Kyosuke Kosaka, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba,[3]
has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years. For
longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings
and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seemed as if the relationship
between Kyōsuke and his sister, now fourteen, would continue this way
forever. One day however, Kyosuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime which had fallen in his house's entrance way. To Kyosuke's surprise, he finds a hidden eroge
(an adult game) inside the case and he soon learns that both the DVD
and the game belong to Kirino. That night, Kirino brings Kyosuke to her
room and reveals herself to be an otaku with an extensive collection of moe anime and younger sister-themed eroge she has been collecting in secret. Kyosuke quickly becomes Kirino's confidant for her secret hobby.
CHARACTERS
Kyosuke Kosaka (高坂 京介 Kōsaka Kyōsuke)
Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura
Kyosuke is the 17-year-old main character of Oreimo. He has a
distant relationship with his sister, feeling that this will never
change. However, this suddenly changes when he finds one of her eroge and after confronting her learns that she is an otaku.
Through this, he tries to be a supportive older brother while realizing
he himself knew very little about his sister, such as being almost
flawless at school to working as a model. After which he promises to
take up more of his role as an older brother to her, and appears to be
able to tell what she is thinking or really meaning to say despite her tsundere
personality. Despite this, she is generally the dominant person in
their relationship, with Kyosuke being shown to be openly intimidated by
her, only standing up to her in truly serious situations. Kyosuke
initially claims to prefer to have a relatively peaceful and simple life
but grows to love spending time with his sister and enjoy the drama she
causes to the point where he becomes lonely when she is not around. In
volume 7, Kyosuke confesses his love to Kuroneko and they start dating,
but they break up in volume 8.
Kirino Kosaka (高坂 桐乃 Kōsaka Kirino)
Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu
Kirino is Kyosuke's 14-year-old younger sister. She is mature for her age with a cold, tsundere-like
personality. She is secretly an otaku with an obsession for "little
sister"-themed eroge, as well as the children's anime series, Stardust
Witch Meruru. She works as a photoshoot model and later becomes a
novelist, the funds from which she uses to support her hobby. Despite
her interests, she states she does not know why she started liking it
and denies having a brother complex, believing the 2D and 3D worlds
should be kept separate. Nevertheless, she is shown to be very
frustrated whenever Kyosuke is with or shows interest in other girls,
such as Manami, who she accuses as being "all over" Kyosuke. Likewise,
she frequently forces Kyosuke to spend time with her, whether it is
playing games or taking her out, but denies that she actually enjoys the
time they spend together. She goes as far to sabotage his time with
another girl but despite this she is genuinely grateful to her brother
and even pours cold water over herself in a public street to prove that
she is not simply selfish and even bought him a present as thanks.
Despite stating she only likes eroge because of their cute characters,
she shows a perverted side to herself when playing. She uses the screen
name Kiririn when with her otaku friends. During the seventh volume of
the light novel she pretends to have a boyfriend to make Kyosuke
jealous.
Ruri Goko (五更 瑠璃 Gokō Ruri) / Kuroneko (黒猫, lit. Black Cat)
- Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
- Ruri is another otaku girl who lives near Kirino and later enrolls into Kyosuke's school. She often wears gothic lolita clothing based on a character from her favorite anime, even during hot weather, and will sometimes add cat ears and a tail. Due to both of their tsundere-type personalities, she constantly clashes with Kirino when it comes to anything. However, both girls genuinely care for each and value the time she spent together. Kuroneko is very prideful like Kirino but is willing to swallow her pride to achieve a goal. Unlike Kirino who likes little sister-themed games and magical girl anime, Kuroneko enjoys teen-centered fantasy anime. She often mentions "dark magic", claiming that she has it, usually to Kirino or to Kyosuke. She is noted to have a very large vocabulary, to where Kirino commented she needed to use a dictionary to translate her novel. Kuroneko actually wears red contact lenses to make her bluish eyes seem red. Kuroneko also has younger sisters, Hinata (日向) and Tamaki (珠希), whom she dearly cares for, though her sisters and mother both seem to worry about Ruri when she in her otaku mode. At school, Kuroneko wears normal clothes and at home, takes care of her younger sisters. In the anime, she later refers to Kyosuke as "Nii-san" due to her wishing to have an older brother and suggesting to annoy Kirino, while hinting some affection towards him. She later joins the video game club after she enrolls into Kyosuke's school. She is also very good at video games. Kuroneko later kisses Kyosuke on the cheek. She became the first lover of Kyosuke in the seventh volume of the light novel but they break up in the eighth volume.
- Kanako Kurusu (来栖 加奈子 Kurusu Kanako)
- Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
- Kanako is Kirino and Ayase's fellow friend, classmate and model, who sometimes swaps between a cute personality to a bratty one. She is a talented singer who dreams of becoming an idol, often going to a lot of auditions. Since she goes to karaoke places frequently, she is capable of remembering any song she has heard at least once perfectly. She is unaware of Kirino's hobby and generally finds anime childish and otaku disgusting, though she is on one occasion tricked into cosplaying as Kirino's favorite anime character, Meruru, for a contest and wins. Despite winning the contest, she is disgusted of what she had gone through, but likes the idea of being praised and the event even helps her career.
- Ayase Aragaki (新垣 あやせ Aragaki Ayase)
- Voiced by: Saori Hayami
- Ayase is Kirino's friend and classmate who works as a model alongside her and is also her best friend. Ayase is a friendly, nice, and refined lady, but becomes agitated and somewhat violent at the thought that she is being lied to, which she hates above all else. She tends to believe what she sees on the news. Therefore, she disapproves of anime and manga, calling it a disgusting hobby, especially eroge, due to the media portrayal that otaku will eventually become criminals. Originally she had a simple crush on Kyosuke, thinking of him as Kirino's caring brother. That all changed when she finds out of Kirino's otaku hobby and how he was aware of it and helps support it. She later refers to Kyosuke when she needs to talk about Kirino and her hobby, even asking for his help in making up with Kirino. However, she still dislikes him, believing him to be the reason for Kirino being an otaku. She is also friends with Manami and even exchanged number with her. Later she starts again to have interest in Kyosuke and she invites him at her home.
- Manami Tamura (田村 麻奈実 Tamura Manami)
- Voiced by: Satomi Satō
- Manami is Kyosuke's childhood friend. She wears glasses and is described as "plain", something she views as a compliment from Kyosuke. She has a crush on Kyosuke and blushes to his compliments. Due to the time they spend together, the people around them assume they are dating; even Manami's family members say that they should get married already, as if they already think of him as part of the family. Kyosuke explains that though he does not have any strong feelings for her beyond close friends, he does not like the idea of Manami having a boyfriend for some reason. Many times, he is unaware of Manami trying to become closer to him by trying to do things that couples do and how she is willingly doing things to please him in any way, such as cooking and cleaning. According to Kyosuke, her speech patterns resemble that of a grandmother or an old lady. Kyosuke's long time friendship with Manami has caused him to spend little time with his sister prior to the series, which explains Kirino's strong animosity towards her, thinking of her as surrogate sister to Kyosuke. In volume 8 of the light novel she confesses her feelings for Kyosuke.
- Sena Akagi (赤城 瀬菜 Akagi Sena)
- Voiced by: Mariya Ise
- Kōhei's little sister and a member of the Games Research club, as well as Ruri's classmate. Similar to Kirino, she has an obsession with eroges, albeit she prefers the hardcore yaoi genre to an extent that she will even fantasise about her other clubmates, pairing her brother and Kyosuke as a couple and becoming visibly disappointed when Kyosuke assured her that he was straight. The relationship she has with her brother is quite strong yet it is unclear how they feel about each other. She joined the Games Research club in order to learn how to become a games designer. She is also very good at games, having the high score before Ruri beat it. This also attributes to her skill in programing, being able to debug very easily.
- Saori Makishima (槇島 沙織 Makishima Saori) / Saori Bajeena (沙織・バジーナ Saori Bajīna)
- Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame
- Saori is the leader of the "Anime Girls Unite!" group on the Internet, whom Kirino meets in a meet-up. She wears very thick glasses (shown as swirls) and speaks with an exaggerated tone. She is a fan of Gundam (her alias is named after the character, Quattro Bajeena) and is also a collector of their model kits. Despite her general appearance in public, Saori is actually an aristocrat from a wealthy family, and speaks with a highly formal voice outside of meeting with her friends. She is tall and usually has to get cosplay tailor made. As Kyosuke says, Saori is drastically different from how she communicates through the Internet and through phone or speaking with her in person, to which she seemingly switches to a refined and sophisticated persona. According to Kyosuke in the light novels, she is dressed as a typical otaku from television but has the body of a supermodel. Despite being a middle school girl around Kirino and Kuroneko's ages, she is around the same height as Kyosuke, which surprises him when he first meets her. Despite her cheery attitude, Saori is quite lonely, living by herself, and has always feared that one day her true friends (Kirino, Kyosuke, and Ruri) would leave her in a similar way that her older sister (who got married and moved away) left her.
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