Otaku Surrogate: Despite being a 14-year-old middle school girl, her taste in anime and games are ones that are aimed at older men, particularly her love for eroge. In one scene in the PSP Visual Novel where she's attending a Meruru live event, her line while screaming like a maniac is tagged "Otaku" instead of her name. In Kirino’s novels, the women are more resilient and tougher than the men. While Masako’s husband and son, reeling from their own personal disasters, have retreated into a world of their own, Masako feels she must carry on without complaint even though, arguably, the blows life has dealt her are far more grievous than anything Yoshiki or Nobuki have had to endure. As women, the female protagonists of Out automatically are consigned to the role of outsiders in the enclaves of male power that dominate Japanese society even though, with the passage of equal opportunity laws on the books since 1987, the “masculine domination of the public sphere has decreased substantially” 9. But they are expected to acquiesce to the inevitable with dignity, as Masako learns to her cost, when she complains at her treatment in the credit and loan company where she has worked for so many years and then, ostracized by her fellow-workers, feels forced to resign. As a middle-aged woman re-entering the Japanese workforce after leaving that job, she can expect nothing better than the poorly-paid, physically and mentally strenuous work at the boxed-lunch factory. I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After the incident with Kyousuke telling her he doesn't want her dating other guys, she was about to tell him the same when she found out Kuroneko was about to confess to him. She decides that being jealous is better than Kyousuke being sad and denying her best friend a shot at happiness, especially knowing how shy Kuroneko really is. Okay mom, but doesn’t that mean I’ll have to use my diaper if you don’t want me getting out of bed.”

Kirino claims she keeps the 2D and 3D worlds separate, but gets irritated when she sees Kyousuke interacting with other girls. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (June 26, 2021). "Oreimo Gets New Kuroneko if Manga Spinoff in July". Anime News Network . Retrieved June 26, 2021.

Also, on the Collaboration project, she made fun of Mikoto, saying that while the railgun series has '22 volumes, 2 gaiden books, 7 New Testament volumes, 1 additional side story book, 3 anime seasons, 8 new gaiden volumes', Mikoto still didn't manage to get any closer to Touma, while her had been 'living together with my love interest for 15 years, was confessed at the end of volume 2, entered a love hotel together in volume 3' It's not at all limited to Kirino—he'll do the same for just about anyone who asks him for help with anything. Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (1)] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works . Retrieved September 7, 2012. I’m going to bed now Silica-chan, Liz and I have study plans at the library tomorrow. Send me a pic of how cute you look in your diaper, I’ll look at it in the morning. Goodnight and sweet dreams.” Asuna’s final message was a sleeping teddy bear emoji. The icon by her name was red now and showed that her status was “offline”. Oreimo 's 2nd Season Animated by A-1 for Next April". Anime News Network. October 7, 2012 . Retrieved October 7, 2012.

Normally, Keiko doesn’t have to worry walking naked through her house since her room is on the second floor, and beside an unoccupied room that’s used as a guest room, she has that entire floor to herself. The bathroom on that floor is just right down the hall next to the stair way, but because it was so late at night, she didn’t have to worry about either of her parents walking up to see her parading around the house in her birthdate suit. Are you sure baby?” Kirino smiled warmly. “It looks like it took lots of effort for you to look so cute. Besides, this wouldn’t be the first time you’ve walked around the house in diapers.”News of a Collaboration with "Oreimo" in the Game] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Archived from the original on September 9, 2011 . Retrieved August 19, 2012. Loners Are Freaks: She doesn't get along well with her class, although Kyousuke keeps meddling to get her to socialize a bit more. It works. It is Toshi’s sympathy for Worm and his murderous impulses towards controlling, ignorant parents, impulses that she sometimes shares, that leads her to involve her friends in his plight. Toshi’s empathy with the juvenile matricide has disastrous results when one of her friends is involved in a fatal crash as she is fleeing in a taxi with Worm and another ends up committing suicide, remorseful that she had leaked details of Worm’s location to the police, an act that led to her friend’s and to the taxi driver’s deaths (184). Kirino always wanted to marry her brother since she was a little girl. They eventually start dating and hold a fake wedding. They do break up and say they will be normal siblings though it is implied that they are still secretly together at the end of the novel. Based on the new Afterstory, it is no longer implied. It is instead clear that she still 'bragging about her love' with Kuroneko