"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

Itou, Kent Japanese

Tendouji, Sarina Supporting

Takayanagi, Tomoyo Japanese

Yamashita, Shinpei Producer

Kobayashi, Ryou Producer

Kamata, Hajime Producer

Aomura, Yousuke Producer

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Oct 8, 2024

Aku30

Recommended

Oshi No Ko is by far the best modern anime about the entertainment industry. You'll see a lot of happy faces and good/bad acting mixed with the dark sides the viewers don't usually see on screen.
While you get to experience a strong and solid build-up in season 1 things will slow down quite a bit for season 2 (or do they...?)

Judging season 2 by itself I have to give my personal experience which was mostly thinking about how much they talk things through to a point where I couldn't follow as much as wanted. You're slowly drifting away from the twins' story towards a fantasy ... land of Hollywood where your dreams come true only to wake up from that tiny bit of information needed to progress or have the next mental breakdown. When you jump up and down on your seat while tearing up from excitement about what just happened - that's when you know you are more than invested into the story and characters.

There are a few examples of perfect music like Bleach where goosebumps are basically included in the fight scenes only with sound. Then there's Re:Zero to sometimes not even have an ending playing for a specific episode because someone knew it would instantly break your immersion. Oshi No Ko has a simple yet complex answer to that: Start an episode with opening, end the episode with ending. Complex for this means each episode you will be greeted with an overall opening that makes sense throughout the season but also the ending that somehow fits to every episode. Sound and ambience are not really noticeable but that's exactly what the viewer needs. Small helpers for powerful scenes to have an even stronger impact.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 8, 2024

Sijna

Mixed Feelings

I really liked the first season minus the real life drama around it but this season.... I liked it but I am conflicted about it as well.

As the pessimistic person I am I will mainly talk about the conflicting parts for me and keep it as vague as possible to not spoil too much:

1. The 'naruto' type of filler epsiodes... It first started with the 'Here is a campfire! Let's make marshmellows! but lemme kill the fire and let's remake the campfire so you know how this came to be' type of first 4 episodes. (if you wondering where tf this comes from: my. brain.) ... In other words show you the ending, a conclussion something that you didn't see but can easily imagine came to be, but before the climax reaction to get GO ALL THE F- WAY BACK TO THIS SCENE AGAIN SO YOU KNOW FOR SURE WHAT YOU THOUGHT HAPPEN DID INDEED HAPPEN. In my oppinion very unnecessary or just show the 'correct' order so I won't be bored with the story before the climax.

2. The even worse 'naruto' type of filler episodes (yes even worse). Sorry Melt but you probably aint coming back and ya kinda scum as well so why should I feel empathy for you for only one episode. Then a character that shares a past with someone (Kana) which we saw the past from in season one, so we kinda know what to expect from the character her interacting with Kana. And then F'ing Kana, who we already have seen the past from in season one, then the previous episode from another pointerview (even though we already had that through Aqua) but no we need it one more time a whole episode (kinda started liking Kana less for it...).

3. The take about sex when they are underaged characters.... Especially since Aqua is mentally way older... I meannnnnn it was not needed, not now. Made me very uncomfortable even though I was rooting for their relationship, but nah man ew.
Also I read some other mixed feeling reviews and no one seems to bring this point up which made me feel like I had to write this review.... Also their past lives she said daisuke... not suki but daisuki romanticly... Not only was she underaged but in this live they are family as well and the doctor never said no, no he even said come back when you're 16... excuse me but I rather you not say anything at all or at least a legal age if you have to say something..

4. The fucking bird child. I mean yes the main characters have been reborn which is not real to life but I mean who knows maybe we really do but our memories got wiped. What I'm tryna say is that it is the only 'fantasy' thing that happens in the begin to start the story and for the main to be smarter than babies and have more information for the later murder case. So after that it seems more like something that takes place in our world with a little bit of a crazy start (the rebirth thing). BUT the bird child was for me like, nah we didn't need her to progress the story and I kinda liked the rebirth this was the only fantasy aspect to it, because then you can 'reasonably' try and figure out who the murder is. But now.... it could be that the murder was reborn as well? maybe there is a spirit world? I mean with this you could have unbelievably many options that do not make sense in our world which takes away of the thiller, the 'Who is the murder?' fun for me. Because if the crow child can whisper spoilers, then the murder could be a f-ing spirit for all I know. I hate that kind of variable in this kind of cruel reality world vibe.... Kinda ruined it for me...

So why did I give it a seven. What can I say, I love a 'thriller' and I love to see (especially) Aqua having mental break down, being his own biggest enemy, where you can see he tries to not recover but to suffer instead but of course he kind of recovers eventually. Yeah this psycho loves that shit. And I bet next season he will suffer even a bigger backstep as he uncovers that the murder isn't dead yet. I wanna see that shit. So okay 7 out of 10 XD

((BTW this was my first review ever so sorry for the chaotic writing but I felt I had to since I didn't saw anyone taking about the cow child or the underage shit))

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 6, 2024

FReeinko

Not Recommended

I do not think this holds a candle do Season 1. There, I said it.

If you liked season 1 you will probably enjoy this, but not as much. I got the feeling that the whole narrative did a 180. I don't mean to say it's bad, but for me specifically it's not ideal that it made such a great turn.

The base concept of swapping roles of the avenger between brother and sister is nice, but what is up ahead is only a season of ruby hunting someone and guess in season 4 they will band together.

I found the plot not that interesting, the impact of ... aqua and ruby in season 1 was great, now I feel that they were a bit side-lined in light of other characters, I would much more preffer seeing a sinister duo like Aqua and Akane. The best impact of this season was, when she told him *you kow what* I won't spoil. After that the drama and the impact went down until the last 2 episodes, which created a prelude for season 3 which I do not even find interesting as an idea...

Well we'll see what they do with it...

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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