Review of [Oshi No Ko]

Oshi no Ko comes out with a great surprising anime in this season that take a peek of the entertainment industry and connecting the social media with entertainment figures. The premier of 1st episode really blew the audience away with a compelling story and the amazing portraying of characters. The advantages of this anime had was the beautiful animation and the great soundtrack choices to live up the nuance of certain scenes. Other advantages showed that this anime really showed a great storytelling with tackling some current phenomenon around entertainment industry and social media. Every anime has advantages and shortcomings. Although, this anime received alot of credits in the beginning, the first episode outshine some of the next episodes that gives a high expectation for audiences at first. Some episode even feels stale with lack of emotions and just be there as filling episode. Another shortcoming of this anime is that for the ending, it’s not impactful enough to be the ending, but rather the last episode feels like the hinting for continuation to the next season. But keep in mind that this anime has a lot to uncover than just focusing on the first season.

Story (9/10)
The written story is mind-blowing. It involves the previous life story of the main character (Ai, Aqua, and Ruby) that has a significant role in the main story. The plot isn’t just focused on the main characters for this season, but it involves supporting character’s plot too from Akane or kana that makes the whole anime fills with rich storytelling. The story that still relevant to the audience's social life and tackles some important issues of the entertainment industry and public figures. Unfortunately, the ending is still a bit of that more focused on the continuation of the story rather than bringing emotion feeling to the audiences. But for reminding, the production team probably doing this intentionally with upbringing news of the production of Oshi No KO season 2.

Art (10/10)
The art style for this anime is just flawless. The detail of each character’s drawing is just spot on especially in eyes and hairline parts. The drawing of the places is really spot on that gives the vibes of being the exact location as in the anime. Some of the romantic scene is drawn really well and beautiful. The fear aspect arise as the graphic become more realistic and they keep added the shade in the right place. The art is something to remember from this anime. Amazing.

Sound (10/10)
The voice actors/actresses really ensoul the character’s personality to perfection. The tone they are using is so variative and spot on according to the situation that character putting into. The usage of perfect soundtrack to enhance the audience’s attention to draw in more to the story. Not to mention, one of the best opening and ending songs for spring 2023 came from this anime.

Character (10/10)
The main characters showed the contradicting personality which is a great way to progress this anime. This anime also gives spotlights to other two supporting characters that enhance the audience’s experiences. Even the minor supporting characters have a distinctive personality that can be supporting main characters existence really well. If you like a character with perfect tsundere personality or a character that shy but having powerful skills, then this anime served that kind of awesome characters. All characters displayed in each their own uniqueness that makes them more likeable. The villains is portrayed as the persons who can manipulate and destroy the good characters that succeeded of giving the evil images to audiences.

Enjoyment (9/10)
When it comes to Oshi No Ko, it just more than a mere anime about idols and romances, its all about the manipulations and “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” theme which is makes this anime really really special. It feels like all the staffs giving a big efforts to create this masterpiece that resulted of this anime being one of the top contenders of best anime in Spring 2023. The animation and sound’s composing really makes this anime worth to watch. Compelling story is another reason. The element of surprises and unpredictable moments is really shine through and it makes audiences wanting to go deep into the stories and rewatch it as one of the anime that has strong mystery plot out there. Even though, some episode still showing a little staleness but this anime hinders it with a great conflicts and climaxes.

In conclusion, Oshi No Ko is not your ordinary anime series. It’s slow pacing that focusing on creating an impactful storyline, it’s what makes it one of the best. The animation and music that makes audiences want to draw in deeper. We can’t deny that the first episode really gives the big popularity of this anime as more it’s progress slowly to achieve aqua and ruby goals. A few of the episodes feel dull, but it’s quickly hinders by compelling main stories. Overall, this anime gives the something unique with feelings of excitement, funny, sad, and fearful that delivered well to the viewer’s emotion. This is one of the best anime in spring 2023.

I want to thank all the staffs and production for their hard work in creating this such as masterpiece. Their efforts of times and energies really resulted in this dazzling gem that be considered as one of the best anime in Spring 2023. I am already hearing the news of the upcoming season 2 and wish all best of luck to the production process of season two!!!