Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

I agree.

Give her a cleaver and she's all good to go.  ::)

But seriously, the thing I loved most about this episode was the shot at the media from the anime industry. Thank God someone finally loaded up a solid shell and fired it right at media responsibility. The famous reporter made an erroneous claim, then like all newspapers and media personalities, apologizes for it, but in the smallest snippet or section of the newspaper that nobody ever reads. The media hates admitting fault and they only do it because they have to or they can get sued. So they stick those little blurbs on page... nine or whatever, and it's usually down in a little corner amongst the advertisements that everyone ignores.

Here we see a prime example of that media responsibility failing miserably. Yeah, the famous reporter apologized, and it took some grunt work and research to find it. Ayase never saw it. Nobody did. So the regular public is going around still thinking the erroneous claims by the reporter are true. Part of that is personal responsibility, and I fully accept that, but when you have the ability to influence millions of people, you have a greater responsibility to make sure those millions of people see your withdrawn statement.

I can't wait.

This episode was pretty good. Ayase's character surprised me, but I found it interesting.
This episode really reflected how a lot of people who like anime and manga are misunderstood. Whether this is a result of the media, which this episode also took a jab at, or just the bad rep that we get from some of the few really really creepy otaku out there. This anime has potential for even more greatness I think, if it continues to address these issues.

Kyousuke deserves some godly good luck for all the shit he's had to put up with for Kirino, especially with the events of Episode 05 taken into consideration (people like Ayase piss me off beyond comprehension). I haven't read the LN at all, but since people seem to be excited for the Childhood friend episode I'll assume that Kyousuke is getting his turn for some good luck.

You act like Kyousuke didn't help to cause the gap between him and Kirino.

And by that, I mean he pretty much is responsible for it. But no, whine about how he's had bad luck even though it was a good deal his own fault it happened.

Yeah, he actually ignored her for years.

You act like Kyousuke is the only one responsible; it takes two to tango you know. And even if you were completely right, it's not like Kirino wasn't doing just fine before asking her brother for help. Kyousuke was doing fine too, but in typical fashion, he's been getting the shit end of the stick for awhile ever since he decided to try and help her out. It's a give and take man, and it's about time someone gave him something back. You don't have to agree with me, it's just how I see it.

Do they actually explain the reason why he ignored her?

Actually no man.

He is the one responsible. When he hit his teenage years and puberty and all that, he started to drift away form Kirino.

Kirino at this time was just around average in grades. Wanting the attention of her brother, she quickly start to study to pull ahead as the best. She also started to try and be more popular which eventually led to her being a model.

Which the root reason for her doing all this is she wanted her brother to pay attention to her. But it had a different effect of her parents paying attention to her instead which seemed to annoy him even more and made the drift a little bit worse.

Some speculation of why she got into imouto eroge is because of this and how she treats and adores the little sisters like she wanted her brother to do for her.

So in the end yeah, it IS his fault. And Kirino in fact did try to fix things but couldn't.

So stop being a retard.

And here is where I just decided to ignore everything you said. Like I said, I haven't read the LN. So go be a douche wrinkle somewhere else

You don't need to have read it to see the hints in the story.

The hints that were already pointed out beforehand.

And it's pretty stupid of you to sit there and go "He's given the shit stick." And then try to "back" up your belief by saying "It takes two to tango."

Even if she had been an equal cause. That still would not have been a good reason to keep on saying he got the short end of the stick. Because he didn't. He would have still been sleeping in the bed he made.

So yeah.

What bed is that? Because I don't see what you're talking about

Really? You know, the whole drifting between him and Kirino. That. I really can't tell if you didn't get that or if you're just playing dumb to be annoying.

I mean assuming Kirino was an equal cause for it, that bed. Or do you mean that regardless of how it happened that this is what Kyousuke deserved?

I didn't assume it. I said EVEN IF. Learn to read. She wasn't an equal case. She actively tried to get his attention and heal the drift.

I didn't say regardless of how it happened. If he had not cause it in any manner, which is not the case, then no he doesn't deserve this.

But he did cause it. And this is where the even if part came in. Even if Kirino was responsible for it too, he would still not have gotten the short end of the stick. Because he made his bed for it.

But that is not even the case as explained above. He was pretty much the whole reason why they drifted apart.

And this is well hinted at different parts of the story that have already been revealed. The biggest one being when she erupted at him last episode for suddenly acting like a big brother now.

Seriously man, you trying to make her out to be some horrible person for some reason is really fucking annoying.

Except from the information presented thus far in the anime, there's no possible way to arrive at a conclusion. At some undisclosed point in time they grew apart. Or maybe they were "apart" to begin with. And we haven't been given the reason why they grew apart (if they were ever close). Considering this, it's hard to NOT sympathize with Kyousuke even if Kirino was ignored for years "off-screen".

Edit: What Zero said.

You don't have to arrive at a conclusion to see that Kyousuke was partially responsible. You can't be sure HOW necessarily, but it is easy to see that yeah, he did something.

There is just as much room to sympathize with Kirino as there is Kyousuke. In fact, there is even more room because the major aspect of the story is to watch her growth.



You seem to think my point I'm making is that since Kirino is innocent then this why you're wrong.

Um no. The point I was making is Kyousuke isn't some saint that got the short end of the stick. At this point in the story for the anime, you can damn well realize that he is partially responsible for the situation that occurred.

The fact that you keep parading him around like some saint despite this information is annoying.