May 11, 2017
This anime is Oreimo, except there's no airs about anything deeper and Saigiri isn't a bitch. Well, there's some other differences I guess. This show is more lighthearted in comparison, and it honestly works in its favour. The drama was the worst part of Oreimo, and without it in this series a constant feeling of bemusement always persists. Honestly it is skippable, but if you allow yourself to get on, Fushimi's wild ride never disappoints.
Story wise it's like Oreimo, but he clearly wants to bang his sister and she clearly reciprocates. Hence the conflict present in Oreimo isn't really here
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in this one, and so it's not the driving force of the story. Instead, the driving force is the two siblings trying to write a really good light novel, and trying to get the sister out of the room I assume eventually. It works, and what goes on in an episode is typically more focused on interactions between characters with the pot taking a backseat. Works in the series favour, creating a light-hearted and more consistently entertaining tone. Dude wants to get it in his step-sis. 10/fucking10
The art is probably the weakest part of the show, just because it's standard A-1 pictures fare. There's not much to say about it really, because it's never jarringly bad enough to notice and it's not the type of series that really needs it in the first place. The characters are all cute as hell and the colour pallet is appropriately bubbly. My eyes are never bleeding when watching this show. Negatively, there are two things worth mentioning. One, some (not all) of the fanservice scenes are just bizarre - one time the MC accidentally peeps on a naked girl, but it's just flat loli ass sitting on a piano stool, another time a bit of chest gets exposed by a button becoming undone, but it's only the sternum, literally no breast. Regardless, it as funny to me. Two, the art done by Eromanga Sensei is just average. That's really the only thing that genuinely bothers me since her art is supposedly super erotic, and to that end it's definitely not thicc or provocative enough. 6/10.
Sound, it's styled similarly to Oreimo. OP is nice, ED is nice, and like Oreimo I actually do like the bullshit tooting BGM. Not much to say, it's good. 7/10.
The characters are not the same as Oremo, but they do fill similar roles in the story. Comparably, the ones in this show are much more tolerable, and much more entertaining as a result. Brother guy is just as dumb as Kyousuke, but boy does he love his sister from the start. Saigiri is very cute and demure, and she has a decent if typical quiet girl shtick, mixed with some quirky NEET aspects. Megumi also has a decent shtick, she's exists to try and mug the camera, but the show is aware of it and her humour rests on the audience and the show both not acknowledging it. Elf is where the show really shines, imperfect ojou-sama characters are always funny and she's always done well. However one thing with her is that a couple of times she acts chuunibyou, but it really just felt like a rip off of Kuroneko and not an organic part of her character. Regardless she brings enough to stand on her own. A colourful and entertaining cast at the end of the day, I like how they all interact. 9/10
Like a hacker hiding behind 27 proxies, maybe my enjoyment may be hidden between 27 layers of irony. Maybe I genuinely enjoy it. All I can really say is that Eromanga Sensei is enjoyable in the way only something by a guy who's written nothing but little sister incest light novels for almost a decade can be. As a result, no matter how flawed, there's just some really bemusing meta and internal aspects at work if you're willing to relish in them. What is Eromanga Sensei at the end of the day? Eromanga Sensei is meme, and I can't help but love it. And as meme, it is only appropriate that this average A-1 LN-adaptation incest show gets a 10/10. Fushimi is art, and he's done it again.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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