Well, I'm just about to watch the last episode of "Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai!" or translated into English, "There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute!" but that's absurdly long, so I refer to it as "Oreimo"...along with (I assume) a good portion of its viewers. Also, technically, this is the last episode of the second season...and the last episode of the first season had text in it that referred to it as a "good end", so I'm worried the last episode of this season will be a "bad end"...
...Well, time to bit the bullet...
Well, maybe I should've expected this from the cold opening but this seems to be a flashback episode to when Kirino and Kyousuke were little kids.
Where we see that Kirino used to...look up to Kyou...who was the talented genius. (Huh?) But we see the start of Kirino's Tsundere nature when she sees Kyousuke help Manami with her homework. Then Kyou told Kirino, who wanted to follow him to where ever he was going (I don't think that's been mentioned at all) she can come along if she can keep up with him while he's running. (So that's why she trained to run that fast.)
But then Kyousuke got lazy, and then all the love Kirino had felt for her brother transformed into hate...which is why the situation at the beginning of the series is the way it is. Kirino back then even went to Manami's place just so she can demand that Manami, "give her brother back" so to speak....and she replies, "Nope." Worse. Defense. Ever. Now you've got Kirino (and by extension, the audience) convinced that Kyousuke becoming lazy was all according to 'your plan'. And yet, according to Manami herself, it was more that Kirino was seeing her brother through rose-colored glasses and just had the scales removed from her eyes. And the rest of the episode is a summary of the events up to the present day.
As for the series as a whole...The older brother finds a Sis-con eroge hidden in a magical girl series DVD case, later finding out it belongs to his little sister. Who then asks him for advice about how to have a way to talk about her interests and yet keep it a secret from the world at large. The sister gains friends who share her interest, even if one of them is more of a friendly rival. Yet the secret gets out to her parents and a friend of hers, but that problem gets solved by the older brother redirecting their otaku hate towards him rather than the aforementioned sister. Said older brother mends their relationship so that they're on more friendly terms (maybe to the point of being an actual Sis-con himself), while said little sister has (or should I say 'regains') a very tsundere crush on him.
And best of all, the series doesn't end with the bad ending I thought it was going to have.
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