The title translates to "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute." It's usually abbreviated to "Oreimo," and it's been out for about 2 years now.
I didn't pick this series up for a long time because the pitch for it sounded extremely creepy: Boy finds out his perfectionist model little sister is a closet otaku because he discovers a little-sister hentai game hidden in an anime DVD box.
It sounds like a setup for a kind of gross brother/sister love story. But I'm 4 episodes in and while there are occasional points in that direction, it doesn't look like it's going to be a main plot element, and I honestly hope it stays that way.
Instead, so far it's been a thorough examination of being closeted about something. While it takes the context of being a closet otaku (Otaku being a much worse word in Japan than America), with Kirino (the eponymous little sister) dealing with a father who does not approve of this sort of thing and friends who she can't reveal it to for fear of ostracism finally talking to her brother about it after her cover is blown.
Her brother, not being an otaku himself (and being a little creeped out by it) nonetheless says he'll do whatever he has to to help his sister, and so gets dragged into meeting with her new otaku friends and doing his best to help her live her life the way she wants to.
So, in short, it's going up pretty high on my list of "Series that are way better than I thought they were going to be."
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