[Oshi No Ko]
| I think people don't like the ending cause of how rushed it felt, and when you really think and look into it, it does feel rushed. While I do think there is a hint of a overreaction from some, mainly because I bet some wanted a happier ending in regards to everyone living, ships being worked out etc. Or if they were gonna go down this route, that they could've either better led to this moment, or expanded on the afters afterward. Cause it could've gone on for so many more chapters really, if both those happened. But the end, even if I think gets overhated, just feels like 'Oh, Ruby got over it' then bing, bang, she's fast tracked to filling Ai's dream, everyone seems to have moved on like that. While it shows them being together and such, rising above the tragedy. But it more or less feels like it came, and went like that. It reminds me of the second forbidden season of Promise Neverland. How that ending was a slide fucking show. Even if context can make sense in regards to all this. It still feels very rushed, and could've gone better. |
| The process how Aqua died just seems silly imo. Like he really did not have to die to stop his father, there were other options just seems forced. Double suicide was the best thing he could come up with? The ending also being everyone moved on with their lives just seems rushed |
| That's not smt I expected from oshi no ko as the ending of this series... so rushed, generic like 3 out of every 5 of the average manga or series ended their series like that... but that's not what I want from Oshi no Ko!!! |
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| YOU👏SACRIFICE👏EVERYTHING👏FOR👏THE👏HAPPINES👏OF👏YOUR👏SISTER that doesnt mean dying, that means killing Kamiki and marrying your little sister living happily ever after in a cottage somewhere away from civilization. Shit ending. |
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| Aka is good at setting the hook, but doesn't know how to reel it in, lol! Like Love is War, he had no idea how to finish it when he got bored with it. |
| "Genki is Life, Genki is Love" |
| Of course a horrible ending would fit a horrible story. |
| Aka could have killed Aqua but not like this. A)Kamiki does it, b) Aqua miscalculates(one of teh accomplices WE NEVER KNEW ABOUT) and his plan fails, killing him as well. What was the point of showing him making an effort for stuff outside his revenge? The murder SUICIDE was dumb as fuck. His death dragged for 3 chapters. Two last chapters are 90% narration. Fuck me, the last chapter has so many ideas that would be great to see fleshed out,like Mem thinking of quitting and Kana stopping her and acting as a shield from cameras for them. Or the new member. We literally have no idea what everyone not named Ruby,Kana and Akane think. They are sad obviously but give me a break. Taiki is at his family's grave. Is he to grieve for his legal father?To judge his mother? Who knows? Maybe his car is buried next to them. Ruby becomes Ai 2.0 in every bad aspect, and somehow this is a good thing???? Oh and the ultimate message of a series where the MC couldnt let go of his grief and feelings FOR TWO FUCKING LIVES, is that people can move on. Yeah, totally an overreaction from some fans. Only reason it doesnt get an 1/10 is because up to 157 it was still looking good. Actualy fuck that. 157 is the true end. |
| The ending is fine as it is. The perfect ending of Aqua living happily with Aqua×Kana achieved was achievable. But this works too. The problem is what happenes after Aqua dies... Akane's Narration that's it. No closure of Akane, no respect to Kana. This two specially Kana needed few chapters to get proper treatment just move on doens't work. Her life was hanging due to Aqua at this point. She was shunned so bad. I really feel bad for us Kana fans. Even Akane, likes of Himekawa, Miyako, Saitou, Gotonda all needed more development post Aqua than few panels. Ruby's final descisions, moving on and achieving dreams felt very cheap. I am happy she did it. But it felt satisfying for the pinnacle of this manga that it's supposed to be. Her becoming like Ai was good idea but again it CAN'T BE DONE IN ONE CHAPTER. Honestly it needed 10 more chapters to close things out properly it was very rushed and that's why a decent ending is getting treated badly. It just made impression on such a masterpiece of an work. Just sad.. |
| Oh, another attempt to justify the ending by saying that the manga is dark, so a dark ending suits it, completely ignoring its qualities, actual character development, or the direction in which the story was moving. This is not an interpretation, it is simply the most obedient and simple attempt to accept what Aka wrote. People should be able to study things and ask the author questions based on them, rather than trying to find a way to explain them and accept them when the author himself cannot do so. @Nory993 Honestly, Akane dying trying to save Aqua from his obsessions or Ruby dying in Aqua's place to show the futility of his revenge made even more sense than the original ending and Aqua suddenly going into suicidal mode. |
RobertBobertNov 15, 2024 10:52 AM
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| I don't mind if this is the ending Aka intended. A small part of me thought my time is wasted with the way it's executed. |
Reply to Starboom
Execution is key, his death really lacked any emotional impact. If anything, it took away alot of the build up the series had.
Aka didn’t spend time making us ponder a “will he die or won’t he die” kind of plot. If anything it took away alot of the impact of building up his characters relationships with the other members of the cast.
I remember the Chekhov’s gun where build up should be used. The god of death added a mystical element to the series and gave it a sacrificial feel. Jesus was reborn but this loli god didn’t do jack shit.
What about his romantic relationships? What about memcho’s future, Kana’s shift to acting? (They were all one paged…)
Theres about 100 problems unresolved and man decided to end it all in one move. (To solve 100 problems in one move is a chinese metaphor for suicide)
The ending feels so weird because it feels like just that, suicide. Alot of emotional gaps and plot points that could be explored were left unfulfilled, it didn’t feel like sacrifice, it felt like suicide. The reason for it can’t even be more spectacular… “because it would jeopardise your sister’s career”. Like even after Aqua died, they pinned the blame as an act of self defence against Kamiki. The world already knows him as a murderer, I’m sure a deus ex aid from god would be even more sound of an ending that this…
Aka didn’t spend time making us ponder a “will he die or won’t he die” kind of plot. If anything it took away alot of the impact of building up his characters relationships with the other members of the cast.
I remember the Chekhov’s gun where build up should be used. The god of death added a mystical element to the series and gave it a sacrificial feel. Jesus was reborn but this loli god didn’t do jack shit.
What about his romantic relationships? What about memcho’s future, Kana’s shift to acting? (They were all one paged…)
Theres about 100 problems unresolved and man decided to end it all in one move. (To solve 100 problems in one move is a chinese metaphor for suicide)
The ending feels so weird because it feels like just that, suicide. Alot of emotional gaps and plot points that could be explored were left unfulfilled, it didn’t feel like sacrifice, it felt like suicide. The reason for it can’t even be more spectacular… “because it would jeopardise your sister’s career”. Like even after Aqua died, they pinned the blame as an act of self defence against Kamiki. The world already knows him as a murderer, I’m sure a deus ex aid from god would be even more sound of an ending that this…
| @Starboom Not only did he not do it, we literally had a chapter where he denies Goro's identity and embraces life and his interests a couple chapters before he madly gives up his life for a half-baked plan. If Aka really intended this to be a "what a twist" then it was amazingly shitty writing. It looked like an edgy bait death of a minor character to shock readers, rather than a well-constructed death of the main character. |
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Reply to Starboom
@RobertBobert exactly! Like where did that development go.
There is also one more thing that bugs me…
Its the movie, like as a big brain masterplan which spans the whole manga, I thought it’d have more of a payoff than just
1)Cancelling Kamiki (which by the way DIDNT happen)
2)Getting him to reflect on his ways (which also DIDNT happen)
Turns out he could have solved this since chapter 80 or something by just jumping off a cliff, “leak” his personal investigations online, and then have the police investigate Kamiki. Maybe write a “suicide” note about how he is terrified of Kamiki coming after him
There is also one more thing that bugs me…
Its the movie, like as a big brain masterplan which spans the whole manga, I thought it’d have more of a payoff than just
1)Cancelling Kamiki (which by the way DIDNT happen)
2)Getting him to reflect on his ways (which also DIDNT happen)
Turns out he could have solved this since chapter 80 or something by just jumping off a cliff, “leak” his personal investigations online, and then have the police investigate Kamiki. Maybe write a “suicide” note about how he is terrified of Kamiki coming after him
| @Starboom I think that people who complained about the ending of the penultimate arc being too banal and actively expected that the “happy ending” chapter would be just a flag of death before the real ending, now sincerely regret that the manga did not end then. Because even the anticlimactic chapter about how Kamiki turns out to be an overrated nonentity and commits suicide himself was much better than what ended up happening. |
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Reply to Commit_Crime
YOU👏SACRIFICE👏EVERYTHING👏FOR👏THE👏HAPPINES👏OF👏YOUR👏SISTER
that doesnt mean dying, that means killing Kamiki and marrying your little sister living happily ever after in a cottage somewhere away from civilization.
Shit ending.
that doesnt mean dying, that means killing Kamiki and marrying your little sister living happily ever after in a cottage somewhere away from civilization.
Shit ending.
| @Commit_Crime Mate, the author himself mentioned at the Barcelona Convention that he had rejected that ending because he didn't consider it adequate, I was at that interview when they asked him at the convention and that while Mengo wanted an ending like that, Aka didn't think that ending was adequate. The only place where the idea of incest exists is in your head and in the heads of incest fans, nowhere else, because Aka showed that Aqua's love for Ruby is that of a brother, never that of a lover, and that's a fact, he sacrificed himself for his sister, if he had ever thought of having something with her, he would have shown it in his dreams, and yet the only loving dream that Aqua revealed when he thought of sacrificing himself was being Arima Kana's boyfriend. Those are the facts, everything else is just speculation and it's not Aka's wish. Incest was never Aka's idea, only Mengo's, and luckily Aka saved us from that shit. |
Reply to DarkAka
@Commit_Crime Mate, the author himself mentioned at the Barcelona Convention that he had rejected that ending because he didn't consider it adequate, I was at that interview when they asked him at the convention and that while Mengo wanted an ending like that, Aka didn't think that ending was adequate. The only place where the idea of incest exists is in your head and in the heads of incest fans, nowhere else, because Aka showed that Aqua's love for Ruby is that of a brother, never that of a lover, and that's a fact, he sacrificed himself for his sister, if he had ever thought of having something with her, he would have shown it in his dreams, and yet the only loving dream that Aqua revealed when he thought of sacrificing himself was being Arima Kana's boyfriend. Those are the facts, everything else is just speculation and it's not Aka's wish. Incest was never Aka's idea, only Mengo's, and luckily Aka saved us from that shit.
| @DarkAka Aka was a false prophet all along, congrats for coming to that conclusion as well |
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