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“Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai” Gets Anime Adaptation


A famous man once said “People often joke that in order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.”

On Friday, Kadokawa’s Fantasia Bunko label announced that Seiji Ebisu and illustrator Ginatou’s Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai (The One I Love is My Little Sister, But She’s Not a Little Sister) will receive an anime adaptation.

As of press time, no details have been announced.

Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai Fantasia Bunko’s main imprint in August 2016. To date, four volumes have been released, with the most recent hitting stores on August 19.

The series, which is billed as an “awkward sibling rom-com”, revolves around Yū Nagami and his younger sister Suzuka. Suzuka’s an attractive third-year middle schooler who boasts perfect grades and a seat as presidnet of her school’s student council. Suzuka writes a novel about a little sister who dotes on her older brother, which wins an award. Yū finds out, the two discuss the matter, and Yū ultimately decides to make his debut as a proxy author, under the pen-name Chikai Towan.

A trailer for the novels hit the web in August. You can check it out below:

Source: Twitter (fantasia_bunko)

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