Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga.

"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.

Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga comes in a season without any blow-me-away hypetrain anime to compete with, an as such many people may be considering whether to give it a go while they wait for the blockbuster mega-hype that is the spring 2014 season. Don't do it.

Story:
The premise is neither particularly good nor particularly awful compared to other pieces in the ecchi genre; our dense protagonist gets a new sister, who is then possessed by a girl who claims to have known Yuuya before she passed away, and who is in love with him. If this leaves you at all curious, ... feel free to watch the pilot and judge it for yourself.

What is particularly bad though, is the execution. Many anime have that one 'dissapointing' episode. you know the one. You're having fun, having a bit of a laugh, or there's some tense episode going on, and then BAM out of nowhere its a filler episode that leaves you wondering why they didn't just put it in an OVA and not break up the pacing. Saikin is full of these episodes.

Plot threads begin, and then are soon dropped, characters have some confrontation or realisation, and then pursuing it is brushed aside in lieu of a pool/hot spring/beach episode. This may not put off the diehard ecchi fans though, and knocking a show like this for its story alone would be pretty ridiculous.

Characters:
Many anime take on too large a cast and then have trouble fleshing out the characters at all. Saikin has a relatively small cast, and still many of the characters say one type of thing the entire show. Shoutarou's involvment in the show consists of him being the pervy best friend (how original) and almost every single line (he has a few too) is something along the lines of "that is/isn't what a real little sister is". His actual sister is no better.

Moa's only contribution is to go on and on about how shitty her brother is which, while not necessarily untrue, is incredibly unwarranted to the extent that it goes on.

And then there's Neko. Is she a mastermind? God? An annoying stereotype? We will never know, but most of her time is spent wearing glasses, reading a book, and seeming to know more than the others think she does. What respectful character design. At this point I'm inclined to think that project 9 is just giving us a straight middle finger.

The 3/4 main characters (depending if you count Yukina) are mostly just blatant stereotypes. There isn't really a need to discuss the bad things about them, so I'll focus on the few small good things. There are a few somewhat genuine moments between Yuuya and Mitsuki which show a developing relationship (not the sexual kind), and Yuuya's ability to remain proactive in the way he goes about living with Mitsuki is if nothing respectable. Hiyori and Mitsuki have some amusing moments of back and forth and there personalities at least seem like an appropriate choice for this sort of anime. Again, where it all falls apart is execution.

Sound:
As someone who has studied music all my life, the OP of this anime made me laugh. There are bad openings, there are good openings. That is just a matter of taste. But this is just lazy. OST is whatever, I don't feel like any music in this show is worth writing about.

Art:
I reaaaaallly don't like the style here, but it is entirely a matter of preference. To me the characters seem wonky in a way, and I often thought that the artist was having trouble actually displaying emotions in the characters.

The one thing i can warn about though is censorship. Seeing as this show sells itself as ecchi, there is a lot of censorship. Giant clip art style blocks to prevent you seeing panties, cutting out implied yuri scenes while describing them in text boxes (wtf?), this certainyl isn't DxD.

Conclusion:
This show is a failure not because it is an ecchi, not because the story is boring, not because the characters are bland and not because the art and music leave something to be desired. It is a failure because it can't execute anything properly. Is it an ecchi? If so then why does it cut almost all ecchi moments out after the first few episodes? Is it a rom com? If so then why is there so little meaningful character development, and why does this seem secondary to going to the pool or whatever other typical thing can be put in there?

If you are a diehard ecchi fan, who is a complete siscon, then maybe you should watch this show. if you are interested in the genre, then go watch Oreimo if you hate ecchi or KissXsis if you don't. There are simply better series out there if this is what you wan't.

I hope i can save at least a few people a little time.

Okay, plain and simple this show is bad, i myself have no clue why i stuck through the entire thing. I think i was waiting for something good to happen ;) but nope nothing. The Art is one of the worst I've seen, it looks like a "I made it in 5 minutes" type of art and it also seemed like the least amount of effort was put into the MC herself. The story is utterly pathetic, there is no real story and i feel that the main character should not have been the little sister. Imagine if "My little sister can't be this cute" ... was made through Kirino's (BASED KIRINO) eye's, wouldn't have been to appealing now would it. I assume that the story was supposed to funny at some points but the jokes weren't funny.
In terms of character development some may argue that MIsuki (the MC) under went some character development because she can take to her Oni-chan easier. However there is no real character development here because even though her life is literally on the line she refuses to do anything about it and hits the brother (don't know his name because he's not important) even though she caused the incident to happen. With Misuki being the main character this show was not enjoyable.
Sound...(I'm a tough critic on this one)... the music sounds like they only had a week deadline and had to do whatever they could. The outside noises did not match the actions depicted and several times made me wonder if the audio was a second late.
Overall I'm very disappointed, and having liked watching OreImo i had high hopes for this show but the show did not deliver.

What a terrible piece of crap. Somehow they turned a show that could have been a hilarious, cute, silly show about a "forbidden" relationship into a total joke of a show. This could have just been Oreimo with a supernatural element, and a little more lewdness, and it would've been fine. Instead it felt like the staff didn't know what kind of show they were making, a supernatural-comedy-ecchi-incest-SoL, or a heartfelt-coming of age-incest-SoL. They failed on both accounts. Maybe it was the staffs fault, maybe the source material was already garbage and they didn't have much to work with, or maybe it's Japan's decency law's ... fault.

The characters are all hot garbage. Mitsuki, the main character, is a total pain in the ass from the moment you meet her. She has a terrible attitude, terrible people skills, and shows zero signs of improvement throughout the series. Her brother Yuya is no better. He's your typical male lead in a romance SoL that isn't a shoujo. Oblivious to everything that goes on around him, always jumping to the wrong and most absurd conclusions. You would think, with a step-sister that constantly treats him like garbage, he'd eventually lose his temper and yell it her, and maybe make her grow in the process. But nope. Mitsuki could probably murder everyone he knows and loves and he'd just sit back and wonder why she's feeling sad.

They other characters are just as terrible. Neko, a Nagato Yuki knock-off, is some sort of supernatural thing. It's never explained who or what she really is, we're just supposed to accept that she's friends with the main characters and is a little odd. Torii, Yuya's best friend, is your typical best friend in an ecchi anime. He's an uber perv that wants to have sex with anything that has two holes. They didn't waste any time on him. Yukina, Yuya's childhood friend and obvious romantic interest, is another of your cook-cutter characters. Boy has a childhood friend that's a girl but comes off as very boyish. Eventually one of them moves, then one day they are reunited and she's suddenly very feminine, with a large chest and curvy body. And apparently she can see ghosts, for some reason. It's never explained, like pretty much everything else in this show.

Then there is literally the worst character in an anime, Hiyori. She's the ghost that causes all the trouble in the show. She's apparently a girl who was killed when she was hit by truck-kun (literally the only good thing about this show is seeing her get hit by the truck in the ED). She remembers nothing about her life, only that she loves Yuya. She wants to go to heaven, but can't. For some reason you can't go to heaven in this world unless you have sex with your love. Literally nothing about her is explained in the show. There's one scene where Yuya tells Mitsuki (who is possessed by Hiyori at the time) that him and Yukina would go to another kids house, and that kid would call him Yuya-Oni-Chan. Hiyori seems to think it's her, but most viewers probably picked up by that point that they didn't know each other when she was alive. The ED makes it pretty clear she's your typical horny girl character that stalks the male character, only she dies in the process. She has no redeeming qualities. She literally steals and ruins a young girls life and forces her to commit incest just so she can go to heaven. Oh, and if Mitsuki doesn't oblige, she'll die and they'll both go to hell. She constantly rapes Mistuki to fill her love gauge that builds steps toward heavens gate, and even tries to use Mitsuki's body to rape Yuya. She's a terrible character.

The show overall is a mess. It starts off very lewd, and the viewer may think they're just watching some hard ecchi/borderline hentai show, something they could just turn their brain off to and enjoy. Then it quickly starts trying to be a heartwarming, emotional show about family, love, and life. It fails at that, too. The show has no advancement in plot. Hiyori keeps insisting that having sex with Yuya is the only way this thing will end, yet that never happens and the love gauge fills. Eventually Hiyori goes through the gate and you, the viewer, believe that this hell is over. Then she comes back. Did you think you were free, Mitsuki? Nope! There's another floor that needs to be completed. Clearly the staff thought this anime would be popular enough to warrant a second season, and didn't feel any need to conclude the show.

This a truly awful show. No one should watch this show. Anyone that does and likes it should not be trusted. Save yourselves and watch something else.

Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga, a typical, shitty romcom with the usual 'shy girl'. What to expect from this? Nothing, but pure fanservice and a shitty storyline. (Also, a horny ghost)

Story: 1/10

Story, yes there is a story, but it was horribly told. They focused more on the fanservice part, rather than the story. It was just about a shy girl (Mistuki) who was forced to love his step-brother(Yuuya) by a ghost (Hiyori). To sum it all up, Mitsuki just needs to fill out the chastity belt in order for the ghost to pass on. Yes, that's all there is to the story.

Art: ... 6/10

The background was alright(Didn't really matter to me). The character designs were actually good, especially with the tsundere expressions of Hiyori.

Sound: 7/10

Sounds were good, especially with the OP and ED, while the background music didn't really bothered me.

Character: 5/10

Characters were not that bad, but also not that good. Some characters were not explained thoroughly. There are a few characters which had some development, like Mitsuki who became more interactive to Yuuya, as the anime progressed.

Enjoyment: 6/10

Yes, despite the fact that the story was horrible, it was still enjoyable, especially with Mitsuki's clumsiness and the fanservice (If you know what I mean).

Overall: 4/10

All in all, I could say that ImoCho could be a lot better, especially with the manga being active and all. If you're looking for a romcom with a lot of pure fanservice and has a typical shitty story, then this would be good for you.

Before I get to the structured part of this review, there is one major gripe about this anime I have to get off my chest. It is best captured by a classic line from Shakespeare, namely "This above all, to thine own self be true."

That may sound a bit dramatic when reviewing an anime with a strong ecchi element, but that is exactly the point: this show did not *need* to be an echhi. Nor did it need the "imouto" element, since the writer did not seem to be all that interested in wiriting about a brother-sister relationship. (In fact, the only real brother ... and sister characters in this show constantly bitch about each other. Which is okay, but seems more like the kind of thing you'd expect in a show that makes fun of the imouto genre). The writer simply should have told the story she wanted to write about characters she felt were interesting and worth developing. And based on the strength of that, she should have tried to sell the idea for a manga and then an anime. So no fake "imouto" tag and no ecchi that gets covered up all the time anyway. Then the writer would have been true to herself.

Story 3/10
The story basically revolves around a high school girl, 15-year old Mitsuki, who is very depressed due to her mother's many relationship problems get pounced upon by a horny ghost who wants to force her into having sexual intercourse with her stepbrother (the result of a hopefully more fortuitous relationship choice of her mother's). The horny ghost in question, Hiyori, is completely self-centered and shows very little mercy to Mitsuki, who is completely miserable throughout all the trials that Hiyori puts her through. Needless to say, witnessing an already depressed teenage girl get sexually mangled is not something most people will enjoy. I certainly didn't. To make matters worse, there are at least two instances in the show where Mitsuki seems dangerously close to taking her own life to escape all this misery. Quite shocking, I felt.

There really isn't much else to the story, really.Aside from some even more disturbing bits, that is. For some reason, Mitsuki is forced to wear some sort of magical chastity belt that only opens for 3 minutes every hour, so that she is often in a lot of discomfort as she tries to avoid soiling herself while the thing is closed. And if all that wasn't enough, Hiyori regularly sexually assaults her, perhaps for good measure? (And the writer who came up with all this sickness actually is a *woman*, or so I understand...)

Art
The animators involved obviously weren't very happy to be working on this "project", since the character drawings are very rudimentary. Compared to this, one of the earliest "Detective Conan" episodes from 1996 looks like a veritable height of anime quality.

Sound 7/10
Nothing much to complain of, although the opening theme is fairly generic. The voice acting is generally good, with the newcomer who voices Mitsuki infusing her voice with all the pain and humiliation that anyone in that situation would more or less feel.
It's a curious point that the rapist-ghost Hiyori is voiced by the same actress who voiced Tsutsuskashi Tsukiko on the much friendlier "The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat", since Tsukiko was such a strong girl who always made clear that she would not stand for any sexual advances outside of an actual relationship. To go from portraying Tsukiko to portraying a female rapist is quite a leap...

Character 3/10
This is what brings me back to my opening statement about the writer needing to be true to herself, because there are some definite glimmers of interesting characters here. Mitsuki is far from your standard anime imouto and even unusual in her alsmost consistently (although justifiably) depressed mood.

Her stepbrother Yuuka (or Yuuna?) is an extremely goody-two-shoes type of guy, who is always gallant and understanding throughout all the hijinks that he has to witness when Hiyori is possessing Mitsuki. Given the strength of Hiyori's fascination with him, it's a real pity that his exact backstory with whoever Hiyori was when she was still alive is not revealed. But it's probably safe to say that he behaved very polite, friendly and gentlemanly to whoever she was.

Horny ghost Hiyori is the unequivocal villain of this series, even if she does not seem to think so herself. Mitsuki would have been well within her rights to have some sort of exorcism performed that would have sent this monster straight to hell.

Recently moved in next door childhood friend Yuki is almost as saintly and boring as Yuuka. Her having been a tomboy who was always being rough with Yuuka is an interesting idea, especially since she grew into such a large-breasted young woman who tried so hard to be the stereotypical gentle female. It feels like there could have been an interesting story here, and there are some small hints in the final episode about why Yuuna and she act towards each other the way they do.

Then there is the mysterious mousy bookworm Yukina, with the emotionless voice that we have come to expect from such characters. There are some curious hints towards the end that she may in some way be behind all that has happened, but her reasons and goals never really become clear. She probably represents the writer herself.

There are no real other characters to speak of. There's an alcoholic aunt who lives with Mitsuki and Yuuna, but she hardly ever seems to be around. And then there are the only real brother and sister in this series who always get in each other's hair.

Enjoyment 1/10
The misery inflicted on Mitsuki was not something I enjoyed watching. It's almost as if the animators made her look as depressed as possible to continually underline how sick this aspect of the show is, perhaps as a silent protest. To make matters worse, Mitsuki's ordeals do not seem to have served any purpose. Seeing some potentially interesting characters not get much meaningful development was not enjoyable either.

Overall 3/10
I really wanted all these strange people (even the alcoholic aunt) somehow overcome their problems and grow as a result of their experiences. (Apart from Hiyori, that is, she simply needed to burn in hell for her crimes!). But in the end, nobody really seemed to have made much progress.

I gave Recently, My Sister is Unusual a watch in search of outrageous, original ecchi lulz. In this I was sorely disappointed, not least by the lack of more frequently inventive use of the show's premise to create entertaining and memorable scenes.

That's not to say it was a terrible show. It cut a light-hearted dash among the rest of my queue for this season, which involved a mixture of drama, intensity, violence and plot-twisting, whereas Recently, My Sister is 90% warmly predictable high-school bread and butter, and 10% risqué scenes that range from mild to fantastic, though unfortunately the latter was pretty darn rare. I ... can see why some liked the characters, but for the amount of time we're spending watching them interacting each episode, I honestly think they could be far better.

The basic premise is outlined in the first episode, and from there on it's a pretty slow procession of largely trivial events played out by a very white-bread, boring male character (Yuuya), his cutely tsundere little sister (Mitsuki) and her uncontrollable ghost (Hiyori), plus four or five other characters who are even more forgettable, including Yuuya's buddy, whose provision of the typical perverted idiot-buddy role fostered two or three chuckles across six hours of content. Really, we're definitely not talking anything above average here in my opinion even by slice of life moeblob standards, and when it comes to the 'plot', if I were to be brutally honest, it's an entire season of pretty mild filler without any real qualities compared to other anime of the genre. Additionally, the visuals and soundtrack are really quite unimpressive as can be expected from much high-school anime.

The problem for me is that because of how boring and conventional the dynamics and characters were, I placed my hopes for the show in bold, quasi-incestuous ecchi entertainment. It's really unfortunate that most of what you get in Recently, My Sister is simply tame and done to death, consisting of tropes you can find in hundreds of other anime: Falling over in awkward positions, blushes, accidental boob-touching, pantyshots (in this case chastity-belt shots) and off-screen slaps to the cheek alongside screams. There are four or five scenes which step out of this pretty dreary routine (including the brilliant 'Metal Gear Yuuya'), but unfortunately they're too few to really make a difference and bump it up to 'upper average' for me when compared with other shows. While this one had the potential to be a total blast like Noucome, it ended up just being too mild, reserved and conventional to really achieve anything.

3/10

I think I might've gotten cancer from watching this godawful anime. Lord have mercy... Am I going through a masochistic phase of some sort, as I have also watched School Days two weeks prior...? And that one already annoyed me to no end (altough the ending was pretty great lmaooo)
But THIS...

Okay first of all, why are the Japanese so obsessed with portraying these sexualized brother/sister relationships - but they're almost NEVER even related by blood?? I mean sure, they're trying to make it ok, or, you know...make it seem like more of a coincidence than a weird fetish. But they do this every time and ... that's my problem. I have seen this countless times and I'm sick of it.

Look I'm really not into incest. But by making romantically involved characters actually blood-related, it would at least cause some drama that I'd actually be interested in watching (Game of Thrones is a good example). This step sibling formula is so overused that it's just beyond belief by now.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Here's all you need to know:
So there's this one girl named Mitsuki, who suddenly got herself an older 'brother' called Yuuya. Then there's this other girl which I'm just gonna call Ghost-chan. Ghost-chan died without confessing her love to Yuuya, which is why she cannot rest in peace. And so she haunts Mitsuki, makes her wear a ~magical chastity belt for some fucking reason and also casually has sex with Mitsuki every now and then to like...idek...charge the belt with...the power of yuri- I mean...satisfaction (?) I HAVE NO IDEA. But ofc it's not enough as long as Ghost-chan, who will possess Mitsuki's body whenever she pleases, doesn't get/sleep with her crush Yuuya. Yep. That's her biggest worry even after death.

The characters aren't just immature and super easily turned on by random shit, nah, they're also downright stupid. They have such unbelievably dumb moments sometimes, which is shown through the conclusions they draw for themselves and I just...wanted to cry every time.

I felt really sorry for Mitsuki though, and I hate the anime even more for how her situation is handled. She's embarassing herself multiple times; She falls on her face for no reason at least two times per episode, she is kinda raped by a ghost a few times and that fucking belt even physically hurts her at some point. But yeah OF COURSE she starts developing feelings for Yuuya herself. Mhm, that's how I like my anime girls best: Totally degraded -.- And I know this is Ecchi, but please...just don't do it like this. Mitsuki clearly isn't having fun most of the time, and I definitely didn't have fun seeing her like this.

But why didn't I rate this bullshit even lower?
Because, the art is okay I guess - as well as the sound, also very few lines were actually funny. The show even made me snort out of sheer disbelief 2-3 times, like when they referred to the Reaction Guys meme :'D But that's about it. The ending is also super bad and makes no sense, just like the whole thing. I'll never watch it ever again.

(A lil' bit of trivia: There's a live action movie which is actual porn. I'm not the least bit surprised.)

This is the worst ecchi I've ever watched.

Seriously, this is such a bad excuse of an anime it makes me so mad.

Here's the plot in a nutshell

>Dead girl or whatever possesses a girl who's living with her brother or something
>The dead girl has feelings for the moron brother and wants to bring them to fruition through the ill-fated girl she's possessing
>She straight up took her freedom away from her and put a chastity belt on her that won't even allow her to pee for Christ's sake
>Now she's faced with having to put up with it or else she will die, so she has to give ... up her virginity and dignity as well
>The dead girl, despite having angel wings or something, isn't bothered by the moral consequences in the slightest

Seriously, I'd have watched this if it was consensual, but this is kidnapping and detention with no sugar coating.

I thought I'd at least watch it for the girl-on-girl shit but it's too much and I'm giving up.

Poop in the form of anime, if you ask me.

Skip this anime else...........

Hear to my rant to convince yourself to do so..

Ok 1st of all lets start with my expectations before watching this anime.
I wanted to watch a good rom-com preferably harem themed. I was okay even with one-on-one rom-com if it had good story.

Story[1/10]:

The story had some potential. Initial episodes were quiet good and I thought the series might build on a good foundation but alas that didn't happen.
...
The story ends with an anti-climax which is totally crap. Its like "WTF, Cmon, really??"

Art [9/10]:

The only thing that's good in this trash. Honestly Mitsuki was one of the cutest characters I have seen. The animation quality is good. Not the best but definitely good.

Music [5/10]:

There's no memorable background music or so. Its just plain and uninteresting. Songs are average at best.

Verdict [4/10]:

Mitsuki is easily the worst immouto I have seen so far in my journey of 120-Animes. I feel sorry for the poor guy yuuya. Her non-stop pouting and annoying mood spoils the whole anime. Now I'm normally a very forgiving person. I'm very friendly and helpful. Unless somebody troubles me a lot I don't get angry. But here Mitsuki just throws that limit out of the window. I mean cmon this is not a shoujo anime where you can just keep clobbering the guy all the time. and if somebody says thats not her fault its the chastity belt. Then the author should have got rid of that thing itself because its spoiling the whole anime. Theres no conclusive ending, mitsuki doesn't get close to her brother neither does her brother end up with some other girl.

You put up with ill-mannered Mitsuki all the time hoping to see a conclusion in the last episode. And when you are hoping that its time to dump that ghost and have a good ending with the immouto the anime gives a solid KO punch on your temple!!

This anime is a waste of time. I feel robbed of my time. Even if you are just an ecchi fan stay away. This anime really isn't worth at all.

I have given this a 4.

If I give a 6, I mean that the anime is BORING.
4=Disgusting. STAY AWAY.

For incest titles I suggest: OniAi, Oni-chan no koto suki ja nain da kara ne, Koi Kaze , To love ru series.

Have a nice day. Thanks for reading.

There are people that review sleazy anime with standards that would be more fitting for top shelf anime. These people do not understand the concept of reviews because an anime , as well as any product, should be reviewed with standards appropriate to its medium and genre. With that opening out of the way, let's talk about saikin, imouto (etc etc.) "Recently my sister has been acting unusual";


ART (And animation):
It has some of the most boring, pedestrian, mediocre art and animation I've ever seen, on the plus side I didn't see any blatant animation shortcuts but it makes sense that they didn't take any ... because they use the most typical, low effort backgrounds and settings possible, bar a couple of exceptional scenes (Aquarium, "heaven", etc.).

Because of those rare instances, I would say it goes from a 5 to an 8... and yes, those few rare instances are beautifully rendered and gorgeous to look at.


CHARACTER (With little to no spoilers);
Here is where we enter a strange area, these characters, particularly one , are very fetishized, I WILL EXPLAIN LATER, WAIT FOR IT... but don't get me wrong the story is actually very good but it is very reliant on the characters, there is a lot of pathos and drama to be had here... the core premise of the anime is that there is a ghost (Yure) that is trying to achieve ascension to what is heavily implied to be 'Heaven'. In order to achieve this, she must (Engage in sexual acts with the male lead...? we don't know (?????????)) and there we have the problem. We don't really know much about this character or her plight.

She is the force that moves the plot forward from the beginning until the end, and because we know so little, we are forced to just go along for the ride without having even the basic knowledge necessary to identify with the character.

This character is called Hiyori and she is the best part of the anime.
She is bubbly, cute, playful, jealous, dynamic, annoying, interesting and more... she is a legitimate character with a seemingly tragic backstory. Without her the anime would have nothing to do, but as I said she is shrouded in complete mystery right down to her true identity which we never find out. Basically it is an unopened box which becomes a bit of a hassle as time goes by.


The other two leads are;
Mitsuki; A young girl who's mother has just remarried. She is a massive buzzkill the entire show and a very hateable character. She is not Kirino-level bitchy but she comes close... she is very rude, very unappreciative and just an overall drag to have in any scene. Worst of all, she is incredibly inconsistent with her motivations. Sometimes she hates everyone and treats everyone like garbage... other times she is friendly and wishes she had more people around her.

It is not interesting, it is not cute. She is the worst part of the show... unfortunately the show mainly takes place from her point of view.

Yuuya; A fairly bland, self-insert Japanese character. I could not tell you a single one of his characteristics beyond "He is a young Japanese man" ... well, he has one trait; He is INCREDIBLY patient with his horrible new sister. He is a Zen-rock given how much abuse he tolerates from the Mitsuki character.


PLEASE TAKE NOTE:
There are two supporting female characters that spend the entire show "Foreshadowing" their involvement in supernatural affairs. This never gets paid off, not even a little bit. It is a complete waste of time so I did not even mention their names.

I was like "Oh okay, I think I see where this is going" in the first episode when these characters are hinted to "Know more than what they are sharing" ... but even in the FINAL EPISODES they're still doing the foreshadowing thing with no end in sight for their shenanigans. Terrible characters that don't add up to anything.




STORY;
And now let's talk about the elephant in the room. This is an ecchi anime that goes so hardcore so as to almost be hentai.... and that's not wrong. I am a man and I enjoy both ecchi and hentai... however, this specific anime is leaning heavily towards the disturbing fetishistic.

There is a strong leaning towards urination fetish and that's just.... not for me. There is also a strong undercurrent of BDSM going on ... but the worst part is;
This reaches its highest points in the first 3 episodes and then it tones way down.
Yes that's right. It goes full on fetish-mode as it's introduction to the audience.
I was like "WTF?" when I watched this, it takes some very weird turns.

That being said, if you can soldier through the first few episodes, you will be rewarded with a fairly quirky and unique screw-ball ecchi comedy that almost completely redeems itself. It has some great situations and even some solid comedy here and there. Honestly if more of the show was like the middle parts, it would be a fantastic show but alas, it is not.


The beginning is very poor, rather than easing the viewer into the fetish it wants to explore, it hits you like a brick to the face with no build-up or tone... and that is the word of the day; TONE. In the first few episodes there is severe tonal discordance which makes it very difficult to watch or recommend. "It gets better" is not enough.

Anyway, the ending of the show is a massive cop-out. Yes, I understand that they want to make more money, yes I understand it is probably based on a manga that is on-going. Yes, I get that we never knew much about the situation to begin with but none of that excuses the complete non-ending that is given to the audience. It is absolute garbage.



To summarize the story;
HORRIBLE beginning (First few episodes)
HORRIBLE ending (Last two episodes)
Pretty good middle parts.



So, to conclude, do I recommend?
- No, do not watch if you are sensitive to fetish scenes, I would totally understand if someone didn't even bother getting through the first few episodes. There is a serious "Wall" before it "Gets better".

- I do not recommend if you are looking for a light-hearted comedy show. This gets dark pretty often and the comedy is off-set by macabre set-pieces.

- I do not recommend if you are looking for a serious, drama orientated show. The tonal dissonance will get on your nerves fast.

- I do not recommend if you are looking for fap material. There is much better material out there and it is not as padded as this.

- I do recommend if you meet the following criteria;
* You are very curious to see the middle portion of this anime, which as I said, is very good.
* You have high tolerance or maybe even a desire for BDSM and urine fetish anime (I don't).
* You want to see how spectacularly bad the beginning and ending of the anime are.

Basically, almost no one should watch this anime.... I enjoyed the middle portion which was really quite good, but the fact that it begins and ends so horrendously means I can't recommend in almost any circumstances.


gg.

I don't even know where to start as the series itself is alike. Fan service is poor but plotting is worse. The ghost has chosen this step-sister because of the guy she aims for, but until the end it doesn't even bother to describe how she's related to the guy. It doesn't talk why such characters can see this ghost, and why ending with having some mysterious characters act as if they set up the whole plot to happen.

I find it more amusing that the title from where I acquired this series has a tag "Another shitty sister-manga adaptation". It filled my hopes in a ... different manner. It is actually shitty and being that honest on the tag is saying something.

Lesbians 8 ☆
Slo-brain Siscon = zero

Story 5 ☆
Lotta potential , great elements - supernatural , non- related siblings living alone , perviness
Unfortunately the end results are fairly mediocre . Too much is left unexplained for a season 2 that doesn't exist . Ending 2 minutes are just Bad .

Art 6 ☆
The characters were very good , particularly Hiyori , Yukina and Mitsuki .
The background was ... ummm , there was a background , right ? -Forgettable
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Sound 4 ☆
Theme songs were catchy tunes with little substance .
Character voices were well done , but the 2 male characters were completely annoying . Particularly Yuuya , his whining was "nails on the chalkboard"

Characters 4 ☆
This anime may have been made by lesbians that hated men .
All of the female characters were likable . Mmm , maybe not Yukina , she's 2-faced . I felt much sympathy for Mitsuki , a victim of Hiyori and Yuuya .
But the 2 males were atrocious . Torii, Shoutarou was just annoying with every word and action . Fortunately he gets smacked around in , I believe , every scene he appears in.
Yuuya - a simple minded misogynist siscon that believes that since his father married a stranger , her daughter becomes his property . From the first few days of their meeting he grabs and tries to control her actions , her wardrobe [panstu] , even entering her room/bathroom without knocking . Example- he follows her to the bathroom on the pretense of checking on her even tho there are 4-5 females present . He gets slapped frequently too *cheers*

Enjoyment 5 ☆
The lesbian action is the hi-lite of this anime ... both parties getting off repeatedly . The onsen scenes at the end were pretty nice too , but no actual nudity occurs . None anywhere in this anime , don't know where MAL based their ratings from .
I hated Yuuya from beginning to end , Torii too -serious buzzkill

OVERALL 4.8 ☆
NOT Recommended

p.s. Currently reading the manga . Answers , explanations , loads of backstory
Recommended

I rarely see an anime this bad, supposedly to get into heaven, you have to sexually assault people, be bi-sexual, and only care for self-interest. If that's heaven, I don't want to go.

We see the typically retarded tsundere as the angel's partner in crime, who does stupid stuff, attacks her stepbrother, and when in reality, she would have been clouted back, kicked out, as usual in anime no such thing happens.

Top it off with a clueless idiot like the other main character, who somehow can see an angel to be, is clueless on women, and puts up with all the crap, it shows ... it is going to be a trash anime.

As you watch further, it continues unsurprisingly as trash, the story is crap, the art is bad, the sound isn't anything special, the characters are poorly developed, as you only really know something about the main two, who are trash characters, and it just has enjoyment and overall level of 0 in my mind.

I had hoped it would try and redeem itself, but it never, it just got worse. I understand it is trying to serve the people who like the siscon/brocon fantasies, but the reality, is no one would want the tsundere, the angel would be used, abused, and discarded in reality in the tsundere body and advertised as the school glory hole. People will still watch for the fan service though which wasn't that great, as it lacks a decent story, comedy, any sense of reality.