#kamiki Hikaru

[rosaniruby]

Aqua with his pure blue eyes: I'm not like the other girlss.

No but.... right now Ruby looks more like Hikaru than Aqua does.....i love anime team.

[gabbyp09]

[myaatwins]

shout-out to hikaru kamiki. certainly one of the antagonists of all time

[blueskykitten]

Hoshino family ♡

[beanghostprincess]

What hurts me the most about this chapter is that everything Ai does is because she wants to save Kamiki from hitting rock bottom and not burden him with their relationship. Good intentions and out of plain, simple love that is translated through lies. And after doing everything she could to love in her own way, she still died because of not being understood. The tragedy of Ai Hoshino will forever haunt me.

[penguinkyun]

oshi no shitposts for new years (part 6)

[sandreeen]

Kamiki Hikaru (Ninomiya Kazunari) ⍟ Oshi no Ko Episode 7

[aihoshiino]

With the umbrella scene I’m starting to notice that Hikaru only has ever really given attention to Ruby and barely if any to Aqua. Maybe I’m reading way too much into it idk, but I’m just wondering why Ruby?? Like is he actually making sure she doesn’t surpass Ai, or is it something else? I have one idea, which is that he’s using Ruby to get to Aqua, which seems so convoluted, so idk if I’m confident in it lol 😅😭

anon i'm so sorry but because of the way you phrased this all i could think was -

[booknbrew]

Spoilers to the ending chapter's of Oshi no Ko's manga below 👇🏼

Panel from chapter 160 analysis

We need to talk about a certain panel. It includes the reaction Hikaru gives to Aqua's accusation towards him that he tried and will continue to try to have his own daughter killed.

I talked in another post about the brilliant horror of Ai's final breath panel (the smiling one), and in it I gave props to how the manga's illustrator uses black and white to his advantage when portraying death. The use of the mix between the black of Ai's hair, with the pupil/star-less glassy eyes, the blood from her mouth and her lips all mixed up into a perfect storm of peace, death and morbidity.

In that panel, and the ones before it, you can tell some very deep thought went into it.

Chapter 160

Aqua's eyes display a similar to Kamiki's version of the dark star:

It goes beyond the eye

It's distorted

It's outlined in white

White star usually symbolizes ambition and inspiration, while black star symbolizes, well, darkness, morbidity and all around malice.

Chapter 160

You see that Kamiki is at first shocked and taken aback by this accusation. As a reader, I interpert it as a split second reaction, the most gutteral last sliver of morality he has left indide his heart. Him? Kill his own daughter? The spitting image of the love of his life? The one and only glimmer of hope he's ever had in a teenage time of darkness, abuse and exploitation?

...

Chapter 160

Yeah.

Yes, Aqua. That's exactly what he is going to do. In his mind, what other choice does he have? Even if, thanks to his own children, he knows that Ai DID come very close to loving him, and she DID want to have a family with him - it was all too late now.

Ai's dead, indirectly by his own hands. He drove a man to suicide. He drove another woman (Nino) mad by exploiting her very normal and valid feelings of jealousy and confusion as a young teen star and caused to her to attempt murdering the child of a person she used to consider a friend, he pushed an up and coming actress off a mountain - all be cause he thought he had Ai "figured out".

He thought she was an empty hearted individual, another woman that used and exploited him for his body, deceiving him, lying to him. But guess what? 15 years after her death and 20+ years after their relationship ended, he finds out that no. He did not know her either.

Ai was a kid, just like him. She was 15, horrified, used and abused, played with and thrown away like a doll. Not in the same way that he was, but in a very twisted way of her own. He realized that everything he did was for nothing. No, worse than nothing. His abuser, Airi, was right. He IS dirty, corrupted and wrong, absolutely empty, with no one to love him. Just like she said he was.

Chapter 146

In his mind, this is the reaction of "what else do you think I'm going to do? I'm the villain here, have you forgotten that?". His dark puils/stars are big, go beyond his eyes, as if to show that he is literally out of his mind. His stance is calm, almost nonchalant. The use of watercolor to draw his eerie smile gives off the feeling of an almost demonic or underworldly being's aura. This is a man who is too far gone. The truth appeald to his emotion for a bit, don't get me wrong - the fact that he decided to abruptly call off Ruby's murder attempt and urged Nino to turn herself in with him displays exactly that:

Chapter 154 // Chapter 158

But just like that, it's gone. Just like Ai. This clarity is fleeting, because you can't cure decades of trauma with threats to one's good name (the 15 Year Lie movie), a retroactive positive emotion from beyond the grave (Ai's CD) or anything else he went through and has done.

While the image is dark and distorted, it's also both eerily calm but also aggressively present. Just like Kamiki himself, it represents who he has become: a living embodiment of a ghost from the past, a bad memory.

[cori-randomstuff]

I think the difference in how Nino and Hikaru react to Ai confessing the truth (via the blog post and dvd) is deeply interesting.

While Nino doubles down on her deification of Ai and erase every trace of Ai's heart-felt confession. Hikaru accepts them and even states that Ai was a normal girl. (chp160 throws a wrench into things and now that I think about, we don't know how Hikaru feels about the dvd at all, but we are going to pretend like onk ended at 157 for the sake of my sanity.)

They are both clearly obsess with Ai, yet the difference is that Nino does not accept Ai's vulnerability while Hikaru does accept them, revels in them even.

I think a ninoai relationship would crash and burn way way faster, it would be a consistently miserable affair for everyone involved. (Which is why they should fuck) While hikaai would be more varied, the highs are higher and the lows are lower.

[rosaniruby]

I'm just gonna say..... If the csa victim representation was brought into this story just for him to turn out to be a joker-level of evil psychopath who dies at the end and who Ai was wrong for loving at all, and also him just being 'unable to be saved'.... while the misogynist freak stalker is cleaned of all blame because Hikaru kept Talking about Ai..... Then I do not like it very much. Just putting this into perspective.

[gabbyp09]

[myaatwins]

my understanding of the onk characters

[owarinaki]

Oshi no Ko (live action) 9 END - Kaito Sakurai as Hoshino Aqua

[iniyaas]

ME RN:

[chose-de-noir]

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