Ore no Imouto episode 12 (finale)

The final epis­ode of Ore no Imouto. At least, it’s the end of the TV broad­cast. I’m finally free of.…this…wonderful…fantastic anime. I can’t believe this is the last epis­ode! We do get more Kirino and Kur­oneko in the (hope­fully uncensored) DVD epis­odes, but that’s going to be such a long wait. What will I do without my weekly dose of tsun­dere imouto lov­ing? I’ll have to savour this last episode.

Of course Kyousuke is con­cerned about Kirino-chan. The entire series has been build­ing up their lov­ing rela­tion­ship. I chal­lenge any­one not to care for Kirino after all she’s gone through over the course of this series. I also chal­lenge any­one not to blush as she waves that gor­geous back­side in the air as she fre­quently does. Kyousuke has Kirino doing this for him on a daily basis, the lucky guy. Maybe this will be the strike that finally gets him to con­fess to her and we get to see more of that beau­ti­ful dere side the series has been care­fully wait­ing to give us loyal fans.

Tsundere-ness runs in the fam­ily with the return of tsundaddy. Hear­ing Gendo Ikari say­ing “It’s not like I care or any­thing” is one of the greatest things in this series that isn’t a teen­age girl, which unfor­tu­nately he has a lot to con­test with. Now all this anime needed was an Ayanami Rei or Asuka Langly to make it that much bet­ter. I’ve only seen 2 epis­odes of Neon Gen­esis Evan­gelion but I think I’ve read enough doujin­shi to get a grips on their char­ac­ters and they’d clearly be right at home in this series. Evan­gelion would have been a lot bet­ter if they replaced giant robots with kawaii imoutos, I think we can all agree on that.

I know AIC are doing this on pur­pose. Shoot­ing everything from Kyousuke’s point of view. It’s just like Kirino has asked me to come to her room. Not as good as shoot­ing the bedroom-waking scene and neither is she wear­ing a meido out­fit like the last epis­ode, but I’ll take all the dere-Kirino I can get my hands on. Also would you look at that DFC! I wish I had an imouto like Kirino who would invite me to her room like this.

Oh god, plead­ing moe Kirino is HHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG~

This is pretty cool. All this time there’s been another story of the exact same type going on with Kyousuke’s friend. He’s got a imouto who is also an otaku and bosses him around. Kinda like one of my favour­ite anime, Nagas­arete Air­antou, where the last epis­ode revealed the main character’s imouto had ended up on an island with just men. Just like Nag Air though, it picked the right story to focus on. Why would I want to watch the girl on an island of guys when her brother was on an island full of hot girls? Same here, we got to focus on Kirino instead of that fujioshi. I def­in­itely prefer Kirino because she’s one of us. She’s an otaku who likes kawaii eroge with imoutos and under­stands the value of keep­ing in the ero scenes because they pre­serve the story and, more import­antly, give us plenty of caps for later use. Bet­ter yet, she’s one of us while also being a kawaii imouto her­self. The genius of this anime~!

Sneak­ing into Kirino’s room in the dead of night while she makes sure her par­ents aren’t asleep so they can watch porn together. DAMNIT WHY DO ALL THE GREAT THINGS IN LIFE HAPPEN TO THE LEAD CHARACTERS OF MY FAVOURITE ANIME!!! I sup­pose that’s why they’re my favour­ite anime. Anime is escap­ism, to get away from the harsh world of women who are all sluts in real life and live in the pure world of the imouto.

Wait, 9 months? It’s been grow­ing? Did they have sex all that time ago!?! Wait no, I’m prob­ably over­re­act­ing. Of course they didn’t, Kirino isn’t the type of girl to go hav­ing sex willy nilly. She watches anime like Mer­uru and other magical girl shows so I’m sure she under­stands the import­ance of pur­ity. That would des­troy the whole image of the anime if she did some­thing like that. What she does in doujin­shi is a dif­fer­ent mat­ter fu fu fu~, but that’s not canon so it doesn’t mat­ter. When you screw with the canon, you screw with the fans hearts. I know AIC wouldn’t do that to its fans.

My first thoughts upon watch­ing this was that Kirino is going to strip for her brother and us fans! She must have some­thing wrong with her body and she can only trust her brother to look at it. This is what Kyousuke has spent 9 months build­ing up for, and this must be what the life-counselling was really for. I thought AIC were going to com­bine the greatest build up to a fanser­vice scene in with some clas­sic Key-style bawww moments. Of course, noth­ing like that happened any­way. Yes, we got blush­ing Kirino and that’s always nice. But I went into a genu­ine panic when Kirino said she was going to Amer­ica. You can’t split up brother and sis­ter! That ruins the imouto appeal. She’s meant to always be there for you, no mat­ter what hap­pens to you in out­side of the home. They were going to kill that by mak­ing her move away.

Hence I almost teared up at the final scene when she said she’s not leav­ing. It’s not exactly a pure incest end, but they get to stay together and we get to see plenty of Kirino’s dere side in the extra epis­odes. I’m guess­ing this new end­ing will be after this when the two really get together. It’s not the mul­tiple end ver­sion that I thought it would be ori­gin­ally, which I’m glad isn’t the case as it would have des­troyed the beauty of this final scene. This was melo­drama done right.

Kur­oneko dan­cing was soo cuuuute~! But even bet­ter, she’s been won over by the moe side! Kur­oneko was always por­trayed as the one going against the glor­i­ous imouto type anime, declar­ing it dis­taste­ful and mak­ing her sick. Doing the neko dance is not some­thing reg­u­lar Kur­oneko would have ever done. But by show­ing us this, Ore no Imouto has said screw the haters, moe wins out in the end. Haters gonna hate, and always will hate on this genre because of their prudish and elit­ist and pre­ten­tious. If only those guys could give the genre a greater chance like Kur­oneko did, they too would be won over. Moe fan Kirino wins out over pre­ten­tious fan Kur­oneko. Moe is as strong as ever. It’s what the industry relies on because the fans keep buy­ing it. I don’t see those pre­ten­tious fans buy­ing their stuff, do I? It’s K-ON and Work­ing and Haruhi and Bake­monogatari that top the sales charts. Moe is here to stay. All hail moe~!