Oh good, I was worried there wasn't enough perviness this season.
"A Sister's All You Need" is another slice-of-life anime about a light novel author, in this case called Itsuki. While this one doesn't have a little sister who is conveniently not a blood relative (looking at you Eromanga Sensei), he does have a little sister obsession, which tends to get written into his worryingly erotic works. It is to his great disappointment that the only step-sibling he has is a little brother. Who definitely doesn't look a bit androgynous.
Itsuki's work, an epic story of how someone's not-at-all-creepy love of their little sister saves them from monsters, villains and danger, gets inserted into the main narrative in the usual cutaway style, with scenes popping out to either mirror the current events in real life or show the difficulty of the writing process. (Itsuki, like all light novel authors, needs an editor who is prepared to hunt them down, lock them in a box and only let them out when a deadline is achieved. The usual laws of the land regarding kidnapping or reckless endangerment apparently don't apply here.) This lawlessness is handy, given that the sister character is regularly nude in every book and putting underwear on them in the manga version is apparently cause for murder.
There is the usual cast of characters in this, being other authors, artists, a couple of hanger-ons and the ever-lustful girl who is just a bit too young, which allows the anime to make the point that actually he's not into young girls in real life. Yay for morality. There are various hijinks involved, both clean and...not so clean, but actually it all stays more or less on the right side of the perviness line. While there are various amorous interludes, they're much more hilarious than sexy, and the anime in general is one of the funniest this season.
One particularly nice aspect of this is the geekery woven through it. All of the characters are some level of nerd, and this is brought out either through straight references, or their actions.
The other aspect of their geekery is quite a neat little feature in that they tend to occasionally play a board or tabletop game. The shelf of games has featured fairly prominently in the background of various episodes (and you'll probably find yourself attempting to identify them by box art), and the games have sometimes featured heavily in an episode, with a short snippet being acted out/done in an imaginary segment. It's added a couple to my "have a play" list, which of course is always growing.
Overall, it's a very funny series with a slightly dodgy premise. Shouldn't be that hard to look past that premise, and if you do, you may well enjoy it as much as I have.
Highly recommended.
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