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I'm so sorry I thought I already replied to you but I think I tabbed out before I hit reply so here's a new reply :,) :



Oh a fellow ORV enthusiast, I hope you stick around till the end despite the hefty path ahead ;) And you're right, that review was more targeted towards people who have already read the novel and wanted to induce nostalgia haha.



I can whole heartedly agree with this. I think Scamboli Reviews put it best, "normalise leaving shit in the oven if it's not baked right". Then again, you could hypothetically spend forever on something and it's not guaranteed to come out the way you anticipate. Leaving something for too long is also detrimental, increases expectations, doubt may fill your head, etc. Finding that balance is nigh-impossible and my heart goes out to authors, even editors. They are being pressured by their publishing company 24/7 making them grow grey. The abusive relationship that exists in the manga business is awful but that's another can of worms entirely.



This. I can understand how some people may consider the ending the whole cake, rather than just the cherry on top, I used to be one such person. It's honestly just a shift in perspective. I treated my life as points of destination rather than viewing it as a lovely journey. Maybe it's a little sappy or cringe but once you change the way you perceive the world, it could have a correlation on how you perceive entertainment, and vice-versa of course. I have never read Usagi Drop or watched GOT, but even with A Song of Ice and Fire, I'm aware George R.R. Martin never actually finished his series (from what I'm aware(?)) and fans are livid. There's no winning. You wait to concoct the perfect ending, but you're slammed for teasing your readers, or you could try assembling a half-baked conclusion to meet deadlines to take off pressure/stress and then be vilified online for being a "bad author" or "not caring anymore" from arm-chair Twitter warriors.

I too am looking forward to that one-shot! I hope it answers some of the small bits I was always curious about :)



This is a point for conversation and to be honest, if I may be so bold, I think endings are on general, getting worse. I also think media as a whole is getting worse but if you asked me to explain myself articulately, I'd have trouble trying to build a coherent argument lol. To grossly summarise, I think it may have to do with audience expectations and innovation within story telling, fuelled by changing consumer patterns in entertainment. Of course all sourced from our lovely late-stage capitalist society lmao

No problem it was very well written, I have a lot of respect for people who can contribute to a conversation constructively whilst not attacking anyone's character in the process to get their point across, let alone write so elegantly!

I would love to express my thoughts too but like I said more or less everything has been said already. I'd rather not be repeating everything I and everyone else has already written about lol 😭😭

I think while messy the ending made the best of what it was working with, however, I do wish we had a slightly longer epilogue and 20ish more chapters across the whole series to flesh out each underdeveloped and/or underutilised character and storyline.

I feel much gratitude towards Akasaka, since he wrote Love is War, and for what this series had the potential to be though, so I would still recommend it to everyone regardless of the fact that it's still a genuinely enjoyable read.

Also I agree with you here though. Stating the whole series is now undone is disingenuous, but I can sympathise with people who have not felt like the series was itself since the 2.5D arc ended. I included think the manga lost a lot of its footing there. I believe, for them, the ending was the straw that broke the camel's back in a sense, and pushed them over the edge to declare the whole series is now bad.

Final thing is that I think the audience isn't reading into the meta-meaning of the narrative and the motifs Akasaka was trying to portray (e.g. ignoring the whole hiding pain through lies and how a lie is an exceptional form of love). Instead, they solely focused on the linear story and even ignored the phenomenal art which held meaning and symbolism beyond what was explained/described in the text panels. I think if they paid slightly more attention to this, they could've seen, while messy and (arguably) disappointing, it still shone through. Also sorry for the long reply lol 🫶

Very well structured and, in my opinion, very accurate Oshi no Ko review. You said everything I would've and more. Thank you for making that because I was desperate to get my feelings out into writing but you have saved me the time haha

Haha, maybe I should :)

Oh and the story's just a lonely office worker who decides to pick up a cooking robot and decides to wife her, the reciprocation is cold, and is the gimmick of this story. I don't think it's sad at all, but it could be interpreted as such by some.

Honestly, it's just a comfy ass manga, probably not deserving of a 10 tbh? (With any sense of objectivity). The art isn't anything to goggle at, the story is a simple, linear SOL, but the premises of my 10 is based on how it made me feel. It's cute, light, It isn't particularly heavy on any deep themes. I don't think I'd recommend picking it up based on my 10 though, but if you do please let me know how you feel about it, I really do enjoy reading your reviews. And please ask if you'd like me to expand on anything :)