So to keep this short and straight to the point I’ll just go ahead and say this is a negative review as I don’t think this is worth watching until the end. I really don’t like this show, in fact I dislike it quite a bit. This review will therefore contain some spoilers, but since you will find better elsewhere I don’t think it matters that much.
The premise of the show is that a gynecologist is reincarnated as his client’s baby who just so happens to be a famous idol. A famous idol who he is also a big fan of, and in some
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ways, too big of a fan of Ai Hoshino. This gynecologist that was a pedophile and obsessed with teen idols yet somehow earns a job in that kind of field. Disturbing is one word that comes to mind. Thanks to this very weird premise pretty much all romantic subplots and wholesome family scenes involving the MCs are completely ruined… great.
What we have here is an anime revenge story that masks itself as something meaningful when it wastes all its important scenes on melodrama. We were promised a unique look into the entertainment industry; into the dark secrets that don't get shown a lot, behind all the glam and glitter there are actually people working there. Instead we are met with these exact tropes we’ve come to know from even the most basic of anime. Honestly, was Ai ever a character anything beyond her idol persona, or should I say Aidol persona? We were never shown the contrary as she is never allowed to be anything but that preppy go getter idol on stage. She even remembers the name of her stalker and goes as far as to say “Even now I want to love you” to him. To her he was only a random fan, but is this show really trying to say she remembers all of her fans to such a degree? To not dispel the illusion that idols love their fans they just had to include that in her speech as she had been stabbed by him.
The main character Aqua, the son of Ai, is an angsty teenager and reincarnated form of said pedophile gynecologist. With no other real defining characteristics other than that he is angsty… and a teengager. Well to be fair, he does have a goal and that is finding whoever is responsible for Ai’s death and revenge, but beyond Ai there is not much to him. We see very little of his past life in Aqua, which maybe should come as a relief, but honestly it makes one just wonder why it is even there to begin with. This story could have been told without the reincarnation part and almost nothing would change. Now we just have this weird pedophile angle to it that shouldn’t have been there to begin with.
Aqua has the charisma of dried concrete, yet the female characters fall for him, he is just that “cool”! But the fact that he is reincarnated with past memories of a 30- something year old idol obsessed pedophile makes it all the more repulsive. One of the love interests basically drops everything she is doing because Aqua told her to join his sister's idol group. Just kneeling and that was enough for her to go completely against her own wishes. She is just that infatuated with him despite not having seen him since she was a kid. This is something that gets played off as a joke, but considering this is a show about revealing the darker truths of the entertainment industry, why not make it a point in the story? Some idols are in fact forced to discard their will and individuality to fit a mold to be an idol. It just feels very tone deaf, to make it into an off hand joke. While not the most decisive thing, I dare say this sort of insincerity permeates this whole show. Nothing about it is particularly deep and its attempts at social commentary just end up feeling meaningless as a result. They are either treated as gags, or are issues for our “edgy” anti hero protagonist to solve without breaking much of a sweat. All of this with the suave and smugness of a reincarnated gynecologist. Which further undermines Oshi no Ko and its attempt at showing the darker side of the industry as every problem seems to be so easily solvable for him. It makes me think the show would have been way better had just Aqua not existed in this show at all. Either that or radically change him and his function in this story.
No agents, no protection, they still got the same last names yet no one questions why that is. How come the father hasn’t ordered for the kids to be murdered? Considering they are pretty much the only ones who have a real lead on him it seems like a really bad call. Not only that, but why do they even keep Ai’s situation about having kids a secret to begin with. This was only to protect her brand, but now that she is dead, what is the point? How come no one knows that Aqua and Ruby are related to Ai whatsoever? They share the same surname and are both extremely particular about Ai, yet no one can put two and two together. No one ever questions the weird coincidence in that? Okay then!
So finally by finishing this I can tell that the mystery aspect about who the actual killer is, is at the backdrop. We didn’t get much meaningful development on that and the thought of having to sit through more of this just pains me. That is why I am going to stay away from any future seasons and advise everyone else to keep away from this as it has nothing to offer. It is a waste of time and I’d be happier to just forget about it.
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Jun 28, 2023
[Oshi no Ko]
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So to keep this short and straight to the point I’ll just go ahead and say this is a negative review as I don’t think this is worth watching until the end. I really don’t like this show, in fact I dislike it quite a bit. This review will therefore contain some spoilers, but since you will find better elsewhere I don’t think it matters that much.
The premise of the show is that a gynecologist is reincarnated as his client’s baby who just so happens to be a famous idol. A famous idol who he is also a big fan of, and in some ... |
