A Literal Garbage Anime: Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja nai!!!

Hi, people. How are you? Well, for me, I'm still finding for a job. Anyway, it's time for me to rant. Rant on what? This anime that I'm gonna talk about.

THIS...is what I'm gonna rant about!

The anime that I gonna talk about is...Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja nai!!!!! And also for short, ImoImo. Why I wanna rant on this anime? Well, if you like sister-related anime and the animation is actually decent, it will actually just fine for you. BUT...as I have complained multiple time in separate blog posts that the animation is bad. You will see what I mean later on in the post.



WARNING:-

SPOILER ALERT!!! If you haven't watched it and plan to watch it without anyone being the spoiler, please DON'T CONTINUE READING!!!



P.S. If you want to be spoiled, well, go ahead and read it. You HAD been warned. Don't blame me for being spoiled if you INSIST on continuing to read this post.

Introduction


The anime is here!!!

The anime, Imo-Imo is an anime adaption from a Japanese light novel series of the same name that is written by Seiji Ebisu and illustrated by Gintarō. The LN is abbreviated as Imo-Imo and its full name can be literally translated as The One Whom I Love is My Little Sister But She's Not a Little Sister. Weird name. Japan!

The light novel cover BTW.

Anyway, there is a manga adaption by Kou Narita launched in Monthly Dragon Age in December 2017. And also, the anime is aired from October 10 to December 19, 2018, and it's adapted by NAZ and Magia Doraglier. And well, the animation is a horror from episode 2 onwards. Episode 1 was fine and it did have occasional good animation after episode (but mostly terrible, especially with human faces).

The manga cover...way too similar to the light novel cover!!!

Plot


Nice together time!

Isn't she cute? Well, that's if the animation quality stays this way throughout.

The story starts with Nagami Yuu, an aspiring light novelist that has consistently losing light novel contests. He has a beautiful younger sister, Nagami Suzuka, a third-year middle school student who has excellent grades and is the student council president of her school.

Waiting for the results...

The truth of her sister is coming to light...

Again, Yuu fails another light novel contest as usual but he later found out that his sister, Suzuka has won the contest with a novel about a little sister who dotes on her older brother. How did he know? Suzuka told him about it but because of their parents and the school regulation, she has to keep it a secret but only let her brother, Yuu knows about it. With that, Suzuka convinced Yuu debuts as a proxy light novel author for her, under the pen name Towano Chikai.

The weird editor...

...and also the weird illustrator

 He attended the award ceremony for Suzuka and get to know the editor, Reika Shinozaki who had said: "I would sacrifice even my body for your work." WTF?! And also, the art for the light novel is drawn by none other than Ahegao W Peace Sensei who specialize in drawing erotic art, especially ahegao with both hands showing a peace sign. This anime is ALREADY weird from the start. You should know what is next. Oh yeah, both of them are female, by the way. Ahem! So, the weird adventure of Yuu getting a weird harem mix and moving towards becoming an actual solo novelist starts!

Broken art and animation start here...

Well, I understand that anime is generally very weird and probably even cringeworthy. BUT, this is one is what I called TRASH ANIME. The animation is broken and rotten to the core from episode 2 onwards. It constantly breaks down when it comes to human facial expression and the story is centred around the sentiment of "incest is wincest". You should know that incest is a HUGE taboo in society and a definite NO-GO for everybody (probably). With that, it deserves the title of TRASH ANIME or maybe even GARBAGE ANIME.

LOL! That pink light!

The story is actually funny and at times, cringe-worthy but the terrible animation spoils everything. The opening music is...wait, we are not there yet! Damn! Anyway, it is a typical trash anime but so weirdly, I can't stop watching until the end. Oh God, WHY?! OK, you know what? It's time to move on, people.

The art is a little weird here...

Anime Rating


Story (Rating: 5/10)

A very typical imouto-centred story. The story is all about the theme about the love for one's younger sister. Oh, man...what am I even doing now? Anyway, it also centres around the MC, Yuu's search and journey to become an actual novelist himself. To be honest, the story is hardly focused on Yuu's journey but focuses more on the forbidden sister-love. What is wrong with these people? Anyway, the plot and flow of the story are actually fine though but the story itself is not actually a good story for everybody.

The meeting that plummeted the siblings into a crisis...

Art and Animation (Rating: 1/10)

The art and animation were fine at the first episode and then...it literally sank into the bottom of Marina trench immediately. It did try to 'swim' out the trench but it almost always broke down and sink deeper. It might even sink itself into the deepest part of hell. It is THAT BAD. The anime's facial animation broke down so many times that I lost count of it. Well, I do admit that there are a few good flashpoints but there are WAY too many animation errors to even give more than a single point for animation. By right, it should be ZERO but because of the numerous good flashpoint, I give one mark for this.


Sound and Music (Rating: 5/10)

Well, the music of this anime is not bad. The BGM is well-made and well-placed in different scenes. The opening song is really cute. I would sing out sometimes when I think of this anime. As for the ending song, it is just fine but it's not my cup of tea though.

From the OP scene...the drawing does look fine.

Characters (Rating: 3/10)

The character's facial expression breaks down spoils it all for the characters. Already, the characters are enough cliche, to be honest. The character's development in this story is actually decent enough but not good enough.

The crew...see the faces? They look a little weird.

Enjoyment (Rating: 4/10)

I kinda enjoyed it. I did have a short pause on watching this anime before I decided to finish it in order to write this post as objectively as possible. The anime will actually be at least good if not for the screw-ups of the animation (or using better words, constant delivering of subpar animation). At the end of the day, if they do think that they can fix the animation in the Blu-ray, I would say: "The fans will fix you no matter what!" This kind of subpar animation...do you think the majority will support this kind of work? NO! Since it is a subpar animation, so is my enjoyment. It will also be subpar, just like their animation.

What the?



Overall Rating: 3.6 (3.5)/10

Screenshots 


The prince and princess...

The Kanzaki sisters...

The girl is Minazuki Sakura...and again, her face looks weird there...

Again, weird looking face.

Time to finish another weirdo up...

PV/Trailer










Conclusion


To be honest, I thought that this anime will actually be decent BUT the animation quality drop after the first episode is really shocking and disappointing. It has literally crown itself as the 'best' trash anime of 2018 at least. Well, that's the end of ranting. I will try to write as much as can to write more blog post! Anyway, I hope that you enjoy this post. I also hope to have you here on this blog once again. With that said, it time to say goodbye. God bless you!

Well...this one is mediocre at best.

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