Eromanga-sensei

I don't normally tend to point fingers at people, but just this once I feel like I need to get some things off my chest here.

Almost every single season nowadays, it seems there has to be a scapegoat. An anime which you are somehow obliged to publically hate on or you'll be looked down upon by the community and no one will take you seriously. I'm honestly sick of this kind of group pressure/bandwagon mentality. We're now halfway through the year 2017 and yet hating on popular stuff over the internet is somehow still considered to be the coolest and best thing since sliced bread. ... *Especially* when it's gross, creepy and immoral shit made for closet pedos, am I right? Shows like this really bring out the most toxic sides of the anime community.

When you have an anime which totally wears its heart on its sleeve and doesn't try to hide its true intentions in any way, why is it that so many people seemingly insist on still making themselves watch it even when it's clear as day that they're not going to like it and that they're not part of the target audience? Eromanga-sensei is one of the most blatantly polarizing series in the last few seasons, and quite frankly you should be able to easily figure out whether you will enjoy it or not just from reading the synopsis and by considering the fact that it is written by the same author as Oreimo.

In short, Eromanga-sensei features the following:
- A glimpse into the life of a young, aspiring light novel author in Japan
- Lots of references to other anime, light novels, the industry itself and more
- Pseudo-incestuous relationship themes (they're not actually blood-related)
- Somewhat trope-filling and eccentric characters
- Cutesy moe-style heroines
- Frequent suggestive shots of various middle school girls
- An abundance of romcom clichés and sexual gags
- Memes
- Cameos of characters from Oreimo
- The perfect setup for providing tons of juicy ero-fanart and doujins

Now if you have a problem with several of these themes, you don't need to watch this anime. It really isn't any more complicated than that. It is clearly not for you, and you don't need to go out of your way to force yourself to watch it just so you can go on a lengthy rant afterwards about how trashy it is, how it is "pandering to otaku", label it as "pedo-bait" or anything along those lines. If you're not even part of an anime's target demographic then quite frankly you have no business trash-talking it for not adhering to your own standards—the problem lies entirely on your end in that case. Criticizing an anime for its execution is logical—criticizing an anime for merely belonging to a certain genre is not. You don't need to go on the aggressive from the safe place behind your monitor just to feel better about yourself. If your sole reason for watching an anime is to make fun of and insult the people enjoying it, you really need to get your priorities straight. Even more curious are some comments I've seen basically saying "i-it's not like I enjoy watching this terrible anime or anything, don't get the wrong idea, baka!", as if implying that either their morals or the group pressure is preventing them from admitting to themselves that they actually like it. Give me a break already.

On the other hand, as someone who actually does enjoy those kinds of themes and absolutely loves imoutos in general, Eromanga-sensei is a pretty solid anime that does just about all the simplistic things I could ask of it. It's cute, light-hearted, decently funny at times, has a lot of sexy shots of ero-kawaii and energetic moe girls, and is just plain fun and enjoyable in general. And as a result, what you have is a thoroughly entertaining anime despite everything. Yes, that is in fact all that's needed, as shocking as that might be for some people to believe.

In short, Eromanga-sensei follows the lives of a high school light novel author named Izumi Masamune and his hikikomori little sister Sagiri, who somewhat secretly works as an erotic illustrator for his novels amongst other things under the pen name Eromanga-sensei. The story follows both their struggles with their respective jobs as well as their relationship with each other as step siblings. There are also a number of other girls involved in one way or another, primarily the eccentric Yamada Elf who is also a top-selling light novel author, as well as the even more successful Senju Muramasa who on top of being an author is also Masamune's biggest fan. There's also Sagiri's pushy classmate Jinno Megumi who keeps trying to find ways to convince Sagiri to leave her room and go to school for once. It's a simple setup overall, but it serves as an easy way to get the protagonist and the various girls intimately involved with each other on both a personal and professional level, which is a good thing since the main selling point of Eromanga-sensei is the characters' interactions with each other.

As you can probably tell, it is all quite similar to Oreimo in not just the incestuous themes but the type of chemistry between the main characters and the side characters as well. And as it happens, they generally fulfill somewhat similar roles too. Just like Kirino, Sagiri is here the otaku imouto with a rather perverted hobby who is also quite obviously in love with her Onii-chan. In terms of personality though, they're very different from each other. Whereas Kirino was an outgoing honors student and a rather extreme tsundere, Sagiri is shy, reclusive and more of a dandere than anything, and she gets embarrassed easily whenever she's not hiding behind the mask of her online Eromanga-sensei persona. But perhaps most importantly, just like Kirino, Sagiri is incredibly sexy. The vast majority of the show's fanservice is centered on her in the form of various suggestive shots of her inside her room, but it's done in a rather smooth and natural way so it doesn't feel out of place. It's the type of eroticism which greatly enhances an anime's enjoyment value in my mind; the kind that makes you repeatedly pause the video to rape the screenshot button for academic purposes. I appreciate it quite a lot. It's no wonder that Sagiri has already been crowned the clear ero-fanart queen of the season by the Japanese portion of the internet, as is quite evident if you go visit just about any major anime image board at the moment (which is also a bit ironic considering that drawing such pictures is literally what Sagiri does for a living herself).

Similarly, if Sagiri is supposed to be "the new" Kirino, then you'd also have to argue that Elf is the new Kuroneko. Elf is the energetic and weird yet funny girl of the show, being an immensely talented writer but also a rather lazy one who only sees her work as a hobby, and thus only writes whenever she feels like it, much to the dismay of her editors. Furthermore, she's also a bit of a chuuni nutcase who consistently does stupid things for the amusement of all. As a result, while she's not quite as sexualized as Sagiri is, overall I would still say Elf is the most likable and entertaining girl of Eromanga-sensei due to how enjoyable her personality is. In other words it's pretty much the same story as with Oreimo where (in my opinion) Kuroneko was ultimately the best girl even though Kirino was sexy as hell. For all the old Ayase fans out there though, I'm sorry to say but there isn't really a replacement for her in Eromanga-sensei. Instead we have Muramasa taking the role of the third love rival, but she's not particularly similar. If anything she's the most publically affectionate towards Masamune out of the trio, but for rather... questionable reasons.

As far as the story itself goes, the viewers are pretty much told from the beginning that this will eventually head down the pseudo-incest route as Masamune and Sagiri are evidentially in love with each other and Masamune makes it quite clear on numerous occasions that she is the only girl he has eyes for. While he is still a little bit dense at times, Masamune at least has the guts to confess that he is in love with Sagiri from quite early on in the series, which is pretty commendable considering their relationship. However, it will probably take a while before that ship really sets sail, because in this (first?) season alone, there isn't really much in the way of romantic progression beyond that confession. It is more of a standard romcom in terms of execution thus far, but certainly not a bad one. Meanwhile we also have the ongoing subplot of the siblings trying to create the supposed "greatest light novel ever" together where Masamune writes the story and Sagiri draws the illustrations. It reminds me a bit of Bakuman in that sense, but of course it's not quite as forefront about it here. However, this subplot is most certainly something that really asks for a sequel one day.

Perhaps the biggest problem with Eromanga-sensei though is that despite everything, Masamune and Sagiri aren't actually blood-related. The main appeal of incest in anime to me is the general taboo feeling of it, you know: "it's forbidden, therefore it's exciting" and all. Making them step-siblings instead is thus both a bit of a boner-killer as well as a cop-out move by the author, and it kind of feels like the anime goes out of its way to remind the audience of this annoying fact a few too many times. However, if you're familiar with the infamous ending of Oreimo and more importantly the backstory behind why that happened in the first place, this was most likely a conscious decision by the author in order to make sure the same thing won't happen a second time around. Oreimo was kind of ruined by its terrible ending, so having the knowledge that at least Eromanga-sensei won't suffer the same fate is a bit of a relief. I just wish he didn't have to sacrifice part of the show's main appeal to ensure this part, but I guess SJWs are unfortunately just that powerful in today's society.

You probably shouldn't compare everything to Oreimo though—after all this is just as much of a standalone work as that was—but considering that even the main characters of Oreimo makes appearances in Eromanga-sensei, they're not only similar but evidentially also take place in the same universe and time span. For what it's worth though, minus its ending I would still probably say Oreimo was slightly better not only because of the blood-relation issue, but there was also more of a struggle there due to Kirino's conservative father being fully against her otaku hobbies, whereas in Eromanga-sensei, Masamune's parents are both conveniently absent from their house. It all feels a bit easier in Eromanga-sensei, which is not inherently a bad thing mind you but I think it makes it a little bit less unique. Then again, as they say: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

As far as the production values goes, the animation (done by A-1 Pictures) is... okay, I guess? Nothing out of the ordinary but enough for the girls to always look attractive, which is about all that's required in this case. On top of that, both the OP and ED of Eromanga-sensei are honestly great; they're both incredibly catchy tunes that easily stand out as among the best from this season.

Overall, Eromanga-sensei is a simplistic, cliché and quite lewd romcom which will surely turn off a lot of people due to its themes, but it excels at doing the exact things it sets out to do for its own specific target audience, and thus at least for me it was one of the more enjoyable shows of the season.

I also find it a bit ironic how other shows like New Game for example (which I also really liked) get to receive general praise from the community for doing nothing but showing cute moe girls working in the entertainment media industry, mixed with comedy and fanservice, yet Eromanga-sensei is receiving so much hate for doing basically the exact same thing? Hypocrisy at its finest. Are the incest themes really *that* big of a deal? Or is it the supposed ages of the girls? I mean really now? I can't help but feel legitimately sorry for people who let something like that ruin their enjoyment of an anime.

Personally, this anime is actually pretty decent when it first started, but when I try to compare its later episode, where are of his harem came together, It became quite uninteresting, and even, unengaging when a certain episode is dedicated to a certain girl in his harem. Though, if you are going hate this show for its depiction of lewd 2D girls, who are obviously premature, then hate all the show that's out there that does the same too. Even if that includes your favorite show. Konosuba is one, they lewd Megumin. Tbh, it should be pretty normal to see such a thing in this ... community that you've gotten involved in. You may also hate this show for the somewhat revolutionary idea of romance of legal incest story, that being said, no one are going to make an actual romance of that IRL, so what's the big deal. I live in the same circumstances as this, not blood related sister and shit, if you see her as your sister, no sane person (ones that have a sister) who even want to hook up with them as a lover or as a love interest. That's only in anime and stuff from the ancient times, where King arthur fall in love with his mother without both knowing that they are related, and got kill for it or something along those line. Or, tribes, emperors, king practicing that lineage thing, where only blood related sibliings or descedent can make love and reproduce in order to keep that, idk, snobbish tradition of treating a certain blood as a part of the royalty, or being special and superior in a way from other human beings. And ofc, Eromanga is different because she's not blood related, but the general theme of the genre is the same.

This quality of animation is undeniably of a pretty high quality. The characters are consistently well drawn, and their designs or character are detailed and consistent through and through (we barely see the camera angle zoomed, or angled from afar for a very long duration). It's hard to bring in subjectivity, the way you felt about the show, and lesser the quality of the art/animation through subjectivity, in order to justify a 1/10 or even lower for the art/animation of the show. In order to explain how shit this show really is. It's irrational to take irrationality (subjectivity) and apply it to rational things such as art. Art are obviously something that we all can agree on. If something looks good and well drawn, that's a good quality art. some people tries to bend logic or idea of artistic around, to push their bias view that pampered to their own irrationality and subjective feelings, over evaluating things with a certain degree of maturity and objectivity in it. The evaluation on the story are entirety subjective, though, it's hard to say the same if you are going to evaluate the external content of the anime, like the art, music, voice acting, animation (the amount of frame to frame picture that is drawn to make the animation looks smooth or not smooth) and so on. And some scene in this is actually smooth as hell. There are some cartoonish art style here and there to charaterized the character (like when sagiri do popeye looking mouth thing). And the lewd of fanservice is justified, look at the fucking title name mate.

Eromanga sensei is a very fun show for its early 5 episodes and so; though, I kinda lost interest once there's this trip event in the show, as the entirety of his harem grouped up, indicating signs of wanting to be his love interest to one another (basically to their rivals in romance). I mean, it's cool how at least this anime, unlike many other harem, are extremely honest about their feeling for the MC, and even be as bold to confess their love. And this is through the used of scenery, or subtle ways of confessing, and other dramatic elements to make that scene of the confession, less boring and more romantic than any other harem series that I've seen.

That being said, there are quite a myriad of negatives when it comes to the approach, the method of developing a character, and the overly clicheness of the anime, where the show tries to be different, but done it in a pretty half assed way.

As we all know, a cliche harem show is basically a show where there's only one guy with multiplicity of women, who are seeking to fight one another (though, they will still care about one another either way as a friend) just to hook up with the MC, depending on the route that the anime may take for each or all girls. I'm actually pertaining to the VN of any harem series, that tend to contain a harem route, or a route that solely focused specifially on one candidate of the MC's harem. This being said, the anime tries to bring in at least other male character that seem to have no interest in girls, or bring in some random dudes into the story, pretending to be different from other harem show that we've seen. The pretentious part here isn't the fact that this anime have other males in it, ones that who are close to the MC and in a position to communicate with people from the MC's harem that is. The pretentious part here is bringing him out of nowhere, be a part of the different event that they took place in (like the beach episode), then forcely or conveniently put him away, making his existence seem quite unneeded. It's as if he wasn't even needed in the show but they just decided to keep him there anyway. There's no point of having him take part in a certain activities with the MC and of his harem, when you're going to get rid of him during it anyway (talking about the King's game screen, the game where you draw a number, and tell them to do whatever you want).

The approach of the harem is done quite horribly, it's not to say that this anime is bad as a whole for creating this horrible harem after all of the harem are introduced. It's just their way of presenting and giving only a little bits of moment for the MC and the girl of interest for a very short moment. It doesn't progresses to anything much, though, it might have created a reaction from the MC, but that either stagnated just to add in some dramatic scene in the episode, or to make the girls became even more competitive in becoming the MC's love interest. And his love for his little sister is a barrier for the MC to not hook up with other women, just like the very popular meme, "I love emilia" scene, rip Rem.



On a side note, you also call any author of such medium like a manga writer, light novel writer etc as sensei in the otaku community (everyone calls them that, see the anime man interviews with spice of wolf author, or konosuba author, or shirobako and bakuman, an anime on the production making of manga and anime industry).

The actual story maybe about that rivaly thing in regards to being an author and all. So it's not weird for the story to be about it, but the anime neglected this aspect, and proceeds on towards the typical harem moment rather than focusing more so on the main aspect of the story, and that's, striving for success in the industry (mainly for the MC's case since other authors are more successful than him). And anime move the plot quite slowly as well, that's prolly a down side of the show if you hate seeing characters spending time together (having fun), and developing some kind of a relationship with those interactions. It's pretty slice of life-ish if I were to describe it.

The anime followed a typical template of a typical harem show, though that's not a negative of the show, since every story in other community does the same. Deadpool for example, it follows the exact same template like any typical hero shows, and the hero's journey (the infamous outline for hero's story that everyone accidentally followed). The matter of criticizing the show here is how it was done, and how do you like it personally. This part is really subjective to one's taste, since people expect different things from a story, and our definition of entertainment are never entirely the same.

And that being said, this show has a great start, the quality drops though from its early episodes once all the harem is introduced, however, this is not a bad show. There are a number of negatives and positive in this show. But tbh, this show is pretty cute and fanservice heavy it maybe, it's a fucking fanservice show on premature girls and that isn't new at all in the otaku community. It's for a very niche audience that likes it. If you hate people lewding premature girls, hearing them saying lewd things like, "I want to see your panties", "all girls my age love dicks" etc. This anime is not for you.

This show exceeded my expectations in every single aspect. It was an enriching experience from start to finish and I can't advocate for your viewership enough. Don't misunderstand me; this show is absolute fucking garbage - but it traverses past the point of being an ironically enjoyable experience to a point of unironic, earnest enjoyment.

Slowly and surely, I began to board the bandwagon upon realizing this fact of life. At some point, you begin to accept that this is no mere sub-par show. You soon realize that this redefines what can be considered "bad". This show takes garbage to new territory.

Though, all bias aside, from ... a critical standpoint, the art is visually pleasing - it really stands above as a cut above the rest in terms of visually aesthetic and is lacking in flaws. The sound design and original soundtrack created for this anime worked to it's benefit and sounds quite nice, from the masterful opening that encapsulates the spirit of the show, to the ending that pumps you up for the next episode, and everything in between.

Continuing our critical analysis, the story is not the greatest - it has unique elements in the mainstream realm of anime but is nothing very special. It would stand at a solid 5 from a macroscopic perspective, assuming you only consider the overall basic, core plot. If you were to look at the more nuanced mini-arcs of this series, that perception would quickly fade, and you would soon realize that this show's plot is beyond the realm of a mere 1/10. It is much, much, much worse. They add in needless drama for the sake of extending the series and the flow is terrible. One might say - it is garbage.

But for a moment - indulge in the sheer beauty of this show through a perspective of how garbage this show really is - Eromanga-sensei stands to testify how an anime can be both objectively bad - but still be an immensely enjoyable experience. As to avoid spoiling any of the series, I will leave you with this final request.

Please watch the show.





This show is trash
and so am I

Eromanga Sensei is an anime that undoubtedly caught me by surprise. From its vibrant storytelling to its captivating humor, this series effortlessly won me over. As an anime enthusiast, I found myself thoroughly immersed in its world, eagerly awaiting each episode to unfold.

The show's strongest suit lies in its well-crafted comedy. Eromanga Sensei seamlessly weaves witty banter and hilarious situations, keeping the audience chuckling from start to finish. The comedic timing is impeccable, and the quirky interactions between the characters never fail to bring a smile to one's face. It's rare to find an anime that consistently delivers laughs without feeling forced or overdone, and ... this one truly excels in this regard.

Furthermore, the characters in Eromanga Sensei are incredibly endearing, each possessing their own unique quirks that make them stand out. The development of the main protagonist, Sagiri, is especially commendable, as we witness her growth throughout the series. Her dynamic with her stepbrother, Masamune, is heartwarming and adds an extra layer of charm to the narrative.

The art style and animation are top-notch, showcasing beautifully rendered visuals that enhance the overall experience. The attention to detail in character designs and background art elevates the anime's aesthetic appeal, making it visually delightful.

Though the anime may be lighthearted and fun, it also touches on themes of artistic passion and the complexities of family relationships. These underlying themes add depth to the story, making it more than just a typical comedy.

In conclusion, Eromanga Sensei is an absolute joy to watch. Its well-crafted humor, lovable characters, and exceptional animation make it an outstanding addition to the anime world. I wholeheartedly recommend this series to any anime enthusiast who seeks a fun and heartwarming experience.

Rating: 10/10

What is a manga?
What is a sensei?
Who is the ero?
These are the thought-provoking questions the viewer is given when watching 'Eromanga Sensei'.
As Shakespeare said himself, '14 year old girls, find attractive, you should.'
'Juliet I am the Romeo'

Eromanga Sensei is a clear continuation of Shakespeare's highly intellectual literary works, on the basis that it too, places underaged women in more mature circumstances and situations. As we can see from one of the most critically aclaimed plays of the 16th century, it is apparent that women such as Juliet (or in this instance, Sagari) are pushed into forbidden love at the tender age of 13. This is ... clearly something that should be encouraged - we can infer this from Shakespeare's own perspective.

In Eromanga Sensei, we can see how inspired and thoroughly enthusiastic the author was - it is evident that this forbidden love trope has shone through in the anime itself and is parallel, to a significant degree, to the masterpiece of Romeo and Juliet.

Thus, it can be concluded that, owing to the forbidden love nurtured in Eromanga Sensei, it too is a masterpiece on the same intellectual playing field as Romeo and Juliet.

10/10

This anime is one of those anime that isn't meant to be taken seriously. It's one of those that is meant to make you relate to the characters and/or give you satisfaction. A very similar anime to this is Himouto! Umaru-chan.

Plot: 5/10
The plot of it is that the MC has been writing a light novel where the illustrator is some unknown person that goes by the name 'Eromanga'. He doesn't realize that Eromanga is actually his little sister (which is not his biological sister). I won't be talking about what happens later because it's kinda spoiler filled. The story focuses on a couple of ... characters who are all either otakus, authors, publishers or illustrators. Honestly the concept of having a story focused on an otaku character has been done before and is slowly becoming more common. The story is easy to understand (at least for anime fans and/or manga fans) but that's cause it's not complex. I do feel like it has been done before but not in this way (???). I would also like to mention the fat guy that runs between the transitions each episode, I thought that was a nice thing they keep. I gave it a 5 (mediocre) due to it not being something unbelievably original but still not something that's overdone.

Art: 9/10
The art in this is actually very well done. Although due to the art and story most of the time when I was watching this (especially at the scenes when one of the authors is bragging) I kept thinking how the animators felt. I mean they did have to animate this series which makes publishing a work and drawing seem so easy (I mean Eromanga is like 12 and can draw that in like 5 minutes) while the animators probably can't see their family most of the time and almost never get recognition.

Sound: 8/10
I'm not a musician but I do have to admit that the music is quite good. I know it's not Yuri on Ice levels or Your Lie in April levels but is quite fitting for the series.

Character:5/10
The series has quite good characters. Their biggest fault is usually that they are unoriginal or simply unrealistic. When reviewing anime you have to realize that it is animation, so they make everything quite extra (face expressions, emotions, voice acting ect.) to make stuff entertaining. But seriously Eromanga is 12 and can draw that well?! Elf-Yamada is like 14 and is one of the most successful authors in upcoming light novels ?! And how does the MC keep his writing on check and his school life on and manages to have friends?? I feel like this is due to the writers of the show being too old to understand the stuff you can and can't do at a young age. I'm around the age of the characters and I do feel like this is too extra.

Enjoyment:5/10
If it was any other anime I would of dropped it already. But their is after all something pulling me to watch one more episode if you know what I mean. I honestly think it's the hangcliffs at the ends of most of the episodes. BUT HOW? I don't feel attached to the story nor the characters. How is this possible?

BRIEF HISTORY:

pros:
-you might relate to the characters if you're a writer or any type of artist
-the animation is great
-the music is fine
-you get attached to the series somehow
-if you want to get to know anime and manga this might be good for you
-overall it seems like a weird concept but it is pretty relateble to some people

cons:
-the story is pretty boring for the first few episodes
-characters are bland
-honestly if half of the characters weren't lolis this would be such a flop

Now listen up. Eromanga is no Akira and I want to be clear on that. This is not a new or original anime. But ask yourself this: Why in hell would you expect from a light novel adaptation to be the second coming of Hayao Miyazaki? What drove people in this community to the point where they can't genuinely enjoy anime for what it always was: perverted and weirdly funny?

Let me back up there and start over. You watched Chobits didn't you? You watched Chobits and Gurren Lagann and lots and lots of over top shows with lots of 'plot' in them didn't you? Did ... it not occur even once to you that it's over-sexualized? That's one of the things that divides anime from western cartoons: it's liberal approach to show sexual content. They even have a genre for it: hentai. And it's fine. You watch it if you want, if you don't like it, you don't watch it. However there's no denying anime always included more 'plot' than was necessary. And we loved it for it. In the minds of conscious people, there is a barrier between fantasy and reality. You don't expect or want the two to mix. You don't expect naked girls jumping on you in real life, because it would be messed up? Why are they doing it? Are they crazy? Is this a prank? Am I being recorded? Those would be things you would be asking yourself in those situations. In fantasy, it makes complete sense. That's how the story is set up and you suspend your disbelief - you roll with it.

Let me back up even further. Let's talk about this fake-sister incest bullshit that has been going around in anime and light novels too. Did you actually ever consider why this is a thing? And why people are attracted to this trope? Do you think people desperately want to fuck their relatives? Do you want to fuck your relatives? The reason why this pops up is Freudian. Simply put, from a story perspective as an author you want to set up an already intimate scenario between two young people. That's not something that normally just occurs in nature. You want them to trust each other and have a strong bond. So you leverage something that you know provides that bond. Family. It's an easy explanation that a human mind accepts casually for an answer to 'why are they comfortable around each other'. Why do they care about each other deeply? Why at all?

Then you want to make that a romantic scenario and that's the difficult part, because normally this is not romantic at all. Is it romantic that a father cares about his son? Is it romantic that a mother tucks her daughter in at night before going to sleep? Is it romantic that two young siblings bathe together? Or is it just practical? Not making it a 'weird thing' to have siblings bathe together as otherwise you would have to pay two tubs worth of water. Listen, I know this may sound difficult to comprehend, but men and women aren't ALWAYS sexually attracted to each other. So this is where the 'cheapness' of Eromanga comes in: it pretends just by not being blood related this can be romantic. It dismisses the point: you either focus on a brother sister relationship and build on that, which is difficult to show as romantic, or you drop that plot and say 'they have loved each other for years and lived together as well' and then it becomes plain bullshit. You have to force your characters not to destroy this scenario. Two young people living together for years and loving one another, with no supervision whatsoever - and not having sex like every day? We all know that's bullshit. So that's why the brother-sister thing is introduced. To RESTRAIN it, not to ENHANCE it. However subconsciously people tie the two stories together, the love and being related and they end up with this guilty of being attracted to a relative. And they enjoy it, never realising that it wasn't the relatives part that they were attracted to in the first place. By itself, that doesn't mean anything.

They were attracted to love and caring for each other. And I think Eromanga delivers when it comes to this. There's great attention on the Kirito (sorry I had to) and Rei (again, sorry) being shown as actually discussing things. Things that aren't always their relationship (I'm looking at you every other slice of life bullshit). They speak about work, other people, their past. It's actually really believable at that too.

I think it's also really important to emphasise: people in Eromanga seem to be attracted to each other for realistic and right reasons. They love each other because they impressed them with their writing, with their motivational speeches, with their enthusiasm for their passion (writing or drawing) and so on. They are not empty sexual objects, they all have their reasons for liking either the protagonist or others. The protagonist isn't empty either: he puts a lot of effort into preserving his way of life and following his dreams. He also cares deeply about others and interacts with them well: he does not shy away from criticising people but nor from taking advice.

I'm sad to see we got so posh and elitist in this community, that we don't accept who we originally all started of as: obnoxious, masturbating Naruto and DBZ fans. We obviously progressed from there, however we don't acknowledge that the genre didn't change fundamentally: we did. Anime like Eromanga is and always was a big part of Anime. We just stopped saying we liked it. We started watching YouTube videos with self-proclaimed critics cutting our passion and interest apart and criticising anime like it was the fucking Mona Lisa. Anime never was just about having a deep message or excellent drawing or philosophical story. It was about having fun too. There's always the disclaimer at the beginning and the end of those reviews; if you like it - good for you. But that's bullshit too, isn't it. If you like, 'good for you' but 'feel ashamed, because you're just not ready for higher quality'. I like this series because it reminds me of times when we had smaller problems and weren't so self-conscious. I can have fun watching this and so can you. Stop feeling ashamed for liking a show and start trying to understand why you like it in the first place. You might realise that your reasons aren't always as dark as they first seem. Hopefully these reviewers will also arrive to a point where they start to explore their own taboos and prejudices and understand what they are afraid of. Then, we can criticise Eromanga for what it truly does wrong.

Tsukasa Fushimi is a man who truly knows what he is passionate about, and he wants to share that passion with the whole world. After being denied the incestuous romance he craved (and presumably the biggest orgasm of his life) by the publishers of his last series, "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute," Fushimi-San set out to write another sibling-love story, this time utilizing the "they're not biologically related, so it's okay" loophole. As many of us know, publisher restrictions can be quite a brother... I mean bother.

And so, Eromanga-sensei was born and was released to thousands of otaku, some of whom seemingly got ... offended that a show would have the nerve to exist without trying to appeal to them in particular and went onto the internet to complain about it.

Anyway, the show explores many similar themes to Oreimo (aka, the aforementioned "little sister" series). So many in fact, that one might consider it a sister-series of sorts. The main difference between the two (other than the "not related" loophole) being that Eromanga-sensei truly raises the bar for self-insert characters. The main character is a light-novelist who desperately wants to publish his new work: a book about a cute little sister. Not only does the show refrain from any attempt to hide its liberal use of this trope, it seems to bask in it to the point where the series itself almost becomes a big self-referential inside-joke.

I'm not saying that any of this is a bad thing, by the way. The goofiness of the show's plot makes for an enjoyable watch, and there are more than a few heartfelt moments mixed in to lend some emotional appeal to the characters.

I guess I should also mention the biggest draw of the show: yes, it's full of cute lolis. Yes, it's very perverted and full of fan-service. And no, I haven't yet made peace with my God. If by chance I die tonight, I shall pass on to the afterlife bloated with sin as black as the scorched ashen remains of a burnt church and far more foul. Last night I drank antibacterial dish soap in hopes to cleanse my system of impure thoughts about dick-loving 12-year-olds and ended up vomiting dark, dreadful bile over the tile floor of my bathroom. I laid there next to the slowly-spreading puddle of vomit for what seemed like an eternity, shivering and whispering desperate words of prayer.

Dear God, I'm so sorry.

But I digress. That's enough about me. What you should know is that if you enjoy romantic comedies and you're not too much of a sissy to stomach the semi-incestuous themes, you'll probably end up enjoying this series quite a bit. As a writer myself, I find this show quite inspirational, and it has really assistered me in my writing process as of late.

The animation is fantastic, the music is fun and catchy, and the characters are all fairly likable. In fact, by the end of the series, they might even feel like family to you... cute, yet strangely sexy family.

9/10.

Not being able to see a loved one for a long period of time, especially family bound by blood or being siblings, will surely bring pain to someone currently having a situation like that. That is a universal fact. Not being in our parent's side obviously has a same effect. Some may suffer ftom trauma, some will get shocked and hate the world and some, will lock themselves in, not being able to get out.

The story of Eromanga-sensei revolves around Sagiri Izumi, a shut-in who haven't got out of her room since the untimely death of her parents. Because of this, her relationship with her ... stepbrother, Masamune Izumi, became horribly complicated. Wishing to see the face of his beloved sister, Masamune tries all ways in order to make Sagiri come out of her room once amd for all.

In order to sustain their near-broken family, Masamune writes erotic light novels and make them published. However, he faces time-to-time problems such as rejections and that he is barely known by the public. He, however, has a very famous illustrator named Eromanga-sensei that can draw really lewd and erotic arts which is one of the factors he barely passes by. The only thing is, he had never met Eromanga-sensei yet and he thinks of him (?) as a pervy old man. Until a very shocking revelation happened.

It was around January when I read about this anime in the upcoming series at KissAnime. When I read the sypnosis, I was instantaneously impressed and started to wait for April for its airing. And I did not regret my choice. I watched it, and found another masterpiece.

The story was outstanding, great, and somehow hilarious to the point I kept rewinding some of the funny scenes. The story was also unique that I can't stop watching it. I think I watched it straight for 8-11 hours, including rewindings and not skipping the themes. It was also well-executed and well-played that I will keep saying that IT IS EXCELLENT.

The art, mostly the illustrations made by Eromanga-sensei which were lewd were (I'll be honest with this one) stimulating. They were excellent it kind of stimulated me. I don't know why. Maybe I have a lolita complex? Now that would be the wrongest of all wrongs. It is wrong. Truly wrong.

The character designs is one of the things about this anime that truly stood out of all things there is. The arts for each character was truly excellent as well as super satisfactory. The designs for Sagiri, Masamune, Mu****sa, Sh***u and last but not the least, the most pulchritudinous of all designs, E*f (here goes my biased review again) were, again, excellent and great. I. CANT. GET. OVER. IT. Why? Because I'm a fan. A fan that can't get over easily to types of anime like this. One more of its type is OreImo.

The music, OSTs and soundtracks (they seem to be synonyms) and especially the opening and closing themes was also something I can't get over with. Especialy 'adrenaline!!' which was performed by TrySail, one of my favorite bands that create anime music, albeit I don't know any of their faces nor members. I also liked the opening theme 'Hitorigoto' by ClariS so well that I already an earworm. (Earworm is the condition in which you just cannot stop listening to a certain song.)

The characters. They were utterly great. Need I say any less?

Sagiri was kind of a TsunYanKuuDandere if you ask me. (Mix of all for basic types of anime personality stereotypes.) That is one of the most interesting factors you can get from a single character in a single series. Masamune was kind, and caring for his sister, like what normal families must do. The other characters was also unique including thad d*ck-loving orange-haired girl, the weird yellow-haired girl with chuunibyou (Eighth Grade Syndrome. Not a real disease) with elven ears and the most popular light novelist in the series.

If you ever read the review, you wouldn't ask if I had enjoyed it. Me writing this was a long-cut of saying "This anime is so f***ing great that I enjoyed it thoroughly. You should watch it too. Just watch out for e***i scenes that will stimulate if you have XY as the last pair of chromosomes." No, I won't explain what I just said.

Again, if you ever read the review, you wouldn't be asking how will I rate it. Overall, the anime was supercalifragilisticexpialidociously interesting and should be honorificiabilititudinitatibus enough not be the subject of anyone's floccinaucinihilipilifications as an anime. Great story, great art, excellent music and excellent characters. I should also note that this inspired me to create a novel right after watching. To be honest, whilst writing this review, I was also writing it. Are you curious? Please be curious. Hehehe.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll write more about my novel. It is romantic. Good day! (Night if night.)


Ah yes, I won't explain the long words I used. It's too hard to. Impossible maybe.

This piece of writing is based on the viewing experience of the first 4 episodes of Eromanga-sensei.

To be honest I really don't understand why this series is getting so much hate.
I understand that there is no real plot, the character are not deep and the protagonist is the usual light novel protagonist. But I don't think people watching this show come into it expecting a interesting plot with unique characters.

I read CoquiEnthusiast review of the show in which he/she wanted to vent his/her anger regarding the show and I get that most of the points he made are fair but to be fair to the ... show-

-The animation is not that bad.(Relative to some of the other shows that have come out this season it's quite good. Eg: Clockwork planet, Alice to Zouruko etc)
-The soundtrack gets a passing grade too.
-I too fell the displeasure experienced by CoquiEnthusiast due to the unnecessary sexualization of the characters of the show, but at this point the anime industry is in such a place that most of the shows based in the harem/ecchi genre all share this common theme and also most shows based out of highschool also share this theme.
-Despite all this, if you just want to shut your brain and watch some stupid shit then this show itself is not that bad.

I also understand the comparison to Oreimo and it's blatantly obvious where this plot is going but I think the people who watch this shows every week already know this.
As a anime fan, I do expect much better from the anime industry, I myself also hope that shows like Ping pong, Code Geass, Haikyuu S1,S2 ,Berserk 1997-98, Parasite are produced every season and that I can take pleasure in watching them.

I'm not here to say that Eromanga-sensei is great anime in fact I don't even think it's a good anime and i'm sure everyone will forget about it by the end of the season. I myself won't be watching this anime anymore. But If some one wants to enjoy Eromanga-sensei I have nothing against them. After all if people can watch tentacle hentai why can't they watch this.

After reading all this the reader may be wondering what I wanted to convey through this. To be honest nothing much really, I just wanted to put forward my thoughts on this show.
BTW I really like the OP of the show.
P.S: Sorry for mentioning CoquiEnthusiast review again and aging in the above text. I understand that most of the readers may not have read his/her review. His/Her review of Eromanga-sensei should be up on the MAL page of Eromanga-sensei.

Eromanga sensei may be the best anime ill ever see in my life. The characters are phenomenal and this anime shows a lot of character development. For example, in the last episode, Sagiri finally leaves the room, like wow, probably my favorite anime moment ever. Also when that elf nigga who plays the piano naked tells us her real name, it was also very epic.

The art is just simply amazing, it looks really simple but when you look at it properly, you will see how sexy it really is.

The story may be the best ive ever seen, a young girl never leaves her room for ... no good fucking reason and her brother trying to make her come out. Also when hes watching her stream and sees the food she made him in the background, its a very good plot twist and unlike any other anime.

The sounds are also very good like when that spoilt bitch fucking screams baka at the top of her lungs with like 10 fucking speakers on, im still surprised how they havent got a noise complaint

overall the anime is very enjoyable and i reccommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it already, very good overall and i will most likely rewatch it about 10 more times.



in all honesty this is the worst fucking anime ive ever seen, by episode 2 i was crying from how shit it i and im surprised i havent killed myself yet after watching it

*SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD*



Call me a lolicon if you wish, I love Eromanga Sensei. Put all your past experiences with anime away and look at it straight in the eye, it's honestly not that bad.

Story : 9
The story was not bad, neither it was incredible. Masamune trying his best to get his sister, Sagiri to get out of her room. There was noticeable improvement throughout the series. It felt more like a Slice of Life, looking at where it ended at least.

Art : 9
The art was amazing, the pouting faces get me everytime. It really strongly expresses the characters feelings out, and also perfectly fits ... the genres of Ecchi & Comedy.

Sound : 9
I loved the OP & EDs. Having one of the EDs totally based on Sagiri expressing her love to her not blood related brother was cute. The soundtracks were not too bad as well, but not exactly what I would crave for.

Character : 10
The characters were fantastic. Poor Masamune has to be the inferior one among all of them, but this is also a good way to allow the characters have screen time. Such as Elf & Muramasa going against Masamune. The romance circulating around the characters also pushed development.

Enjoyment : 9
It was quite enjoyable, I thought I would just be watching a girl drawing Eromanga when I first saw the title, but I was clearly mistaken. The blending between the comedy and the romance was pretty balanced.

Overall : 9
I will not recommend this to everyone. If you do not like Incest or Dramatic stuff, this is not for you. If not, please try it out, honestly had a blast watching this.

A highly compacted story about the sillyness you own when staying young and acting so, simply because you haven't had a complete family life in your childhood. About a longing for dreams and emotions and the hilarious idiocy everone arrives at when being cared for and taken seriously suddenly.

"Just" a very comedic, stupidly funny and very realistic slice of life.

Meant for people who have "left the house" and those that want to.

Sadly MAL doesn't allow reviews this short, so i have to add some thoughts. The thing is i do not want to, because it is clear to me what will happen if i do ... a deep dive in how this anime literally depicts the status quo of many - as in too much - youngsters that are confronted with the problematic of having either never been cared for and tring to fill the gap by seeking for love they haven't got at home or have lost their family as it was in one way or another.

If you watch this you will enjoy it, if - and only if - you have had those experiences - and you "can" enjoy it if you feel the lust to break out of your cave only to realize it didn't protect but enprison you.

Do not be scared, because of the storm brought by a mass of people that obviously never felt love first hand and/or have a very broken understanding of what having emotions is about.

And by the way, there is literally no sex and no perverted stuff and whomever seriously believes to have detected porn in there or even incest should go out and take a breath of fresh air and on the way get a replacement brain, because that is obviously defunct due to sitting in the soup of a made-up perspective on life completely decoupled from reality.

Just go for it.

If you don't like it, then at least ask yourself why and try to explain it to yourself before chiming in in the shitstorm of the braindead, not because you are unjust (you are) but because you need to be clear about your perspective if you wanna ever leave your illusion - that is what this anime demands from you.

Have fun! Or not. Why should i care if you do not?

Oh Heavens, were we worthy of such a stunning exemplar of superhuman artistic expression? Have we ever obliged any such wonderful creation? How could it come to pass that beings as pitiful as we may witness this endlessly glorious masterpiece?

Or more straight to my point, WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS???

This show is great. It's...fantastic. It's amazing.

I watched it with my friend. We both kept agreeing, that it was amazing. Super amazing. Hyper amazing.

HYPER AMAZINGLY SHIT!!!

No seriously, really, no joke, watch this. Watch this and let your world and any sense that your animu loving self held any kind of dignity crumble to dust ... and get swiped away to the trash.

How is this bad? It's not "how", it's "why".

Eromanga Sensei has the basic premise that Blandy McMopface, 15 or 16, lives in (alone of course) with his 12 year old little sister. Mopface has a little sister fetish. He makes hentai scenarios based on his fetishes. He works online with a masked manga artist who draws what he writes. One day, he realises that the manga artist is actually his little sister.

Then, they start not having sex. They never have sex. The little (non blood related of course!!!) sister outright tells him that she wants to have sex. And they don't.

Then, they have another girl of about 12 too who shows up at the door and says she loves dicks. No really. I'm not simplifying. She rings the bell. Mopface opens. They have a short conversation. During which she says literally : "Ochinchin? Daisuki desu kedo!" aka "peepees? I love them too much!".

Then, the neighboring house has a new inhabiter. Due to bullshit reason #6709834754642353427058347523601837235, Mopface intrudes into the house and finds the tenant to be a naked (of course naked) 12 year old.

Then the spiral of 12 year old dick loving girls keeps swirling around him until they form a Maelstrom of underage sex adventures including panty stealing and sex invitations at every episode, and something akin to commanded cheating, and pretty much everything you can do.

Look, if this were porn, I'd have zero problems with it. I wouldn't care one second.

But Eromanga washes itself away from being the show where the oldest girl is 14 years old by never having sex. Just underpants thievery, peeping, sexual talks at every line, very borderline pedophilia, touching, innuendos all the time, and every freaking scenario you could find in hentai all together in one show.

Needless to say that's like washing away the blood on the blade by smearing your face with it.

Even beyond the really really shitty romance/unassuming porn side of this, it's just pure shit. If I were to compare this utter piece of crap to anything, let's take Keijo: on one hand you have a serious sports anime with a ton of butts and asses and it's silly as hell but also takes itself seriously and makes effort both in its parody side and its sports anime side, and on the other hand you have a """""""""""romance"""""""""""" show that fails so hard at character relationship because every line is about sex, fails so hard at being porn because it's got this policy of "do and say every pervy thing, but sex is a no no", and fails so hard at any kind of thing, even its basic premise works only if you have a really, really really wierd fetish that I've never in my life seen outside of hentai, that there's just no salvation. Everything in this is pure crap.

Let me tell you one last thing, the friend I watched this with and I did a thing when we watched: every time something was said, or was done, that made the show even worse than it already was, we told each other "it just got worse didn't it" and we agreed every time.

Out of the 12 episodes, we told ourselves that 11 times. There is one episode, 6 or 7, that isn't making the show even worse than prior. Every other single episode just made you dig deeper inside a mountain of 100% A grade pure shit.

It's atrociously bad.

So why a 10?

Because it's amazingly terribad. Watch it and hate the world.

Else it's a 1, let's be serious.

So this anime was chosen to be the scapegoat for this anime list to be hated just for the sake of being hated on by normies\idiots. Now saying you must like eromanga sensei or give it a good score you can do whatever but most idiots\keyboard warriors here give it a 1\10 because they do not know what slice of life is\bandwagon of hate for no reason and other idiotic reason. All I can do is give you a non biased, accurate review

Story 5\10
MC writes light novels for a living and wants to make it out there in the world as an author. He ... has a NON BLOOD RELATED sister who is age 12 while he is 15 and the series is a slice of life that goes through while adding extra characters and random fanservice etc. His sister draws lewd art for a living and is a neet. Typical slice of life stuff here but a bit like bakuman which I liked but not much more then that.

Art 8.5\10
Production was superb for this anime, everything was smooth and looked great. Lots of use of vibrant colors with the illustrations. Most 1'10 reviews here do not know how to review at all so do not take in account of anything else besides the show not being what they like but this was one of the best animated shows for the season it came out for.
Sound 7\10
OP was cute and a great listen, everything else does its job but nothing too memorable.
Characters 6\10
Now most characters were the generic tropes done right that you have seen countless of times for the most part. The main character was while generic had some depth and you see him work on his craft of being an author, having morals of exactly what relationship he wants with his step sister and how he wants to stay as just that while fighting the idea it could be more. Not too bad of an MC but nothing ground breaking what so ever but I give credit where its due. Elf sensei going through character development and learning her decent backstory along with her being fleshed out well but thats where it ends. Most other characters get either no time or just generic but one of the girls pulled through I guess.
Enjoyment 6\10
I enjoyed this series just like other slice of lifes since it was funny at times etc etc. Not digging the fanservice at all since they were 12 but keep in mind they were close to the MC age.
Overall thoughts
I give this show a 7\10 but would like to point out something important. People hated the pedo vibes of this show but keep in mind the fanservice was either for comedy or the MC who was almost their age and was not very excessive compared to others anime of similar nature. a 12 year old and 14\15 year old is fine for them and I can assure you that if this series was the opposite and was milf city and the MC was 15 this show would be praised yet become actual pedophilia. In other series, we have so called 1000 year old women who look like they are in ELEMENTARY school but since they are claimed to be "1000 years old" or some legal aged loli its fine and people fap to that which is disgusting yet the anime community lets that slide and chooses this normal slice of life thats only at best good by some standards nothing profound or a classic of its genre by any means. If you like slice of life comedy, you will like this and if not, do not watch this show simple as that. I actually might give this series an extra point for pity just because the reviews\scores do not do this series justice at all.

This series really isn't that bad. I see so much reviews giving it hate because of the fanservice regarding the 12 year old girl but it really wasn't too bad. Well maybe it is but seriously. From the guy who made OreImo, what else did you fucking expect? A kid friendly show, oh wait that won't even be anime anymore.

That aside, one should watch it solely for the comedy. Don't expect too much as since this is from the guy who made OreImo, we already know what's going to fucking happen. Although, even when it does happen, there's still some slight confusion on my side ... because I honestly think there's going to have to be a time skip. Why? Because a 12ish girl dating her not-blood-related-brother (emphasiize that part) would kind of seem wrong.

So yeah...just watch it for the comedy. It actually turned out not so bad but the imouto could kind of be more...I don't know...appealing? She just looks like your typical cute girl with a little bit of tsundere being mixed in. And the male MC could be a tad bit less neutral because I HONESTLY DON"T KNOW WHAT THE DEAL IS WITH THIS DUDE. You'll see what I mean when you watch Eromanga Sensei. You'll see.

Anyways, the anime wasn't so disgusting like some reviewers have said. I came to realize that these people over exaggerate a lot of stuff about Eromanga like the male MC being obsessed with his sister which that is not true. He just cares for her in his own way. So don't let those people influence your decision on watching the anime and don't feel like enjoying the anime is a bad thing because it certainly isn't. Everyone has their own taste. Well, see you!

I loved OreImo, the anime adaptation of the light novels written by the same author as Eromanga Sensei. This is not OreImo. Where OreImo had fantastic deconstructions of the life of a closet Otaku, Eromanga Sensei has some dick jokes. The last episode is literally just one dick joke.

Now, the show is still enjoyable for other reasons. It's funny at times, and honestly is worth the short amount of time that it runs if you're just looking for a way to spend an afternoon. That's exactly what I did.

I guess if I were to sum it up in three words: OreImo but worse.

This series is some of the most exquisite otaku trash I have ever feasted upon, managing to reach so high by stooping so low. We've got panty shots, we've got 'not actually related by blood' incest escapism, we've got love triangles involving an average at best lead male character, we've got obnoxious stereotypes in a show that thinks its meta by having the characters point it out, we've got 12 year old girls proclaiming their love for some good old 'o chin-chin', we've got tasteless gay jokes, we've got awkward plot conveniences, and a random tournament ark.

Eromanga Sensei is a masterpiece of it's genre, ... mainly because it knows what it is and never tries to hide it. There's no shielding yourself from the fact that you are watching lowest common denominator trash, you know it, I know it, the creators and animators know it. There's no 'I watch it for the plot' shield because the plot is trash, there's no 'I watch it for the characters' shield because the characters are trash, and there's no 'I watch it because Best Girl' shield because every Best Girl is in reality the Worst Girl.

It's a buffet of any and every cheap cliche found in pandering otaku bait cranked to 11. It was crude, immature, and lazy, I loved every second of it. It is a perfect trash fire that we can only experience once a generation, where its lowest qualities actually come together to create its best quality. It's like drinking Mad Dog from a wine glass, or eating gas station roller grill food on fine china.

A man known as Garnt, or more commonly Gigguk, once said, "If she's not blood related, she's free to be dated". Taken out of context, it's a very accurate rule of thumb in dating life. However, if y'all clicked on this review, you already know the context. This is anime, not world history.
Eromanga-Sensei is sorta like purgatory in the anime community. It has its advantages, yet it is flamed for everything else. It just goes to show how much people tend to lean towards the bad stuff. Eromaanga-Sensei is about an aspiring light novel author and his esteemed illustrator, who turns out to be ... his half-sister, and their hijinx with other authors in the industry. Eromanga easily demonstrates the hardships of the anime and light novel industries as well as the importance of a bond between writer, illustrator, editor, and viewer.

Story
If we were to take out all of the fluff around the plot, we would see that its actually rather linear. A simple, straight-to-follow progression of events with distinct yet cliche arcs. Unfortunately, that's all that it has going for it. The flashbacks have little to no magnitude to them, and serve practically no purpose other than to give the viewer a sense of "oh, that happened". Sure, the events in each arc are fun and hilarious, but when put in the grand scheme of things its just A-1 reusing their content again.

Art and Sound
This is so overlooked in this anime that it is practically a crime. Allow me to explain, but before I do, a moment of respect for all the manga illustrators out there, they put so much passion and work into their art, leading to some beautiful works of art that the anime and manga community clearly respects. Why do I say this? Because Sagiri puts the same efforts into her art as all of these other illustrators. Sure, she might be a bit... odd when it comes to gathering information, but in the end you can see the detail in all of her covers and characters. Not only to mention a very well-executed timelapse of how she draws them in her livestreams too. Moving to a bigger picture, the anime is very well made, it's crisp where we need it and blurred where we don't (trust me on that one). Each background, character model, and interaction is just what we'd expect from A-1.
The sound is on a whole level of its own. The music serves mainly to lighten moods, although there are scenes where it deepens them. However, what makes the OST in this anime so unique is that it actually STOPS. It's one of the most recognizable ways to inflict the feeling of "Aw crap, shit's gonna happen isn't it", and yet there are so little animes that actually do it. A clean slice in the middle of the OST is all you need to quietly utter to yourself "oh boy" before witnessing the hijinx that ensues. The most recognizable? Of course its the Ochinchin Kouhai.
OST aside, the OP and ED are amazing. Both of them are so upbeat and joyful, and they're coupled with cute and uplifting animations of Sagiri dancing to them. Who the hell wouldn't dance along with Sagiri in the OP and ED? Both of them deserved a spot on my web playlist, and its mighty convenient its available on Spotify too.

Characters
Alright, this is the section of the anime that gets the most flame. It's blatantly understandable, but honestly. It's not as bad as other imuoto-related anime.
At the first glance it should become immediately obvious that aside from it being an imuoto anime, its also a harem-style anime, which means that once again, we're gonna have an up-and-coming and stupidly oblivious main character who gets into a lot of innuendos and accidents with a cast of unique yet cliche girls. While Masamune fits the trope perfectly, he's already got eyes for our sweet little imuoto, making him an absolute cock-blocker to the other girls in the anime. Props for actually showing resiliency in a harem anime for once. While the rest of his development goes relatively flat, his half-sister Sagiri slowly gets more development, going from a shut-in NEET to a... lesser shut-in NEET. Sure, she allows people in her room now and can walk inside of the house, and pulls down and steals other girls' panties for "research". But ultimately, the fact that she's restricted to the house completely butchers her character development. If only she'd gone to the beach with the rest of the gang. The other girls don't get much love either. Muramasa-sensei loves Masamune for the most obliviously stupid reason ever, while also being your classic ice-queen kuudere, and Elf is just an Himedere (girl who acts like a queen) suffering from Chuunibyou. Yea, it makes sense for why the community hates these character.

Overall, the rule of thumb when it comes to animes like these is to turn your brain off and enjoy this stuff. And ultimately, this anime's primary purpose is to get people to laugh with the shenanigans and get people attached to this brother-sister pair. While it underperforms with the latter, it certainly succeeds with the former.

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✦Story
You know, I do love these straightforward and bright pseudo-romance series with small twists in them. And in this particular Anime the twist was that most female cast were young girls, who were ero artist in nutshell. A joyful adventure of young lewd minds, who actually are still inexperienced and pure. That twist alone made this anime fun for me. Bless art of eros.

Now, as usual these type of shows are extremely minimal in story adventure. As they function as usual as advertisement for the source material. ... Basically, once you finish the Anime it pretty much gives you general gist of the world, characters, setting and so on. A big prologue in Animated form. "If you want to know more, read the LN" basically this type of thing. I'm fine and used to it, but obviously I won't touch the LN as I cannot be bothered to read in general. Although I do hope all young lewd minds will find their vanilla soulmate and be lewd together until death them parts. Being lewd is fine as long you stay true to love and intimacy and won't become a ***t.

Anyhow, to sum it up. Story is presented in straightforward and bright manner as usual with these kinds of Anime. For what it is, I found it entertaining as it had fun setting and really cute characters. Do not expect story progressing too far, as mentioned these types of Anime are basically introductory to their source material and likelihood seeing them fully adapted is quite minimal.

✦Art & Sound
Simple, fun, colorful and straightforward. I have nothing else to add.

✦Character
We have a bunch of cute stereotypes that also have their "annoying" side. An extreme shut-in, who is as well quite lewd and jealous. A tsundere ojou-sama, who is a bit tad too tiring. Not my perfect tsundere. And a bit quiet, sadistic, selfish and oddly angry kimono girl. Nevertheless, all of the female cast pretty much has absolutely adorable side as well.

Side characters also were pretty fun stereotypes and the main guy was, well the usual "good guy, but a bit awkward" stereotype.

In the end, I enjoyed them all.
And I do ship main character with Tomoe. Loved their minimal moments.

✦Enjoyment & Overall
I did mention already everything that is needed. It is a straightforward, pseudo-romance, harem with a little twist to it. Why I call it "pseudo" is simply it doesn't really progress anywhere relationships'wise as this Anime is pretty much introduction to the world
Service was as well nice. It wasn't visually too lewd, but rather it gave more to imagination. Which in this Anime was a superb balance.

Joyful, bright, fun. Bless art of eros.