3 of them are rooms) totally flew under the radar of garbage that was the second season’s animation. 1/10

As a side note, the decision to include random bits of A1 works like SAO into the show rubs me in a way that fuels the rage of a thousand nerds getting 360 no scoped in Call of Duty… It’s annoying, I hate it, and I wish A1 Pictures would stop doing it.

Sound:
The sound design was not to my taste. It didn’t so much convey an emotion, but rather pull one out of me. Scene that’s supposed to be funny? Better start the funny music! Have a heartfelt moment coming up? Queue the feels track! The tracks all fit the scenes they were in, but I am not sure if that is because I am or was conditioned to feel that way with the sounds. I found this annoying in the first season (3/10) and unbearable in the second season (2/10). The best scenes in this series where the music was either so quiet that the characters overpowered them, or there was none at all.

Character:
As a whole, I liked the cast of the show, but man were they generic as can be. Kyousuke was a generic main character in a romance or harem series. He’s generally well mannered, extremely nice, reliable, etc. Everything that you want your main character to be for the rest of the harem. Kirino is a typical tsundere, but she has a reason to be initially abrasive towards her brother. She loved her brother in the past, but hates the person he’s become from her perspective. Kuroneko is a deadpan loli. She’s shy and tries to keep up this role player persona because she loves the show MASCHERA. Saori is a split between a rich girl and a generic otaku. I appreciate that the show explored why she was the way she is, but the execution in certain parts was odd to say the least.

The rest of the supporting cast are one note characters. To complete the harem, there is Manami, Ayase, and Kanako who are as follows: childhood friend, tsundere (type B), and bitchy. Manami is the only one of the three who like the main character who is given any sort of explanation, but most of this boils down to “because childhood friend.” I still don’t know why Kanako confessed to Kyousuke. I guess it is because he was her first fan as an idol, I’m not sure but that’s my best guess. The mother is a generic loving mother and the father is a hardass.

I admittedly liked the dad and Kuroneko the best, but that is more due to personal preference because they’re still fairly generic. Manami’s grandparents were amusing in their own right, but they weren’t very relevant other than to provide suggestions that Kyousuke and Manami were childhood friends who “should get married already.” At least they had the decency to serve their purpose and then never show up again, unlike many of the other supporting cast that just seemed to randomly appear because they appeared once. Even the girl who bought the first doujin randomly showed up in the line to the next event because why not. The biggest offender of this was Mikagami Kouki. Why did he join the computer club at a different school? Why was he there after Kyousuke’s graduation? He should have disappeared after the whole fake boyfriend arc was done.

In the first season, all the generic characters of the show were given the agency of middle and high schoolers. As I previously stated, Kyousuke and Kouhei had to lie to their parents about where they were at night so they could sneak out and buy eroge for their little sisters. While this is a small detail, it made them believable high schoolers. This was done time and time again throughout the first season to show the audience that these were in fact teenagers with no real agency over their lives. Is it weird that Kirino is a successful model? A little bit, but they weave that into the story very well. Her friends are all models who happen to go to her school, she dresses very stylishly, she has to hide her otaku side from said friends, she uses her money from modeling to buy eroge, and she’s a knockout by middle school standards. I know if she went to my middle school, she would have been the asked out constantly and while this was never shown, it was mentioned more than once in the anime. The main cast all have fairly well knit characters before they even come together. This breaks down as the cast gets less and less relevant, but I believe that the characters were created with purpose and placed in a realistic world that would treat them as such. You know, minus the whole shouting in public that either nobody hears or cares about that seems to be pervasive of anime characters. (4/10)

In the second season, all of this goes to shit. Parents questioning where Kirino and Kyousuke are going constantly together? Is this a restriction meant to convey that they are kids? Nope, it’s a plot device to see who gets to play housewife. Kuroneko moves without saying anything? Family trip, but she’s out wandering alone in an unfamiliar town. Also Kirino and Kyousuke just get there without any sort of parental supervision. Yes Kirino did this when she went to America, but she went to a track and field camp for kids her age where you can safely assume it would be run by adults. Kyousuke wants to have a hotel room for himself and a girl? No problem! Nevermind he doesn’t have a job unless that manager thing actually pays. The second season abandons the fact that these are still kids outside of maybe Saori, who in one episode can rent a hotel room, custom order cosplay, and manages at least one servant, but by the end of the season is trying to take Kyousuke for herself for no apparent reason. The fact that they’re all still generic and the supporting cast of girls are given little to no reason to like Kyousuke other than “They are girls… They have speaking lines… They’re in a light novel adaptation… What else could they be doing?” (Digibro, The Asterisk War Sucks series). It’s all just terrible and it abandoned the one thing anchoring the characters in reality. The only thing moment of characterization that saves this from being a 1 is Kuroneko. The emotion that was put into her actions towards the end deserve merit in isolation even if the show did nothing but hurt its characters with it. (2/10)

Enjoyment:
Despite the lengthy criticism of this show, especially the second season, I actually enjoyed watching it. Yes there are A LOT of things that could be better, but I found myself having a good time throughout the entire season save the last minutes of the last episode. I cannot stress how much that one situation ruined the last 3 episodes for me. I was prepared to rate that one the better of the second season with a 6 because it built up the idea that Kyousuke and Kirino were going to go through with their plan and do everything they could to accomplish it, but no. The show just had to backpedal on itself. If the show cut at a specific point, I would have given the last 3 episodes a 6 on principal alone. Not only at that point were all the storylines tied up, albit rushed sometimes, but they would have made a statement and done something that no other show has done. But then it all just fell apart. Ugh…

Final Verdict:
So overall I enjoyed the show, flaws in all. It could be a much better series, but it was a good one. The first one earned my respect, and the second one milked it for all it was worth. If I were to judge the show based on everything up until that one moment, I would give it a 5. Nothing groundbreaking, but it told a decent story. It dragged itself out a bit, but in a way that was more enjoyable for myself and different than shows of similar nature. The animation quality dipped drastically and in ways that bother me a lot. However, it was a decent ride all in all. If I were to include that moment and everything afterwards, I have to bump it down to a 3. That’s to say that the one moment in question was so bad and such an insult to its fanbase that it docks three points. Three points for what? Just so the show can have the incest relationship, but also keep its distance. It really is a tragedy that the second season, which did scratch that itch to see the characters develop their romances further, ultimately brought the show down so much in overall quality. It isn’t impossible to see all the harem business being dealt with in a series of OVA’s that show Kyousuke getting to know all the girls outside of Kuroneko and Kirino better, developing chemistry together, but end with him saying that he loves someone else. As much as I’m not a fan of the “bed the sister” shows that are cropping up, I hope that maybe one of them can be to the level of the first season of Oreimo.

oreimo wow i expected it to be bold and change our perspective about incest ......

but hell even if she was'nt your sister who the hell will date that trash .

oreimo2 just throws down the bin whatever unbelievable tsundere crap season 1 had in store to try and replace it to an almost drool able love story between the two siblings . if you only one could easily forget the absolute jackshit way the sister treats the brother in season 1 ( unless he is a M).
you may say the character development was the reason for this sudden lovey dovey nature but after ... season 1 it just does not feel right .
yes doting brother s exist but i would not date some one who goes full 180 after knowing her for like 15 years.
the reason for her tsundere behaviour is laughable the childhood friend doing a full 180 as well is unfair .
you want me to start hating the childhood friend and start loving the sister
so even you must do a full 180 to love this anime xD.

Honestly I would just say I hated this anime but I loved it so much at the same time. Oreimo is an anime that will probably never be forgotten to a person who watches it. If you watch the first season you should know the story is about a little sister and her big brother falling in love with each other. The story isn't the greatest ever but it brings so much fun and enjoyment to other perverts and lolicons such as myself LOL. Okay but honestly it's really funny and dumb. The art is at a very high level. The characters are so well ... drawn also there is so much detail in the eroge and the anime shops. The music is pretty good as well I love the first opening of Oreimo S2. The characters you should know if you watched season one are Kousaka Kyousuke the big brother and the protagonist of the story. He is kinda plain but a very uhhh emotional person when it comes to his little sister. Kyousuke's little sister is the female main of the story who is tsudere to hell Kirino Kousaka. She is pretty damn cute... uh she's really tsudere and she brings a lot of innocence to the show (also takes away a lot). People might find this anime trash and all I know it is too. What makes this anime special is what you feel when you watch it. It makes you want to laugh it makes you want to cry also it makes you want to straight up punch something some times but if you are looking for a fun time you should watch Oreimo.

Season 2 hits us much the same as season one, retarded tsundere moments, and an almost brain-dead brother/friend going along the same way as season 1. The same unrealistic human behavior where most of us don't want to be attacked, humiliated, and where rifts would grow, of course, this anime ignores the common sense of it.

We see less of the inhibitions of her Reki-jo hobby, with regular trips, no worries if she is seen and a growing co-dependency between our two main characters, as one relies generally on for advice, and to procure things, while the other just wants to keep his sister ... in his life, whilst both develop some form of feelings, where they don't want to commit incest, but are desperate no one else has the other. As much as I could expect this from the sister, due to the way she constantly tries to break her brother with insults, humiliation, and violence to make him more submissive and responsive is like a desperate need to have that childhood brother who was always there for him, where he is clueless on women, how they think and needs her advice.

The co-dependency goes to a damaging level that makes them toxic especially her, as it affects surrounding friend groups, with even who she trusts most having feelings for her brother, where all her friends seem to thirst for him after seeing how much he will do for his sister, making her, her own worst enemy and she is told that, but doesn't change.

The truth is though, as much as flashes of their childhood occur, is not much and not enough after years of not talking to have such codependency issues, is not realistic if you push some away they come back, and though friends realize what's going on, and try to strike relationships, is like he needs her approval to be with someone. Where most people would escape from such a sister and in time family, as he has to move out, with them questioning his sexual status with his sister as if pushed by him, despite the family knowing she is the eroge lover of the two.

The simple fact is it proves he is better without her, his grades improve without her around, he sleeps better and relates to others better. Sadly is better than season 1, but still unrealistically stupid. The same problems of cause and effect, the same problems of driving people away, and the same problems where friends are not driven away by lies, insults, etc as it repeats into a circle of hate at stages.

People who like this sort of thing will watch it, people with half an ounce of common sense will get bored quick of so many episodes being the same and no moving forward. Lazy writers are the enemy of anime.

If at any point I minimally liked this anime, that was a mistake.

This genre is not for me. The story is well directed, but nothing special.

The "romance" that forms between the two is at best decent and doesn't inspire anything. The story may be captivating in the sense that it keeps you interested enough to watch the next chapter, but when you understand who the protagonist's choice will be, you simply get outraged because it's obvious that it's the wrong choice.

If you can ignore the siscon subplot, it's decent, the art is good and quite pleasant.

Lastly, the romantic pairs of the protagonist are not as ... interesting as they seem at first glance. I have reservations for Ruri, but all the others are relatively poor characters.

3 steps up from a '1' on the first season. Less appalling, now it's only bad.

I'll address the elephant in the room which is the incest. There is none. There's a brother and a sister who love each other and want to improve their relationship. Is the entire show a gigantic insinuation that they want to be romantically involved? Yes and it's perfectly fine because these are fictional characters and it's not the focus of the story.
I can tell you why incest is objectively wrong besides the genetic risks - It's near impossible for it to be a consensual relationship due to the inherent trust ... family members have in one another. It's also why master or teacher/student relationships (regardless of age) are a bad idea, because the student is essentially conditioned to trust everything said by that person.
You don't think straight, you're prone to do a string of things that you would not be alright with under any other circumstance and it leaves you exceptionally vulnerable, sometimes for both people. It's just a bad recipe with too much risk that stunts your growth.

The reason the first season was terrible was because it was a miserable experience and the second season is less so, but it has not just its own flaws, it also carries over the issues from the first season (and the first special, since this is a continuation of those episodes).
Little sister Kirino resets to being an awful person (the show seems to be aware of how weird this is) and there's a painful couple of episodes that deliberately give you the content you want (or at least preferable to yet more miserable Kirino content) and then rips it away because everything, all the time, always is about Kirino.

Lets start at the end. Kirino's reason for being an abhorrent abusive shit is exposition dumped in the very last episode and the reasoning is gossamer thin.
There is no build up to this, there is no character development, there is just a pretense that people weren't always bad and that some magical hump has been overcome for everyone to behave differently now. The whole story could've been saved and gradually resolved, but instead the tone of the show shifts from being a confusing mess that doesn't know if it wants to be funny, a drama or slice of life and instead goes full on slapstick harem romcom, invalidating everything that's happened before then.

Big brother Kyosuke is all of a sudden popular, to a ridiculous extent, culminating in a full on bishojo game with everyone suddenly wanting to be with him, completely out of left field. The character has not done much to deserve this, I write 'much' because the implication is that everyone sees what he's willing to do for someone he loves (his sister), but this is audience knowledge, not something every character knows.

There is missing context. First off there's another special (which I have not watched as of yet), but the manga series is apparently a multiple ending story. Anime viewers don't know this and it's CRUCIAL to the second season to understand these bizarre developments, because the whole thing is essentially a joke that the audience isn't really let in on. There is no narrator to tell you that Kyosuke has to choose between girls and what his motivations for each one would be. They're not self evident either because he's overwhelmed by crazy girls and doesn't stand a chance to think things through.

On the bright side the show isn't miserable anymore, it's actually funny, critical of itself and has plenty of endearing moments. You almost feel like you weren't shit on for an entire season and a half. Is it worth it? Hell no. Go watch actual good romance shows and comedies.