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thatdeadmikey · 2 days

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mangachi · 2 months

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keykomori · 5 months

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My mind might forget you but my heart never will.

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zoraedits · 8 months

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Veil

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mangaparadise · 7 months

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akane-kurokawa · 4 months

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“Does Oshi no Ko NEED the reincarnation aspect to work” is a sentiment I’ve seen a lot lately, especially on the subreddit (which I still check regularly despite what it’s devolved into) Personally, I think that’s the wrong question, you should be asking “WHY is the reincarnation aspect present.”

First, let’s talk about parasocial relationships. The idol industry is built upon them, more-so than any other industry. Idols are supposed to be the ideal -yet unattainable- partner to fantasize about, to the point where they’re forbidden from having those kinds of connections in real life without facing scrutiny.

Ai Hoshino is the “Ultimate” idol. She doesn’t have ANYONE she has those genuine connections with, even her fellow group members hold her at the same untouchable distance that her fans do. She became an idol in hopes of loving others, and recreated the motions so perfectly that her lie became all anyone wanted from her. To the point where her true humanity was rejected, like by Nino in 45510.

Enter our protagonists (Layer One)

Sarina Tendouji is a hospital bound fan of all of B Komachi, but especially Ai. She idolizes her for being a girl her own age with a pretty face and incredible singing and dancing skills. This especially resonates with Sarina who’s studied B Komachi’s choreography non stop, but was tragically not able to dance herself due to her condition.

Goro Amamiya is an OBGYN in a small town that became a diehard fan of Ai after Sarina’s passing, superimposing the two in his head as he described it. When he met Ai in real life and became her doctor during her pregnancy, he found her off camera personality charming and internalized her philosophy about lies.

Then of course, after his death they were reincarnated as her twin children. During that time they saw her in a much more human way, worrying about money and providing for her family, harboring insecurities, being the best mom that she could be despite her circumstances.

They saw the way she gets treated by the industry and public she came up in as well, her parts cut out of her first drama due to corporate politics, her being speculated on and called a whore for just talking to an old classmate, and especially how her death was received. By this point, their relationship with her is much closer than the parasocial place it began.

But has it?

Enter our protagonists (Layer Two)

Sarina Tendouji was a girl rejected by her mother as her condition got worse. She loved her mother deeply and wanted to be just like her when she got older.

In the last few years of life she never even saw her mom, that void filled with the presence of a doctor loitering in her room to slack off work, and the idol she watched. What she wanted more than anything though was for her mother to come see her again.

Goro Amamiya was a boy born from a woman who hid her pregnancy and died in childbirth. That death painted the entirety of his life going forward.

Even then he’s haunted by his feelings of helplessness when he loses the child patient he had befriended early into his residency. He’s become a passive person, following the whims of others because of his perceived helplessness.

Both of them take these complicated feelings into their next life, and it paints their relationships with Ai after her death.

Ruby wants to follow in her moms footsteps once again and be just like Ai, to the point of naming her idol group B Komachi. Ultimately, I think she mostly takes positively from her time as Ai’s daughter, and looks more to Ai’s life rather than her death.

Aqua on the other hand, witnessed his mother bleed out in front of him in almost a metaphorical recreation of his first mother’s death, and this has shaped him irreversibly. Except this time there’s an object for his hatred other than himself. This time, his mother was murdered. He could do more than follow in the motions of preventing it from happening to others. This time he could get revenge.

Now “Why is the reincarnation aspect present.”

Ai Hoshino was never understood by anyone, her parents, her idol group, even her trusted adults. But two people, born with traumas and biases that paint their perspectives, were both brought into this world with their goal to try.

Aqua more investigatipvely, tracking down loose ends from her past, holding onto people with the ability to profile her from videos and images. Whereas Ruby is on a more personal journey of understanding her, recreating the steps of her journey more directly and coming to her own conclusions about it.

This leads us to the 15 Year Lie, the potential climax of the series as a whole, and the event referenced from the prologue chapters. The movie that began as a documentary meant to tell the true unfiltered life of Ai Hoshino as she always wanted. It had even made some headway prior to her death, but it’s hard to say how much.

This movie finds itself as the roadmap of both twins journey in understanding. Aqua now has the resources and connections to speak to anyone from Ai’s past, her mother, her fellow idol members, and likely more. But by this point, Aqua also knows the name of the man his tunnel vision hatred is focused on. And hatred is seeping into this story down to the script itself

Ruby is also now in the position of very literally playing Ai, the arguably highest point on her journey to walk in her mother’s shoes. Compared to Aqua, I think she’s getting much closer to her goal.

Of course, it’s still too soon to say how that will go for her, I expect her journey of understanding will continue for the entirety of of the movie filming process. There’s still the entirety of Ai’s relationship with Hikaru and her children as well as her death to be covered and I’m sure Ruby will have plenty of challenges and breakthroughs with those too.

In conclusion, not only is the reincarnation aspect needed, I think it’s crucial to what the story is trying to say thematically. If they were just children who lost their mom young and tried to understand her it would be compelling, but thematically it wouldn’t carry nearly the same weight as fans pulled across the parasocial line with their own projected baggage.

Remember, being ‘reborn as an idols child’ is inherently a parasocial fantasy.

#manga post #mine #ai hoshino #aqua hoshino #ruby hoshino

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jjoyboii · 28 days

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Dragon Ball / ドラゴンボール

By: Akira Toriyama

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cherswtx · 10 months

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overthinking.

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thatdeadmikey · 1 year

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mangachi · 5 months

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chromecaps2 · 16 days

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Naruto - Chapter 370

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pasteldelunaa · 12 days

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Team 7.

Manga: Naruto Shinden.

Autor: Masashi Kishimoto.

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yuki-ume · 8 months

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Ai Hime: Ai to Himegoto (Love & Secret)

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xx-mikazuki-xx · 2 months

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Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest

Chapter 154

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akane-kurokawa · 1 month

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Chapter 143 thoughts!

Alright so I skipped my thoughts on the last chapter, but I wanted to say that I don’t have especially negative feelings about it. It’s nice to see Ruby’s character taken seriously again after so long, and the framing of the chapter with the specific language and horror-esque directing was very pointed. It’s just frustrating that this matter seems to keep getting pushed off and unresolved after so many chapters whereas other major plot points (such as Ruby learning the identity of her father) are being off screened entirely.

Enough about two weeks ago, my thoughts on THIS chapter

We open where we left off, Aqua is clearly brushing Ruby off and she is being insistent. She tells him (as Gorou) that he listens to her selfishness

Aqua, having some of Gorou in his nature, calls for a compromise. Unfortunately that just fuels her on more.

It’s interesting how he “becomes” Gorou in this way for her. It’s very performative, an act he’s doing to appease her. It reminds me of how different Taiki seems when he’s acting vs when he’s not.

Small note, but does he just carry those glasses on him? Like Ruby’s popsicle that disappeared last chapter.

This is what I wanted all this time! There is a significant difference in how these two view their past lives that is finally getting addressed here. Ruby feels like Sarina, she sees her second life as an extension of the first, a New Game+ where she gets to do everything she always wanted.

But Aqua isn’t Gorou, he hasn’t been for a long time. He’s an 18 year old boy who has been shaped by the (mostly traumatic) experiences he’s had in this life already. Gorou appears to him as a manifestation of guilt, and unfinished business when he tried to move on with his life, but that’s no longer his identity.

Also ow this panel

I also think the feeling guilty about being alive comment hits so much with Ruby because that’s how she felt in chapter 121 after seeing Marina Tendouji.

To her, Aqua revealing his previous identity saved her, gave her what she needed to carry on. Which is why she does the same for him here.

Ruby right now is very “I can fix him” which makes sense for her character and experiences. It’s naive and selfish, but very in character for her. Considering she’s also avoiding her own hardships in life with love it makes perfect sense for that to be her advice to him, and forcing a kiss on him -while not a cool thing to do to someone- also lined up with that.

My biggest complaint comes afterwards, or rather the lack of afterwards. Aqua’s expression in the kiss panel is of shock, but it’s hard to gauge exactly what he’s feeling after that without the following scene. It leaves it up to interpretation in an arc rife with “all subtext no text” writing already, prolonging this arc even further.

That said, it’s an interesting transition. Ruby, the initiator of the first kiss parallels the placing of Aqua/Hikaru in the second. Outside of the movie Aqua is the one in Ai’s position.

With that in mind, Ai’s “I can’t love you” set up at the beginning of this arc holds much more weight.

#chapter thoughts #onk 143 #manga post

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