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Thanks, yep this is how i'm watching it i've started season 2. I'm planning on watching a few episodes from time to time. It's just a bit disappointing to me i wish the universe was used in a better way with a real narrative.

Hey, as long as the plot is good, i dont really care about genre. :D

I do understand your point, and I get why you would think that I would rate it higher since I loved the story. The score is that low because I'd loved the story. Ngl, probably if I had binged the whole ending I would've probably rated it higher, but reading it weekly since ~110 just let all the nonsense settle in my mind, and it was an absolute pain having a week between chapters to think about what was happening.

Usually I prefer to read weekly since it gives time to fully process the chapter, which imo makes it a better reading experience, but in this case this extra time to think about it killed the series for me.

I've been reading books my whole life, but this has only happened twice. Idk if you've played the game Omori, but it's the only other case where I absolutely loved the media, but the ending just ruined it for me (same ending=justification as Oshi, prob even more). It's been about 2 years since I played it, and when I remember it either: 1. I remember the ending and I get (at this point) sad that it ended that way; 2. Remember the good parts of the game but then I remember the ending and I think: "That was all pointless wasn't it".

I rate stories on how I feel at the moment I finish it, and later if I change my mind about it when I'm remembering it. How I remember stories is more important for me than how I feel just ending them. For example, when Frieren (anime) ended I gave it a 9 (or 8, can't remember), but after time passed I realised that it had actually changed the way I viewed lif (only time an anime has done that for me), and it's become a precious story that at the time of finishing it I didn't apreciate fully.

However, when the opposite happens, I have to rate it very low. That's exactly what happens when I think about Oshi no Ko, but if time proves me wrong and in some time the ending doesn't bother me that much, I'll 100% revise my current score.

I could gaslight myself into retconning the ending, but that's just not the way I do things. I'm by no means a negative person and neither do I hold on to regrets, but it's the way I view stories. I have faith that the anime will fix it, so I can at least give the score the story deserves to the anime.

As I stated in my review, the way the story is set up, the ending makes the series absolutely pointless. Tbf If I could rate the first 10 chapters in isolation I would give them a 10 since they're somewhat autoconclusive.

--Spoiler for Oshi no Ko and JJK ahead--

I'll try to explain my pov so you can understand it too. I see you've read JJK. JJK ending is horrendous, rushed, leaves a lot of character developement out of the way for no reason at all (Heian era flashback, etc). Now, does JJK ending fuck the story as a whole? No, because the ending is just the conclusion of the story, albeit a shit conclusion. Now imagine if JJK ends with Yuji saying "You know what? Sukuna you're right human connections mean shit, I'll take up your role and massacre every last human", that wouldn't make much sense at all right? It would make absolutely pointless all previous sacrifices, character developements and such, right?

That's exactly Oshi no Ko's ending. But not Aqua's sacrifice, Aqua's sacrifice is bad, very bad, but in the context of the last 40 chapters is "reasonable". Didn't want to put spoilers on the review, so I didn't go into detail about this. Since chapter 143 (around this, can't remember properly), when they show the father the actual Ai CD of the 15 year lie, for me that's when the story goes from an 8-9 to a 3-4, and from then on the absolute mess of an ending makes it a 1.

The 15 year lie had been introduced in chapter 1 in the manga, so If you've only skipped from anime to manga you don't know this. Even still, without it being introduced until the recording, the aftermath is just nonsensical.

Idk what type of language is restricted here so I'll mind my words, but just x5 what I'm about to say. The basic gist of Ai's CD is the following: "I actually loved your father, but I was afraid of him breaking, so I thought it would be better to leaving him alone; he's a good person who's suffered a lot, so please save him if he's lost". The problem here is that absolutely everything that Ai decided to do, is just... plain wrong?

He broke regardless, he's clearly not a good person (at current point), and he's way beyond the point of saving. So what was the point of the CD. To spit in the face of the reader and tell us that Ai wasn't a troubled 16 yr that was extremely lost in life and was doing her best to push foward, but didn't know how to fix herself, but instead a [very low iq individual] who is a very very bad judge of character? And even AFTER watching the CD Kamiki was like "well, she loved me? That's nice, I will still try to kill our daughter regardless". It's just such an overcook by Aka to try to make a plot twist for the sake of doing a plot twist that "Oh the father is not bad, the mastermind is Ai's former bandmate (?)... but wait!!! The father is really the actual mastermind!!". Straight up childish writing. I cannot emphasise enough how bad of a developement it is.

For me is very clear that the direction of the story was: Ai leaves Kamiki, Kamiki becomes obssesed with Ai and starts killing to preserve Ai's legacy (which is also fucking stupid because he didn't only kill Idols, he's just a killer so wtf was Ai thinking?), Kamiki watches the CD, realises that he's been a [very low iq individual], repents and goes to prision or whatever to pay for his crimes. The double down is just nonsensical.

After this, I'll brief over it. Aqua's plan is plain stupid nonsense, the reaction time for the plan is straight up [low iq]. They realise like 3 days after showing Kamiki the CD that he was the actual villan, but they still didn't do anything about it (xd?). Akane didn't stop Aqua or talking with him about his plans at all. Kana (my girl) didn't get out of the tsundere arc (which was fine is Aqua wasn't a [low iq individual]).

And the gravest most absolute stip in the face by Aka (even more than the 15 year lie arguably) is Ruby's character. We were lacking Ruby character developement, which is fine since (for me) it was clear that when Aqua found their father (why didn't Ai leave it on recording anyway?), we would shift from Aqua to Ruby, since Aqua's character would pretty much be finished. Then, we would get a focus on Ruby's struggle to surpass her mother as an Idol, and become what she couldn't be, accepting of her feelings, being able to sort it all out, not lying when she says "I love you". Instead, we OFFSCREEN Ruby surpassing her mother as an Idol with NO development whatsoever. We go from, yeah they're decently popular, an up-and-coming band, to "They're undisputably the top1 idol band, with Ruby as it's star". Nothing from an Idol stand point, only TV shows. Ridiculous. Why introduce Ruby as a character even?

Furthermore, the conclusion to Ruby's character that she became exactly like her mother is the cherry on top. So we didn't learn anything from Ai's death and Kamiki's struggle? The morale of the story is "Nah fuck sorting your feelings and accepting that you're sad, just lie your way until your grave!!". lmao even.

If you want more detailed yapping from my part, esp. about the 15 year lie, you can go to the comments of Oshi in mangasee123 and look up when those chapters released, I go by the same name there. Needless to say, I got pretty triggered, I loved this story, very sad to see.

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