I guess their moving more and more to BD only releases.
Very poor decision then, if that's the case.
So Kirino really is his blood sister? I don't know.
Ultimately the disconnect with Oreimo is the difference between shows that provide enough for the audience to fill the blanks on their own (see SDBurton's goggles) and shows that actually go to those places. Both are common, so it's not like people are idiots for expecting the former.
Perhaps so, but in this kind of anime, that it actually made it clear in the ending isn't exactly surprising. It might have been in some other kind of show, but in an otaku-centric fanbait series like oreimo, and one with incest-baiting as its primary reason to exist? Hah, as if it was really going to avoid it at the end.
Sorry but that seems to be pretty wishful thinking to me. Unlike Bunny Drop, Kirino was sexualized by the male gaze of the camera(and implicitly, the main character) from the very beginning. Not to mention the subject matter. And the title.
People like cosmic who were in denial about what the show is finally know that yes, they were wrong all along... but I still can't figure out how anyone actually thought that the show ever depicted a realistic sibling relationship, when the heavy incest-is-the-point themes were there from the beginning. The ending would only have been even remotely surprising if it HADN'T gone to incest, but it did, so it wasn't.
The male gaze was for the audience, not the main character (prior to season 2).
As for the subject matter, it was never treated as anything sexual (again prior to season 2), but rather as a means for the siblings to re-connect after ignoring each other for a few years. It was less "oh shit, my sister plays eroge and that totally gives me a boner" and more "oh shit, my super popular sister is an otaku and I have to keep it a secret".
The title seemed like it was referring to Kirino's infatuation with little sister games more than Kyosuke's infatuation with her (especially since he essentially hates her for a good chunk of season 1), but yeah...
The male gaze was for the audience, not the main character (prior to season 2).
As for the subject matter, it was never treated as anything sexual (again prior to season 2), but rather as a means for the siblings to re-connect after ignoring each other for a few years. It was less "oh shit, my sister plays eroge and that totally gives me a boner" and more "oh shit, my super popular sister is an otaku and I have to keep it a secret".
The title seemed like it was referring to Kirino's infatuation with little sister games more than Kyosuke's infatuation with her (especially since he essentially hates her for a good chunk of season 1), but yeah...
I'd say this entire page needs to be spoilered, but I guess people have given up.
There was some occasional teasing, but in general, it never felt like anything more than a platonic sibling relationship. Didn't feel any different than Daisuke and Rin's relationship in the sense that it was just family.
When the OVAs came around, things were starting to become less clear on just what the relationship between the siblings was.
Your problem is that you were reading into it what you wanted to see, and not what was actually there. The series always was, from the beginning, about incest-baiting. Sure, it didn't absolutely confirm it until the end, but that was the only reason why the entire series exists. The author did try to keep the people who missed that point reading anyway, up until the end, but make no mistake, that was why it existed, and it was quite clear from the start. And that's why I stopped watching after one episode. "Wishful thinking" is a good description of your posts here.
I mean, it'd have been great if you WERE right. I wish that it was something like that. But, unfortunately, with anime, it does often seem to be good to go in expecting the worst... as series like this show, that's often what you get.