Review of [Oshi No Ko]

DO NOT JUDGE OSHI NO KO BY MY REVIEW. I AM NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE. Oshi no Ko is a show that everyone freaked out about when it was first released. It was lauded with praise and placed near the top of many "best anime of this year so far" lists. And this show is one of the most boring, uneventful slogs that I've ever sat through. The first episode is a movie. I watched it at my college's anime club. Two otakus die and get reincarnated as their favorite idol's twin babies. There's some...weird (read: illegal) overtones, but the ending of the movie was great.idol gets stabbed, and the male twin, Aquamarine, vows to go and kill the killer's rat, who could be no other than Aqua's own father. A setup for what could've been a fantastic show, a toddler detective with the brain of a 40y/o and a thirst for blood. (I need to watch Conan.)

And then that whole plotline gets dropped almost entirely.

The real meat of the show is Aqua growing up and becoming an actor while his twin sister, Ruby, becomes a pop idol like their mom. The whole "kill my dad" thing is kind-of there with Aqua largely being in the acting business so he can make connections, but it's nowhere near as important as I was hoping. Instead, you get five or so episodes of Aqua being a part of a reality dating show. Yes, a reality dating show, the kind that JonTron made two videos trashing on. What a great way to spend half the show.

As for Ruby's side...well, I don't really care for idol culture all too much. I prefer hard, rough, and gritty music over cutesy, obnoxious garbage, and my type of woman is more of a tsundere with a dark sense of humor, a misanthropic worldview, and a variety of mental problems. Ironically, the type of woman Ai (Aqua and Ruby's mom) used to be, and the exact kind of woman that the show says is unattractive. So, yeah, that, coupled with the fact that I had already seen a far better and funnier idol-based show in the form of Gokudols, means I didn't get much out of Ruby.

So, Ruby's story is inconsequential and Aqua's story is a disappointment. That's the easiest do-not-recommend I've ever given out. But, I think the problems with this show run deeper than just that. I had noticed a few things that were...off-putting. The show was overall fairly romance-centered. Most male characters were androgynous. The high-schools outfits were overly-designed. But it was at around the midpoint of the show that I realized what the problem was. A minor character from the reality dating show was slapped and got a small scratch, and then the whole show came to a screeching halt. That was when I realized that this show wasn't made for me.

It's a shoujo.

Now, everything makes sense. The embarrasingly-slow pace and complete disregard for the established story didn't matter. The show was made so that the Japanese equivelant of Tumblrites could smash any two characters together and make them kiss. This show was made for women, and a woman is something that I most certainly am not. That means I can't give it a do-not-recommend, because people who actually watch this kind of stuff might actually find enjoyment in this. Hell, I probably shouldn't have even written this review trashing something that I wasn't even supposed to care about in the first place.

Whatever, let's just get to the final rankings.

Art and animation: 8/10
Music and SFX: 5/10
Story: 0/10
Characters: 2/10
Enjoyment: 2/10

Overall: 3/10