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Perhaps the most cutting material presented in the anime so far comes from the series’ depiction of a reality television set, a dating series called LoveNow.

Entertainment, in all realms, can burn you out. In another arc about adapting manga to live theater, a veteran author tells, with haunted expression, how terrible and exhausting it is working on a weekly series. The show also looks at what might make a show terrible, like the technical difficulties facing an adaptation of a popular shojo manga. That means getting into the granular details of the business, breaking down where production costs come from and where they go, different camera setups, and the technicalities of performance. It considers audience responses, and how the creation of a public image reverberates back into the lives of the characters. Instead, it remains focused on the granular details of the business and artistic decisions driving the entertainment industry (and how different industries and media overlap), and the work that goes into cultivating fame. But there’s also the other hand: the emotional punishment of it.įor all its sensational bits, Oshi no Ko isn’t always a story you only watch or read for the twists or huge revelations - for a time, those are actually rather few and far between. Through its unpacking of those details, we can see both the joy of the craft and the amount of hard work and passion that goes into invisible elements. Aqua and Ruby are reborn with the social connections that they never had before, and with the (spooky) intelligence to maneuver this world from an early age, mostly so we can quickly get into the real meat of the show: production logistics. Oshi no Ko leverages the reincarnation premise for both the wild dramatic potential of its revenge plot line, but also as a way to have a pair of fans see behind the curtain, with different perspectives and impossible hindsight. Aqua swears revenge, theorizing the real culprit is in the entertainment industry. But then Ai dies too, murdered by a stalker. The result is surreally funny and even sweet as the two sink more into their new life, becoming fully convinced by their own performances of the roles they now play as the children of their idol. Welcome to Oshi no Ko, an adaptation of a manga series by Aka Akasaka (known for the hysterically funny Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) and artist Mengo Yokoyari.įor the twins, now named Ruby and Aquamarine (shortened to Aqua), the reincarnation angle is like if the fan parlance about various celebs being “mother” quite literally came true. Another of Ai’s fans also dies roughly around the same time and is reborn as the other child. “What would it like to be the child of someone famous?” an obstetrician wonders not too long before being pushed off a cliff and reincarnated as the child of his very own patient: his favorite idol, Ai Hoshino, pregnant with twins.

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