Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai sequel announced

[EnigmaticWarrior]

Update: Confirmed official (http://www.oreimo-anime.com/index.html).
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Not sure if serious...or April Fool's Day prank (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-04-01/oreimo-anime-2nd-season-green-lit). :sweat:

The cast of the Oreimo (Ore no Imōto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai) anime series announced during their "Yūichi no Manma 2 ~Taketatsu to Hanazawa ga Debut Suru Wake ga Nai~" stage event at Anime Contents Expo on Sunday that production on a second season has been green-lit.

EDIT: Now, Crunchyroll is reporting on the news too (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/03/31-1/ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-season-two-green-lit). Maybe this is real, after all...

At the Anime Contents Expo stage for the debut of Kana Hanzawa and Ayana Taketatsu entitled "Taketatsu to Hanazawa ga Debut-suru Wake ga Nai," it was announced that Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (aka OreImo) will be getting a second season. The official site has updated to announce that production of season two has been green lit and the official twitter for Kirino (https://twitter.com/kirino_kousaka/status/186337998445617152) from OreImo has revealed that more details will be revealed in an article on Akiba Blog tomorrow, which frequently has first reveals from the OreImo novels. The first season previously aired in Winter of 2011.

via 0takomu

Image ©Tsukasa Fushimi／ASCII MEDIA WORKS／OIP

[tenton]

Oh, they definitely announced it there. If it's an April Fool's joke, then Aniplex would have to be involved because the official Kirino twitter said it, too. And there's this: http://yfrog.com/h689kiej

Producing something like that costs money, so I doubt they'd do that just for a joke. :P

Edit: Official site mentions it now: http://www.oreimo-anime.com/index.html . Akiba Blog will have the full official details tomorrow.

[something]

Not sure if serious...or April Fool's Day prank (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-04-01/oreimo-anime-2nd-season-green-lit). :sweat:
Wish major industry conventions wouldn't be scheduled on April Fools'. Still, this isn't the kind of thing companies April Fool us about. They have a product to sell, and there's a big difference between an obvious April Fools joke and just a straight up purposeless lie.

So, this is very promising. We'll see...

[EnigmaticWarrior]

Oh, they definitely announced it there. If it's an April Fool's joke, then Aniplex would have to be involved because the official Kirino twitter said it, too. And there's this: http://yfrog.com/h689kiej

Producing something like that costs money, so I doubt they'd do that just for a joke. :P

If this is really for real, then this news makes me super happy! :sdsmiley: I just wonder how much material from the light novels season 2 will cover.

Speaking of which, when's the 10th light novel coming out anyway?

Edit: Official site mentions it now: http://www.oreimo-anime.com/index.html . Akiba Blog will have the full official details tomorrow.

Dear God, why does awesome news like this have to come out on this day? :sd:

[something]

Split this out into its own thread, it's big enough news to warrant it. In general we should do separate threads for sequel announcements.

[EnigmaticWarrior]

Split this out into its own thread, it's big enough news to warrant it. In general we should do separate threads for sequel announcements.

Okay, I'll keep this in mind in the future.

I was just afraid I would look stupid if it turned out to be false. :sd:

[Damius]

This is sure a good news! Looks to be true.

[MelancholicMariya]

Oh great, this is fantastic news. I adore this series.

And it's very bad business for businesses to pull April Fools jokes where it seems like it could be a real thing. The joke has to be so unrealistic to the point where no one can believe it, such as an Oreimo mecha series and the character designs are all completely different. You can't say "second season!... nah just kiddin" because no one likes it when you do that, especially not the customers.

[superdry]

Speaking of which, when's the 10th light novel coming out anyway?


It should be released some time this month.

So, the 2nd season will probably cover volumes 6, 7, 8 and 10 with possible episodes from the side-stories of volume 9. Maybe another 16 episodes?

Why is it that I can see a third season already? :D

[HitokiriShadow]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!

Not sure if serious...or April Fool's Day prank (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-04-01/oreimo-anime-2nd-season-green-lit). :sweat:


I don't see any reason to doubt something like this. The first series was a huge success, so a sequel was pretty much guaranteed to happen, barring an Infinite Stratos situation. If this had turned out to be an April Fool's joke, it would be one of the worst ones in history.

Also, I'm pretty sure ANN has had a "No April Fool's joke 'news'" for a long time. And thank god for that. I hate April Fool's day.

[HitokiriShadow]

Speaking of which, when's the 10th light novel coming out anyway?


It should be released some time this month.


April 10th, apparently.

I didn't even realize the next volume had been solicited until I saw the Gamers tokuten listing for it while I was just looking around at the bonuses for random other books yesterday. I had been relying on my Amazon.jp search bookmark, but Amazon still doesn't have it listed for some reason. But several other sites list it as the 10th.

[HitokiriShadow]

So I was about to go to sleep and I suddenly thought "Wait, did they say something about Winter 2011 in the OreImo announcement?"

Now, Crunchyroll is reporting on the news too (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/03/31-1/ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-season-two-green-lit).

At the Anime Contents Expo stage for the debut of Kana Hanzawa and Ayana Taketatsu entitled "Taketatsu to Hanazawa ga Debut-suru Wake ga Nai," it was announced that Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (aka OreImo) will be getting a second season. The official site has updated to announce that production of season two has been green lit and the official twitter for Kirino (https://twitter.com/kirino_kousaka/status/186337998445617152) from OreImo has revealed that more details will be revealed in an article on Akiba Blog tomorrow, which frequently has first reveals from the OreImo novels. The first season previously aired in Winter of 2011.
Ummmmm, no, it aired in Fall 2010. They've corrected it now though.

[bored@lazy]

Well that's good news.
Maybe in this season we'll get some clarification/justification on why Kirino is such as unlikable bitch.

[Damius]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!

Not sure if serious...or April Fool's Day prank (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-04-01/oreimo-anime-2nd-season-green-lit). :sweat:


I don't see any reason to doubt something like this. The first series was a huge success, so a sequel was pretty much guaranteed to happen, barring an Infinite Stratos situation. If this had turned out to be an April Fool's joke, it would be one of the worst ones in history.

Also, I'm pretty sure ANN has had a "No April Fool's joke 'news'" for a long time. And thank god for that. I hate April Fool's day.

Ok, good to know. Now I hope that Aniplex will do a BD Boxset for season 1 in Japan like they did with Bake! I cross my fingers!

[Buckeye]

Given the way the first season ended, I had a feeling this was coming.

[something]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-10042.html

Because we apparently haven't had enough punctuation sequels, the second season will be called:

俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない。
Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.

Yes, a period. Honestly that's a lot worse than adding a ! or ' or ♪♪.

[superdry]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-10042.html

Because we apparently haven't had enough punctuation sequels, the second season will be called:

俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない。
Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.

Yes, a period. Honestly that's a lot worse than adding a ! or ' or ♪♪.

I found that to be a little silly. They should have added something to the end.

[Damius]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-10042.html

Because we apparently haven't had enough punctuation sequels, the second season will be called:

俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない。
Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.

Yes, a period. Honestly that's a lot worse than adding a ! or ' or ♪♪.

So, if there is a third season it will be: Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai...

[MelancholicMariya]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-10042.html

Because we apparently haven't had enough punctuation sequels, the second season will be called:

俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない。
Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai.

Yes, a period. Honestly that's a lot worse than adding a ! or ' or ♪♪.

So.. does that make the title a statement? Because of the period it feels like they're trying to say she seriously cannot be this cute, she's not allowed.

[something]

http://0taku.livedoor.biz/archives/4286260.html

So the novels are ending with volume 12. They've been 4-6 months between volumes so far, so it could come out in January to coincide with a Winter '13 sequel, otherwise maybe we'll see the anime in Spring '13.

Assuming they plan to cover all remaining material in the sequel. If not, there's no real reason they'd need to coincide, though I suppose it could help sales. I don't know how many volumes we covered in season one and I avoid looking up anything OreImo related because I know there are so many spoilers out there.

[Damius]

They can take their time and wait for Spring. But, if this is a Winter release, around when they would announce a boxset for the first season (if there is one)?

[superdry]

All good things must come to an end. I think it makes perfect sense to end it soon. Happy and sad at the same time. I sure hope Kanzaki Hiro gets to illustrate a new light novel after this is over. I'm also curious about anything new Fushimi writes.


Assuming they plan to cover all remaining material in the sequel. If not, there's no real reason they'd need to coincide, though I suppose it could help sales. I don't know how many volumes we covered in season one and I avoid looking up anything OreImo related because I know there are so many spoilers out there.

OreImo season 1 covered the first 5 volumes. That would leave 7 volumes for season 2 to cover, but one of the volumes is a collection of side-stories (plus there are a few short stories that could be adapted).

If the anime wants to cover everything in one shot, then 2-cour would make the most sense. If not, then we would need 2 more seasons (including the upcoming one) to cover everything properly.

[FUNiOP]

How often does a TV anime begin a full year after it's officially announced? I knew such a big title would have to at least wait until the season after next to begin, but I was surprised to see it not turn up for Fall. I always assume these big titles will begin in Fall or Spring, but I thought it couldn't possibly wait a full year after its announcement to begin. But maybe so. It just seems strange to announce it so early. Maybe that wasn't the plan at the time? I'll be curious to see which season it does end up airing in. If it's Winter, I assume we'll at least start hearing some more information about it, since there hasn't been much of that since its announcement. If it continues to be quiet, I'll probably start assuming more and more that it will be Spring.

[something]

If the anime wants to cover everything in one shot, then 2-cour would make the most sense. If not, then we would need 2 more seasons (including the upcoming one) to cover everything properly.
If it ends up being two cour, then I guess the novel could come out in March or later and still be at least somewhat close to the end of the anime. I still kinda have a feeling they'll cram the last 7 novels into one cour + bonus episodes though.

[ultimatemegax]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.

[something]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.
Ehhh? A1 is one of my favorite studios but I don't see why AIC would need to be replaced. Oh well.

[Damius]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.

Wonder why they decided to change the animation company... Oh and Spring would be great for this.

[HitokiriShadow]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.

Not sure how I feel about this. I like A-1 a lot, but OreImo is what made me love AIC Build, so.... hmm. Whatever, as song as its good and it looks just as nice.

Also nice to have a season confirmed. So there's on guaranteed import for Spring 2013.

[superdry]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.

As long as Kanzaki Hiro is on board...it's all good. Spring 2013 is an excellent time too.

[Westlo]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.
Ehhh? A1 is one of my favorite studios but I don't see why AIC would need to be replaced. Oh well.

Who do you think is more capable of animating 2 cours of this? AIC Build or A-1 Studios the Aniplex factory? AIC Build are busy with production on Hagani Season 2, A-1 otoh right now are working on.

Airing
Sword Art Online
Magi
From the New World
Fairy Tail
Space Brothers
Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter
Idolmaster Shiny Fiesta OVAs (3 Ovas, not airing right now but out soon)

Production
Ao No Exorcist Movie
AnoHana Movie
Saint Onii San Movie
Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Winter)
Vivid Red (Winter??)
OreNo S2 (Spring)
Uta no Prince Sama 2 (Spring)

Also when is the last time AIC Build did a 2 cour season?

Also all the key staff will more than likely be the same.

[MelancholicMariya]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.
Ehhh? A1 is one of my favorite studios but I don't see why AIC would need to be replaced. Oh well.

Who do you think is more capable of animating 2 cours of this? AIC Build or A-1 Studios the Aniplex factory? AIC Build are busy with production on Hagani Season 2, A-1 otoh right now are working on.

Airing
Sword Art Online
Magi
From the New World
Fairy Tail
Space Brothers
Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter
Idolmaster Shiny Fiesta OVAs (3 Ovas, not airing right now but out soon)

Production
Ao No Exorcist Movie
AnoHana Movie
Saint Onii San Movie
Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Winter)
Vivid Red (Winter??)
OreNo S2 (Spring)
Uta no Prince Sama 2 (Spring)

Also when is the last time AIC Build did a 2 cour season?

Also all the key staff will more than likely be the same.

I think you just made more of an argument for AIC continuing Oreimo than you did A-1 Pictures taking over production. Even though A-1 is a pretty big studio now, they've got a lot on their plate and AIC Build is doing Haganai in Winter/January while Oreimo is April. Plus AIC Build could totally do two cour, there's nothing preventing them or saying "this is a single cour studio" as there's a first time for everything.

Though as you said, key staff will probably be the same or similar. They have been promoting the second season before this announcement with the same staff so there's no doubt it'll be similar.

[Westlo]

Animation company change. The second season will be animated by A-1 Pictures as was mentioned (https://twitter.com/yossy214/status/254783136783798272) in the event today at the Dengeki Festival. It also appears (https://twitter.com/k_hayate/status/254783920137187328) to be scheduled to begin in April 2013.
Ehhh? A1 is one of my favorite studios but I don't see why AIC would need to be replaced. Oh well.

Who do you think is more capable of animating 2 cours of this? AIC Build or A-1 Studios the Aniplex factory? AIC Build are busy with production on Hagani Season 2, A-1 otoh right now are working on.

Airing
Sword Art Online
Magi
From the New World
Fairy Tail
Space Brothers
Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter
Idolmaster Shiny Fiesta OVAs (3 Ovas, not airing right now but out soon)

Production
Ao No Exorcist Movie
AnoHana Movie
Saint Onii San Movie
Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Winter)
Vivid Red (Winter??)
OreNo S2 (Spring)
Uta no Prince Sama 2 (Spring)

Also when is the last time AIC Build did a 2 cour season?

Also all the key staff will more than likely be the same.

I think you just made more of an argument for AIC continuing Oreimo than you did A-1 Pictures taking over production. Even though A-1 is a pretty big studio now, they've got a lot on their plate and AIC Build is doing Haganai in Winter/January while Oreimo is April. Plus AIC Build could totally do two cour, there's nothing preventing them or saying "this is a single cour studio" as there's a first time for everything.

Though as you said, key staff will probably be the same or similar. They have been promoting the second season before this announcement with the same staff so there's no doubt it'll be similar.

AIC Build is just one of 7 divisions of AIC, A-1 probably dwarfs AIC as a whole let alone Build.

AIC Build have done 3 anime titles

OreNo
Hagani
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate

With Hagani 2 to come in Winter.

They have never released shows back to back and have never done 2 cour.

A-1 is Aniplex, it's already been long enough between OreNo seasons, the LNs aren't going to go much longer, already hit critical mass....

[something]

http://www.oreimo-anime.com/special/pv_04.html

lol KoiChoco poster.

[MelancholicMariya]

http://www.oreimo-anime.com/special/pv_04.html

lol KoiChoco poster.

Awesome, it looks great. Now to wait six months.

[HitokiriShadow]

http://www.oreimo-anime.com/special/pv_04.html

lol KoiChoco poster.

Looks great. The show is clearly in good hands and I shouldn't have to worry about any major visual disparity with the first season. April can't come soon enough.

[Damius]

Can't wait for April! A season 1 BD box sure would help me to wait...

[something]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-14455.html

Confirmed to cover the entirety of the remaining series. No third season, then... but if they can do this without being rushed, it'll be nice to see a story animated to completion.

[Damius]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-14455.html

Confirmed to cover the entirety of the remaining series. No third season, then... but if they can do this without being rushed, it'll be nice to see a story animated to completion.

I wonder if they will do 16 episodes with this season too. I'm sure it will be amazing! Please... don't rushed it.

[something]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-14455.html
Confirmed to cover the entirety of the remaining series. No third season, then... but if they can do this without being rushed, it'll be nice to see a story animated to completion.I wonder if they will do 16 episodes with this season too. I'm sure it will be amazing! Please... don't rushed it.
::checks:: So according to posts earlier in this thread we covered 5 novels in 16 (well, 15, since one episode was told two different ways) episodes. That is, 3 episodes per novel. With 7 volumes left and plans to cover them all, you'd want at least 21 episodes, which goes well beyond what can be done with BD bonus episodes. This has to be two cour... unless they cut out a whole lot of material.

[superdry]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-14455.html
Confirmed to cover the entirety of the remaining series. No third season, then... but if they can do this without being rushed, it'll be nice to see a story animated to completion.I wonder if they will do 16 episodes with this season too. I'm sure it will be amazing! Please... don't rushed it.
::checks:: So according to posts earlier in this thread we covered 5 novels in 16 (well, 15, since one episode was told two different ways) episodes. That is, 3 episodes per novel. With 7 volumes left and plans to cover them all, you'd want at least 21 episodes, which goes well beyond what can be done with BD bonus episodes. This has to be two cour... unless they cut out a whole lot of material.

I cannot fathom the rest of the novels crammed into 1-cour considering how much material that needs to be covered. I don't remember all the details that happen in the volumes not covered yet, but it's possible that one or two volumes can be covered in 2-episodes like what Haganai NEXT did (covered volume 5 in two episodes...but those two episodes seemed to have done a decent job).

Assuming 2-cour, each volume outside of volume 9 (side-stories) can be adapted at the same pace as season 1. The four side-stories could get their own episode. That gives us 22 episodes. What to do with the 2-episodes? Either expand how many episodes cover a volume of the novel or maybe something anime original like what season 1 did for one episode.

[Damius]

Assuming 2-cour, each volume outside of volume 9 (side-stories) can be adapted at the same pace as season 1. The four side-stories could get their own episode. That gives us 22 episodes. What to do with the 2-episodes? Either expand how many episodes cover a volume of the novel or maybe something anime original like what season 1 did for one episode.

Well, I sure hope it will be 2-cour. First season sold quite well, so I don't know why they would not want to do it.

[something]

http://www.oreimo-anime.com/special/pv02.html

Maaaaaaaaan. Kirino totally fangirling out at the end was awesome. Shuuuugooooooi! I missed her so so much. ♥

Claris song sounds great too.