Finally an anime about how bleak and manufactured the whole entertainment industry in Japan is.
Aka is beholden to the same exact corporate interests that he criticizes in the manga. Any criticism he directs towards the "darkness" of the entertainment industry is always going to be toothless, because Shueisha wouldn't publish anything that might actually piss off any corporate bigwigs.
For example, Aka's version of "sexual harassment" in the entertainment industry is nobody director being rude to some cosplayer. In the actual Japanese entertainment industry, you have people like Johnny Kitagawa and Hideo Sakaki, but that sort of stuff would he too controversial for Aka to address in the manga. Even Aka's version of the Hana Kimura incident was totally toothless. In real life, Hana Kimura's death immediately destroyed a long running entertainment franchise and led to actual laws being passed. But Aka's version with Akane? Nobody died, the show was allowed to finish, nobody lost their jobs, the controversy was quickly forgotten and everyone moved on. And of course, Aka has managed to sidestep being critical of the music industry, its corruption and how it mistreats young talent by having the idols work for a tiny agency run by Ruby's stepmother who loves her.
All the manga's bluster about the "darkness" of entertainment is just bluster, Oshi no Ko's version of Japan's entertainment industry is way lighter and friendlier than the real version. The only way a manga could truly criticize the Japanese entertainment industry is if it was in some indie alt-manga magazine. And that manga would almost certainly never be translated into English. Read Oshi no Ko for the characters and their stories, but all the entertainment industry stuff is always going to be bland and disappointing.
>>19035The series is about the showbiz in general.
>a lot of the same tropesSuch as? Not that tropes are inherently bad, anyway.
>>19034Everything gets recuperated.
>>19061it doesn't matter. Why do you think past relations are taboo in anime? specially with young characters. it is hard to comprehend how an author can understand so little about his job as to write this. he is grossing out like 75% of the potential audience because he couldn't come up with a better device to justify the rest of the story
that's what's wrong with this show. do you really think anyone cares about some liberal criticism against an industry that everyone recognizes is
shit?
>>19068and yet, the author seems to agree with me after all, as do most manga authors. I read somewhere that in this second chapter, the author tries to make the point that sexual harassment is prevalent (which is true) but doesn't go all the way (the characters don't actually fuck) because he understands, finally, that the audience doesn't want to have their waifu defiled by a random dude. a better author would have went all the way using a throwaway character, like an acquaintance of the main character
you probably have some elitist definition of art, but the truth is that art, specially anime, has very strict rules. failure to understand these rules isn't
transgressive art, but poor craftsmanship by the artist. even the people faking outrage at my comments to virtue signal
on an anonymous imageboard know that I'm right
>>19078the problem is not the sex itself but the fact that the character in this second episode was doing it to further her career, partly coerced by the industry, etc. etc.
it is the same as rape, when a show touches the subject, they use a throwaway character (someone related to the main cast but only relevant as the victim) because you don't want the heroine to be the rape victim
>>19167Once again, Marx's criticisms were never recuperated, they were ignored. Any attempt to turn him into an academically friendly figure has failed, because the core of his work is his revolutionary critique, not philosophy. Marx is met with as much vitriol today as he has ever been, unless you're willing to tell me that mentioning him in casual conversation will be met with anything other than a snarl of rage from the average liberal.
The original guy in this thread tried to portray this show being used to advertise other products as an example of recuperation – but this show was never
not the product of capital. Even if the show touches on the darker aspects of Idol culture in Japan, it does so in a shallow way, because it's purpose isn't to mercilessly destroy the Japanese entertainment industry and unmask just how fucked it trutly is, it's to sell you a product and make you coom, like every other product of its kind. It's not even a criticism of capitalism, it's the product of some rando manga author realizing "man idol culture is kinda shitty, maybe I can write something about it that can sell?". It's the same garbage pandering to coomer otakus as any other idol anime, as evidenced by the designs and the fact that Ai is not a proper character, but a carbon copy waifu.
>>19194>Once again, Marx's criticisms were never recuperated, they were ignored. Any attempt to turn him into an academically friendly figure has failed, because the core of his work is his revolutionary critique, not philosophy. Marx is met with as much vitriol today as he has ever been, unless you're willing to tell me that mentioning him in casual conversation will be met with anything other than a snarl of rage from the average liberal.This is the truest take I have ever seen concering Maex.
Most people use commu ism as a slur for ideas they dont like, especially if it asks to curb their appetite.
Yet, irony is, fascism gets alot of sympathy.
I hear of more centrists sympathising with Hitler than I do with Karl Marx.
>>18952Basically this. I don't know if a spicy take but the original concept was better. Having the story be about a mom raising her two kids as an idol and trying to balance being an actress and worker in the scum that is the Nippon idol industry is a great concept.
To bad they ruined that by having her merced at episode 1 and I knew it was coming. Instead it become murder mystery slop and Ruby's story and even Aqua's just does not hit the same beat and feel imo as Ai's struggle as a single mom having to hide her children.
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