It's All About Me: Kirino starts out really selfish, but improves greatly over the course of the story. It's implied later on that she acted like this earlier to hide her embarrassment in typical Tsundere fashion. Just as violence was a predominant theme of Out, Grotesque is the story related in the first person by this unnamed individual of how her sister and an old school friend became prostitutes and eventually were murdered. While both novels are ostensibly crime stories, it is obvious that Kirino’s true preoccupation as their author is with an examination of a society that can drive its women to acts of desperation. Oreimo Gets New 'Happy End' PS3 Game". Anime News Network. March 17, 2013 . Retrieved March 17, 2013. News of a Collaboration with "Oreimo" in the Game] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Archived from the original on September 9, 2011 . Retrieved August 19, 2012. The only sympathetic male figure presented in Out is another outsider, Kazuo Miyamori, one of the workers at the boxed-lunch factory, a biracial individual whose mother is Brazilian and father is Japanese, who is considered to have an alarmingly foreign appearance by his co-workers: “[t]he day he realised that his face and physique would forever consign him to the status of a gaijin [a foreigner] Kazuo gave up on Japan” (154). Miyamoto is revealed to have been the potential rapist lurking outside the boxed-lunch factory, and he is the initial suspect identified by police investigating Yayoi’s husband’s death.

Yoshie’s burden grows even more heavy midway through the novel when her elder daughter, Kazue, who had quit school and run away with a man when she was eighteen, suddenly turns up at her house and leaves her small son in Yoshie’s care (167), an arrangement Yoshie realises might be permanent, as her daughter had not been in touch for three years and might easily disappear again indefinitely. Yoshie remembers Kazue’s lover as a loser who could never hold down a regular job (163). Also, on the Collaboration project, she made fun of Mikoto, saying that while the railgun series has '22 volumes, 2 gaiden books, 7 New Testament volumes, 1 additional side story book, 3 anime seasons, 8 new gaiden volumes', Mikoto still didn't manage to get any closer to Touma, while her had been 'living together with my love interest for 15 years, was confessed at the end of volume 2, entered a love hotel together in volume 3' Crunchyroll to Add Oreimo Second Season OVAs This Summer". Anime News Network. June 18, 2013 . Retrieved June 19, 2013.Kuroneko's relationship with Kyousuke also developed quite a lot. First seeing him as an older brother who does just about anything for his bratty younger sister, she tells Kirino that's she's jealous and calls Kyousuke "nii-san". In the 5th novel she starts attending Kyousuke's school and at that point calls him sempai. Cat Girl: Kuroneko cosplays as one in episode 11. Kirino hates to admit it, but she finds the ears and tail very appealing.

Not Blood Siblings: In an If route (which is even less canon than the other routes of the PSP game), Kyousuke discovers that he's not actually Kirino's brother. As soon as both siblings are aware of this, they almost immediately start a relationship. The night Kirino finds out, she tells Kyousuke to sleep note what definition of sleep is ambiguous, but she's putting on her kissy face while she says it with her so she can be sure he won't move away now that he knows he's not related to the family. Doctors and professors were the most lascivious of all. From what I knew of their world, most men who were obedient to authority figures, as well as those who had earned authority positions, were always idiots. When I recall the anxiety I once felt about being at the top of that world, I laugh so bitterly it makes my teeth ache (375). Kirino has admitted that she has scant interest in the prototypical murder mystery, asserting that her motivation as an author instead, is with “observing the fabric of human relationships” 3. The principal interest of Kirino’s hard-boiled suspense stories derives not from the reader’s being invited to consider how a crime might have been committed but, rather, why. Ore no Kōhai ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (1) special edition with Kuroneko "Shironeko" figurine] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works . Retrieved September 7, 2012.Ore no Kōhai ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (6)] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works . Retrieved February 13, 2016. A-Cup Angst: In episode 8 of season 2, she puts on an entirely new outfit which Kyousuke says makes her sexier. When she asks him what makes it sexier to him, he mentions that it makes her boobs look a little bigger. She then dejectedly walks away, forcing him to carry her bags and chase after her.