Many people think that Aka simply threw her out of the plot since her actions up to this point clearly motivated and developed Aqua away from suicide and other things. Therefore, he simply threw her away so as not to interfere, as he had already done with Akane, without allowing her to predict Aqua's disastrous actions. Typically, LN, on the contrary, is partially moving in this direction.
Exactly. This is probably the most effective killing of my and other people’s hype about the new season in my memory. Not even because people will already know how it ended, but simply because it ended so badly in both senses that the anime simply depreciates in your eyes. I even forgot that I didn't like anything about Kaguya's ending after that.
This is one of the main topics in manga fandom right now. Aka apparently wanted to make a bait and switch shocking ending that would get people talking about the manga, but it looks like things clearly didn't turn out the way he thought. For example, he has hardly been on Twitter for several months now. But even such an immature move still doesn't explain many things like rushed execution and massive plot holes and negative implications.
Which is even funnier (in a bad way), creating this narration you've mentioned about romanticizing suicide and how "things will be alright" after the deed is done in a main story, just to trying to back up from this exact thoughts of his in a
Should I mention that this is the second retcon of the suicide theme in this manga? Think back to Akane's arc and how powerfully it critiqued suicide, let alone suicide due to career-destroying cyberbullying. Now Aqua literally committed suicide formally due to attempts to save Ruby's career (so that she would not be bullied online as the sister of a murderer, yeah) and this is portrayed as a justifiable thing. That is, Aka actually changes his approach to the same topic twice in the manga when he somehow needs to change the direction of things or when the audience is potentially angry with him.
should change the title to "the References" instead..
How do I care so little about this?
There was a LN? Jeez the way you described it Kana who was the most naive and cheerful person becomes a dead career woman when the man she loves dies and no one in her mind can take his place.
I was rooting for that ending too. Like it would take the doing everything for his former patient to it's logical conclusion. What annoyed me was introducing this ship and then tossing to the wind immediately. Only people latched onto to it because they were okay with the idea. Why bother if you're not going to do anything with it. Everything about this story is just missed potential and story beats.
I feel like in the long run Oshi no Ko will just become another story that will be only remembered because of the scandalous ending and fan controversy over it. Like now, Usagi Drop is only remembered for how the adaptations solved the problem of the time skip arc, or how the anime ruined the Neverland adaptation. It's just sad that the authors continue to step on the same rake over and over again.
People were obsessed with the idea that Aqua's death made this ship the only one possible (to such an extent that any illustrations with two, even just next to each other, were marked with the name of the ship), because you apparently had to connect all the characters to each other in one way or another. Plus the very fact of the announcement of the LN about the two of them (reminiscent of the story with the LN about the girls of the FF7 remake). In the end, LN simply developed and closed the subplot of their rivalry, further showing how Kana became a successful actress without a personal life, while Akane turns into a new protagonist and essentially spends all her time exploring and looking for opportunities to bring Aqua back.
There is a fan theory that this is what they originally wanted, but after the publisher turned it down, they were forced to quickly scrap the whole thing and end it due to loss of interest and not meeting their expectations. At least Mengo herself seriously or semi-seriously stated her desire for such an ending, even going so far as to intend to write douji about it.
we need josuke and Okuyasu to save Aqua
Oh... I see. Ye people really can't understand these days that characters don't have to be in a gay pairing and can just be close friends. It's quite pathetic.
I probably missed it but can you point me to where it is mentioned
