Episode 06 – There’s no Way My Childhood Friend could be This Cute
俺の幼馴染がこんなに可愛いわけがない (Ore no Osananajimi ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai)
This week’s episode takes a break from all the Kirino drama, and instead focuses on the innocent childhood “Queen Normal” friend, Manami. And, as the title to this episode implies, she is quite a bit more cute than you may think. She has some charming moments, but what really grabbed my attention was Manami’s entire family overall. Rather than a stereotypical, boring family (like Kyousuke’s…cough…cough…), we are introduced to Manami’s very animated and energetic grandpa, grandma, and younger brother. It was fun watching their silly antics, especially the grandpa’s efforts at getting Manami and Kyousuke together.
This episode basically consisted of a bunch of gags, including the scene where the grandpa was playing dead (extraordinarily well, mind you), and the Kirino getting overexcited over the arrival of her dakimura anime body pillow. The funniest part had to be when Manami attempted to tease Kyousuke; she teased him with saying that they should enter the bath together, only for her plan to backfire with Kyousuke retorting (like a true man lol) “LET’S GO! I’ll show you my galactic weapon” xD. The other funny moment was where the grandpa jokingly faked a heart attack, just for to get Manami and Kyousuke to sleep together in the same room.
Honestly, besides a few gags here and there, nothing really happened this episode. We did get some warm and fuzzy moments between Kyousuke and Manami, and I definitely got a bunch of laughs out of this episode, but overall this was probably the weakest one in the series so far. What I did find amusing was how Kirino, throughout the episode, would randomly kick at Kyousuke’s door and chair, indicating that she actually misses him, which is a cute little sign of some affection towards her brother, which rarely happens.
Next week’s episode looks like it’ll be covering Kirino’s attempt at writing a keitai novel. Keitai novels are pretty popular in Japan, and I think it would be interesting to see what Kirino could possibly even write about.
Overall Enjoyment: 3.8/5
Screenshots and updated OP theme are later in the post.
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Next Episode Preview: There’s No Way My Little Sister is a Novel Writer
俺の妹がこんなに小説家なわけがない (Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Shousetsuga na Wake ga nai)
Distant Paradise 
I agree with you that this episode was the weakest of the series but it was enjoyable. I enjoyed watching Manami’s grandparents tricks to get them together.
But I was also intrigued by Kirino’s clear displeasure that he was not at home. I’m still wondering if the show is going to into incest territory. But I guess that we’ll just have to wait and see.
Well, it’s hard to say whether this is going into incest territory, or just plain sister-brotherly love; I guess only time will tell for us. From what I’ve heard, other characters in this series eventually overshadows Kirino’s involvement in everything, but rumors are rumors.
Incest relationships can be well portrayed, but those are the exceptionally few and rare. Incest is also an extremely sensitive topic, so not too many anime touch upon it. Let’s see if this show does anything good with it eh? ヽ（´ー｀）┌
I really liked this episode.
It was a care free episode that gave a little more depth to Kyousuke’s character, it was really nice to see what he finds peaceful and relaxing instead of always having him as the outsider to Kirino’s life.
Also compared to the last episode which was an emotionally charged episode it was nice to have a fun episode.
Did anyone else find it funny that the non-conventional family was able to produce a “normal” girl while the “normal” family produced the Otaku.
I never actually thought of it that way, but now that you mention it, that is quite true lol. That’s a really interesting thing you pointed out there. “Queen Normal” definitely comes from a very quirky family, while Kirino the Otaku comes from a very normal family. o.o;
So I wonder what that makes Kyousuke….