Imouto sae Ireba Ii.

ImoSae was just as if not shittier than Eromanga.
The only reason I didn't drop it was because I always pick a show every season and watch it precisely because it's terrible to make me feel thankful for the existence of actual good shows.( Previous season it was "in another world with my smartphone". God damn it was bad lol ).

The show tried to force kanikou down my throat and into my heart and it failed miserably.
They went for the trope of the girl who's very "lewd" and always aggressively coming onto the MC but blushes and shuts down when he "unintentionally" comes onto her. ... I hate those.
She also says Nyaa all the time for no fucking reason and it's very annoying. You don't get to say Nyaa unless you're a cat girl or you're just saying it in a comedic bit.
Also why the fuck is this an imouto series if the main heroine is not even an imouto.

There was no point in the orange hair girl(super boring bitch),the glasses novelist(thinks he's rivals with MC but it's one sided and sad lol), the mangaka(wtf.) and the ass fetish artist(so annoying , I thought it was a girl at first) even existing, they're barely relevant to the "story".

They also went for the "make reference to other anime to make us seem cool" trope, Bringing up Kobato from haganai, komachi from oregairu ,OreImo and Eromanga. Just to say that "Hey there fellow kids! these shows are totally great and we totally love them too, please watch our show we're so relatable xd lol Fidget spinners lmao dab haha ".

There was only one moment in ep 11 that I found touching but it was concerning KaniTRASH so i didn't really give a shit lol. but other than that they just play board games and hang out all the time, like it's some shitty slice-of-life anime. It's so fucking boring and the "comedy" is so bad it's sad.

The art like most other LN anime was pretty bland and got worse as the episodes went on.

There was one soundtrack I enjoyed. other than that it wasn't anything special.

I felt like gouging my eyes out while watching this show at least twice per episode.

Then again if you're someone who enjoys trash imouto shows such as OreImo and Eromanga then you should watch it lol.

P.S: *SPOILER*
To the show's credit, I did laugh once. When glasses' anime adaptation apparently turned out really bad. I was like "Oh the irony".

#4

If this anime didn’t have the slightest mention of sisters, it would be a pretty solid anime. It was actually pretty enjoyable and quite nice when the main character wasn’t talking about his dark twisted fantasies. How is the MC not in jail? Like, this anime had some SERIOUS potential considering it had a semi decent story and message, but it was completely ruined by fan service that was uncalled for. The FBI could be at my very door step… wait… I GOTTA RUN ITS ALL THIS SHOWS FAULT!!!! DON’T WATCH!!!

Seeing the MC suffer was a highlight
4/10

Lets see here, what is the most memorable feelings i have after watching 11 episodes...

0) The reason i started watching its because the art is GREAT! sadly, that's about it.

1) Imouto is just thrown in there to bait people, the story is nothing at all about little sisters.

2) Most of the story is spent trying to show the things that a writer supposedly does to get inspiration, which turns out to be pretty boring to be honest. getting in an airplane and traveling to different places in a day like nothing seems unbelievable.

3) by episode 6, i still wasn't sure what the anime ... was about.

4) It's so hard to believe that these "adults" are SO gifted that they never have to put in any work, are always late with deadlines and are such POS to their coworkers, yet they manage to be some of the best writers. would have been 10x more interesting to see what being lazy gets you in real life, problems.

5)It feels like they tried to make this a "different" anime with the protagonists being adult but it doesn't feel special or interesting at all, other than they drink beer instead of your generic tea (such difference, much wow).

6)there is somewhat of a tiny *hint* of a love triangle, which is only touched for the last 30 seconds of each episode, but that alone is not enough to justify the other almost 30 minutes of nothing really going on.

Would i recommend this? Definitively not, i was very disappointed.

If there's one anime that I'm greatly disappointed with this season, it would have to be Imouto sae Ireba Ii.
This show started out with a lot of potentials. The premise, the characters, the art, the music was all great or at least it felt that way in the beginning. The biggest factor that could've changed this from a mediocre anime to a fantastic one is the character development and the story. Right in the beginning, it's made clear that the characters all have personalities but as the story progresses it feels like the author just kinda forgot ... or just didn't care about the characters. The pacing was really weird considering that episode 4 was pretty much a filler. The character development is pretty much nonexistent (as of now). It doesn't seem like there's much room for redemption at this point since the show kinda fucked up hard.
Please do not compare this show to ero manga sensei considering that this show had a lot more potential while ero manga sensei. It's sad to see such a wonderful cast of characters to not do anything except tug at my dick for a whole season. If the author's planning to sell their light novel with this adaption, all their gonna get are horny 13-year-olds rather than actual passionate readers.

I'd just like to put a review on this for myself. I've only watched 1 episode, and I've been bored for 20-whole-minutes. It seems that what the synopsis posted here is true; it seems to be a SoL. For me, it tries really hard to be funny but fails. You could see many common tropes of great comedy anime being used, but the timing is off and awkward.
I've read reviews that it gets better further on, but as I read from one review to the next, it doesn't seem to be worth it to watch boring episodes for some meager 'wholesomeness'. There are better ... SoLs out there.

There is a good joke right on start of this anime however this never happen again.

You kind of watch it hopping that there will be a good joke soon but then you release that you just watched 12 episodes of trashy anime and there is no fun jokes, so it is like a trap, they lure you in with that joke on start but anime itself is just so pointles like most harems, but in this case it is also not funny, not even a bit, like probably most unfunny anime i ever seen.

So basicaly you got that uselesguy and some girls that like ... him for no reason and that is it. It is like those useless animes about making anime make up with random generated harem and have a baby.

But its kind of amazing how unfunny this anime is, considering they try all time to make a joke and fail.

The show had potential with some of the deeper content but it felt like panning through mud for gold and only coming up with a few specs that aren't even worth anything. The characters are not good. Most of them are creepy or downright criminal, with several of them being guilty of SA, which just gets brushed off as if it's normal to strip strangers clothes off on the street because you want to see their naked body, or downright R-ping other characters to get them to agree with you. These examples sound extreme but they are things that actually happened in the show. There ... are some more meaningful moments, but they're completely overshadowed by the unending torrent of s*x crimes. Even when it comes to the positives of this show, the unfortunate truth is that this show is designed to appeal to people who have ego problems, as the overarching themes include feeling worthless, reckless spending, violating the rights of others, and trying to be the "main character". It might seem like the show gets better as it goes, but it actually just gets worse. I'm sorry, but the only thing this show did for me was inflict psychic damage to myself. I regret watching this show and I wish I spent my time doing something better like kicking broken glass or flossing with human hair.

This show would have been fantastic if they just boiled it down to 4 episodes and cut out all the creepy and degenerate garbage, but they didn't.

I watched Imouto sae Ireba Ii, also known as A Sister is All You Need. Here are my thoughts:

Wow this is complete trash. It was a mistake to feel the slightest flicker of optimism for anything created by the same guy who wrote Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. Despite being about the manga/LN industry and having characters who are slightly older and 'more adult' than your average anime, this show is surprisingly juvenile. The author really channelled their inner 14-year-old boy into this.

There is a ton of sexual humour in this and most of it is utterly moronic, even by anime standards. Furthermore, the amount ... of time that gets spent on it is ridiculous; it's not just a line or two here and there – they spend entire scenes just for some idiotic gradeschool-tier sexual joke that makes me feel like I'm being lobotomized. The comedy is unfunny in general, but all the sexual jokes are especially atrocious and just so excessive and ever-present. This show often feels like a 14-year-old boy with an awful sense of humour wrote it with his dick in his hand. I'm not even prude or anything, it's just the constant sexual humour was absolutely eyeroll-inducing and none of it was clever at all. Literally it feels like most of this show's script was written by a dumb hormonal teenage boy. The 'siscon' schtick (recall the title of the anime) also wore out its welcome very fast, and the ways it was used were surprisingly uncreative, especially considering how frequently it was invoked.

The MC was such an annoying little pervy worm; I wanted to beat him up, steal his lunch money, and hang his sneakers from the power lines. He was an insufferable little dweeb with zero redeeming qualities. What an awful MC – probably made to resemble the mouthbreather mental-teenager author himself. In fact I disliked the entire cast; all of the primary characters were annoying in some way. For a show clearly made to appeal to young men, the two female leads both had surprisingly off-putting personalities.

Later in the series there is some character drama involving the main members of the cast in some kind of convoluted love-polygon situation, with a cup of jealousy and inferiority complex thrown in. This drama felt even more juvenile than all the sexual humour. It was really stupid and just unpleasant and groan-inducing to watch.

I must admit, the skits with the accountant were actually funny. Same goes for the tabletop-RPG episode – that one was sorta funny and relatable too (although still plagued by excessive unfunny sexual humour).

As far as the publishing industry theme of this show goes, they did make some effort to demonstrate the emotional experiences of authors. However, although the concept is promising, I was still disappointed by this aspect of the show – I thought it could have been handled better but also that it deserved greater focus. The screentime of this anime is dominated by all the sexual comedy, and this promising aspect of the show is neglected as a result. Also, the childishness of the writing and characters themselves neutered a lot of the potential this dimension of the show had. It's hard to relate to this awful cast of characters, even if some of their experiences resemble those that real-life writers commonly encounter.

I thought the OST was bad. If I have to hear one more generic saxophone-heavy 'lewd atmosphere' track I am going to flip a table. Of course this kind of music plays frequently due to the prominence of sexual comedy in this show, and it does not enhance the humour at all. Even outside these scenes, the OST never once enhanced my enjoyment of the show. The voice acting for the entire cast was mediocre as well, with the exception of Nayuta – her VA did a good job and sounded cute, although I disliked her character.

As for visuals, they were adequate but mediocre. I didn't like the bolt-on-torpedo-tits character designs of the females, and all the males looked dweebish and unattractive. There is no discernable art style and the visuals were never a source of enjoyment for me. Also they could have had way more fun with the character outfits, considering they're all adults in an informal creative industry, but instead the outfits are boring, uncreative, and rarely change.

I appreciated the craft beer 'food fanservice' in the show. Delicious craft beer doesn't get nearly enough culinary attention in anime, haha.


My overall rating: 3/10
This anime in one sentence: a bunch of unlikable characters (mostly LN authors) hang out together and there is a lot of excessive unfunny sexual humour, and then during the later episodes there's some eyeroll-inducing crummy immature character drama about people you don't care about. The end.

This show is quite juvenile and a teenage boy would likely enjoy it far more than I did. Anybody who wants to enjoy this needs to put themselves in a juvenile state of mind and get in touch with their inner teenage boy. If you, like me, tend to dislike sexual humour (especially in excess) then I would suggest avoiding this anime. Were it not for the (underexplored) publishing industry theme, I would have dropped this very quickly.