So, this is the first post for the year 2014. I'm going to be talking/sorting out my thoughts on Oreimo's light novel. I agree this is kinda late, but i only recently discovered that it ended before season 2 even finished.
I was browsing on YouTube, watching random videos when i came across one of Kirino and Kyosuke kissing. I went into shock and after a few minutes of stillness started watching the video. Shortly after that i started fan girling and went in search of the light novel ending. I came across many discussions about the epic failure that was oreimo. I searched a little more and found out that many diehard oreimo fans went into rage and destroyed complete collections of their light novels, going as far as to burning them into ashes.
I for one was not a diehard fan of Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai! but enjoyed it well enough. I am a fan of Kirino and kyosuke because i really don't give a flying shit about incest. But as for the ending, i think that it was indeed disappointing but at least i got a kiss out of it right? Well, whatever. There is but one thing i have to say to the author of this series.
You are amazing.
The ending of the novel was definitely a ballsy one, condemning kyosuke to a possible life of loneliess while totally ending the incestuous relationship between him and Kirino. But that is exactly why i admire the author so much. It would be so easy to give in to the oreimo fans, maybe giving a Kuroneko ending or a Ayase ending or even a better Kirino ending. But he didn't! The ending of the light novel was almost like (or maybe it was) a large "Fuck you!" to the fans of the novel, Kyosuke did not end up with anybody and ended up rejecting all possible love routes for the sake of kirino. Whose relationship ended as abruptly as it began.
The author ended it like he wanted it to. That action alone shines through the ending because it says one thing to me. I will end it how i want it too, because it is my novel.
I think that the people who destroyed their light novel books are not actually fans of the light novel itself, but the fictional characters that Tsukasa Fushimi created. Those poor books did nothing at all and suffered the fate of being torn, burnt and ripped. I think that is seriously overreacting. Are they going to do what they did every time something in a light novel doesn't go like they want it to? Sure, i would be pretty angry, probably throwing the book down and sulking for a long time, but in the end i am going to have to accept it. Its like reading a book with no happy ending.
What can you do but accept it? Regardless of what happened in the end, the rest of the book was certainly better than the ending, was it not?
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