"Oshi no Ko" Chapter 167 Discussion

The final volume is now out. This is for the epilogue chapter that came out with the final volume. And this was absolutely nothing. This wasn't even properly drawn lmfao. It was just sketches. Absolute garbage. Just want to reiterate that Aka is a fraud.

@ARK-13 The fact that Aka even forgot how many pages this chapter was in will instantly tell you how much he cared about it. He promised it as a gift to the fans, but essentially just tried to lazily rewrite Chapter 166 in a more optimistic tone, even retconning some things. For example, now Aqua's suicide is directly shown as a mistake and thus just one page here negates the entire ending and an entire month or two of Aqua's attempts to justify it.

@xBaldur_ What do you mean? I've only seen that the manga has lost a lot of high ratings on various resources, getting closer to 6-7 among others over time. Although it is still high due to estimates of its peak times.

@WaterMage It's not entirely hidden behind the scenes, LN is dedicated to this. But I wouldn't say it makes things much better when you see Aka not knowing what to do with them. For example, in LN Kana even seems to move on from the first (breaking her fans' hearts), but this chapter shows her as married to her job. In this chapter, Akane claims to be trying to learn to live on her own, but LN literally talks about how she hopes to resurrect Aqua and becomes an occultist. It's just a mess.

@Rexnihilo What if I told you that just ending Taiki's arc in this way completely ruins the entire ending of the manga and Aqua's arc as a character? With just a couple of sentences, Aka seems to be telling us that everything he did before was simply a mistake and we wasted time on him justifying it with Ruby's protection, his life's purpose, etc.

@RobertBobert I meant that I doubt the average rating on MAL will go much lower than it is now. It's dropped around 0.30 in the past 6 months, which is fairly significant.

@xBaldur_ Really? You just said that they fell and that’s all. But one way or another, I think this is a typical case of false impression. This manga was too good before it fell, so even with the disastrous ending, this one still has a pretty high cushion. It's like if author of Freeren went crazy and destroyed everything with a similar crap ending, the ratings still wouldn't drop too low.

@RobertBobert mb lol. Yeah I agree, the first 3/4 of the manga are so solid, it's just a shame how it ended. It becomes tough to recommend some things when the ending is known to be bad, I mean look at Game of Thrones, but I feel that OnK is somewhat of an exception. Hopefully, they can touch up the ending in the anime.

@ARK-13 The fact that Aka even forgot how many pages this chapter was in will instantly tell you how much he cared about it. He promised it as a gift to the fans, but essentially just tried to lazily rewrite Chapter 166 in a more optimistic tone, even retconning some things. For example, now Aqua's suicide is directly shown as a mistake and thus just one page here negates the entire ending and an entire month or two of Aqua's attempts to justify it.

@xBaldur_ What do you mean? I've only seen that the manga has lost a lot of high ratings on various resources, getting closer to 6-7 among others over time. Although it is still high due to estimates of its peak times.

@WaterMage It's not entirely hidden behind the scenes, LN is dedicated to this. But I wouldn't say it makes things much better when you see Aka not knowing what to do with them. For example, in LN Kana even seems to move on from the first (breaking her fans' hearts), but this chapter shows her as married to her job. In this chapter, Akane claims to be trying to learn to live on her own, but LN literally talks about how she hopes to resurrect Aqua and becomes an occultist. It's just a mess.

@Rexnihilo What if I told you that just ending Taiki's arc in this way completely ruins the entire ending of the manga and Aqua's arc as a character? With just a couple of sentences, Aka seems to be telling us that everything he did before was simply a mistake and we wasted time on him justifying it with Ruby's protection, his life's purpose, etc.

@RobertBobert that does sounds like Akane tbf.

Is that LN any good or worth checking out? Or is that also half baked

@WaterMage I haven't read, most of the information is based on leaks. But one guy is going to gradually translate it into English on a subreddit if you want.

@RobertBobert yes pls give the subreddit

Imagine marketing this "chapter" as having some kind of relevation in the final magazine chapter and then releasing this low quality trash (both content wise and quality of the drawings). People who read the final chapter in the magazine and bought the final volume for this chapter should feel scammed...

agreed it was boring asf only thing was interesting is seeing how Kana and akane success