Oshi no Ko

[Ryllharu]

The tech behind them also does not replace proper basic composition and basic scene framing skills.

EX-ARM's anime is a good example of when all the required skillsets aren't present.

The author of Oshi no Ko (Akasaka Aka) is pretty upfront that the artist of the series (Yokoyari Mengo) is the main influence on the end result each chapter. She's very good at the overall scene composition to the degree that it influences the story beats back.

[Death BOO Z]

the first AI anime will probably some slow life isekai jiggle fest.
- introduce loli,
- go outside to the planes
- have her frolick with fantasy nature
- picnic
- onsen

[MFauli]

Or the first AI anime will actually look better than all the dreck we get nowadays and leave a shock in the industry, lol.

[shinta|hikari]

AI supported artists? Great!

AI only writing and art? Incoherence.

[MFauli]

episode 8:

oh come on! I wanted them to date for real Wondering how quickly things proceed from here, only 3 episodes left. If Akane's investigation skills are supposed to come into play, there's not much time left. Next week should be about the meeting with that guy, I guess.

Adding Memo to the agency was a nice move, though. I'm not that fancy about her, but she grew on me and it'd be nice to keep her around.

[David75]

Episode 8:
Akane is confirmed as a genius profiling actor. So much so she clearly overpowers Aqua in profiling Ai.
Aqua clearly wants to use Akane's gift. I just wonder how he will do that. He can't just ask Akane for details/ideas/input to solve a very old murder... well even more edgy: to find a puppet master who manipulated the murder into doing it, twice since he also killed Aqua's former life.
It's possible we'll get more nuggets from that director and it will be easier to see paths Aqua could use.
For now I'm still a little worried Akane's Ai has excited the pupetter again...

[Kraco]

Hah, I thought Akane would be the one to join the agency, after Aqua saved her life, but I'm glad to be wrong. Akane has her own acting career, and it was more important for her to get over the whole incident, not use Aqua like some kind of crutch. Being frank about the relationship also works toward that goal.

As good as Akane's profiling and acting skills are, she couldn't possibly imagine Aqua would be Ai's child. It's quite funny to try to act like a guy's mother to seduce the guy. If Akane ever learns the truth, she might feel embarrassed enough to label it as her dark history.

I hope Kana happens to hear, as soon as possible, that Aqua going out with Akane is a work relationship.

[Death BOO Z]

wait, three episodes left? that seems a bit too few.

(plus, I think the correct cutoff point for the season should be at around episode 15/16, depending on how they pace the story)

I liked how Arima is one the "I don't watch reality shows and need everyone to know about it" people.

[Ryllharu]

Kana is best girl for Aqua (Miyako is still Best Girl overall).

I hope Kana happens to hear, as soon as possible, that Aqua going out with Akane is a work relationship.

If she was a little bit smarter in terms of relationships, Kana would realize that Aqua basically confessed to her on their mini-date playing catch. Kana is the only girl he feels actually comfortable with. He's not friendzoning her, he outright told her she's the one he actually trusts with his true feelings. Yuki or Ruby would probably recognize it instantly if they witnessed it. She playfully teased back about the preference for older girls than him comment, but I'm pretty sure he was serious, and I don't think he was referring to Ai. He looks to the girls in his class as potential friends for Ruby, with his dispassionate eye. But he pays attention to Kana. Kana is a pessimist and misinterprets their entire little date.

Sure he gets flustered around Akane, but he also has no idea what kind of relationship he ultimately had with Ai. He was a fan, then he was her son. Was it ever a romantic longing? Did his time as her son kill the psudeo-romantic vibe fans have with idols? Did he develop an Oedipus Complex? He gets mixed up seeing Akane do the Ai-act that Akane thinks he likes, but that's because he's never fully settled on what his relationship with Ai was, he never got the closure either.

But he never really relaxes around Akane, even if that's what she desires back from him. He always does and always has relaxed around Kana.

Lastly, why would Aqua even go on a skip-school date with Kana before immediately getting into a professional fake marketing relationship? Could be that he wants his first date to be a real one, and his line at the end of the scene all but confirms it.

The whole mini-date was a test to confirm that he isn't attracted to Akane that way...well, you can't test against one thing without a genuine control sample.

[neflight86]

Thanks for the breakdown. Most of the subtext surrounding skipping school flew right over my head.

[DarthEnderX]

Hah, I thought Akane would be the one to join the agency

Didn't watch the OP very closely then huh?

[Kraco]

Didn't watch the OP very closely then huh?

Yeah, you could say I skip the OP quite closely.

[Buffalobiian]

Didn't watch the OP very closely then huh?

I watched it but it still didn't register.

What I did notice was that they translated the lyrics for episode 7, but just went with Romanji for episode 8, and it looks weird.

I'm glad the relationship turned out how it did. Akane having Aqua fall for her face persona won't have any healthy results.

[MFauli]

Aqua could at least bang her a bit, come on

[Buffalobiian]

While Aqua worked out that he didn't have romantic feelings for Akane (while using Kana as a comparison), he didn't actually confirm his feelings about Ai.

And as great a profiler as Akane is, it still visibly hurt her to hear him decline her out loud.

The author of Oshi no Ko (Akasaka Aka) is pretty upfront that the artist of the series (Yokoyari Mengo) is the main influence on the end result each chapter. She's very good at the overall scene composition to the degree that it influences the story beats back.

Dude I was wondering why this show's character designs looked familiar. It's Kuzu no Honkai's artist.

[Death BOO Z]

episode 9.

weird scene with Mem looking at the computer with her reflection in the background. there's also some trivia about the book arima is reading, with it being about a slug who was named after the concept of a computer network (the internet). 40,000 yen is about 300~ us dollars, which is really expensive. Kana's song looks like it was used as an ED for an anime. also about Kana - her hair is colored more strongly in the bottom, so it seems like she's depressed.

[Kraco]

Aside from judging her singel skills too harshly, I reckon Kana was mostly correct, as far as the professional side goes. She might be suffering from the Mark Hamill disease: No matter what she's been doing since, she will forever remain a child actor, but since she's no longer a child, she's history. Hamill was known for a single role and never really could get over it in his career. It's a rather common nightmare for young actors, so I don't see why it couldn't work like this for Kana as well. That being said, I suppose she's being extra harsh because of what happened with Aqua. Aqua doesn't seem to understand it, which makes things even more awkward for Kana.

It turns out the producer didn't know all that much. He might be onto something with the theater group, but it's obviously not what he thinks. Ai never fell in love with anyone, so perhaps the theater merely made Ai realise that she could pretend to be everything she isn't, make her life a theater play. Thus her copulation partner doesn't need to have anything to do with Lala Lai. It could, though, if it had happened to be convenient for her.

[Buffalobiian]

there's also some trivia about the book arima is reading, with it being about a slug who was named after the concept of a computer network (the internet).

I don't know the trivia, but when I checked that scene I realised that Aqua was reading the same book on that bench at school.

Kana's song looks like it was used as an ED for an anime.

When it was played I expected it to be the stand-in ED for this episode actually.

That bigshot girl mentioned eyecandy and all, and the eyecandy this episode was definitely Kana's waki.

[Ryllharu]

Kana is bitter and hard on herself because of the dark period in her career, but she's very obviously a prolific generalist.

Since her released singles are in the karaoke catalog and span quite a number of years, even recent, she spent time attempting to break out of her acting rut with music and obviously enjoyed it.

As much as she gripes about it, being in B Komachi is a dream for her, and certainly a chance to reset her career and springboard back into acting at a later date.

MEM is a big win for them as well, since she has considerable self-promotion experience. MEM deserves a lot of respect for putting both her brothers into college.

Ruby even tried to tell Kana that Aqua complements girls extremely rarely, and correctly determined that his 'attraction' towards Akane is probably due to her imitation of Ai and little else. Ruby knows her brother by now. His weird obsession with Ai doesn't map over to Kana in any aspect whatsoever. Aqua's attitudes toward Kana are unique and come from a place of sincerity.

[Buffalobiian]

I tried to figure out the similarities between Kana and MEM, since Ruby put them into the "type of girls my brother likes", based on the fact that he invited them to joint B Komachi. Appearance aside (short hair), I only got as far as that they're somewhat insightful and not ditzes or overly naive and girly.