December 28, 2010
OreImo in 300 words
Actually just an extension of something that started on twitter. On the whole brother sister dynamic:
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- Here's this plain dude. He's a schlub at school, has like 1 friend total, and even his parents ignore him.
- His sister is awesome.
- Dude has inferiority complex so he never talks to his sister.
- Sister interprets this as him being an ass, resents him because she wants his attention.
- She finally reveals weakness: I am a gross disgusting otaku.
- Dude supports sister because he sees opportunity to help her in some way when she never needed help before.
- He gets really into it because his life is so shit that this event validates everything. Lives vicariously through her.
- Sister, having been used to treating dude like dirt, continues to do so.
- She finally gets the attention she wants, but as this finally happens, the side effect is that the guy is actually enjoying his life.
- He's building a mountain of IOUs in favors, having girls interested in him, starting to get a more positive outlook etc.
- Sister gets conflicted about guy eventually growing out of it. Has no idea how to react, defense mechanism is to treat him even worse (maintain status quo harder)
- The guy takes it because he's has no clue (since he's a chump and a scrub). If he thought about it for 2 seconds, he would realize he actually has some leverage.
- Sister continues to be huge butt.
- Guy continues to take it. Shakes head and goes "well that's just how she is" while he prepares his daily routine of greasing his ass so that her shoe may enter it.
- Sister's friends see this and acknowledge how unfair it is. Then they share a hearty laugh and continue to spectate because "haha damn I wonder if this boot will fit too after he's already got a shoe up there".
- Repeat for eternity, author makes money
Posted by Paranda at December 28, 2010 2:06 PM
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Thank you for writing it down. It is a popular interpretation but one that is also devoid of the whole bro-sis dynamic. I guess that is where people will greatly differ when it comes to interpretation.
Now I have something to link instead of trying to explain your POV to people~
Posted by: omo at December 28, 2010 2:36 PM
That's the thing, I don't think there was any realistic brother/sister dynamic. It was merely a plot device to give them a shared history and get them to live in the same house. Most of this could have easily just changed Kirino to 99:1 ratio tsundere neighbor without losing much. I'd be interested in your alternative interpretation.
Posted by: paranda at December 28, 2010 2:58 PM
You make a good summary of the show, I think if the show had actually made a point of displaying the emotions and motivations you wrote, it could have actually been a good show in a way. But someone could watch the exact same show and come up with the opposite idea - he was having a normal, fun, peaceful life with his childhood friend and classmate friend(s?) until his crazy sister messed things up, but he slowly learns to appreciate his time with her. From what I've read, a lot of people think of him as an awesome, kick butt character. Yeah, leaving character's thoughts and motivations up to interpretation can be interesting, but it just comes off as lazy writing in this show to me, instead of being on purpose.
The show just isn't that well written, so the characterizations are confusing. But it gets people talking and forming opinions on the characters, which generates popularity, and lots of wild and controversial things happen in the plot, which makes you tune in next week to see what everyone's talking about. All plot threads have to end quickly so the next catchy keyword can keep you tuned in.
As far as the brother / sister dynamic goes, I think you covered that just fine... I found their dynamic when they were distant in the start pretty believable. Having siblings from totally different social circles can be just plain awkward. But the whole "hint about a forbidden kind of relationship and create tension but nothing ever will actually happen" is so shoujo manga though, some people eat it up, but I definitely don't, lol.
It's easy to write off anything as the author's intention, a purposeful parody, whatever you wanna say. It doesn't matter if it's intentional or not, the show can be annoying to watch. Then again, we all know anime fans love to get annoyed and nerd rage now and then, lol. It can certainly be fun to watch in an (online or real) group setting.
Ok, I'll stop myself there, lol.
Posted by: Mandi at December 28, 2010 7:53 PM