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EP. REVIEW: Oshi no Ko

I'll be waiting eagerly for next season. This rotating theater 2.5D play is the first time I'm hearing about the existence of something like this. Like is it a green screened live play with real time screen VFX? Or just a recorded theater play on multi screens forming a circular continuous stage? Whatever it is, it sounds awesome! Sign of the times, eh?

They adapted one more chapter than I expected

I'm getting the impression that the twin's father has nothing to do with Ai's death.

Episode 1 casually dropped some zingers that I believe wil be relevant:

- Ai is really bad at remembering faces of people.

- Ai's mother was a criminal.

I'm guessing that the focus on someone in the industry is a red herring. Ai's mother could have been let out from prison and recognized her abandoned daughter as an idol and thinking she was rich, maybe tried to extort money from her. Ai must have rebuffed her and she could've been keeping tabs on her using unstable obsessed fans and psyched one up to disturb and harass her. Maybe she wanted Ai dead, but more probably scared with intention to blackmail and the murder was not intended. She likely needed hard evidence, especially since nobody would take a criminal seriously. Using a crazed fan was a last ditch effort.

I was a bit sad to see the Mana chapter get stripped out but not necessarily surprised. It's a nice little commentary on the Idol industry but in the grand scheme of the plot it's not particularly important so I can see it getting stripped out to focus on the staging for the performance and setting up the next arc as being deemed more important. You really would have needed more than a few extra minutes to get her experience and it'd require flashing back to the concert that had JUST occurred. A bit disappointing, but not surprising.

It's a shame we didn't get the rest of Mana's material; that's the first real flaw the anime has shown. Otherwise it's been perfect, and I can't wait for the second season.

The question still remains the same: Whoever passed Ai's address to Ryosuke, how did they know it? On top of that, would Ai have let the mother who beat and abandoned her know where her own children lived? And what leverage could her mother have had on her?

You don't need any flashbacks. The positioning of what little presence she still has in the episode makes that clear -- keep that where it is, and shift to her POV for B Komachi's… third song? I dunno, how many songs would an idol group be doing in their set here? GhostStalkerSA?

As for amount of time? They cut 9.5 pages out of 18 in chapter 39. Their pace has been three chapters in a 24-minute episode; subtract OP and ED, divide by three, that's seven minutes per chapter on average. (More precise breakdown here.) Obviously some kinds of scenes translate to more seconds/page than others, but I'm willing to assume a spherical cow and say what they cut would've been about four minutes of material.

I pretty much forgot about Mana.

But all you folks complaining might want to check the manga --- her material is in the chapter following the concert. Look for it during the first episode of the next season.

Sure, they could do the skipped over pages as part of the intro episode of the second season, as part of a flashback, but that doesn’t make much sense as a launching point into the next arc, which is all Tokyo Blade.

Anyway, that 2.5D stage people linked to looks awesome! I'd definitely love to someday check out a show, but I imagine that such productions can get ridiculously expensive. You'd need like ‘AVENGERS: The Musical’ level to get people to show up.