Trivia / Oreimo

• Acting for Two: Three examples during the series:
  • Kana Hanazawa voices both Kuroneko and her middle sister Hinata.
  • Yukari Tamura voices Kanako and the fictional character Meruru, who Kanako later cosplays as.
  • Saori Hayami voices Ayase, and in the second season, she also voices Ayaka Fujisaki, the main heroine of a game which Kirino becomes addicted (this is intentional, since the character resembles Ayase and Kyousuke later uses this to make Ayase understand the game more to repair her relationship with Kirino).
  • Taken to massive levels of meta in the DVD commentaries, where Kirino interviews her voice actress on how it was like to voice herself.
  • In-Universe, Kana Hanazawa gives voice to both Kuroneko and her middle sister Hinata. In the 8th episode of the second season, both Kuroneko and her sister interact between themselves, leading to a funny scene where Kuroneko punishes Hinata for bothering her when Kyousuke visits her home. One can see that Hanazawa had her fun while voicing the scene.
• Defictionalization: Rejoice, fellow siscons!! Siscalypse the naked-loli fighting game featured in the series is gonna be made into an actual game in Real Life; albeit a 2D fighting game rather than a 3D one.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The ANN version of episode 1 was this for a short time.
• No Export for You: While the anime and manga adaptations are licensed in English, the original light novels have yet to be made available outside of Japan.
• Playing Against Type: After a decade of playing emotionally-reserved and dead-serious warriors like Kanu Unchou of Ikki Tousen, Hitomi Nabatame finally sinks her teeth into a bright and upbeat role like Saori.
• Reality Subtext: The author of Oreimo turned down the first offer to have the Light Novel animated. This experience seems to have been the basis for the anime original plot of episode 8.
• Teasing Creator: It's a good idea to keep this in mind when one novel seems to end in a certain way.
• Word of God: Since the author admitted that they couldn't put the ending the way they really wanted it for reasons, the afterstory went ahead and confirmed the suspicions from the endings that Kyousuke and Kirino only ended the public side of their romance to avoid social backlash, but continued in private. It even implies that it's a very successful romance.

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