【Oshi no Ko】 - Vol. 16 Ch. 166 - STAR

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

"The ending is the most important part of the story." - Johnny Depp in (Secret Window)

And this ending is bad. Not okay, not meh. Just not good.

A good example for this is angel bets. First half is okay. Second half is what we remember. And it's God tier! It had meaning it wanted to convey. This didn't.

The last chapter could be just images and it would probably be better. I read all those boxes and it could have been white noise instead. Zero information stuck.

Undid things that happened in previous chapter and arcs.
Kinda similar to GoT ending tbh. Which is harsh but fair criticism.

Series started strong and interesting with murder mystery and darker tones but kinda fell of half way. Mostly because of multiple story threads, bad pacing and author not knowing how to end the manga.

I would have rather seen kimaki or what his name was get arrested and sent to jail instead of being killed in that way. No unmasking of the criminal and facing society's condemnation and losing it all.

The art was great tho. 4,5/10

 

[Kampfarsch]

I, liked the ending? It was a story about a doctor sacrificing himself to ensure that a patient he deeply cared for was able to live the life of her dreams.

"It was a good ending because...a man killed himself for a woman"
Holy fucking shit we are on the deep end of the bell curve

 

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

Stopped reading when it got licensed... So do I binge it now?

Don't do it my brother in Christ, it's not worth it I promise 😂

 

[HunterCO]

That was certainly an ending

 

[Itsn]

I read about 80 chapters, lost interest as it became less about the entertainment industry and more Aquas revenge quest, and came back for the last 5 or so.


All I can say is lol.

 

[JackWasGone]

Wow, this shit was some straight bootycheeks. Never cook again Aka 😭🙏

 

[AliceShiro]

 

[fsadddfsa]

I never really got to ask, but my guy had how long to plan his revenge? and his great plan was checks notes murder suicide?

 

[Sholvq]

I can picture myself Abiko lashing out at Aka lmao.

I don't mind he ends badly. "Life's a piece of shit, and then you die". Real life is full of shit & meaningless conclusions after all.

Murder suicides do happen. Sounds mindless, but if you don't believe in an afterlife, then life is meaningless, whatever you accomplish is for naught.
Kamiki ruined Goro's life & even his second shot at life, so he though he'd rather die & get the pleasure to ruin his feeling of impunity by bringing him along with him into the nothingness - and see the terror and surprise in his eyes. Why not after all. Still better than the countless people who got their life ruined by assholes who never paid for it, IMO.
I never understood why people who kill themselves because their lives got ruined by someone else don't seek revenge & retaliation before dying ; after all, they have no reason to fear punishment anymore & this would allow them to die with at least some little happiness and pride.
Sarina got it better somehow. She was sick all her Iife and die at 12 betrayed & abandoned by her mother who then was rewarded with a happy new life. That's fucked up. At least she was reborn pretty and healthy & could fulfill her dream of knowing Ai & becoming an idol.
I wouldn't mind if Aka also killed Ruby after the Budokan triumph. Fulfilled her dream unlike Ai & she wouldn't be sad about Goro anymore.

I also don't see why a God like Crow Loli would bother reincarnating them or anyone else if, as she said, souls ultimately don't survive death. If life is meaningless, a second one or extending the first one is pointless.

Even if other people are hurt by Aqua's suicide, it doesn't matter. All of them will eventually die and it won't matter anymore.
One day, Humanity will go extinct, the Earth will be boiled and vaporized by the Sun, all stars will die out, even blackholes will evaporate and the Universe will become a gigantic void filled by low energy photons and neutrinos not doing anything useful nor observed by anyone or anything.

So yeah, "life is absurd & tragic" "even if you're born beautiful & with the right connections to go into showbiz you can have it bad" ; "suicide is selfish & brings doom to those who care about you" ; " you might regret it at the last moment" (not that it matters) are basically the lessons of the manga.

But this was clearly rushed. I read a rumor a few months back that he was fed up with ONK and wanted to end it asap ; that was no joke and you can feel it. Too bad, because I feel like this was a good manga for most chapters and therefore that it deserved some respect and care. Bastard could have forced himself to do better.
Or maybe he simply followed his own lessons : life is meaningless, so fuck this manga & fuck the readers.

PS : I didn't see Pieyon those last chapters. Too bad if he was forgotten. He liked Aqua and it was an absurd funny character. But then again, secondary characters were botched. Which pisses me off.

 

[Mdmazzing]

I, liked the ending? It was a story about a doctor sacrificing himself to ensure that a patient he deeply cared for was able to live the life of her dreams.

It wasn't the life of her dreams, he ruined her life by killing himself. She's become a mirror of ai, oh wow she gets to be a depressed idol for 5 years until she gets booted out for being too old and she has to live the rest of her life with this lose. She has no skills and is pretty dumb, so most likely will end up working some seedy place serving drinks like retired idols have been shown to do in this manga.

 

[Sholvq]

It wasn't the life of her dreams, he ruined her life by killing himself. She's become a mirror of ai, oh wow she gets to be a depressed idol for 5 years until she gets booted out for being too old and she has to live the rest of her life with this lose. She has no skills and is pretty dumb, so most likely will end up working some seedy place serving drinks like retired idols have been shown to do in this manga.

Nah, she can hook a rich asshole & siphon his wealth very easily. No need to work at a seedy place for a top 1% idol like her, shit like that only happens to lower tiers. Japanese men hate smart girls, those have to play dumb to have success in dating.

 

[Makenai]

If anything I want to thank Mengo for always delivering top notch art from start to finish.

 

[masterbladero]

Well glad it didn't reverse the tragedy, cause in a story involving Idol culture harming everyone involved no matter how successful if they don't leave at right time (and being filled with predators more than Minecraft youtube) the ending was gonna 100% involve tragedy from Ai's death onwards, but continued the big weakness of rushing through it and not justifying stuff happening enough, like Aqua's death should have been in actively stopping pysho dad's plans (either before he gets arrested or stopping something he set up) and not basically a suicide that wasn't needed practically and didn't help sis (besides being part of a story that fuels the insane obsessions of Idol fans).

Like not as bad as actively skipping required stuff (like off-screening nearly last fights like happen in Shonen too much cause Jump are scum to authors) or the madness of AOT's ending it still left almost everyone alive with their arcs not finished enough for a narratively satisfying ending, satisfying not being same as happy here. Though since Aka already had another series planned and previously said was tired of it this isn't even some other thing preventing one last (or 2 as I feel this needed) needed volume from being done...this was by choice cause he wants to do something new. He just needs to stay with his series for a few more months more than he does to not just do the outline of a finale as the actual finale.

Not a truly bad ending in general idea (Aqua dead and realising wanting to die doing it wasn't good as he realises oblivion is that bad and Ruby is set up to try and bring light to the inherent darkness of idol industry) just the steps for it weren't done properly though thankfully art didn't actively suffer like also tends to happen cause its team. Still 0/10 for not having Ruby tell audience incest is bad and being obsessed with it is bad for your mental health.

 

[UnlimitedPainWork]

9.11 rating

 

[Kampfarsch]

It's over… whatever.

https://imgur.com/a/XbR96iy

And the only reason he liked ai was because he was grieving about sarina
This man did literally everything wrong
Is this actually a story about how teenagers are braindead?

 

[sho52]

From the very beginning I expected and wanted to see a modern Hamlet in Aqua, as I commented multiple times throughout the story. Aka made it there in the end, which I appreciate, but not in the way I would have liked. The story development in the several chapters leading up to this ending feels unfortunately rather illogical and rushed, especially in the context of all the previous buildup. It feels as if the authors were subject to some sort of constraints, which to me made the experience rather unfulfilling. However, I also wouldn't call it rubbish as some seem to be convinced of, and IMO it's still recommendable overall, just regrettably with unfulfilled potential.

 

[3kurisu]

"The real oshi no ko was the friends we made along the way" ahh ending 💀

 

[popo53414]

nice, time to pick it up from backlog. Will start with anime then manga

 

[ShovelMan]

Dog shit manga hahaha 😆 😂 🤣

 

[Akikako]

This ass is so shit