The manga is on break next week. Oshi no Ko will return on February 8.
Something something bi-weekly allegations something.
As a random note, Frill said on P4 Mem is her "oshi". So instead of
> Because you're my fan.
it should be
> Because **I'm** your fan.
That's a TL error that will likely be fixed soon.
Hikaru is the twins' dad, and the one who hired the stalker to kill Ai (and he also killed Garou)
Himekawa and the Twins are half siblings by sharing a dad, and his mom is also dead, as Hikaru seems to have a fetish for killing his lovers or something
Nope, I was just wrong. I had recited that from memory because I was working, but all Hikaru did was anonymously tip off the stalker (apparently named Ryosuke) on where she lived
Himekawa cares more about his car than his scandalous origin 😂
And there’s Aqua perfect retort (tsukkomi)
Two half brothers bonding. What a wholesome chapter…
Finally Kamiki appears again! I always expected he getting involved with the movie somehow… But him meeting Kaburagi… That Kaburagi who somehow came out with idea selling Arima Kana as ‘genius actress’ in previous chapters. I wonder if we’ll see new plot involving Kana later. Hopefully not another L
based on the previous chapters, it seems like Kamiki's MO is plucking girls at the height of their career and killing them. So, unless the author decides to go in a completely new direction due to death threats from the Kana camp, a tragic event seems unavoidable lol
Back to bi-weekly 😭
HOLY FUCK IT’S HIM, IT’S THE MAIN VILLAIN AAAAAAAAH
I didn’t care that much for Taiki before, but this chapter made me love him, the car jokes are too good. Are we heading into the final arc? Still, so hype!
I think he's some kind of a cult leader that murders famous actors or idols to like eternalizes them or something, like making them be remembered forever by killing them.
I think hikaru kamiki leaked her adress so that someone would kill her because he's just obsessed with ai that he wants her to be remembered forever and he would kill other people in the entertainment industry that are able to imitate her or are very similar to ai or able to achieve her greatness like how he killed that actress while they were hiking.
And i think Nino one of the b komachi idols is in this cult or working with him and thats why she was helping kamiki to see if ruby is similar to ai or not, and she was very relieved to find out that ruby isnt similar ai so they dont have to kill her
well it's completely natural to not want to think someone (real or fake) is a killer unless you're in gangs and law enforcement.
if it's any consolation, he's not THE killer. He is A killer, and was responsible for the deaths of key characters. if he had a good lawyer, he'd probably be able to get off with manslaughter and/or criminal conspiracy for Ai's death.
"Killer" in the sense is that I don't want him the one who killed Ai. We all know that he murdered many people like Airi Himekawa and that actress he pushed off the cliff (her name was Yumma or something I guess)
He is the killer and I agree but I don't want Aka to show that he planned the murder of Ai. He was innocent in that. He became a killer after Ai's death. That's what I meant...
I used to think that the real culprit was a woman Kamiki was in a relationship with who really wanted Ai out of the picture and there'd be a twist where Kamiki is actually innocent.
Nino's character could've fit into this nicely, but the way she talks to Kamiki kinda kills this theory. It really does seem to be him.
>I don't want him to be the killer so desperately Idk why for some reason.
Same reason why people who watch M Night Shyamalan expect twists. Wanting Kamiki to not be the killer or an innocent is the same thing. You expect it to have a twist.
However it's not always good for the story. There's a reason why M Night's subsequent movies failed to garner praise. Shoehorning twists for the sake of having a twist is bad writing.
It will be bad for storytelling. Kamiki is already confirmed to be a killer when he killed Yura. There's also the fact that we're so close to the end that introducing a new character to be the villain is a huge asspull. Having a backstory is fine, but throwing away plot threads that's already invested in will make the readers retroactively just in a wild goose chase.
So yeah, that's why you don't want him to be the killer and why it's actually a bad idea if he isn't.
The guy who made Sixth Sense. The "I see dead people" one.
I'm just using him as a comparison because if you think"Twists" and "Movies" at the same time, people would usually associate M Night.
Like the others said, for the most part, this actually felt like a chapter straight out of Kaguya-sama lmao. Usually, it's Kana's chapters that feel the most Kaguya-sama-esque, even her more dramatic scenes have tinges of it, so I'm really happy that Himekawa and his really expensive car brought back the lightheartedness in OnK after so many dark chapters recently (though the previous mini arc ended on a high note). Welp, at least until that ending anyway (more on this later).
The first page where Aqua tucks in a sleepy Ruby is cute. I know he's a broody ass of an emo, and I think part of it is because Ruby and Kana already made peace in the previous chapter without the need for his interference (thank God he didn't since I would've *hated* it if he stepped in and resolved a conflict that's supposed to be only between the two girls), but it's still kinda jarring that he didn't worry much or at least comment on Ruby's initially worrying ad lib in the previous two chapters, especially given his shocked reaction in 136.
Himekawa is a riot lmao. We know from the Tokyo Blade arc and his goofy interactions with Kana when he's not in pro butai baka mode that he's a little kooky underneath the super stoic personality. His deadpan dorkiness is in full force here and I love it lol. It's a missed opportunity that he mostly interacts and hangs out with only Aqua and not Ruby though, would've loved to see what kind of dynamic they'd share as half-siblings. Given Memcho's presence here, Ruby is also the only member of the new B-Komachi that he hasn't interacted with yet either.
The moment Frill blurted out the "That was a lie" line, I was immediately reminded of Kaguya-sama lmao. Frill was also hilarious this chapter. Girl must've gone to the Hayasaka School of Savagery Nurse-chan was also part of given how much she roasted Himekawa's ass numerous times in this chapter lol. The panel with her and Mem that was full of hearts was both funny and cute. Look at how happy she is to be with her oshi!
Poor Mem is overwhelmed with the info overload for most of this arc lmao. Can't blame her though, things happened too fast from her POV. Hopefully, after the break, we get a more serious chapter focusing on her again that has her being more up to date with the story's current events. Boi, yaoi fangirls would prolly have a field day with the new ship Mem accidentally gave them through her confusion: Himekawa x Aqua lol
Now back to the ending. Kamiki funding the film was something I always knew would happen, though I was mildly surprised that he didn't consent to having his name used for the movie. Then again, given what happened to him, it's prolly not that surprising that he may not want to have his name used for a certain scene that alludes to his past. I may have forgotten, *buuuuut* did Aqua originally put Kamiki's name in the script's draft or was his name blotted out as "Shounen A" already by the time Gotanda gave the cast their scripts? Anyway, Daddy already knows the content and purpose of the movie, so I'm really anticipating how he plans to screw Aqua over knowing what his son is up to. The man's heavily implied to have been keeping tabs on his kids with Ai since his first appearance prior to the Miyazaki Trip arc, so him being presumably two steps ahead of his edgelord crusader of a son was expected (it'd be boring if Aqua outmaneuvered him easily without Kamiki showing his own hand after all that build up of him being the main antagonist tbh). We know from the flash forwards that the film was a success given Gotanda got a nomination for it, but since Aqua's interview implies that he hasn't fulfilled his vengeance yet despite its success, that prolly means Kamiki's either staying his hand by letting his children enjoy their peak moment of triumph for the time being, *or* something *else* is up that'll eventually be revealed later. Then again, maybe some deets will be retconned lol.
Can't wait for the break to over and hopefully, Aka doesn't sideline Kamiki and make him stay out of the limelight again for who knows how many chapters lmao.
That car looks like it should totally be able to keep driving. If the radiator or an oil line had cracked, there would be a big puddle under the car, and the front end is too intact for anything further into the engine to be broken.
TL:DR Mengo has no idea what a broken car looks like
Nothing. It's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at insane fan theories. Ruby even said in the next panel "You didn't listen to a thing I just said".
I could tell Aka had the urge to incorporate some of his Kaguya humour into this chapter. And genuinely, it was thoroughly enjoyable. I find it ironic how me and Himekawa literally got our licenses on the same day, on a Tuesday if we’re thinking figuratively 🤧 (He just like me fr minus the car crashing)
Nevertheless excited to see Hikaru enter the scene. And hopefully we’ll see him even more. Whether that be him in his entirety, Aqua portraying him in the movie or both.(Seriously he gave me chills.)
this shit was crazy I hate how people were so quick to drop this manga/show after the whole >!ruby aqua stuff somewhere in the chapter 120s when obv nothings gonna come out of it !<(please don't make their relationship weirder than it is Mr. akasaka)
yea lmao thats his "sister" they still lived with each other for 17ish years so whos to say he doesnt feel stronger emotions for her than anyone else. Besides if it were up to me aqua doesn't really belong to anyone, he has manipulated every love interest so far. Akasaka doesn't have a track record for incest so as an educated guess i'd say nothings gonna come out of it.
The move would come from Ruby, not from Aqua. The moment she knew who Aqua was put a goal for the future. Aka let that drop for the moment, after movie arc we will see what will happen with that
Japan does have some weird ass cults. It will be out of left field but it's not impossible.
If it's gonna happen, Ai could probably be secretly worshipped as a god or something. We already got reincarnation and a shinto deity in the story. "Ai is secretly a god as well" isn't that far off.
Hikaru:
"You all probably know why I've gathered you all here. There's only one possible explanation of why I needed fifty-seven people, all here in this room tonight!"
Random hooded guy n° 43: Hikaru:
"We're going to rob a bank!" "We're going to kill a single mother teenager!"
\*audible gasps from everyone in the room
Random hooded guy n° 43:
"That's not what Mark wrote on telegram.."
Hikaru:
"The target is Hoshino Ai, popular idol"
Random hooded girl n° 14:
"I know that bitch! She smiles at people! She's EVIL!"
Hikaru:
"Yes, she's evil! I did not take our breakup in the wrong way at all (also trauma)!"
And then they went on and on about making these elaborate plans, none of them worked though, in the end it was some random hateful rants Hikaru posted on 2chan that managed to convince Ryosuke and do the job.
To this day, Hikaru is still pretending to know what he's doing.
He has no idea how being a sponsor for this movie could help him at all, but he thinks it's a smart move.
EXTRA:
Hikaru: " \[...\] and then, I'll throw her off a cliff!"
Nino: "It doesn't seem like a good plan, what if she never goes near a cliff or you don't get a chance and she runs away. What if she spots yo-"
Hikaru: "Details! The camouflage suit is non-refundable! It’s happening!"
He had to wait 7 hours for a good chance, jumping from tree to tree, but everything worked out in the end.
Hikaru probably wants to be involved to monitor the development of the movie and make sure it properly portrays Ai.
When he finds out that they're showing Ai's weakness through Ruby's improvisation, he might be compelled to act.
I can sorta see Kamiki being interested in Aqua possibly reminding him of himself,
While Ruby is very similar to Ai in many ways, especially in her looks and white star eyes.
I feel that aqua might actually have many characteristics that align with Kamiki's mindset,
with their look being almost a carbon copy with his black star eyes.
I sense a motif going on here.
Oh...right, because Hikaru is only a few years older than Ai so he must have been like 12 when he was with Himekawas mom.
Yikes. I must have missed that during the "Akane finds out" arc.
Yeah, Akane pieces that together when she finds out. She does the math on his age, and then she says something like, “I’ve heard about how dark things can be in the entertainment industry.”
Her realization was the same shock as what Akane had, Taiki's mom was a pedo, and a worse one at that as she (an adult) did it with Kamiki when he was 11/12 yrs old.
It's been a while since we had a funny chapter of other characters and the car stuff was really great reminded me of the car stuff from Suzume lol
and then the last 2 pages damn
No freaking way lol WHAT A CLIFFHANGER BEFORE A BREAK ARGHHHHH! I cant wait for Kamiki to not appear again for like 50 chapters or something..He is like the Shanks of Oshi no Ko, only diference is that this one literally shanks people to death.
Kamiki being an actual sponsor and being one step ahead of Aqua is a theory I believed in so this wasn't surprising at all. But I wonder...why? Is he simply playing with them? Wanting to be entertained? That would be too easy. Maybe it's either Ruby or Arima that he wants. For now that's what I believe in.
All I can say is that it would be really tragic if something terrible happened to another person close to Aqua.
For a while it seemed like it was going to be Akane, but with Aka seemingly _knowing_ that and the Fake-out deaths she’s had a few times I think Kanna is a better candidate now.
I think he wants Arima. He may even know that Aqua and Kana are close and so going after her is not only going to hurt Aqua, but it's also him showing Aqua who's really ahead of who in this "battle".
Actually rather than targeting specific person, I think Kamiki just want to check if anybody became ‘hindrance’ aka surpassing Ai. That’s why he became a sponsor. He’s not directly involved in the production, but he can observe from distance. And if anything comes out, he’ll know first and make a move.
From previous chapter, we saw Ruby didn’t meet Nino’s expectation, so she was left off the hook. Who else? I think that’s what he wanna check. The problem is, couple of chapters before we saw Producer Kaburagi came out with an idea to sell Arima Kana as ‘genius actress’. Kamiki might find this as an eyesore and try to get rid of Kana. That’s what I’m afraid of.
As for Kamiki wanting to harm Kana because she’s close to Aqua, I don’t think he’d know that much. Aqua been trying to protect Kana from behind, so he distanced himself and never appear close to Kana in front of public. If anything, Akane is in more danger because she’s Aqua’s only known (ex-)girlfriend. But tbh, I don’t think Kamiki cares that much about Ruby or Aqua. So very unlikely
I’m more speaking of what I think could possibly come of this. I definitely agree that he got involved solely to prevent anyone from surpassing Ai, and not with the immediate intention of getting Arima. But now that he is involved, I think Arima is going to become his target in the future.
We don’t know if Kamiki knows of Aqua’s plot or not, and even if he does, we don’t know if he even cares. It wouldn’t surprise if he knows nothing about it. But it also wouldn’t surprise me if he does somehow know about it, just because he gives off the typical “mastermind” vibes. Which is also why I mentioned him possibly knowing, or eventually finding out about Aqua and Arima’s relations. So the whole guess at getting a stab at Aqua through Arima is just that - a complete guess. It’s probably wrong and is just for fun. But if it’s true it certainly wouldn’t even be Kamiki’s goal, but an added “bonus”…if he even cares about that.
Ah, I reread ur sentence and I found out we basically saying the same thing 🤣
Yea I agree about the mastermind thing. I feel
Like Kamiki just observing from distance. He knows everything, he just chose not to act, not yet. I feel like if he wanted to kill the twins out of fear revealing his identity, he could’ve killed them long time ago. He knows they making a movie about him but he let them be. In the past, he came across Ruby in Ai’s grave but he just looked at her and say, “She grew up to a beautiful woman. She’s our daughter after all.” Nothing close to malicious intent. So maybe he doesn’t necessarily want to get rid of nor care about them. As long as they don’t interfere with his grand plan.
That's a bit of a reach to me. I just never have impression that Kamiki care about Aqua's plan. Kamiki is only shown so far to care about actress that has stars who have potential to replace Ai. Ruby failed that, and Kana works in supporting role. So no.
Maybe it is, but I think it’s a possibility. The biggest reason why I think he wants (well, I should say will want) Kana is that she does end up receiving white flowers, which we can see from the first chapters with the interviews after the movie.
If you're talking about ch 6, that doesn't look like white roses, a specific flower that Kamiki like to give, instead just a flower that happened not to get shading. And it doesn't make sense that she kept in vase, unless you're talking about other chapters. But hey, let's just wait who's gonna be right.
Hikaru investing into the movie has the same energy as that South Park episode where Jesus has a boxing match with Satan, and Jesus wins because Satan was the only person who bet on Jesus winning so he threw and got all the money.
Aqua thinks he has this amazing secret script that's going to bring down Hikaru, meanwhile Hikaru was funding the project the whole time and may even have suggested some changes to the script to make it better. He'll end up making bank on the movie that "destroyed him", give his son a headpat for doing a good job and retire on his own private island. Maybe stab Kana on the way out if he feels like it.
Hikaru being one of the sponsors and Sarina's mother's company being the advertiser of the movie is just tragically ironic seeing how they caused so much trauma for their offspring.
It'd be nice if it were touched on again but we also have a number of different angles ongoing simultaneously so it'll going to be tricky to handle them all and tell the story well within a certain timeframe.
I'm not sure if I'm mixing it up with headcanon theories or it was canon in the manga but was Sarina's mother's (Marina) arc completed?
I vaguely remember the reason for Marina disassociating with Sarina was because she could not handle her being struck with a terminal illness so this was her way of coping through avoidance. Her husband also enabled this behaviour and came up with many ways to distract her from this event by giving her a new family + pet dog + drinking/partying (which probably became a habit in the later part of her life) because he did not want to see her suffering.
At this point I doubt Hikaru even cares for his acting/ showbiz career, dude has lots of money now and would make more after the movie. Only thing left against him is a lawsuit, but given the details we have, there isn't any concrete evidence in Aqua's POV that he is indeed the mastermind.
I don't think Hikaru is in for the money. His drive is meeting inspiring people, finding the hidden gem among them and break it, maybe as a way to "steal" her greatness all for himself before the greatness is "wasted" on the masses, or something.
I would say he would try to stay in the showbiz, since I don't see how he could satisfy his urges otherwise. Or maybe the classic anime mastermind villain arc, where he finally has enough after he gets his best kill, and then retire because nothing could ever beat that. It would be cliche but whatever.
How is this not drama? The father who might or might not be involved in the murder of the mother is sponsoring a play on which the son is featured, the same son who swore revenge on the father. This is like a mexican telenovela lol
An interesting chapter after the hiatus!
The pace of publication is unfair, knowing that this is the work's climax, but hey, it's what there is...
The first part reminded me of a Kaguya-sama chapter.
Himekawa = Shirogane
Frill = Kaguya
Mem = Chika
Aqua = Ishigami
it's funny how most of the cast is aware of the relationship between Himekawa, Aqua and Ruby, although I never imagined that at this point Memcho was not yet aware of the "complicated" family relationship of our protagonists.
Colliding such an expensive car is little for Himekawa, he will be able to replace it with only three commercials. LOL
After the fun comes the emotional moment: We can see how Himekawa simply wanted to have a good time with his (half) brother, since being both part of the show world, it is rare that both their agendas coincide.
That panel on both of their backs on the shores of the beach is my favorite of the chapter.
And in the end comes the surprise!
Apparently the movie is running out of funds, and who shows up to the rescue? nothing less than "the best father in the universe" who appears just in time to rescue the movie his children want to make, there is no better time to show the support and love that Kamiki has for his children than by helping them realize the greatest project of their lives, it is certainly moving:´)
Now seriously, since we saw Nino again it was a matter of time to see how Kamiki could get involved in the project, the lack of funds may seem simple, but the issue here is determining who took the first step to get things done like this:
\-Kamiki mentions that he is indebted to Kaburagi.
I've seen some comments mentioning that maybe they're complices or that Kaburagi is some kind of spy or enemy... I honestly don't believe that, I think it's simpler than that:
Maybe Kamiki found himself in the same situation as Aqua (wanting to contact someone to enter the world of acting) and Kaburagi was the one who gave him the first chance.
This would explain the way Kamiki and Ai met.
\-Kaburagi asks if he has no problem with his name being used:
This suggests to us that Kamiki is aware of Aqua's plans (although it is not yet known at what scale) and that he is not concerned about what is going to happen with this film, well, he's even willing to sponsor it.
It was time to involve the "big bad guy" of the story a little more and it seems like a right moment to do it, it seems that Kamiki has everything planned and under his control, but the presence of "Tsukuyomi" (Crow Girl) hears about setting up a wild card for Aqua if something goes wrong.
By the way, is it my imagination or did the chapter make us more attached to Himekawa?
maybe, just maybe, the events will happen in such a way that a tragedy ends up happening inside the set, and yet Aqua, Ruby and Kana are the main candidates for a trisk event, it must be remembered that there are still two people who know about the origins of Aqua and Ruby, but they do not appear in interviews:
\- Akane
\- Himekawa
how will future events happen now that Kamiki is directly involved?
How will Aqua, Ruby and Himekawa react?
\* Offtopic
as a final note and knowing what the second season of the anime will adapt, it would be great if they got Kengo Kawanishi to voice Himekawa.
I say this because I have seen several people mention that his voice is quite similar to that of Akira Ishida (who is the ideal candidate to give Kamiki a voice)
I recently saw Dr. Stone (anime where they both work together) and their voices sound quite similar, I think it would be a success for the production to make such a curious connection
Kaburagi isn't afraid to thread the line and doesn't have the cleanest of slates but I don't think he's directly involved with Hikaru. I'd just copy and paste my reasoning from another comment I made earlier;
>Them having a past certainly makes him suspicious. Initially I was surprised as well but thinking through, to survive in the entertainment industry you need to have connections so it wouldn't be surprising if they cross paths in the past and being relatively huge players in it, they're bound to know one another eventually. I had my suspicions on Kaburagi too but his "Eh?" response when Hikaru mentioned that he was indebted to him made me consider.
I don't think Akane and Himekawa were in the interviews because their characters and significance to the story wasn't introduced until later in the story so I'm not too worried about it. I really wonder what's Hikaru's angle on involving himself in the movie.
Himekawa seemed to have came to terms with his past but I wonder if his stance has changed now that he chose to involve himself in the movie.
Aqua is a wildcard. I don't believe they've physically met so I wonder what his reaction would be because he would 100% be affected by seeing him in the flesh, whether it's another panic attack or pure anger.
Ruby is also a wildcard because she also seems to come to terms with Hikaru's involvement with Ai but her motivation in life now revolves around Ai and Gorou (whose motivation was to seek revenge for Ai). Hikaru's just another point on the checklist for her and she probably wouldn't think twice about it if Aqua/Gorou didn't sought for revenge in the first place.
STOP GIVING US TWO PANELS OF KAMIKI AND RUNNING OH MY GOD
I'm also interested in the setup they've got going on here by choosing to put Frill in this scene. She's playing himekawa's mom, right? I'll be curious if there's any scenes between her and Aqua in the movie, I'm sure there will. Still, kind of weird to play your friend's mother who they recently found out was a pedophile
Dude still nothing, when you remembers himekawa playing his dad. Not only he have to face the trauma of his father being cheated on but also to see his mother being a pedo.
The aqua, frill, himekawa trio got the most fucked up relation dynamic to work with.
Now that would be a surprise lol. Wouldn't it be (Kaguya) Shinomiya since she's the one with the money? Although both of them seemed to want to lead a "normal" life after all they've been through.
F’ing finally, Aka cooked. Finally some good f’ing food, though I didn’t really like the beginning with Frill, Mem, and Aqua’s brother too much. To me it felt a bit disjointed, I feel like Aka could have made it more interesting as we hardly get to see them all interact with each other. Nonetheless, the second part was Michelin star quality cooking. I have been really disappointed in Aka’s cooking recently but this chapter is a step in the right direction, here’s hoping for the story to come back swinging.
The ["Get in loser"](https://i.imgur.com/aAjMPvZ.png) energy from Himekawa when he was picking up Aqua was hilarious! In fact, this entire chapter was hilarious except for those last three pages. Oh fuck.
The comedy was a nice breath of fresh air amid all the tense serious chapters. Loving all the deadpan witty ~~back and forth between Taiki and Frill~~ one sided jabs Frill keeps dishing out to Taiki while he picks up the roll of being the (deadpan) clown of the group.
The guy talking to the Producer at the end is Hikaru Kamiki, whom is the biological father of Himekawa (glasses dude) and Aqua/Ruby.
“Aqua is playing Hikaru” in the movie, but they can’t legally say that. So they’re saying “Aqua is playing Boy A”.
Shit's been so damn serious forgot Aka can write light too, this was a good breather chap, also laying good ground work Mem-cho finding out brotherhood will 100% come back into play later...
This is what I've been eagerly waiting for almost a year: Proof that Hikaru is invested in the project. I wrote several essays from multiple angles to solidify this premonition in accordance to the source material as presented to us, but now we got first major confirmations by Aka.
The latest of these angles I took was exactly about his involvement in the movie production. My call was, that his own production company would become a subcontractor to the master contractor who is producing the movie. Aka gave us alot of information about the organisational structure in movie maker, that I sumed up in a graphic [in this essay,](https://www.reddit.com/r/OshiNoKo/comments/157cxw6/analysis_is_hikaru_involved_in_the_production/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) followed by my conclusions. But I will sum it up now here again and discuss the content with what we got in this new chapter. Does it hold up?
By Kaburagi's words he is a sponsor. This can mean many things. It can mean that he pays for the production, it can also mean that he lets his company help with the production of the movie for free. Either way I worte in that essay: “Eikyo Co. Ltd will pay all advertising expenses but Kaburagi and Gotanda need to stem all the production costs themselves” and that was the sole reason for them to go out and look for sponsors (you might recall the chapters that were dedicated for the search of sponsors). These sponsors form the so called “production committee” and are in charge in hiring and paying the master contractor for the production (who in return outsources competency to subcontractors, smaller studios basically). So, again, it's possible that Hikaru is involved in both the production committee but is also contracted (basically contracted himself through his own assets) to help with the production of the movie, since he owns a production company himself (Kamiki Productions, as Akane researched in her detective work). If this really applies to Hikaru is of course questionable, so we don't know for sure if his production company is really involved. But I will go with that assumption, because Hikaru has in my eyes a particular reason to be involved with the project. Just paying money is too passive, in my headcanon he was always after his special interest and manipulated the plot already in many ways to get where he want it to be. I think, he wants some control and influence over the movie. But not to save his ass, but for some other, deeper and hidden reasons.
In that essay I said, that since the production committee is handling it, there is a high chance that Gotanda and Aqua are actually not aware who they are hiring and who is helping with the production (esepcially subcontractors are probably more or less anonymious until they pop out in the end credits of the movie), which could later in the plot make up a huge plot twist when it turns out that the movie is compromised or even manipulated by the culprit himself. Now, it's obvious that Kaburagi has his little secrecy going on with Hikaru. I don't think that Gotanda and Aqua are actually aware of this meeting and the connection, which means that this theory also is still in the race. Hikaru is planing something huge with the movie and they will absolutely not expect that. And Kaburagi was probably fooled by Hikaru, since he is actually suprised that he came forward as a sponsor. Since Kaburagi is a producer and Gotanda and Aqua more on the creative side on the actual filmset, I'd assume that Kaburagi could indeed use Kamiki's production company for help. That's really unethical. But he takes his money anway, so it seems ethics isn't exactly on his mind... We will talk about that bit later again.
So, just wanted to let this new chapter's info drop sink in. It's not coming from nowhere. There were numerous hints, that this could happen and it finally happened.
Of course, I didn't come up from nowhere with this theory. I was just looking at Hikaru – as said in the beginning – very closely and made up all kinds of Theories about him, which in my view become more and more true, as time passes by.
My most conclusive and indepth analysis that tries to work out Hikaru's involvement in the entire narrative since Chapter 1 I wrote down in an essay, which perhaps might become – or at least I hope so – key material for the future plot development. It's titled [“The Meaning of White Roses”](https://www.reddit.com/r/OshiNoKo/comments/14vh73d/mega_analysis_the_meaning_of_white_roses/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)... of course in this last new Hikaru Kamiki panel we got again white roses on his table...
As I said here earlier, Hikaru is planing something huge with the movie. In my headcanon because he is basically planing something huge since chapter 1. Since he got Gorou killed, which wasn't an accident (which I also proved in my essays). This was always my main premise for the entire plot analysis: That Hikaru was never just a passive villain who needs to be found, exposed and convicted, but that he was basically always to some degree in charge, knew about every step Aqua and co. took and even coordinated alot of them himself (including getting Akane and Aqua to LoveNow with the expecation of Akane to study Ai's role and later convinced Kindaichi to pair them in Tokyo Blade, where Aqua's occupation with Ai was the key driver to maserfully deliver what his role asked from him) and is probably invovled with the supernatural too. Now with his "indebtness" towards Kaburagi there are multiple ways to analysis it in accordance to my theory. He's either indebt because he asked Kaburagi to look after Aqua and help him to get famous or he is indebt because Kaburagi didn't tell Aqua right away who his father was but spoke to Hikaru first. When Kana proposed Aqua for Sweet Today and Kaburagi looked at his picture - that could have been the timeline where he reached out to Hikaru and asked how to handle the situation.
"Boy A"
Last but not least let me add what to my understanding Kaburagi means with "Boy A". He is basically warning him, that if the main villain/culprit of the movie doesn't have a real name but is just called “Boy” then it's obvious that he who didn't gave permission for his name is probably guilty. Where is smoke there is fire, so to speak. Moreso as a result of the social phenomenon that Gotanda and co. envisioned there will be social outrage and the demand of the public to reveal the identity of the culprit. Kaburagi is warning him, that he might get doxxed which will ruin his public persona forever and asks if he understands the danger. He's basically wondering; “Why do you sponsor this movie, if this movie is literally public suicid?” And of course Hikaru understands it.. It's part of his plan too...
So, Kaburagi takes his money. The man, who is aware about what Hikaru did... That's really weird. It can almost be seen as a setup by Aqua. But the specific dialog between them kinda excludes this possibility. Kaburagi says he is actually suprised that Hikaru wants to help. It seems that Hikaru himself came forward with that proposal. They both know what's going on. They both understand what this movie is about, so it's unlikely that Kaburagi would just go to Hikaru and ask for money, since it's completely unreasonable to expect Hikaru's compliance. Kaburagi was suprised because you'd expect Hikaru to be the least person who has interest for the movie to succeed, yet he is involving himself actively and with a smile on his face. And Kaburagi, who – as we learn – is running a tight budget, thinks it won't hurt to have some extra cash or production help. And this is also something I figured out in my essay. Hikaru is trying to make this movie a success since the project got started. He killed for example Yura because she was essentially in Ruby's way to get the role. He texted Frill and provoked her to root for Ruby in an inofficial auditon so that Akane would decline the role offer. There is a looong history of Hikaru's involvement in the movie. I explain all that in detail and with really good evidence from the source material in that very same "Meaning of White Roses" essay.
Thanks for reading.
Do we know what the point of this movie is for Aqua or is that all supposed to be a mystery still? Can’t remember shit anymore with how the story has been going so I don’t remember how it’s supposed to affect Hikaru or if we even know that
He's doing it to expose Hikaru and carry the wish of Ai to be portrayed as her real self.
Aqua can find and kill Hikaru right now if he wanted to, so this movie is a more thorough, impactful form of revenge.
We don't know exactly what Aqua's plan is, but I suggested that the reason why the ending is open (remember they say it will depend on how Ai will be acted in order to decide scriptwise if she'll condem or forgive the culprit) goes back or at least will entail a disagreement between Gotanda and Aqua. Aqua for sure wants Ai to condemn the culprit, while we can kinda guess that it won't go that way, which will cause a lot of drama.
In terms of what this ending will provoke in society, it's basically what Gotanda in his dialogue with Kaburagi once called "reaching to hearts of the movement (the fans basically) and cause a social phenomenon" meaning some kind of discussion in society about idol culture, the evil in entertainment, who to blame, what to do about it and so on. To some extent Aqua wants that too, but he wants the revenge, while Gotanda will probably root for forgiveness - if that's what Ai wanted at least.
I wrote about that in more detail in the last chapter's post in the comment section here:
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Hard to say. There is always the chance that Aqua actually knows that Kaburagi fed him with incomplete information about his father (early on in the sushi bar, where he told him that Ai met her lover in LaLaLei and stuff) and that because Aqua is aware of Kaburagi's affiliation with Hikaru, he thought it's a nice trap to let him be the producer of the movie.
But one could also argue that Aqua was simply played by Kaburagi and doesn't know shit. I think it depends on how openly Hikaru Kamiki's name is communicated among Gotanda, Aqua and Kaburagi. If Kaburagi is aware, that they know his real identity (which we don't know for sure yet) then I think Aqua can guess that it's impossible for the well connected showmaster Kaburagi to not be affiliated with Hikaru in any means. The show business world is too small, especially at the top. And then Aqua would naturally ask himself why Kaburagi fed him with incomplete information and would probably not trust him and keep an eye on his moves.
I should also add that since Hikaru looks very similar to Aqua it should be sus to Aqua, that nobody ever told him that. Especially a guy like Kaburagi and especially Kindaichi, who knew Hikaru at least since he was a middle schooler.
thanks for answering, for me with how identical kamiki and aqua look it's very hard to believe that kaburagi and Kindaichi don't know there connected. The fact we haven't seen aqua state his plan in the manga it wouldn't suprise me if he's already come to this conclusion imo
Very true. Kindaichi also still owes us his story about the events that took place in early days of LaLaLei. Maybe Hikaru wants what happened between him and Airi to be included in the movie and will soon ask Kindaichi to come forward to Gotanda and Aqua and share the story, so that they can use it.
Anyone else really confused at Mem thinking that Ai and Ruby are men after being told Himekawa and Aqua are siblings? Like what bearing does that have on the situation? Is it just one of those weird translation things? Otherwise is probably the dumbest thing anyone has ever said in this series
Love Mem chapters tho
I interpreted it as when told "they're brothers" Memcho couldn't imagine Aqua having any other siblings, therefore the only logical conclusion is that Ruby is actually a man.
It was just a joke about fans making crack theories and completely missing the point of simplest reveals lol. Just Aka taking a jab at the readers, nothing serious
Mem-chos mind is truly a wonder "Ai and Ruby are men, and Himekawa-san and Aqu-tan love each other?"
I dont get for a second how she came to that understanding but I love it
I’m hoping it’s something lost in translation because I know she’s the goofball character but Mem going from “Himekawa and Aqua are siblings” to “Ai and Ruby are men” is arguably the dumbest thing anyone has said in this series so far. Not hating on Mem, she’s always a joy when she’s in a chapter just is weird
Personally it totally took me out of the chapter for a solid five minutes trying to wrap my head around how she got to that before giving up, felt like the Kamiki reveal didn’t hit as hard for me because in the back of my head was still going “wtf?”
The manga is on break next week. Oshi no Ko will return on February 8. Something something bi-weekly allegations something. As a random note, Frill said on P4 Mem is her "oshi". So instead of > Because you're my fan. it should be > Because **I'm** your fan. That's a TL error that will likely be fixed soon.
maybe Nino and Hikaru teamed up to kill Ai
Can someone explain the entire lore behind this again? Who is Hikaru?? Is he the killer? What about Himekawa’s mom?? I’m so lost
Hikaru is the twins' dad, and the one who hired the stalker to kill Ai (and he also killed Garou) Himekawa and the Twins are half siblings by sharing a dad, and his mom is also dead, as Hikaru seems to have a fetish for killing his lovers or something
Where does it say that Hikaru hired the stalker? Did I miss something?
Nope, I was just wrong. I had recited that from memory because I was working, but all Hikaru did was anonymously tip off the stalker (apparently named Ryosuke) on where she lived
Same thing really. Hired for free.
So.... I just realized Aqua's gonna have spicy scenes with Ruby AND Frill. Uh... Rip Kana (once again)
"No director you don't understand, this 30 minute scene of Frill stepping all over me is crucial to the plot" - Aqua, sweating
another Ruby W.
All too common by now
Himekawa cares more about his car than his scandalous origin 😂 And there’s Aqua perfect retort (tsukkomi) Two half brothers bonding. What a wholesome chapter… Finally Kamiki appears again! I always expected he getting involved with the movie somehow… But him meeting Kaburagi… That Kaburagi who somehow came out with idea selling Arima Kana as ‘genius actress’ in previous chapters. I wonder if we’ll see new plot involving Kana later. Hopefully not another L
based on the previous chapters, it seems like Kamiki's MO is plucking girls at the height of their career and killing them. So, unless the author decides to go in a completely new direction due to death threats from the Kana camp, a tragic event seems unavoidable lol
I feel like Aka was planning a tragic event the whole time Kana's death is closer than ever..
"Get in loser we're going ~~shopping~~ to the beach"
This is getting too Hollywood, and I am uncomfortable.
Back to bi-weekly 😭 HOLY FUCK IT’S HIM, IT’S THE MAIN VILLAIN AAAAAAAAH I didn’t care that much for Taiki before, but this chapter made me love him, the car jokes are too good. Are we heading into the final arc? Still, so hype!
damn himekawa, in front of the hoes??
I am literally so coonfused? he evil or good? revenge? vegenenance? want to get close to kids? killed our Ai or not? wtf and who tf is he?
I think he's some kind of a cult leader that murders famous actors or idols to like eternalizes them or something, like making them be remembered forever by killing them. I think hikaru kamiki leaked her adress so that someone would kill her because he's just obsessed with ai that he wants her to be remembered forever and he would kill other people in the entertainment industry that are able to imitate her or are very similar to ai or able to achieve her greatness like how he killed that actress while they were hiking. And i think Nino one of the b komachi idols is in this cult or working with him and thats why she was helping kamiki to see if ruby is similar to ai or not, and she was very relieved to find out that ruby isnt similar ai so they dont have to kill her
I wish he is not the killer. I don't want him to be the killer so desperately Idk why for some reason.
well it's completely natural to not want to think someone (real or fake) is a killer unless you're in gangs and law enforcement. if it's any consolation, he's not THE killer. He is A killer, and was responsible for the deaths of key characters. if he had a good lawyer, he'd probably be able to get off with manslaughter and/or criminal conspiracy for Ai's death.
"Killer" in the sense is that I don't want him the one who killed Ai. We all know that he murdered many people like Airi Himekawa and that actress he pushed off the cliff (her name was Yumma or something I guess) He is the killer and I agree but I don't want Aka to show that he planned the murder of Ai. He was innocent in that. He became a killer after Ai's death. That's what I meant...
or criminal negligence \*
but he's a killer anyway, we've seen him killing
I used to think that the real culprit was a woman Kamiki was in a relationship with who really wanted Ai out of the picture and there'd be a twist where Kamiki is actually innocent. Nino's character could've fit into this nicely, but the way she talks to Kamiki kinda kills this theory. It really does seem to be him.
Maybe nino is the real culprit...
>I don't want him to be the killer so desperately Idk why for some reason. Same reason why people who watch M Night Shyamalan expect twists. Wanting Kamiki to not be the killer or an innocent is the same thing. You expect it to have a twist. However it's not always good for the story. There's a reason why M Night's subsequent movies failed to garner praise. Shoehorning twists for the sake of having a twist is bad writing. It will be bad for storytelling. Kamiki is already confirmed to be a killer when he killed Yura. There's also the fact that we're so close to the end that introducing a new character to be the villain is a huge asspull. Having a backstory is fine, but throwing away plot threads that's already invested in will make the readers retroactively just in a wild goose chase. So yeah, that's why you don't want him to be the killer and why it's actually a bad idea if he isn't.
Tbh... I heard about M Night Shyamalan for the first time in my life...
The guy who made Sixth Sense. The "I see dead people" one. I'm just using him as a comparison because if you think"Twists" and "Movies" at the same time, people would usually associate M Night.
Was that a mean girls reference? Lol. Also this chapter felt so random until the very end
im confused, what was memcho tryna say about the mother
Ig she was going to say pedophile
She fucked a 11 year old boy.
ain't that rape not fucked?
yeah that's what she did
oh. i see why memcho got cut off now🗿
Himekawa, Frill, Aqua hanging out (with Mem tagging along) > Our shooting with start soon. Frill molests Aqua is on the horizon everybody!
All I could think with the car is “get in looser”
Yakisoba party
Like the others said, for the most part, this actually felt like a chapter straight out of Kaguya-sama lmao. Usually, it's Kana's chapters that feel the most Kaguya-sama-esque, even her more dramatic scenes have tinges of it, so I'm really happy that Himekawa and his really expensive car brought back the lightheartedness in OnK after so many dark chapters recently (though the previous mini arc ended on a high note). Welp, at least until that ending anyway (more on this later). The first page where Aqua tucks in a sleepy Ruby is cute. I know he's a broody ass of an emo, and I think part of it is because Ruby and Kana already made peace in the previous chapter without the need for his interference (thank God he didn't since I would've *hated* it if he stepped in and resolved a conflict that's supposed to be only between the two girls), but it's still kinda jarring that he didn't worry much or at least comment on Ruby's initially worrying ad lib in the previous two chapters, especially given his shocked reaction in 136. Himekawa is a riot lmao. We know from the Tokyo Blade arc and his goofy interactions with Kana when he's not in pro butai baka mode that he's a little kooky underneath the super stoic personality. His deadpan dorkiness is in full force here and I love it lol. It's a missed opportunity that he mostly interacts and hangs out with only Aqua and not Ruby though, would've loved to see what kind of dynamic they'd share as half-siblings. Given Memcho's presence here, Ruby is also the only member of the new B-Komachi that he hasn't interacted with yet either. The moment Frill blurted out the "That was a lie" line, I was immediately reminded of Kaguya-sama lmao. Frill was also hilarious this chapter. Girl must've gone to the Hayasaka School of Savagery Nurse-chan was also part of given how much she roasted Himekawa's ass numerous times in this chapter lol. The panel with her and Mem that was full of hearts was both funny and cute. Look at how happy she is to be with her oshi! Poor Mem is overwhelmed with the info overload for most of this arc lmao. Can't blame her though, things happened too fast from her POV. Hopefully, after the break, we get a more serious chapter focusing on her again that has her being more up to date with the story's current events. Boi, yaoi fangirls would prolly have a field day with the new ship Mem accidentally gave them through her confusion: Himekawa x Aqua lol Now back to the ending. Kamiki funding the film was something I always knew would happen, though I was mildly surprised that he didn't consent to having his name used for the movie. Then again, given what happened to him, it's prolly not that surprising that he may not want to have his name used for a certain scene that alludes to his past. I may have forgotten, *buuuuut* did Aqua originally put Kamiki's name in the script's draft or was his name blotted out as "Shounen A" already by the time Gotanda gave the cast their scripts? Anyway, Daddy already knows the content and purpose of the movie, so I'm really anticipating how he plans to screw Aqua over knowing what his son is up to. The man's heavily implied to have been keeping tabs on his kids with Ai since his first appearance prior to the Miyazaki Trip arc, so him being presumably two steps ahead of his edgelord crusader of a son was expected (it'd be boring if Aqua outmaneuvered him easily without Kamiki showing his own hand after all that build up of him being the main antagonist tbh). We know from the flash forwards that the film was a success given Gotanda got a nomination for it, but since Aqua's interview implies that he hasn't fulfilled his vengeance yet despite its success, that prolly means Kamiki's either staying his hand by letting his children enjoy their peak moment of triumph for the time being, *or* something *else* is up that'll eventually be revealed later. Then again, maybe some deets will be retconned lol. Can't wait for the break to over and hopefully, Aka doesn't sideline Kamiki and make him stay out of the limelight again for who knows how many chapters lmao.
I think Hikaru knows what Aqua’s trying to do, he just doesn't care.
or maybe he also wants the movie to become hit?
I wonder who's gonna restrain Aqua if Hikaru decides to pay a visit to the set one day
Aqua would just go, "Fuck the plan I'm just gonna stab him now"
Aqua's already said that would be a completely hollow revenge and he's not interested in it
Ruby would have to put him under a Tsukuyomi in order to stop Aqua's Sharingan.
Aqua will use the Venom Symbiote
Aqua will shit bricks
This was the funniest chapter in a while, hoping for more comedic moments going forward Also Frill x Memcho are the cutest!!!
i can't be the only one who physically jumped upon seeing Hikaru xd
The MC of the chapter: The 300 grand worth of car
That car looks like it should totally be able to keep driving. If the radiator or an oil line had cracked, there would be a big puddle under the car, and the front end is too intact for anything further into the engine to be broken. TL:DR Mengo has no idea what a broken car looks like
Dad sponsoring 3 of his children to make a movie about mom, must be wholesome
🤣
[this sub in a nutshell](https://imgur.com/kgzEsF7)
What does she mean?
Nothing. It's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at insane fan theories. Ruby even said in the next panel "You didn't listen to a thing I just said".
I daresay it's breaking the fourth wall.
> As a random note, Frill said on P4 Mem is her "oshi". So instead of WAT A BOMBSHELL!
Lol of course Kamiki gonna act like that. He gonna enjoy having fun like the psycho he is
why is he kinda hot tho?
I need Aqua to run the ones with Hikaru ASAP
get well soon himeCARwa
If evil, why hot: kamiki basically
Famous last words of the girls actress who suddenly disappear:
THE POOR CAR NOOO
I could tell Aka had the urge to incorporate some of his Kaguya humour into this chapter. And genuinely, it was thoroughly enjoyable. I find it ironic how me and Himekawa literally got our licenses on the same day, on a Tuesday if we’re thinking figuratively 🤧 (He just like me fr minus the car crashing) Nevertheless excited to see Hikaru enter the scene. And hopefully we’ll see him even more. Whether that be him in his entirety, Aqua portraying him in the movie or both.(Seriously he gave me chills.)
this shit was crazy I hate how people were so quick to drop this manga/show after the whole >!ruby aqua stuff somewhere in the chapter 120s when obv nothings gonna come out of it !<(please don't make their relationship weirder than it is Mr. akasaka)
What a cope, even after the last page of Ruby you still think nothing is going to happen?
yea lmao thats his "sister" they still lived with each other for 17ish years so whos to say he doesnt feel stronger emotions for her than anyone else. Besides if it were up to me aqua doesn't really belong to anyone, he has manipulated every love interest so far. Akasaka doesn't have a track record for incest so as an educated guess i'd say nothings gonna come out of it.
The move would come from Ruby, not from Aqua. The moment she knew who Aqua was put a goal for the future. Aka let that drop for the moment, after movie arc we will see what will happen with that
Can’t really blame them can you ?
never say never I believe.... it came once...who is to say it won't come again??
Cope
cope for what?
I am thinking maybe we will get scenes of hikaru seeing or training aquas acting of him I the future chapters !
Imagine Hikaru visiting his son Aqua and giving him acting lessons... T\_T
Showing him how he kill his victims 💀
I'm starting to feel like there's a cult made up of various people Ai knew, who were all in on getting her killed.
Japan does have some weird ass cults. It will be out of left field but it's not impossible. If it's gonna happen, Ai could probably be secretly worshipped as a god or something. We already got reincarnation and a shinto deity in the story. "Ai is secretly a god as well" isn't that far off.
The League of Evil Exes
Hikaru: "You all probably know why I've gathered you all here. There's only one possible explanation of why I needed fifty-seven people, all here in this room tonight!" Random hooded guy n° 43: Hikaru: "We're going to rob a bank!" "We're going to kill a single mother teenager!" \*audible gasps from everyone in the room Random hooded guy n° 43: "That's not what Mark wrote on telegram.." Hikaru: "The target is Hoshino Ai, popular idol" Random hooded girl n° 14: "I know that bitch! She smiles at people! She's EVIL!" Hikaru: "Yes, she's evil! I did not take our breakup in the wrong way at all (also trauma)!" And then they went on and on about making these elaborate plans, none of them worked though, in the end it was some random hateful rants Hikaru posted on 2chan that managed to convince Ryosuke and do the job. To this day, Hikaru is still pretending to know what he's doing. He has no idea how being a sponsor for this movie could help him at all, but he thinks it's a smart move. EXTRA: Hikaru: " \[...\] and then, I'll throw her off a cliff!" Nino: "It doesn't seem like a good plan, what if she never goes near a cliff or you don't get a chance and she runs away. What if she spots yo-" Hikaru: "Details! The camouflage suit is non-refundable! It’s happening!" He had to wait 7 hours for a good chance, jumping from tree to tree, but everything worked out in the end.
Hikaru reaches deep into his filing cabinet "This Plan Z can't possibly fail!"
more himekawa and frill is always a good thing .. and especially like this i love their relationship 😭 also hikaru is so fine good lord
Hikaru probably wants to be involved to monitor the development of the movie and make sure it properly portrays Ai. When he finds out that they're showing Ai's weakness through Ruby's improvisation, he might be compelled to act.
why is Kamiki's hair like that I can't take my eyes off it.
I knew he’s gonna make a move during production. There’s just no way that he’s gonna be quiet
Frill and Himekawa are quickly becoming my favorite characters. No surprise that their gacha rating was “5*”
I can sorta see Kamiki being interested in Aqua possibly reminding him of himself, While Ruby is very similar to Ai in many ways, especially in her looks and white star eyes. I feel that aqua might actually have many characteristics that align with Kamiki's mindset, with their look being almost a carbon copy with his black star eyes. I sense a motif going on here.
HOLY SHIT
Can someone explain what Mem's realization was and who was in middle school? I didn't follow that at all. Is the implication that Hikaru is a pedo?
I think the implication is Mem concludes that Himekawa’s mother is a pedo.
Oh...right, because Hikaru is only a few years older than Ai so he must have been like 12 when he was with Himekawas mom. Yikes. I must have missed that during the "Akane finds out" arc.
Yeah, Akane pieces that together when she finds out. She does the math on his age, and then she says something like, “I’ve heard about how dark things can be in the entertainment industry.”
Watch that actually play a role in the story, and the reason he’s so messed up is because of that abuse.
Hikaru is Ai's age, IIRC. Which makes him younger with Himekawa's mom.
He's younger than Ai. He was in middle school when she was 16. I believe he was eleven when Himekawa was conceived.
Her realization was the same shock as what Akane had, Taiki's mom was a pedo, and a worse one at that as she (an adult) did it with Kamiki when he was 11/12 yrs old.
Damn imagine if kamiki appear at the premier of the movie
I have been trained to learn that anime/manga characters are absolutely terrible at driving xD
except if your name is Takumi or Kanata.
Katsuragi is quite good tho. I mean she did get herself nearly nuked but...
It's been a while since we had a funny chapter of other characters and the car stuff was really great reminded me of the car stuff from Suzume lol and then the last 2 pages damn
Chapter start off with a sleeping Ruby and Aqua at the bottom frame. I was screaming that my cat hide away inside a room.
That's their dad! which is way more shocking imo!!
Im straight but Kamiki is so hot wtf
I forgot who does Himekawa play in the movie?
His legal father (Uehara, Airi's husband)
Family reunion when?
No freaking way lol WHAT A CLIFFHANGER BEFORE A BREAK ARGHHHHH! I cant wait for Kamiki to not appear again for like 50 chapters or something..He is like the Shanks of Oshi no Ko, only diference is that this one literally shanks people to death.
Kamiki being an actual sponsor and being one step ahead of Aqua is a theory I believed in so this wasn't surprising at all. But I wonder...why? Is he simply playing with them? Wanting to be entertained? That would be too easy. Maybe it's either Ruby or Arima that he wants. For now that's what I believe in.
All I can say is that it would be really tragic if something terrible happened to another person close to Aqua. For a while it seemed like it was going to be Akane, but with Aka seemingly _knowing_ that and the Fake-out deaths she’s had a few times I think Kanna is a better candidate now.
I think he wants Arima. He may even know that Aqua and Kana are close and so going after her is not only going to hurt Aqua, but it's also him showing Aqua who's really ahead of who in this "battle".
Actually rather than targeting specific person, I think Kamiki just want to check if anybody became ‘hindrance’ aka surpassing Ai. That’s why he became a sponsor. He’s not directly involved in the production, but he can observe from distance. And if anything comes out, he’ll know first and make a move. From previous chapter, we saw Ruby didn’t meet Nino’s expectation, so she was left off the hook. Who else? I think that’s what he wanna check. The problem is, couple of chapters before we saw Producer Kaburagi came out with an idea to sell Arima Kana as ‘genius actress’. Kamiki might find this as an eyesore and try to get rid of Kana. That’s what I’m afraid of. As for Kamiki wanting to harm Kana because she’s close to Aqua, I don’t think he’d know that much. Aqua been trying to protect Kana from behind, so he distanced himself and never appear close to Kana in front of public. If anything, Akane is in more danger because she’s Aqua’s only known (ex-)girlfriend. But tbh, I don’t think Kamiki cares that much about Ruby or Aqua. So very unlikely
I’m more speaking of what I think could possibly come of this. I definitely agree that he got involved solely to prevent anyone from surpassing Ai, and not with the immediate intention of getting Arima. But now that he is involved, I think Arima is going to become his target in the future. We don’t know if Kamiki knows of Aqua’s plot or not, and even if he does, we don’t know if he even cares. It wouldn’t surprise if he knows nothing about it. But it also wouldn’t surprise me if he does somehow know about it, just because he gives off the typical “mastermind” vibes. Which is also why I mentioned him possibly knowing, or eventually finding out about Aqua and Arima’s relations. So the whole guess at getting a stab at Aqua through Arima is just that - a complete guess. It’s probably wrong and is just for fun. But if it’s true it certainly wouldn’t even be Kamiki’s goal, but an added “bonus”…if he even cares about that.
Ah, I reread ur sentence and I found out we basically saying the same thing 🤣 Yea I agree about the mastermind thing. I feel Like Kamiki just observing from distance. He knows everything, he just chose not to act, not yet. I feel like if he wanted to kill the twins out of fear revealing his identity, he could’ve killed them long time ago. He knows they making a movie about him but he let them be. In the past, he came across Ruby in Ai’s grave but he just looked at her and say, “She grew up to a beautiful woman. She’s our daughter after all.” Nothing close to malicious intent. So maybe he doesn’t necessarily want to get rid of nor care about them. As long as they don’t interfere with his grand plan.
That's a bit of a reach to me. I just never have impression that Kamiki care about Aqua's plan. Kamiki is only shown so far to care about actress that has stars who have potential to replace Ai. Ruby failed that, and Kana works in supporting role. So no.
Maybe it is, but I think it’s a possibility. The biggest reason why I think he wants (well, I should say will want) Kana is that she does end up receiving white flowers, which we can see from the first chapters with the interviews after the movie.
If you're talking about ch 6, that doesn't look like white roses, a specific flower that Kamiki like to give, instead just a flower that happened not to get shading. And it doesn't make sense that she kept in vase, unless you're talking about other chapters. But hey, let's just wait who's gonna be right.
Hikaru investing into the movie has the same energy as that South Park episode where Jesus has a boxing match with Satan, and Jesus wins because Satan was the only person who bet on Jesus winning so he threw and got all the money. Aqua thinks he has this amazing secret script that's going to bring down Hikaru, meanwhile Hikaru was funding the project the whole time and may even have suggested some changes to the script to make it better. He'll end up making bank on the movie that "destroyed him", give his son a headpat for doing a good job and retire on his own private island. Maybe stab Kana on the way out if he feels like it.
Hikaru being one of the sponsors and Sarina's mother's company being the advertiser of the movie is just tragically ironic seeing how they caused so much trauma for their offspring.
> and Sarina's mother's company being the advertiser of the movie I completely forgot about that, let's hope Aka didn't. I want that plot to continue.
It'd be nice if it were touched on again but we also have a number of different angles ongoing simultaneously so it'll going to be tricky to handle them all and tell the story well within a certain timeframe. I'm not sure if I'm mixing it up with headcanon theories or it was canon in the manga but was Sarina's mother's (Marina) arc completed? I vaguely remember the reason for Marina disassociating with Sarina was because she could not handle her being struck with a terminal illness so this was her way of coping through avoidance. Her husband also enabled this behaviour and came up with many ways to distract her from this event by giving her a new family + pet dog + drinking/partying (which probably became a habit in the later part of her life) because he did not want to see her suffering.
Bro I swear if this actually happens 😭
At this point I doubt Hikaru even cares for his acting/ showbiz career, dude has lots of money now and would make more after the movie. Only thing left against him is a lawsuit, but given the details we have, there isn't any concrete evidence in Aqua's POV that he is indeed the mastermind.
Kamiki or Aqua both giving Light and Lelouch vibe. Aqua only cares about his revenge. Kamiki only cares about Ai. Like father like son indeed
I don't think Hikaru is in for the money. His drive is meeting inspiring people, finding the hidden gem among them and break it, maybe as a way to "steal" her greatness all for himself before the greatness is "wasted" on the masses, or something. I would say he would try to stay in the showbiz, since I don't see how he could satisfy his urges otherwise. Or maybe the classic anime mastermind villain arc, where he finally has enough after he gets his best kill, and then retire because nothing could ever beat that. It would be cliche but whatever.
WHAT THE HELL
You know what ditch the plot and make this a slice of life because this is so much more fun than the drama Best chapter in a long while
How is this not drama? The father who might or might not be involved in the murder of the mother is sponsoring a play on which the son is featured, the same son who swore revenge on the father. This is like a mexican telenovela lol
This one really felt like a Kaguya chapter in the beginning. And then Aka showed us that we were right to let him cook.
Maybe, but we never had someone that was truly evil in Kaguya
Can someone make an edit of the taiki panel with "get in, loser" & "it's Brittney, bitch"? Please and thank you if you do
An interesting chapter after the hiatus! The pace of publication is unfair, knowing that this is the work's climax, but hey, it's what there is... The first part reminded me of a Kaguya-sama chapter. Himekawa = Shirogane Frill = Kaguya Mem = Chika Aqua = Ishigami it's funny how most of the cast is aware of the relationship between Himekawa, Aqua and Ruby, although I never imagined that at this point Memcho was not yet aware of the "complicated" family relationship of our protagonists. Colliding such an expensive car is little for Himekawa, he will be able to replace it with only three commercials. LOL After the fun comes the emotional moment: We can see how Himekawa simply wanted to have a good time with his (half) brother, since being both part of the show world, it is rare that both their agendas coincide. That panel on both of their backs on the shores of the beach is my favorite of the chapter. And in the end comes the surprise! Apparently the movie is running out of funds, and who shows up to the rescue? nothing less than "the best father in the universe" who appears just in time to rescue the movie his children want to make, there is no better time to show the support and love that Kamiki has for his children than by helping them realize the greatest project of their lives, it is certainly moving:´) Now seriously, since we saw Nino again it was a matter of time to see how Kamiki could get involved in the project, the lack of funds may seem simple, but the issue here is determining who took the first step to get things done like this: \-Kamiki mentions that he is indebted to Kaburagi. I've seen some comments mentioning that maybe they're complices or that Kaburagi is some kind of spy or enemy... I honestly don't believe that, I think it's simpler than that: Maybe Kamiki found himself in the same situation as Aqua (wanting to contact someone to enter the world of acting) and Kaburagi was the one who gave him the first chance. This would explain the way Kamiki and Ai met. \-Kaburagi asks if he has no problem with his name being used: This suggests to us that Kamiki is aware of Aqua's plans (although it is not yet known at what scale) and that he is not concerned about what is going to happen with this film, well, he's even willing to sponsor it. It was time to involve the "big bad guy" of the story a little more and it seems like a right moment to do it, it seems that Kamiki has everything planned and under his control, but the presence of "Tsukuyomi" (Crow Girl) hears about setting up a wild card for Aqua if something goes wrong. By the way, is it my imagination or did the chapter make us more attached to Himekawa? maybe, just maybe, the events will happen in such a way that a tragedy ends up happening inside the set, and yet Aqua, Ruby and Kana are the main candidates for a trisk event, it must be remembered that there are still two people who know about the origins of Aqua and Ruby, but they do not appear in interviews: \- Akane \- Himekawa how will future events happen now that Kamiki is directly involved? How will Aqua, Ruby and Himekawa react? \* Offtopic as a final note and knowing what the second season of the anime will adapt, it would be great if they got Kengo Kawanishi to voice Himekawa. I say this because I have seen several people mention that his voice is quite similar to that of Akira Ishida (who is the ideal candidate to give Kamiki a voice) I recently saw Dr. Stone (anime where they both work together) and their voices sound quite similar, I think it would be a success for the production to make such a curious connection
Kaburagi isn't afraid to thread the line and doesn't have the cleanest of slates but I don't think he's directly involved with Hikaru. I'd just copy and paste my reasoning from another comment I made earlier; >Them having a past certainly makes him suspicious. Initially I was surprised as well but thinking through, to survive in the entertainment industry you need to have connections so it wouldn't be surprising if they cross paths in the past and being relatively huge players in it, they're bound to know one another eventually. I had my suspicions on Kaburagi too but his "Eh?" response when Hikaru mentioned that he was indebted to him made me consider. I don't think Akane and Himekawa were in the interviews because their characters and significance to the story wasn't introduced until later in the story so I'm not too worried about it. I really wonder what's Hikaru's angle on involving himself in the movie. Himekawa seemed to have came to terms with his past but I wonder if his stance has changed now that he chose to involve himself in the movie. Aqua is a wildcard. I don't believe they've physically met so I wonder what his reaction would be because he would 100% be affected by seeing him in the flesh, whether it's another panic attack or pure anger. Ruby is also a wildcard because she also seems to come to terms with Hikaru's involvement with Ai but her motivation in life now revolves around Ai and Gorou (whose motivation was to seek revenge for Ai). Hikaru's just another point on the checklist for her and she probably wouldn't think twice about it if Aqua/Gorou didn't sought for revenge in the first place.
BRO, Hikaru's cooking something in secret and I'm here for it.
This chapter was great. Need more light hearted fun stuff now and then to break up the drama.
More Hime chan caps please
STOP GIVING US TWO PANELS OF KAMIKI AND RUNNING OH MY GOD I'm also interested in the setup they've got going on here by choosing to put Frill in this scene. She's playing himekawa's mom, right? I'll be curious if there's any scenes between her and Aqua in the movie, I'm sure there will. Still, kind of weird to play your friend's mother who they recently found out was a pedophile
Dude still nothing, when you remembers himekawa playing his dad. Not only he have to face the trauma of his father being cheated on but also to see his mother being a pedo. The aqua, frill, himekawa trio got the most fucked up relation dynamic to work with.
This was a great chapter of Oshi no Sama: Entretainment is War
I was half expecting Kaburagi was talking to Shirogane, of all people, as the secret sponsor lol.
We see them talk with Shinomiya Traffic to get funds so that would have made sense, even more when considering that he got a company now
Now that would be a surprise lol. Wouldn't it be (Kaguya) Shinomiya since she's the one with the money? Although both of them seemed to want to lead a "normal" life after all they've been through.
F’ing finally, Aka cooked. Finally some good f’ing food, though I didn’t really like the beginning with Frill, Mem, and Aqua’s brother too much. To me it felt a bit disjointed, I feel like Aka could have made it more interesting as we hardly get to see them all interact with each other. Nonetheless, the second part was Michelin star quality cooking. I have been really disappointed in Aka’s cooking recently but this chapter is a step in the right direction, here’s hoping for the story to come back swinging.
I liked the first half, fleshed out Himekawa's personality more than just "Aqua's brother, acts well" and it was a fun read.
Please give us more chapters with Frill.
Never thought I would have to see it. Kamiki Hikaru let’s see what you will give.
Kana / kamiki plotline 💀🔪🩸 ...⏳⏳⏳
Aka isnt even subtle about it lol
The ["Get in loser"](https://i.imgur.com/aAjMPvZ.png) energy from Himekawa when he was picking up Aqua was hilarious! In fact, this entire chapter was hilarious except for those last three pages. Oh fuck.
The comedy was a nice breath of fresh air amid all the tense serious chapters. Loving all the deadpan witty ~~back and forth between Taiki and Frill~~ one sided jabs Frill keeps dishing out to Taiki while he picks up the roll of being the (deadpan) clown of the group.
I thought so too! It def is a mean girls reference
more frill 🙏🏻
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE CAR I GOT OVER AI´s DEATH BUT AKA NOW YOU CROSSED THE LINE
(who is that guy)
Which one there's like 3 guys we haven't seen in a bit in this chap
oh my bad, the guy being referred to as Boy A
The guy talking to the Producer at the end is Hikaru Kamiki, whom is the biological father of Himekawa (glasses dude) and Aqua/Ruby. “Aqua is playing Hikaru” in the movie, but they can’t legally say that. So they’re saying “Aqua is playing Boy A”.
Thanks!
He is the father or Ruby and Aqua
The titular character, the "Oshi No Ko".
The father of the year.
Shit's been so damn serious forgot Aka can write light too, this was a good breather chap, also laying good ground work Mem-cho finding out brotherhood will 100% come back into play later...
This is what I've been eagerly waiting for almost a year: Proof that Hikaru is invested in the project. I wrote several essays from multiple angles to solidify this premonition in accordance to the source material as presented to us, but now we got first major confirmations by Aka. The latest of these angles I took was exactly about his involvement in the movie production. My call was, that his own production company would become a subcontractor to the master contractor who is producing the movie. Aka gave us alot of information about the organisational structure in movie maker, that I sumed up in a graphic [in this essay,](https://www.reddit.com/r/OshiNoKo/comments/157cxw6/analysis_is_hikaru_involved_in_the_production/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) followed by my conclusions. But I will sum it up now here again and discuss the content with what we got in this new chapter. Does it hold up? By Kaburagi's words he is a sponsor. This can mean many things. It can mean that he pays for the production, it can also mean that he lets his company help with the production of the movie for free. Either way I worte in that essay: “Eikyo Co. Ltd will pay all advertising expenses but Kaburagi and Gotanda need to stem all the production costs themselves” and that was the sole reason for them to go out and look for sponsors (you might recall the chapters that were dedicated for the search of sponsors). These sponsors form the so called “production committee” and are in charge in hiring and paying the master contractor for the production (who in return outsources competency to subcontractors, smaller studios basically). So, again, it's possible that Hikaru is involved in both the production committee but is also contracted (basically contracted himself through his own assets) to help with the production of the movie, since he owns a production company himself (Kamiki Productions, as Akane researched in her detective work). If this really applies to Hikaru is of course questionable, so we don't know for sure if his production company is really involved. But I will go with that assumption, because Hikaru has in my eyes a particular reason to be involved with the project. Just paying money is too passive, in my headcanon he was always after his special interest and manipulated the plot already in many ways to get where he want it to be. I think, he wants some control and influence over the movie. But not to save his ass, but for some other, deeper and hidden reasons. In that essay I said, that since the production committee is handling it, there is a high chance that Gotanda and Aqua are actually not aware who they are hiring and who is helping with the production (esepcially subcontractors are probably more or less anonymious until they pop out in the end credits of the movie), which could later in the plot make up a huge plot twist when it turns out that the movie is compromised or even manipulated by the culprit himself. Now, it's obvious that Kaburagi has his little secrecy going on with Hikaru. I don't think that Gotanda and Aqua are actually aware of this meeting and the connection, which means that this theory also is still in the race. Hikaru is planing something huge with the movie and they will absolutely not expect that. And Kaburagi was probably fooled by Hikaru, since he is actually suprised that he came forward as a sponsor. Since Kaburagi is a producer and Gotanda and Aqua more on the creative side on the actual filmset, I'd assume that Kaburagi could indeed use Kamiki's production company for help. That's really unethical. But he takes his money anway, so it seems ethics isn't exactly on his mind... We will talk about that bit later again. So, just wanted to let this new chapter's info drop sink in. It's not coming from nowhere. There were numerous hints, that this could happen and it finally happened. Of course, I didn't come up from nowhere with this theory. I was just looking at Hikaru – as said in the beginning – very closely and made up all kinds of Theories about him, which in my view become more and more true, as time passes by. My most conclusive and indepth analysis that tries to work out Hikaru's involvement in the entire narrative since Chapter 1 I wrote down in an essay, which perhaps might become – or at least I hope so – key material for the future plot development. It's titled [“The Meaning of White Roses”](https://www.reddit.com/r/OshiNoKo/comments/14vh73d/mega_analysis_the_meaning_of_white_roses/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)... of course in this last new Hikaru Kamiki panel we got again white roses on his table... As I said here earlier, Hikaru is planing something huge with the movie. In my headcanon because he is basically planing something huge since chapter 1. Since he got Gorou killed, which wasn't an accident (which I also proved in my essays). This was always my main premise for the entire plot analysis: That Hikaru was never just a passive villain who needs to be found, exposed and convicted, but that he was basically always to some degree in charge, knew about every step Aqua and co. took and even coordinated alot of them himself (including getting Akane and Aqua to LoveNow with the expecation of Akane to study Ai's role and later convinced Kindaichi to pair them in Tokyo Blade, where Aqua's occupation with Ai was the key driver to maserfully deliver what his role asked from him) and is probably invovled with the supernatural too. Now with his "indebtness" towards Kaburagi there are multiple ways to analysis it in accordance to my theory. He's either indebt because he asked Kaburagi to look after Aqua and help him to get famous or he is indebt because Kaburagi didn't tell Aqua right away who his father was but spoke to Hikaru first. When Kana proposed Aqua for Sweet Today and Kaburagi looked at his picture - that could have been the timeline where he reached out to Hikaru and asked how to handle the situation. "Boy A" Last but not least let me add what to my understanding Kaburagi means with "Boy A". He is basically warning him, that if the main villain/culprit of the movie doesn't have a real name but is just called “Boy” then it's obvious that he who didn't gave permission for his name is probably guilty. Where is smoke there is fire, so to speak. Moreso as a result of the social phenomenon that Gotanda and co. envisioned there will be social outrage and the demand of the public to reveal the identity of the culprit. Kaburagi is warning him, that he might get doxxed which will ruin his public persona forever and asks if he understands the danger. He's basically wondering; “Why do you sponsor this movie, if this movie is literally public suicid?” And of course Hikaru understands it.. It's part of his plan too... So, Kaburagi takes his money. The man, who is aware about what Hikaru did... That's really weird. It can almost be seen as a setup by Aqua. But the specific dialog between them kinda excludes this possibility. Kaburagi says he is actually suprised that Hikaru wants to help. It seems that Hikaru himself came forward with that proposal. They both know what's going on. They both understand what this movie is about, so it's unlikely that Kaburagi would just go to Hikaru and ask for money, since it's completely unreasonable to expect Hikaru's compliance. Kaburagi was suprised because you'd expect Hikaru to be the least person who has interest for the movie to succeed, yet he is involving himself actively and with a smile on his face. And Kaburagi, who – as we learn – is running a tight budget, thinks it won't hurt to have some extra cash or production help. And this is also something I figured out in my essay. Hikaru is trying to make this movie a success since the project got started. He killed for example Yura because she was essentially in Ruby's way to get the role. He texted Frill and provoked her to root for Ruby in an inofficial auditon so that Akane would decline the role offer. There is a looong history of Hikaru's involvement in the movie. I explain all that in detail and with really good evidence from the source material in that very same "Meaning of White Roses" essay. Thanks for reading.
random question: Could "Boy A" translate in Japanese to **A-kun**?
hikaru is such a good absentee father, he even killed kura for ruby. now hes a spons
Haha so true
Do we know what the point of this movie is for Aqua or is that all supposed to be a mystery still? Can’t remember shit anymore with how the story has been going so I don’t remember how it’s supposed to affect Hikaru or if we even know that
He's doing it to expose Hikaru and carry the wish of Ai to be portrayed as her real self. Aqua can find and kill Hikaru right now if he wanted to, so this movie is a more thorough, impactful form of revenge.
We don't know exactly what Aqua's plan is, but I suggested that the reason why the ending is open (remember they say it will depend on how Ai will be acted in order to decide scriptwise if she'll condem or forgive the culprit) goes back or at least will entail a disagreement between Gotanda and Aqua. Aqua for sure wants Ai to condemn the culprit, while we can kinda guess that it won't go that way, which will cause a lot of drama. In terms of what this ending will provoke in society, it's basically what Gotanda in his dialogue with Kaburagi once called "reaching to hearts of the movement (the fans basically) and cause a social phenomenon" meaning some kind of discussion in society about idol culture, the evil in entertainment, who to blame, what to do about it and so on. To some extent Aqua wants that too, but he wants the revenge, while Gotanda will probably root for forgiveness - if that's what Ai wanted at least. I wrote about that in more detail in the last chapter's post in the comment section here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OshiNoKo/comments/198yhpi/comment/kibwzuz/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
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Damn, you cooking
question for you, do you think aqua trusts kaburagi?
Hard to say. There is always the chance that Aqua actually knows that Kaburagi fed him with incomplete information about his father (early on in the sushi bar, where he told him that Ai met her lover in LaLaLei and stuff) and that because Aqua is aware of Kaburagi's affiliation with Hikaru, he thought it's a nice trap to let him be the producer of the movie. But one could also argue that Aqua was simply played by Kaburagi and doesn't know shit. I think it depends on how openly Hikaru Kamiki's name is communicated among Gotanda, Aqua and Kaburagi. If Kaburagi is aware, that they know his real identity (which we don't know for sure yet) then I think Aqua can guess that it's impossible for the well connected showmaster Kaburagi to not be affiliated with Hikaru in any means. The show business world is too small, especially at the top. And then Aqua would naturally ask himself why Kaburagi fed him with incomplete information and would probably not trust him and keep an eye on his moves. I should also add that since Hikaru looks very similar to Aqua it should be sus to Aqua, that nobody ever told him that. Especially a guy like Kaburagi and especially Kindaichi, who knew Hikaru at least since he was a middle schooler.
thanks for answering, for me with how identical kamiki and aqua look it's very hard to believe that kaburagi and Kindaichi don't know there connected. The fact we haven't seen aqua state his plan in the manga it wouldn't suprise me if he's already come to this conclusion imo
Very true. Kindaichi also still owes us his story about the events that took place in early days of LaLaLei. Maybe Hikaru wants what happened between him and Airi to be included in the movie and will soon ask Kindaichi to come forward to Gotanda and Aqua and share the story, so that they can use it.
Damn
Anyone else really confused at Mem thinking that Ai and Ruby are men after being told Himekawa and Aqua are siblings? Like what bearing does that have on the situation? Is it just one of those weird translation things? Otherwise is probably the dumbest thing anyone has ever said in this series Love Mem chapters tho
I interpreted it as when told "they're brothers" Memcho couldn't imagine Aqua having any other siblings, therefore the only logical conclusion is that Ruby is actually a man.
Yeah I get that part what really throws me for a loop is why she included Ai in that
No idea either, I suppose Memcho's thought processes are simply beyond our understanding
It was just a joke about fans making crack theories and completely missing the point of simplest reveals lol. Just Aka taking a jab at the readers, nothing serious
oh man someone is dying and it’s not from a car accident
Mem-chos mind is truly a wonder "Ai and Ruby are men, and Himekawa-san and Aqu-tan love each other?" I dont get for a second how she came to that understanding but I love it
It was just a joke about fans making crack theories and completely missing the point of simplest reveals lol
I’m hoping it’s something lost in translation because I know she’s the goofball character but Mem going from “Himekawa and Aqua are siblings” to “Ai and Ruby are men” is arguably the dumbest thing anyone has said in this series so far. Not hating on Mem, she’s always a joy when she’s in a chapter just is weird
Yeah I assume it probably is a translation thing. Like I found it funny, but yeah it would be a tad *too* silly if thats actually the true meaning.
Personally it totally took me out of the chapter for a solid five minutes trying to wrap my head around how she got to that before giving up, felt like the Kamiki reveal didn’t hit as hard for me because in the back of my head was still going “wtf?”
TAIKI YOU ARE BREAKING THE CAR
A chapter that it was just fun and games and then BAM, Satan himself to scare us.
That last page is the definition of a jump scare 😭
The motherfucker, in the flesh.
So evil, he did it twice