Kuroneko is criminally adorable here. Art by Yukian.
I don’t think that OreImo even knows what it wants to be at this point. It has danced around every topic, it has not endeared us to its main focus, it has made all of the side characters largely superior to the main characters, and now it has even given up on keeping some of them in character at all.
I saw it first when Kyousuke made an outburst a while back…perhaps when dealing with Ayase? It was so dull that I don’t even remember now, but it seemed strange at the time for him to care about something besides Kirino. But Kirino apologizing? Please allow me to sit here and laugh for a few moments.
Thank goodness it is finally almost over. It is not often that I look forward to the end of shows out of exasperation, but this time, I think that is the case. I would say this is one promising, albeit expectedly cliched and full of moe, anime that spiraled down so quickly falcons would be jealous.
At least it gave us plenty of fanservice before going out.
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16 comments
December 13, 2010 at 10:40 pm
RP
Kirino’s apology was so random that it just had no impact, but with that said… I think the show has been a non-stop delightful guilty pleasure =D
December 14, 2010 at 12:43 pm
mefloraine
Haha, I was never guilty about watching it in the first place, and it has been…fun but also aggravating? So I guess it’s like a normal, boring roller coaster instead of a guilty pleasure.
December 13, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Shin
If this was any other emo goth, I wouldn’t have bat an eyelid, but Kuroneko’s poverty arouses me to no end.
December 14, 2010 at 12:43 pm
mefloraine
It is pretty interesting.
December 13, 2010 at 11:09 pm
chikorita157
While the apologies are lame… you have to give it some credit… It’s not horrible like Nogizaka Haruka Purezza that dumped a boatload of unnecessary fanservice… Sure there is some meh moments, but it’s not bad or anything…
But hey, Mamami looks so cute in this episode.
December 14, 2010 at 12:44 pm
mefloraine
If it dropped boatloads of fanservice, I would have stopped caring a long time ago.
Manami is always cute. :3
December 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Kaionlriu
I agree. oreimo 11 was terrible in its pacing and flow.
but given that the only reason I’m even watching this show (and translating it too for that matter) is because Kanzaki Hiro’s character designs are so fucking adorable.. I guess I don’t really care as much. which is a good thing.
December 14, 2010 at 12:44 pm
mefloraine
Oh hey, that’s why I decided to watch it.
December 14, 2010 at 9:10 am
TWWK
I thought the episode was terrific and that the emotional impact was tremendous. This spoiled, irritating, selfish girl finally shows her brother some love for all he’s done. It takes the most horrid of things for her to do to make her finally realize how she’s been. Kirino’s so jacked up that she even almost messes this up – but that’s her character and it wouldn’t fit any other way.
I thought the episode was wonderful – but too short. Kyousuke’s depressed? Really? Why don’t you show us that. Saori’s grand plan for the maid outfit…how did that all work out? Episodes of setup for nada. Too much crammed into one episode.
December 14, 2010 at 12:46 pm
mefloraine
Ha…I did not. It bored me, mostly, I guess, and then they threw Kirino actually apologizing at us, and it was kind of like, “well, I expected you to be horrible forever”, so it had no impact, in my mind.
Yeah, and they only have one left, right? Someone needs to get these novels fully translated…because I know they’re better than (and different from!) this disappointment of an anime.
December 14, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Aorii
I’ve been too busy laughing at OreImo to complain much, but yeah, it definitely has been all over the place and the theme from the beginning has long since vaporized… but—
I really don’t think Kirino apologizing is that unbelievable though, I mean saying she’ll always be bitchy forever is like saying Darth Vader will always remain evil =\
December 14, 2010 at 6:52 pm
mefloraine
Yeah, it derailed somewhere along the way…but, I do think it’s fair to say that. Not because I think she actually would be bitchy forever and ever and ever, but within the span of the anime, I could see her only getting slightly kinder at the end, perhaps, but not actually apologizing.
It’s not like the anime tried to give her much of a decent character to begin with. And now it has gone too far, too fast in the other direction.
December 15, 2010 at 8:21 am
TWWK
One simple apology does not a complete turnaround make. She did it a little grudgingly and definitely awkwardly. It’s not at all unusual to make a completely out of character gesture if you over the line. If the “turning into a loving sister” trend continues in the final episode (which I’m guessing it might), then I think your argument is true.
December 15, 2010 at 9:25 am
Aorii
An apology is actually… a lot easier than change long-rooted behavior. You can force yourself to do one, especially when you’ve been feeling bad for it for a long time and is too embarrassed to admit it; you have to gradually change yourself for the other… (imo anyways)
December 15, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Smithy
The past episode nicely surprised me, though Kirino’s ‘redemption’ comes too late in the series and is too mild for all the abuse Kyousuke got.
Sure I can understand the tsundere popularity and all the otaku fawning over Kirino cause “she’s all that” but personally I find her character poorly written in the sense that she’s too polarized in her tsun tsun behavior. I cannot fathom why Kyousuke or her friends would put up with such extreme behavior. The way she abuses Kyousuke and he just puts up with it is just mind-boggling.
December 15, 2010 at 3:05 pm
mefloraine
I think you’re totally right.
I mean, tsunderes are cute and all, but then you get Kirino who is like the most extreme version of tsuntsun you could possibly have, and all she does it kick her brother’s ass. It’s pathetic to watch him, and it makes me wince to see her.
So ridiculous.
They definitely screwed up the characterization somewhere down the line.