#miyako saitou

[dreamyeuphoricll]

Happy mother's day 🥰❤️

Yor at the very top 🥹

[a-titty-ninja]

[animepopheart]

★ 【4B鉛筆】 「 Happy Mother's Day💐 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

[goldenharmony]

Miyako: First Arc vs. Last Arc 😭

[waifubuki]

[everth1ne]

Oshi no Ko - volume wallpapers

[myaatwins]

no one talks about the real tragedy of oshi no ko: how long miyako had to spend pretending she called her own son "aquamarine"

[gabbyp09]

[saiyef]

All Volume Covers of Oshi no Ko

[silvermoon424]

Oshi no Ko- Mother and Children

[beanghostprincess]

So late for Mother's Day but I forgot to say how much I love them

[a-really-big-cat]

[a-titty-ninja]

[penguinkyun]

in which i saw enough terrible kana takes that i wrote this. this is my chapter review everyone. enjoy!

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Miyako finds Kana outside the halls they used for Aqua's…for his funeral. Akane is holding her, as she wails into her black coat and Miyako flinches at the grief in them. Her fingers still tingle from the slap she delivered earlier and the matching red mark just barely visible on Kana’s cheek makes the guilt festering in her heart worse.

“Akane-chan,” she says softly and in an instant the two scramble to get up, Kana scrubbing at her eyes as she turns to face the wall and Akane is immediately at attention. “Do you mind checking in on Ruby for me?” She hates having to ask this of her and she'll find a way to make it up to Akane but…

“I still have to finish up here and deal with the reporters outside, so could you?” For some reason, Akane flinches at the question before she recovers and takes the keys Miyako is holding out. “Of course Saitou-san,” she says softly, before hurrying away.

The only ones left are her and Kana in the empty hallway.

“Kana–”

“I'm sorry, President Miyako,” she rushes out, eyes fixed to the ground. At some point, someone, Akane most likely, had fixed her hat back on her head for her, and the veil now shielded Kana’s eyes from view. “That was incredibly disrespectful of me. If you want to terminate my contract–”

“Kana, stop!” Miyako interrupts that terrifying ramble, placing a hand on Kana’s shoulder and she pretends not to notice the imperceptible flinch. “I'm the one who should be sorry Kana, alright? Not you. I shouldn't have been so impulsive, you didn't deserve that slap.”

At this, Kana's head shoots up, the fire that had been missing from her reappearing in her eyes, small but blessedly there. “What?! Miyako-san, I slapped Aqua’s– I slapped–” Fresh tears begin to roll down her face as she tries to complete her sentence. “You were justified,” Kana chokes out.

Miyako’s heart hasn't stopped hurting since the news arrived and now it aches even more. She gently pulls Kana into a hug, ignoring the way Kana resists at first, ignoring the way her dress gets soaked in tears.

“I was not,” she disagrees. “You shouldn't have slapped him, yes, but that doesn't mean I don't understand why you did it. It's alright Kana, I forgave you in an instant. It's okay.”

Kana stares up at her with glassy eyes, before the tears start anew.

Miyako simply hugs her through it.

[greatwyrmgold]

I think I'd like the ending of Oshi no Ko better if it wasn't the ending. It wouldn't fix the absolute mess that is Hikaru "Lying-Eyes" Kamiki the murder-cult-leader, but if we had a volume or two to unpack the impact of Aqua's suicide, the story would at least have the potential to end on a high note.

For one thing, critical plot points wouldn't need to be rushed. Learning about the extent of Kamiki's murder cult is handled in four panels, three of which are basically just close-ups of the conspiracy-board tying everyone together.

For another thing, let's look at Kana slapping Aqua and calling him a liar and breaking down crying. Or, related, Miyako slapping Kana for slapping Aqua. In theory, I like these character beats. Kana bottled up a kind of grief that she's never experienced before, and now the bottle bursts, and it all comes out in one burst of thoughtless emotion.

And Miyako slapping Kana works too; she's more familiar with this kind of grief, but grief is still grief, and Kana just slapped her beloved dead son, and Miyako is within arm's reach of Kana's face, so she reacts. There are a few ways to interpret Miyako's wide-eye-narrow-iris expression, but I think it's her realizing that she shouldn't have slapped Kana a split-second after it was too late to stop.

Those could be good character beats in a mini-arc about coming to terms with Aqua's death...but they're not. We've got one more chapter and we've barely seen Ruby's reaction to her own brother/oshi/crush's death.

Kana yelling at Aqua's corpse as Akane drags her away is almost certainly the last thing she'll do in the entire series. Miyako will probably do something relating to Ruby, but she won't get a chance to apologize for slapping Kana outside fanfiction like that short fic Penguinkyun wrote.

This isn't the start of Kana's epilogue, or Miyako's, or Oshi no Ko's. We're basically at the end. And that sucks.

[animepopheart]

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