Kirino Kousaka is one of the two protagonists of the Oreimo series.
She is the talented and popular sister of the other protagonist, Kyousuke, who secretly develops an interest in otaku media and introduces this media to her brother, which he uses to spend time with her.
She is voiced by Ayana Taketatsu.
What Makes Her a Scrappy?[]
- She behaves like a jerk towards Kyousuke, especially at the beginning of the series, where she is prone to yelling and berating him for minor things and becoming extremely possessive towards him as the series continued in spite of his constant attempts to bond with her.
- Her relationship with Kyousuke becomes creepy and incestuous as the story continued, to the point that the two had a mock wedding and were officially in a relationship with each other for about three months before they broke up at the end. Additionally, while Kyousuke wanted to remain as siblings, Kirino heavily implies that she still has feelings for him.
- Outside of trying to hide her status as an otaku, she rarely has much conflict in her life, as she is already extremely popular and talented at the beginning of the story and ends up as a successful model in the future.
- Out of Kyousuke's love interests, she is the least interesting compared to someone like Monomi, who had a long friendship with him prior or Saori who has a lot of moments of bonding with him.
Trivia[]
- She was originally a BBC due to her popularity in Japan being more popular than in the West. It wasn’t until the ending of the series where she and Kyousuke get married that she earned her reputation.
- Her counterparts in the visual novel and the light novel adaptations, the latter of which the anime originated from, in spite of their low popularity, are viewed in a more positive light than the manga and anime due to them downplaying her jerky personality or making it where she is Kyousuke's adoptive sister.