The oshi no ko ending was and still is horrifically awful
This isn’t a hot take, but I’d still like to talk about my issues with it.
I don’t care about the fact aqua died, yes I’d have loved him to finally give up on revenge and learn to live his life with the people he cared about but his death isn’t an issue, major characters can die phenomenally, take karube and chota from alice in borderland or shogo from battle royale. Rather I’m annoyed by how absurdly avoidable it was. He already confronted his father about ai’s death, he showed him remorse due to how distraught hikaru seemed, yet rather than getting the police involved aqua simply let him run away. Honestly the same thing could be said about niino, instead of risking akane’s life, he could’ve called the authorities and explained how someone was threatening his sister. What Aqua choose to do was incredibly moronic and arrogant, rather then letting people who could do something he risked himself and the people around him.
The story itself dropped in quality after chapter 123, yes there were some good chapters littered throughout, but 80% of them focused on incest and bland plot twists. Rather than having Nino be a scorned version of kana, that kana wouldn’t follow, she was involved with ai’s death?? what was with that phone call between niino and hikaru? It was clear that aka got bored with the series, prompting him to take more breaks and create plot holes in his own story, sadly this is something he does often, he starts a story and then neglects it.
This isn’t a hot take, but I’d still like to talk about my issues with it.
I don’t care about the fact aqua died, yes I’d have loved him to finally give up on revenge and learn to live his life with the people he cared about but his death isn’t an issue, major characters can die phenomenally, take karube and chota from alice in borderland or shogo from battle royale. Rather I’m annoyed by how absurdly avoidable it was. He already confronted his father about ai’s death, he showed him remorse due to how distraught hikaru seemed, yet rather than getting the police involved aqua simply let him run away. Honestly the same thing could be said about niino, instead of risking akane’s life, he could’ve called the authorities and explained how someone was threatening his sister. What Aqua choose to do was incredibly moronic and arrogant, rather then letting people who could do something he risked himself and the people around him.
The story itself dropped in quality after chapter 123, yes there were some good chapters littered throughout, but 80% of them focused on incest and bland plot twists. Rather than having Nino be a scorned version of kana, that kana wouldn’t follow, she was involved with ai’s death?? what was with that phone call between niino and hikaru? It was clear that aka got bored with the series, prompting him to take more breaks and create plot holes in his own story, sadly this is something he does often, he starts a story and then neglects it.