My Sister, My Writer

Name: [Spoilers] Just a collaboration of a bunch of cliched ecchi / romance tropes hoping it will work together. It doesn't.
Item: My Sister, My Writer
Rating: 20
Author: TJReds

a review by TJReds

TJReds

4 years ago·Jul 16, 2021

/ 100

[Spoilers]

This review contains spoilers. (Not that there's much to be spoiled but just in case).
####I never thought my first review would be because of how much I deplored a certain anime, but here we are. I am not a professional critic, so don't expect too much from this review but I am still trying my best.

Note: I always rate anime based completely on enjoyment. But for the sake of this review, I will rate each section so you know what I think about it. Keep in mind the final score for this anime is not based off these individual scores, but based solely on my enjoyment (or lack thereof).

Introduction Long story short, if you want a forbidden romance anime with better plot, better characters, better visuals, better sound, better comedy, better ecchi, and better everything else… I urge you to check out Oreimo! Oreimo isn’t even an ecchi and it does ecchi better than this disaster does. Now, I will go into slight depth about each of the follow things I just mentioned that Oreimo does better than this anime, and why.

Sorry in advance for lack of visual images. Maybe in the future I will edit it to include them but currently I have no desire to go back through this anime to find suitable images. (All the images used I already know the episode and timestamp of).

#The Plot: 1.5/10 I’ll give you a basic rundown of each episode: > Episode 1: Introduction Episode 2: Forgettable (isn't every episode though?) Episode 3: Cosplays Episode 4: Swimsuit shopping Episode 5: Beach episode AND summer festival episode Episode 6: School culture festival Episode 7: Female mc gets sick and male mc wipes her down in bed Episode 8: Girl spends night in male mc's room Episode 9: Group date to amusement park Episode 10: Group date to amusement park Part 2

As you can see, literally every romance / ecchi trope imaginable in a short 10 episodes. Swimsuit shopping, cosplay, beach, summer festival, culture festival, falling ill, amusementpark and more! Seems they were too focused on utilizing every one of these tropes instead of the actual plot. The actual plot can be summed up in a single sentence:

Male mc is basically the manager for his younger sister’s famous novel and soon-to-be anime.

#The Characters: 1.0/10 Very basic creatures for a very basic anime, down below is a short description of each character and their respective "personality:"

Chikai Towano: The pen name for Suzuka Nagami, acted out by Yuu Nagami (needed for context).

Yuu Nagami: The sole male mc of this anime with a spineless personality and an irritating voice.

Suzuka Nagami: A tsundere bro-con. She's the best character, but also the most basic character with hardly any personality.

Ahegao W Peace-sensei: A person who's only character trait is being sexual. e.g., Drawing nothing but sexual images, working for a sex shop, seductively sucking on several food items, erotic cosplays, literally being called "Ahegao"

Reika Shinozaki: Chikai Towano's editor, who pops up a few times but like Ahegao W Peace-sensei her only character trait is being sexual. Talking to Chikai Towano in the bath tub, moaning into the phone, putting Towano's hand onto her breast, etc., etc.

Mai Himuro: A person who's a tsundere who only worries about finding out Chikai Towano's secret to make her manga a better success.

Sakura Minazuki: A voice actress who is Chikai Towano's "biggest fan." She takes on the persona of a clumsy / airheaded person. She gets introduced by tripping over literally nothing, and every appearance she's air-headed and just goes with the flow to be with Yuu Nagami.

Haruna Kanzaka: An annoying brat. That’s it, nothing else.

Akino Kanzaka: The self-appointed “pupil” of Chikai Towano. She has even less personality than a bag of rocks.

That’s literally all the characters in a nutshell. Not a single one of them has any unique personality (and some of them have literally no personality at all). Down below I talk more about Yuu Nagami since his character annoys me with every fiber of my being.

The Most Annoying Character: Yuu Nagami I don’t even have much to say being honest. Ima just show you the images and let them speak for themselves.

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So… Suzuku is literally inches from Yuu’s face, speaking the same volume she has spoken for the past minute of conversation. AND HE DOESN’T HEAR HER?? WHAT????

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So in this one, Yuu wrapped his arms around Suzuka (For what? No idea, he just did it spontaneously). Anyways, it’s one thing wrapping your arm around someone, but resting your hand on their breast. C’mon that’s no accident. Suzuku is pretty flat chested, but we see her topless several times so I know Yuu should have felt something at least.

#The Visuals: 1.5/10 Not trying to be rude to the animators, but I constantly cringed at the horrid facial expressions constantly displayed by this anime. I have two pretty good photos to sum it up. These aren’t even the worst of it, these are pretty good compared to some other facial expressions.

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Another thing, the anime occasionally decided it would be a good idea to do a sideways shot. I don’t know how to explain it so I’ll just show you:

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Most of these are from episode 3, but this happens several times outside of that one episode. That series of 7 images are from 4 seperate episodes so you can see how much it happens.

#The Sound: 3.0/10 Not gonna lie, somewhat decent op and ed (even if I only listened to them once). I’m a big fan of music and don’t usually skip ops / eds but I didn’t want to spend any more time in this anime than I had to.

Other than that, the voice acting was pretty bad, wasn’t even the VA’s fault, they just had to play trash characters in a terrible anime so can’t blame them.

#The Comedy: 2.5/10 I did have a few chuckles in this anime but most of the comedic aspects weren’t well executed. Most of the comedy is simply sexual references or innuendos; in an anime where the plot is completely based off ecchi tropes, you can imagine how well this went.

Here is a perfect example:
Warning, NSFW: (No nudity but just in case it might break the rules)

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The little sister asked: “Can you tell me what a panchira is?” Of course, the male mc freaks out and the audience receives a panchira while the mc freaks out. (If you don’t know what that means, a “panchira” is basically a panty shot or an upskirt). The panchira used in this “comedy” isn’t even a good one. But just imagine the comedy for the whole anime exactly like this.

#The Ecchi: 4.5/10 Now, I’m a fan of ecchi. It’s hard for me to complain about ecchi (which is why this is the highest rated category), but this anime still failed where I’m concerned. Obviously, I can’t provide photo evidence, but most of the ecchi was very badly drawn / I felt like the characters were old people anytime they were nude. There were LOTS of boob shots, so some are bound to be good, but most of them were not.

Also, lots of bathtub scenes; I should have counted. I legitimately felt there was a bathtub scene in every episode (there probably is being honest). Not that I'm complaining since the bathtub scenes were actually pretty steamy.. (ha ha)

#Final Thoughts: 2.0/10 Yeahhh personally, I wouldn’t recommend this anime to anyone. In fact, it was so bad that after watching hundreds of anime I had to write a review just to share my disgust of it. (I guess it speaks for itself since the mean score on this anime is in the 40s).

Anyways, hope my first review wasn’t too bad / drawn out / etc. Thanks to whoever read the whole thing and comments / suggestions to improve are always welcomed. :)

It is much longer than I anticipated. I doubt anyone reads all of this but here are my thoughts on this anime.

My Sister, My Writer

[Spoilers]

Note: I always rate anime based completely on enjoyment. But for the sake of this review, I will rate each section so you know what I think about it. Keep in mind the final score for this anime is not based off these individual scores, but based solely on my enjoyment (or lack thereof).