Oreimo: My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute was one of the biggest birth-givers to wincest fans, but to its credit, it played incredibly coy with it right up to the end.
Regardless, of how you feel about the relationship, it caused a huge stir when the anime was airing. And if there is anything that you can be sure of – causing “a stir” means it became quite popular with its infamy.
Alternative Titles:
- My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute
- Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai
- 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない
Year Anime Premiered: 2010
Animation Studio: AIC Build, A-1 Pictures
Number of Seasons: 2 + 7 OVAs
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Light Novel, Manga
Entry Last Updated: May 8th, 2024
Where To Start The Oreimo Light Novel After The Anime?
If you finished the Oreimo anime and wish to continue the story with the light novels, after Season 2 you can start at Novel 13.
Oreimo finished adapting its main love story with the OVAs for Season 2. As such, it is a full adaptation, but the series continues on in What If scenarios.
Is The Oreimo Light Novel Over?
The Oreimo light novel is complete. It ended with Novel 17 in 2021.
The main story ends at Novel 12, Novel 13 through 17 are What Ifs for Ayase, Kuroneko, and Kanako.
Where To Start The Oreimo Manga After The Anime?
While Oreimo had a manga, it ended after covering roughly the first five episodes of anime. The manga does more closely follow the light novels, however.
Is The Oreimo Manga Over?
The Oreimo manga is complete. It ended in 2011 with Chapter 26.
It does not adapt the full light novel story.
What to Expect From The Oreimo Source Material Compared to The Anime?
For much of the Oreimo anime, it offers you a trade-off. It doesn’t feature as much depth and detail to Kyousuke and Kirino’s relationship, but it does give you more Kuroneko than the light novels, and makes her less mean.
However, while the anime was hitting all the major plot points for awhile, it stars to really skip things in the second season as it rushes to the end.
The Oreimo anime actually skips quite a bit of light novel content because a lot of that content would not have fit with the storytelling of the anime or the anime was too changed to much already to include it. I really recommend reading the light novels from the beginning because, between the skipped story moments, the sparse character details, and the notable differences in character personalities, it can result in the light novel being quite a different experience. Furthermore, all that is left is What Ifs anyway.
Oreimo Spin-offs
While Oreimo has a few spin-offs, they are all mostly just What-Ifs for other girls
- My Junior Can’t Be This Cute (Manga, Complete) – Covers Kuroneko’s budding relationship with Kyousuke from Novel 5
- Oreimo: Ayase IF (Manga, Complete) Manga adaptation of the Ayase IF novels of the light novels
- Oreimo: Kuroneko IF (Manga, Complete) Manga adaptation of the Kuroneko IF novels of the light novels
Will There Be A Oreimo Season 3?
As Oreimo already adapted the ending to the light novel speedily in OVAs, the story is concluded. There will be no more Oreimo anime unless they remake it.
