Oshi No Ko Episode 1 Reaction! 

This went in a direction i would've never imagined. The revenge part, I'm here for it

"Who cares if they're married or have kids?" Idols can get death threats just from being seen with someone they *could possibly* be dating, in Japan and Korea; idol culture gets super serious

Oshi no Ko (推しの子) is a pretty untranslatable title. Oshi (推し) literally means to push, but in slang refers to the idol you support the most. It’s like the person you stan. No (の) is simply possessive. The thing with ko (子) is that it means children (could also mean child; Japanese doesn’t have plurals), but could also mean young woman. So the title can mean “The Girl I Support the Most” or “The Idol I Support the Most’s Children.” It can refer to either Ai or her children. Oshi no also sounds similar to Hoshino, Ai’s family name, which has star in it. So sounds like Star Child or Star Children or Star Young Woman. This is where titles like My Star comes from.

The fact that it's written by the creator of Kaguya sama love is war is astonishing.

I have to admit this was a anime I wasn't thinking of watching but seeing so many reactors going on and on about it piped my curiosity and I'm glad I watched it. Could be my sleeper anime of the year

In case you were wondering, yep, there are some crazy fans who can't forgive their idols for having a bf, not to mention having kids. Toxic idol culture.

Just some thoughts: On 12:47 he chased after the stalker guy because he was concerned that the stalker dude would come back and maybe try and harm Ai (which he did since he did end up killing her) and also thought that maybe he would expose that she was with child. Which was kind of weird now that I think about it that he didn't do that. And on 13:01 Ai wouldn't be casual about it if she was raped. Not speaking for any women who have experienced that, but I'd assume that would be the typical response. Great video overall, I love the discussion of this show as I love this manga to death. Few manga have made me care about the characters and fear for where they would be heading. The type where you just want nobody to get hurt and for everyone to be happy.

Nobody in this actually has stars in their eyes. The manga uses the stars in the eyes as a symbol for passion about something.

Supposedly, the reason idols are not supposed to have a partner is because they are also selling the illusion to the fans that they may one day be able to be with their favorite idol.

Oshi No Ko is deff one of the anime of the year. I Ai was soo pure and didn't deserve this.I cried my eyes out as well that sudden change as she got stabbed just piano music made it even more sad the star in her eyes going away and just seeing a corpse made it hit soo hard. Her saying I love you and realising that it wasn't a lie mad me soo depressed but happy at the same time.

I was really hoping you would react to this. You might already know this but this was created by the author of Kaguya-sama and it supposedly takes place in the same universe

I think anyone who went into this blind not knowing a single thing about what Oshi no ko was, like myself I don't think anyone would've expected that this was going to be a revenge plot and I'm all for it 😂🔥

Immediately, as i saw the video, i thought "Oh boy, here we go"

The idea that an idol is "pure" began in the 80's with a very popular group called Onyanko Club that created a lot of the standard themes of idols that carried through the next 20 years with no dating rules and teary graduation concerts. The producer of that group actually disbanded the group to marry one of the members to clearly the fantasy wasn't that strong to begin with lol. He actually went on to produce AKB48 one of the biggest groups of the 00's and 10's after a stint as a TV producer for a music show. The thing is the rules are not even that common anymore lol. I know of lots of idols who have been in relationships that the fans knew about and didn't care, an idol who is married that still performs and the fans don't care and so on. Crazy fans do exist, AKB48 the aforementioned huge idol group seems to have one incident every few years including a guy who attacked an idol with a meat cleaver at a handshake event. I have no idea how he managed to sneak it anywhere near her since security at these events is usually tight, you can't carry your bag anywhere near them and have to put it in a bin and empty your pockets like in an airport security check. There have also been incidents of fans finding out where they live and coming to their home, sending unsolicited gifts and so on, many big agencies get into real estate and buy their own apartment blocks to house talent who come from outside Tokyo to work for them so it often means if fans can find where that is they can figure out where a bunch of idols live. While some people with mental health issues or people who get too obsessed with a one sided relationship can take things too far the majority of idol fans are pretty normal.

I didn't notice this until someone pointed it out, but when Ai's life flashes before her eyes, it starts when her kids are born. Nothing counted for her before that happened.

Nice reflection !! You are the first I found that could do that kind of analisis

Ngl I was impatient for that,youre one of the best suited for this show

regarding "you shouldn't have to lie," i think when it comes to lies as she uses it, ai means her persona as a performer. while i only started with the manga and dunno if ai was expanded on any further, at this point in time, her personality does track for someone who was abandoned by her parents. that she answers before she thinks to be agreeable with whoever she's around kinda feels like a bit of a defense mechanism, whether due to her parents, or other circumstances in her childhood. do nothing but what others want, so unsure about what happiness really is, fear of love, thinking she's a "'people-hating liar." i can believe someone like that exists. if someone were to tell her to "just be you," that would be hard for her, because she doesn't even know who she is. when the president was scouting her and trying to convince her on the basis of basically "fake it til you make it," i think to her, that was an opportunity to change her circumstances and try to explore who she really can be for once. that she did find she truly loved her kids to me sounds like she did actually manage to find who she was, but she was scared to accept and acknowledge it until it was too late. to me, it paints the possibility that - while she had that sense of "imposter syndrome" going on - she probably did actually feel what she could. so there were moments she definitely faked, and her happiest moments were likely when she was with her kids since that's what her mind flashed back to. but in between, i'm sure she cried real tears for the struggles, laughed some actual laughs, and cared for others because she actually cared. as it is with most things, like with acting, you have to draw from something real. while she reserved her expressions of true love for her family she built, to create a persona that loves the fans, i think she did actually love her fans, in some looser form. some supplementary notes to expand on stuff for fun: - to give a sense of scale, most everyone wants to perform at budokan - a venue that's for them at the cultural scale of people wanting to perform at madison square garden. that b komachi was already at budokan when sarina was a patient shows the degree of their popularity. the domes in japan, to my recollection, are usually for baseball and could seat tens of thousands of fans (IIRC tokyo dome has one of the largest concert capacities at 55k). for any artist to tour exclusively at the 6 major domes is really big. but also, for that degree of popularity, in terms of probability, creeps and stalkers are also so much more likely - deluded shut-ins who didn't talk to anybody (or only talked online in toxic cesspools). - what the babies were doing is wotagei - calls and chants, mixes, and moves (waza). it's basically fans doing their part to return the energy from the idols and increase the hype, like a feedback loop of fun. that "oi! oi! oi! oi!" from the other fans is the typical call that's done to the beat - there's other calls that are also used depending on song structure and the specific song. mixes would be chants used during the intro or the instrumental break. one part of idol fan culture is that, while the calls are mostly whatever fits the rhythm, fans may organize and customize the calls for each song, and what mixes may be used (one might say the "babu babu babu babu" is the twins' "babu" mix lol). the waza, the moves that the twins were doing, are its whole entire thing. mainstream venues may only allow calls, chants, and mixes, but no waza. uchishi, those who are actively into wotagei, maybe even as its own dance subculture, would have their own groups (some are active on youtube, tik tok, and so on). technically you can theoretically apply wotagei to any song, and uchishi have their own fun making their own art of it. - what the twins were waving around were UOs. ultra oranges, aka UOs, are super bright glowsticks. UOs get _very_ bright lol. they stay bright for only a few minutes, so you usually snap them right at the part of the song that gets you most hyped. if you look at the other fans, they have penlights, battery-powered lightsticks, noticable because of the handles. some may sell depending on a specific idol's color. but there's general penlights that can swap between several colors. kpop def has lightsticks that operate similarly. - the abdominal aorta's the biggest artery in the body - that blood on the ground doesn't look like clothes were mopped across it - that blood's just spilling out so quickly, she can't stand up straight.

I'm pretty much a full time parasocial that lives vicariously though media lol But I have a strong sense of what is reality and what is fantasy, to the point that I don't really understand how they are blurred in some peoples heads but apparently many really struggle with this. The way it all comes across to me is the illusion that Idols/stars represent and the delusion that some fans can take to the extreme. Like those that always hate on and attack an actor/actress for actions the character they are playing did. The rest of us are just like o.0 "You do know this is make believe, for entertainment don't you?" "Don't you?!?"

Rest assured, her final expression was freaking creepy and haunting, the animators straight went out of a found-footage horror visual.

Even with all the hype about this anime I did not want to watch it because I did not want to cry. But when you react it I decided to see it. I am glad I did. Lets see how it goes the next episode.

I was waiting for this ❤️ I went blind and in the end i wasn't sure what genre this anime is.

My speculation (I haven't read the manga) for the motives of the father being an accomplice is that he's probably also in the entertainment industry as a male idol or actor and it would damage his career if it became known he fathered children out of wedlock. He and Ai probably hooked up casually and the pregnancy was unplanned, so they agreed to mutual secrecy and that she would raise them alone, but he tried to off her by proxy at the hospital, which wasn't successful. But then she kept the secret, so he didn't bother with a 2nd attempt since out-of-sight out-of-mind. She contacts him later and tries to get him involved in the children's lives (and presumably discloses her address), which spooked him, thus the 2nd murder attempt.

😮This anime really surprised me. I didn't expect to be affected like this 🤗

This is how the idol industry is props to mangaka for tha balls to show it

I'm glad, that you didn't get spoiled of what was coming

Already my pick for AOTY. When I first heard about this two years ago thanks to videos from The Anime Man and Gigguk, I knew it would blow up once it got adapted. Couldn't be happier about the reception it's receiving.

No emotion when reading the manga, but anime adated so good the Ai's death scenes that make me cried a lot. 😭

This episode got all of us 😢

goes to show you why VTubers never tend to show their faces. its basically a screen-door-shield for their private lives that protects them from obsessive fans.

This show isn't about making righteous decisions every single time. It portray of how Japan entertainment industry works.

Fun little fact for ya this is actually set in the same exact universe as kayuga sama love is war LMAO .

Im late but damn that cracked me -I wonder if concert is gonna get cancelled -YES…YOU DIED

they were named after colours, the hint it's in their eyes 😊

I have been looking forward to this reaction

Its called "parasocial relationship". This is common in our era. Stalker, crazy fans, are everywhere in jpop nor kpop market

I was waiting this react!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS REACTION MESHUP! ❤ I am watching your reactions about a week and I really liked it.☺ I have a request for you could make reaction on 'I Got A Cheat Skill In Another World And Became Unrivaled In The Real World, Too'.🤔 I know this anime name is quite long but this is really good anime! If it possible then make reaction on it.🙂

one of the best first eps in anime history

Finally Oshi no ko peak ⚡

I am 100% certain the "fathers" reasoning is he's also famous, like the MC guessed he's in the same industry, and just didn't want the scandal. Some people would rather others suffer and die than have their reputation smudged even a little.

49:11 - refer to the scene when Ai called children's father, that will give you an idea from the looks of it, Ai is ok with the kids meeting their father but the father aint from what i see, both kids inherit some of their parents skills Ruby got her mother's side while Aqua got the father's side (since none of his trait and skill set matched with his mother) therefore i conclude that their father is a well known actor (since Aqua is an actor type) blinded by fame and doesnt want to be in scandal (like the idols) that will ruin his career that's just my theory

Yeah this broke my heart

The dumb thing the doctor did at the beginning wasn’t following but actually confirming she was there in the first place. He had to chase to cover up that screw up or call the cops. Obviously it goes into his obsession that he would care enough about a near stranger to try and run that guy down but the big mistake was confirming she was there in the first place. Best possible thing to do would be to say “who it that” and then go back insaide and call the cops (the only issue there is in America you have to report people under 18 that are pregnant if they don’t let the father know but I don’t know about Japan and if they were acting illegally) but he is also a crazy fan so he acted emotionally.

50 min reaction is pog. Thx.

Idols reach a lot more people when they're seen as "pure". No kids or relationships means that a fan can imagine themselves being that person. Yes, it attracts more people, but it also attracts freaks. Idols state that they "love" all their fans. But choosing one (or someone that's not a fan) makes everyone else jealous.

Btw the VA for Aqua i think it was the same with Rudy VA 😂

18:05 funny how you mention Rudy since the VA is the same as Aqua.

I just wanna see how Aqua end up to be😁

Funny when you brought up rudeus from jobless reincarnation cuz aqua as a kid has the same voice actor. Two very different characters lol

Idol and artist aren't the same thing in Japan I guess. They're idol, supposed to be pure and being worshipped 😂

I don't know anything about actual Idols. I love a lot of stuff that is Idol related. Alt-Idol groups are awesome. I was a huge Babymetal fan now I am a big fan of Atarashii Gakko.

I think the stalker had mental problems, you see his room being a mess, this shot kind of shows how his mental state by a metaphor with his room.

You telling me the guy who made this also made Kaguya-sama?!? Huh?!? Lol

would you prefer Ruby ​​to experience the same thing as Ai? sometimes ruby's dream/happiness doesn't necessarily make ruby ​​safe, what you say is overprotective this is what parents in asia and the middle east do, this doesn't mean parents control their daughters, they still give freedom to their daughters, but they have to be able to assume the responsibility to maintain the honor and safety of herself

I'm happy to admit I'm a hypocrite I love humanity but at the same time I hate it I love it for the ingenuity we've done and created but I hate it for the things we have in our minds like intrusive thoughts, etc. And those things can't be removed as long as humans exist

She's got that Wednesday energy 🥵

16:47 parasocial relationship. And idols aren't allowed to have a boyfriend or worse - children. They're supposed to be pure virgin girls/women, that are entirely devoted to their fans.

8:13 when they are from the opposite sex yes that happen very often

Thank you for that switch. I deleted my previous comment.

Fantastic

Still waiting for tokyo revengers 2 last episodes ? What happend?

Japanese idol culture is just that different

LOL. I can tell you've watched a lot of K-drama shows from the way you gruntle "AISSSHHH!" every time, like how they do in K-dramas when a character is dissatisfied/annoyed lol. Just thought that was funny 🤣 🤣

This was the same author of kaguya-sama bro reverse his personality💀

11:57 and you make a lot of money too, (if you're popular enough that is)

You know Aqua has the same VA with Rudeus, right? Coincidence ? I don't think so

Batman!

Haven't read the manga so this is just speculation. My guess is that the father is someone who probably is married or already has a family. Since Ai decided to have her children instead of terminating her pregnancy he leaked the info to the stalker.

I am not into IDOL culture, but I heard being in a relationship is a big taboo. BTS nembers are some of the most successful idols, but they aren't in a (publicly known) relationship because it would go against the lies/illusion( in Ai's words) their fans want