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May 30, 2011 to May 30, 2015
7.3/10
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This is about Kuroneko's love story with her best friend's brother. The "Oreimo" manga is the prequel to this "Oreimo Kuroneko" story. If you saw the anime and wanted a different ending, this manga is for you. Story: A fairly straight forward romance between a girl and her best-friend's brother Kyousuke, whom she's in love with. The romance is a godsend after that horrible anime ending. But this manga as a standalone story is not worth reading. Since you need to know these character's before even starting to read it. And the transition from the Prequel Oreimo to this sequel was a bit awkward. Art: Theart is absolutely outstanding. The characters look different from most manga I've seen, but it's really cute and there's no complains about it, considering it's a romantic comedy. (Mayo Chiki is a lot cuter though ^_^) Characters: Considering the adorable Kuroneko is the heroine, instead of the tsundere little sister, the characters are much more enjoyable in this story. So there's really no complaints. Kyousuke is mature, yet not too much. The friends are all really likable and gives depth to the story. Overall, I like Kuroneko and Kyousuke, so it was quite relaxing to see their romance develop and turn into something serious. Some might dislike the lack of little sister incest (lol), but the title is self explanatory. This is a different story than the anime. And it's better. + Likable Heroine + Actual Romance (not just a kiss in the last chapter) -+ Different from the anime, no little sister heroine
Ore no Kouhai ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai follows the story of the light novels, set at the time when Kirino Kousaka leaves for America to undergo athletic training. While the OreImo anime series tells the story in Kirino's elder brother Kyousuke's point of view, OreKou focuses on Kuroneko's experiences as Ruri Gokou, a high school freshman who becomes Kyousuke's junior. While Kuroneko struggles in mingling with her new classmates, she tries to sort out her feelings for Kyousuke. (Source: OreImo Wikia)
Since I don't think many people is gonna come here, I'll summarize extremely the experience you can get from this manga..... "No Kirino", that's it, if you're a Kuroneko/Ruri Gokou fan, who's by far the most unique and well developed character from Oreimo, and if you're also a huge shipper for her and Kyousuke, then I more than recommend this manga, I beg you to read it, especially given the 100% satisfying conclusion that will surely erase all of the frustration the original ending gave us, again... "No Kirino" (at least not much of her). Outside that overall experience and enjoyment, the artwork is really welldone, shoujo or especifically romance manga artists most of the time tend to illustrate the cleanest of artworks, and this is probably the best one I've seen yet, I seriously can't believe how the artist is able to perfectly establish the proportions of the characters and still make them look so cool and cute, and the art style it certainly gives you a half shoujo half shonen effect.
tl;dr: A manga focused on Kuroneko that does right by her for the most part but missed the mark in a few areas. This manga is technically a sequel to the first Oreimo manga, but not quite. Itâs very different from the first manga because unlike the first manga which is from Kyousukeâs perspective like the light novel and anime, this manga is from Kuronekoâs perspective. Additionally, thereâs a massive gap between where the first manga ends and this picks up. To put it in anime terms since I am not familiar with the original light novel, it skips half a seasonâs worth of content. Andto be clear, this gap canât be explained away as unnecessary due to this manga being focused on Kuroneko, as the part skipped heavily involves Kuroneko. Thus, this very much is targeted towards people that are already familiar with the story and thus should only be read in that context. As such, there will be spoilers in this review. The choice of doing a manga from Kuronekoâs perspective I think was an incredibly good one as there are a number of strengths that such a narrative could have that wouldnât really be possible in the original. I think this manga managed to identify what these strengths were pretty well, but only did a so-so job at utilizing them. The largest strength is that because itâs from Kuronekoâs perspective, it can focus on her personality and character arc much better than in the original, and for a lot of it it handles that quite well. Her character and relationship development comes across incredibly well and aspects that were only touched upon in the original are shown much more clearly, such as her awkward feelings that arose from not being able to be as social as her friends and her attempts to overcome that, or her complex relationship with Kirino where sheâs both jealous of her relationship with Kyousuke but doesnât want to be treated like he treats Kirino but rather as something more, but also doesnât want to interfere with the relationship the two have with each other either as she really likes Kirino as well. Plus, thereâs just in general a lot more Kuroneko fluff with her just being her which is kind of fun in and of itself. Kuroneko is the fan favorite character for this series, so having more of her and adding more depth to her is obviously a plus, and I think this manga did a good job at that. Another thing that I think many may consider a strength is that thereâs far less Kirino in general. I donât dislike Kirino but think having less of her with a much stronger focus on Kuroneko is a good change of pace. However, I think the implementation here was somewhat lacking. For the first half of the manga there are no issues because itâs centered around an arc where Kirino isnât there and where even in the original the focus was entirely on Kuroneko. However, after she returns things start to get somewhat messier. Firstly, there are blatant gaps where major things clearly happen with Kyousuke and Kirino that just get skipped over. These are events that Kuroneko isnât involved with directly, but it is clear from what happens afterwards that she was told about them. However, portraying Kuroneko being told about them would basically be straight up info dumping which would be really weird, so it pretty much just skips these explanations. This felt a bit strange even from the perspective of someone already familiar with the plot, though I suppose there was no perfect solution here. Another issue, is that this tries to follow the original story structure even when it doesnât really make sense to. As this is from Kuronekoâs perspective, the reader should see events that happen to Kuroneko as they happen to her and receive information in the order that she does, but that doesnât happen. Rather, towards the end of this manga there are plot events that in the original were centered around Kyousuke not knowing certain things about Kuroneko and why she was doing what she was doing, and this manga preserves that despite it not really fitting. It does attempt to get around that somewhat by switching from Kuronekoâs perspective to her sisters for a bit, but the issue is larger than just that could solve. That combined with Kyousukeâs perspective where he figures out whatâs going on not being shown either makes this whole arc feel like itâs not told all that well. Since doing this arc properly from Kuronekoâs perspective would take a considerable amount of effort as it would require the writing of a lot of new scenes and events without much guidance from the source material I can understand why the easy way out was chosen, but I still find it kind of disappointing. Lastly, thereâs the ending, which is completely different from the anime and light novel. I donât think itâs a spoiler to say that because the back of the last volume blatantly says âA different ending to the Oreimo storyâ so I think thatâs supposed to be one of the selling points. Well, to be super technical about it, I donât think itâs necessarily a different route from the original, as the ending in this manga is after a time skip where you have no clue what happened and thus it could technically coexist as something that occurs after the ending to the original. To be frank that the ending of this manga occurs after the ending to the original is what Iâm keeping as my head canon. Iâm not someone that hated the ending to the anime, rather I thought it fit and had value for what it was. Still, I do get the complaints, and the ending here is pretty much exactly what I think everyone complaining wanted the ending to be instead. However, the issue with this is that no explanation is provided for how it got there, which made the entire things feel really rushed. In my head canon the events at the end of the original provide closure to Kirino and Kyousuke and once things settle down things can properly go in the direction that Kuroneko originally wanted, which has obvious issues, but as no explanation whatsoever was given in this manga, Iâm going with it. The art is still incredibly solid. I think I liked it a bit less than in the first manga series though because it didnât have as much variety to it and felt more repetitive.