Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga.

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Synonyms: Recently, My Little Sister is Unusual, ImoCho, ImoCyo

Japanese: 最近、妹のようすがちょっとおかしいんだが。

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 4, 2014 to Mar 23, 2014

Premiered: Winter 2014

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Lantis, Magic Capsule

Licensors: Discotek Media, Crunchyroll

Studios: Project No.9

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural, Ecchi

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.20¹ (scored by 76,089 users)

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Ranked: #7870²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1312

Members: 166,400

Favorites: 188

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Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. follows a family just starting to rebuild. When they marry, Mr. and Mrs. Kanzaki bring a teenage son and daughter along for the ride. But high school freshman Mitsuki Kanzaki is less than thrilled. Stinging from a history of absent and abusive father figures, she is slow to accept her stepfather and stepbrother.

But after an accident lands Mitsuki in the hospital, she finds herself possessed by the ghost of Hiyori Kotobuki, a girl her age who was deeply in love with Mitsuki's stepbrother Yuuya. Hiyori cannot pass on to her final reward because of her unrequited love for Yuuya, meaning she's got to consummate it... in Mitsuki's body?!

Now, Mitsuki's life depends on getting Hiyori to Heaven. But will she get used to sharing herself with a pushy, amorous ghost? Can she overcome her distrust of her new family? Can she bring herself to fulfill Hiyori's feelings for Yuuya? And might she be hiding some feelings of her own?

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Background

The anime was streamed by Crunchyroll during its airing. The source material has also spawned a live-action film and a light novel series.

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Adaptation:	Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga., Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga.
Other:	Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. OVA

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kanzaki, Mitsuki

Main

Hashimoto, Chinami
Japanese

Kotobuki, Hiyori

Main

Ogura, Yui
Japanese

Kanzaki, Yuuya

Main

Majima, Junji
Japanese

Kiritani, Yukina

Supporting

Kanemoto, Hisako
Japanese

Torii, Moa

Supporting

Terakawa, Aimi
Japanese

Torii, Shoutarou

Supporting

Takumi, Yasuaki
Japanese

Tachibana, Ayaka

Supporting

Tanaka, Manami
Japanese

Neko

Supporting

Sasaki, Mikoi
Japanese

Kanzaki, Kyouko

Supporting

Itou, Miki
Japanese

Mei

Supporting

Toyota, Moe
Japanese

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Satomi, Tetsurou

Producer

Usui, Hisato

Producer

Tanaka, Shinsaku

Producer

Hata, Hiroyuki

Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"BINKAN Attention (BINKAN あてんしょん)" by Mitsuki Kanzaki, Hiyori Kotobuki, and Yukina Kiritani (Chinami Hashimoto, Yui Ogura, and Hisako Kanemoto)

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Ending Theme

"Charming Do!" by Yui Ogura

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Mar 22, 2014

Asfaria

Not Recommended

"Recently, My Younger Sister Is a Little Strange" is what you get when people try too hard to make an ecchi show. First of all, why would you even make a show revolving around a high school girl wearing a chastity belt if the chastity belt has to be blatantly censored almost every time?

This is one of those shows that you know is going to be horrible right from the premise. An extremely generic and oblivious guy, Yuuya, gets a new sister, Mitsuki, after his father remarries. Mitsuki soon runs into a ghost, Hiyori, who has amnesia and can only remember that she loves Yuuya. ... In order for Hiyori to go to heaven, she has to get Mitsuki and Yuuya to fall in love (or at least have Mitsuki get turned on by him enough times to fill up the "special" meter in the chastity belt). I have no idea what bizarre religion only lets spirits into heaven after making step-siblings fall in love... To top it all off, Mitsuki can only "open" up the chastity belt for three minutes at a time every hour. Hiyori's final goal is for Mitsuki and Yuuya to have sex so that she can go to heaven..... considering the chastity belt only opens for three minutes, they better make it fast. So the premise is absolutely stupid and I only watched it for the laughs. The plot is actually hilariously bad at times, but most times it'll just leave you shaking your head at how dumb everything is.

Speaking of dumb, the characters are horrible and stupid on top of that. Yuuya is oblivious to everything, Mitsuki is your generic tsundere, and Hiyori just causes trouble every episode. The minor characters are completely forgettable and only help to cause friction between Mitsuki and Yuuya and be even more generic than the main characters. There's not much to say about the characters other than that.

Well, except that the character designs are also terrible. The area in between the characters' foreheads and cheekbones is depressed so much it just looks strange, kind of like if they all slept with their heads on their hands when they were babies and caused a permanent skull deformation around their eyes. The backgrounds and the rest of the characters are cheaply designed, but the worst part is when it comes to the fanservice.

There are two things that are both problematic with this:

1. The censorship is over-the-top as I already mentioned (and it's not just bright light covering things, it's a giant lock).
2. Those weird eroge-style text boxes whenever Hiyori sexually assaults Mitsuki off-screen. That is the worst part of the show. It seems like they just decided to throw in a little yuri fanservice, but then told the audience to just imagine it themselves like they were reading a book and not watching a show.
The soundtrack is also boring and forgettable, and the opening and ending are typical j-pop songs for an ecchi show.

My recommendation is to not watch this show. The characters are generic and helpless, the animation is just bad especially for the character designs and fanservice, I have no idea why anyone would come up with such a bizarre story that defies any existing religious belief to create it's own stupid one, and it's really only enjoyable if you're going in expecting to laugh at it or if you really, really enjoy ecchi shows for the fanservice alone.

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Mar 22, 2014

TCTriangle

Mixed Feelings

Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga (or the shorter English title "Recently, My Sister is Unusual") follows the story of a young girl and an older boy who become step-siblings due to their parents marrying each other. The setup is pretty standard, but the catch is that the younger stepsister gets possessed by a ghost who's in love with the older brother, is forced to make moves on the brother to send her new poltergeist companion to the next life, and ends up falling in love with him in the process. Mysterious missing parents and ecchi, incesty hijinks involving a chastity belt then ...

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Mar 22, 2014

PyraXadon

Mixed Feelings

Incest is a very interesting genre in the world of anime. For some reason, the japanese love the idea of forbidden love in their animations, attempting to twist the idea so they can still have said forbidden love so it abides by the law, kind of, with well-known titles like "Oreimo" and "Onii-chan Dakedo" taking the spot as the more well-known incest related animes. Today I will be talking about one of the more recent introductions to the incest genre, Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga, or, Recently, my little sister is unusual. Let's begin.

Story (6.45/10): The story of Saikin ...

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