"Oshi no Ko" 2nd Season

With the help of producer Masaya Kaburagi, Aquamarine "Aqua" Hoshino and Kana Arima have landed the roles of Touki and Tsurugi in Lala Lai Theatrical Company's stage adaptation of the popular manga series Tokyo Blade. Co-starring with them is Aqua's girlfriend, Akane Kurokawa, who plays Touki's fiancée, Princess Saya. Due to the fanbase preferring Tsurugi as Touki's love interest, Saya has made fewer and fewer appearances in the manga, making it difficult for Akane to fully immerse herself in the role. Her struggles are compounded by differences between the play's script and the original work—differences that also frustrate Tokyo Blade's author, Abiko Samejima.

Aqua, however, is more concerned with his personal goals than he is with the play. He has only one objective in mind: to grow closer to director Toshirou Kindaichi and find out what he knows about Aqua's mother, Ai.

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Arima, Kana Main

Han, Megumi Japanese

Hoshino, Aquamarine Main

Ootsuka, Takeo Japanese

Kurokawa, Akane Main

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Hoshino, Ai Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Hoshino, Ruby Supporting

Igoma, Yurie Japanese

Mem-Cho Supporting

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Saitou, Miyako Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Gotanda, Taishi Supporting

Kase, Yasuyuki Japanese

Amamiya, Gorou Supporting

Ito, Kent Japanese

Samejima, Abiko Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Yamashita, Shinpei Producer

Kobayashi, Ryou Producer

Aomura, Yousuke Producer

Kamata, Hajime Producer

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Jul 17, 2024

Bolt4ever

Recommended

Preliminary (3/13 eps)

I think this season is honestly gonna be superior to the season 1
Oshi no ko is still true to it's nature and that's the unravelling of the challenges of the entertainment industry
Honestly it's a breath of fresh air cuz stories like this are not really common and it's interesting seeing how things work out in the "behind the scenes" and it's being presented to the viewers in a creative, entertaining format, it's truly splendid

The second season seems to be exploring more on the theatre/acting part rather than the whole idol stuff and it's still a banger, we're introduced to great chars, well written conflicts and ... what challenges they have in the medium. Its educational yet fun to watch; the rivalry between akane and kana is always interesting

The Animation is even better in the second season the character designs and their facial expressions are even more fluid
The movement, Visuals all took a step up it's truly been amazing

The sound track and music are amazing too
Truly recommend watching this if you enjoyed the first season

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 24, 2024

ouro_boros_13

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Preliminary (9/13 eps)

Definitely a more mixed bag than season one. The Characters are likable and undergo decent development and the production quality and animation are great like season one.

What makes it worse are a few aspects.
First is that the plot strays far from what it's supposed to be. That being Aqua investigating the circumstances of Ai's death and Ruby doing anything with B Komachi. The season would almost work as a standalone show with some plotholes, it hardly builds up on the previous one.
The other problem is that there isnt two continuous minutes of plot without some flashback to some character's past, which gets really annoying after ... some time. It does give the characters more depth and backstory, which are important, but interweaving it in some mediocre stageplay, that is arduous to watch on its own with its cliché shonen troupes is not the way to go in my opinion.
I dont know the base material that the director needs to work with, but given that one of the major plotpoints at the beginning of the season is how to translate a story from one medium to another while keeping it interesting, it would be deeply ironic if that is where this fails.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jul 25, 2024

Ellenya

Not Recommended

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Preliminary (3/13 eps)

Thumbs up if you are frustrated because Hoshino Ai's plot hasn't developed at all since the first episode of the first season. This anime is just a huge bait! We have to suffer through random plots related to Hoshino's children in order to find out about the circumstances of her life, which is never shown in the anime. My only goal now in watching this anime is so I can come here and tell you exactly which episodes to watch in order to skip all the uninteresting episodes and get to the actual main plot: Hoshino Ai's true story.

Season 2 so far brought a ton ... of new characters, and barely any screen time of the main characters, and also has brought NOTHING to add to the main plots that were unsolved in season 1. And I'm not even disappointed, since Season 1 showed us that this anime is all about baiting us and beating around the bush.

I'm expecting to be back to you around episode 10 or so, when maybe they remember to bring back Hoshino Ai's unsolved mysteries.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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