#not aqua x akane ship

[kurogamishiro-chan]

When many people said "eugh, Ruby need to get over her crush on Gorou who now is her own twin", I'm busy thinking about Gorou's, or, Aqua's own "crush".

Gorou, first of all, was not a fan of idol before he met Sarina. And later on he became Ai's biggest fan, especially after he lost Sarina. What I see the most from this is that Gorou is in his own way, a "people pleaser", especially to his precious people. It came with his job as a doctor and his loneliness. And it also can be his own brand of kindness. And maybe being Ai's biggest fan was his coping mechanism.

When he met Sarina, his world has changed bit by bit. He never thought of his own life as unfortunate, but then there was a little girl who lost her own self more and more so fast. And there was no one to support her. Yet she was so radiant that it left a big impression in Gorou's life. The way she still had the capacity to love her idol, Ai, as deep as that was so dazzling. And tho I don't doubt Gorou's grandma's love for him, Sarina might be the first to show and gave him love so straightforwardly. And being emotionally stunted man he was, didn't know what he felt for her but Sarina IS the biggest presence in his heart, even following onto the reincarnation.

Now, I know that Aqua loves Ai so deeply. But for what I see, when he was Gorou, he became a fan of Ai more for Sarina's sake, at first. To give her a friend who share the same interest and all. But later on he became a genuine fan. BUT, remember how he sometimes saw Sarina's shadow in Ruby?? It might be similar with that. He saw Sarina's shadow in Ai, and now vice versa. Even Director Gotanda saw Ai in Ruby.

And above all, Gorou/Aqua can't differ his own feeling of 'love' he doesn't know if he was 'in love' with Ai or not, and he take interest on Akane when she start to mimic Ai and can be used. And there's Kana, who he can banter easily but in the end he use her for his own purpose. That doesn't mean he doesn't care for them, it's the opposite. Despite how crass he used them, he does care deeply and doesn't want them to get hurt. Which fail spectacularly.

But Ruby, Ruby is that one existence he won't ever use for his purpose. And he will go to hell and back to keep her 'radiance'. It's the same with how he treated Sarina and Ai, like they're the precious goodness in this bleak world and have their own circle in his heart. He knew of their flaws, yet still treat them like they had no fault.

He laughed meanly at how naive Kana is, how easily she swayed by the boy she likes. But he tries so hard to preserve Ruby's innocence, or what left of it despite knowing how hard her life was/is. Even when he listen Ruby said of how broken she was, she's still the most radiant.

I do ship AquaRuby, but I won't said that Aqua doesn't have a "crush" on Ai, Akane, Kana. Like I said, Gorou/Aqua is emotionally stunted about his "love". He cares deeply, craves for love, but doesn't know how to receive and reciprocate. His "love" is of self-sacrifice kind of way. He was fucked up when still as Gorou, losing Sarina when she said her confession, and then losing Ai as Aqua in almost the same way. Rather than focusing on his own "love" and discovering it, he's more desperate on not losing anyone else. That said, he wants to finally have his happiness. But as long as the biggest threat (aka Kamiki Hikaru) still running around, his precious people is in a big potential danger, especially his sister Ruby, his idol's daughter who's so alike with their mother, and the reincarnated "Sarina-chan". He feels he owes them (Sarina-chan & Ai) for loving him.

Why he feels like he owe them? From my own experience and from what I know of Gorou, people like us need others (precious people) approval and love to feel like we have a living purpose. Even then, we felt that we need to do more to not lose them. Loneliness is a scary thing. Maybe that's why he attracts other lonely people (the girls). He show them the support they want, and sometimes show some empathy.

And for him, Sarina-chan is the loneliest. She suffered so greatly even without that loneliness. And then he met Tendouji Marina as Aqua, and once again reminded how much Sarina had suffered and abandoned. Even then she still waited for her mother, wished for her parents health, loving Ai and Gorou, smiling and dreaming, etc.

And well, yeah, thats why I think the one Gorou/Aqua loves the most is Sarina/Ruby. I don't know what kind of love it is, and don't know who will end up with Aqua, but for now Sarina/Ruby is his number one girl.

[sungkaan]

lmao onk 149 converting me into a kana arima x akane kurokawa shipper. it's the 'if i were a man, i'd definitely choose you' which pulled me in. likee guurl kana you don't have to be a man to pull a bad bitch like akane. that girl has been in love with you and your tsundere charm since childhood. just leave aqua and grab that waifu lolol

[doyoulikethisanimeship]

Hoshino Aquamarine/Kurokawa Akane (Oshi no Ko)

Important: Please do not vote if you don't know the characters.

[cookiescraems]

aquakana the world

[anika-kanroji16]

Why I love Aquakane and why you should too lol

Personally, I fell in love with the ship Aquakane since season 1 of Oshi No Ko and I was pretty upset about it not being endgame but hey least they dated for a while. But since Aquakana is gonna be endgame and I already posted why I don't like Aquakana. Read if you want to hear my opinions. I might as well do a post of why I LOVE Aquakane.

Firstly It is adorable but let me explain why I love it more than it is cute.

1 : She understands him better than Kana. You can't convince me otherwise and if say Kana the girl who barely knows Aqua understands him more than Akane then you are blind and haven't read the manga EVEN GORO SAID HIMSELF MAN.

2 : She has supported him ever since season 2, he has been honest with her, she has comforted him and been with him ever since the start and she has been with him during his happy and sad times. He clearly loved her.

3 : The Aquakane hug. People more specifically the Aquakana shippers try to make the hug between Aqua and Akane seem maternal and not romantic. I already explained how it is not maternal in my posts but here it is "So basically Akane acted on her romantic feelings for Aqua and felt Ai's feelings for Hikaru. Ruby was able to feel Ai's emotions because she had similar sadness that Ai was feeling not only that but she also had similar experiences with Ai because of the situation with Kana so therefore because she had similar experiences and feelings as Ai she was able to feel and understand Ai's emotions. Now look at Akane and Aqua and Hikaru and Ai. Akane have romantic feelings for Aqua at the time and Ai had romantic feelings for Hikaru when she hugged him not only that but I bet they felt a similar sadness at the time. Ai probably felt empathetic to Hikaru because of the Airi situation and Akane felt empathetic as when she found out Ai was Aqua's mom and she was killed. And Both Ai and Akane was in similar situations because the hug with Hikaru x Ai and Aqua x Akane were like exactly the same and symbolized to be the same. Aqua and Hikaru even had similar facial expressions. So basically the star eyes appeared NOT BECAUSE THE HUG WITH AQUAKANE WAS MATERNAL. But because Ai and Akane felt the same emotions and had the same experience which made the star eyes appear for Akane." But anyway, the hug is not motherly in any way and I basically proved it but I am not talking about this again I am talking about the fact that the hug between Aqua and Akane, might have made Aqua fall in love with Akane. Remember when Aqua was wondering what to do with Akane before he made the decision to use her one more time he was thinking about the hug aka thinking about his feelings for Akane and wanting to date her for real but then he thought no it's better to break up with her then to hold her back .

"not only that but Aqua did decide to use Akane one last time but that decision wasn't made till he was wondering what he would do with Akane since he didn't want revenge anymore and IMMEDIATELY he thought to the hug with Akane proving that he has feelings for her and he wants to date her and Aqua already says Akane got close to him and accepted him and he wants to be with her and by her side." And look at Aqua expression man he looks like he have been lovestruck so it safe to say that the Aquakane hug is what made Aqua fell for Akane.

4 : She saved him. And I know many of you say she didn't save him but if you think about it she did. She saved him from revenge and he was happy the only reason she failed is because she decided to put herself in danger and continue the revenge when all he wanted was for her to be safe and to be with her. That literally the only reason why she failed to save him and why they broke up to begin with. Not because he didn't love her he broke up with her but to protect her according to Aqua.

4: Akane makes Aqua happy. Now in Chapter 146 Aqua said that whenever he with Kana he ends up having fun and Kana knows that being happy is an important of a romantic relationship.

And you might be wondering why I am mentioning Aquakana for a Aquakane post. Because Aqua does have fun with Akane too more specifically happy with Akane as well. Like for example Aqua was smiling right after Love is Now Crew, Mem cho and Aqua saved Akane's reputation. Not only that but he got happy moments with Akane during the Toyko and one of them is saving Akane's reputation, Akane being safe in both of those moments shows that he cares about her, and his first fake date with Akane shows that he happy with her and might even be in love with her since season 1 just was in denial. Not only that but when Aqua broke up with Akane he said "Those happy days are over" so clearly he had fun and was happy with Akane as well. And I am not sure if it Akane or Aqua happy moment but either this shows he has fun and is happy with Akane OR she is happy with him as well.

5 : Aqua loves Akane. Many Kana shippers say Aqua doesn't love Akane. But I think that a false statement for many reasons. Like what Kana said : "Having fun is an important part of being in a romantic relationship." And Aqua was clearly happy with Akane and Akane was clearly happy with him. "Also, He didn't want to share an umbrella with his own girlfriend." And again if Aqua didn't wanted to share umbrella with Akane, then why he said "Those happy days are over" Huh. It either you Kana shippers didn't read the manga or you're blind because he won't say this if he didn't want to. Which means clearly he wanted to. So I also don't believe that he just say something as heartfelt as this just to make her happy. I think he actually means it more specifically the "You acknowledge someone like me, and got close to me." Which is true. She did do that. She did acknowledge him and got close to him that ain't a lie but a fact during chap 52 and chap 71 she did exactly that. And look at his memories there is the umbrella scene right, now you can say it not his happy memories and if that the case why did they appear when he was talking to Akane and not only that but Aqua said himself that "Those happy days are over." Of course, he is referring to the days with Akane. So since these memories appeared when he was talking to Akane and Aqua said "Those happy days are over." then those memories during the talk must be his happy memories with Akane. Now for the "When it's wrong, you'll say it wrong." People assumed he said that when referring to her pouting when Aqua said she would lose to Kana. Which is understables and I already explained how he might not be lying there "Maybe because he was wrong remember, in Chapter 66 Akane's friends from the Love Is Now Crew started calling her a genius actor and during the times Aqua and Akane were dating Akane was very popular and had job offers left and right so it won't be wrong that for Aqua to say this "Also, why would Aqua say she is wrong when he said Akane will lose to Kana"." But Actually I think he just found the pouting cute but when he talks about "When it's wrong, you'll say it wrong."I think he was referring to this. Aqua was blaming himself for Ruby and Akane for seeing the body in Chapter 78 [And yes I am aware that He was using her to find it but fking still] Akane said it was wrong for him to blame himself for something that the murder caused. Which is true it is. And that is what I think Aqua means by "When it's wrong, you'll say it wrong." because during that scene it is exactly what she is doing!! So I think he truly meant those words all of them including "I don't want to let go of these days when you're by my side" and he clearly does love Akane. Cause I already proved that he is happy with Akane and wants to be near her thanks to his past happy moments with Akane, The scene with him smiling when her reputation was saved and "Those happy days are over." line, Plus he was smiling at Akane during the umbrella scene. Not only that but Aqua clearly cares about Akane more than you Kana stans realizes. Because he saved her from killing herself in season 1 and Aqua was the one who had the idea of making that post and video which saved her reputation and not that but he literally asked for her to stop doing dangerous things. And broke up with her to keep her safe. And even here Akane says "He always cares about me," If that doesn't show enough how much she means to him then I don't know what does. Aqua always thought he shouldn't be in love but now he thinks it is okay and obviously, he thinking about his feelings for Akane and making the decision to date her for real. And I already explain the hug so yeah.

Also you know what I just realized If Aqua don't love Akane then why did Taikia say this. This imply he love them both and he need to choose between them. But yea besides from that

So yea this is why I love Aquakane as a ship, I am serious when I say I fell in love with it since season 1 and I love so damn much so yea Credits to @skania for some of the points and Again you don't have to like Aquakane okay many people don't. But I just wanted to explain why I ship and what makes them adorable so I hope you enjoy this post. Lol

Bonus in Season 2 of Oshi No Ko episode 10 Not only do we get Akane worrying about Aqua and his safety as we see with the text messages but when Aqua was thinking if it is okay for him to be free and live happily, you know who was there AKANE. Proving my point even more that Akane does make him happy and he does love Akane.

Plus

PLUS THE LATEST CHAPTER

"I want to repay Akane for all the kindness she's shown me and build an equal relationship with her" Like EXCUSE ME

Like romantically??🤨🩷✨ BECAUSE IF SO YESSSSSSSSSSS if not STILL YESSSSSSSSSSSSS because this proves that 1: HE DOES/DID/OR DO LOVE AKANE

2: Those were his memories with Akane

3: HE WAS/IS/OR WERE, IN FACT, HAPPY WITH AKANE and she makes him happy

[anitrendz]

Top Anime Couples-Ships Summer 2024 Week 5

Aqua x Akane overtakes the other Aqua ship. Will and Elfaria reenter top 10.

[yoruthewardevil]

Don’t get me wrong, Aqua is an interesting character. I don’t hate him. Do I think he’s deserving on Akane or Kana? Hell no.

Aqua is focused on revenge. He doesn’t care about Akane or Kana enough to give them what they need/deserve.

I’ll be honest, I used to dislike Kana fans until I realized that not all of them hate on Akane for dumb shit. Kana fans in general are not the problem. The Kana fans that constantly have to turn everything into a ship war and harass Akane fans are the problem.

I’m a die hard Akane fan but do not ship Akane x Aqua.

The amount of people in this fandom that lose their minds and spend hours fighting over this shit is insane to me. It’s not that deep. Kana and Akane are both talented young women who deserve better than Aqua.

[aihoshiino]

I’m curious as to what your opinions are on the ships in ONK. I’m guessing you’re not an Aquaruby fan (neither am I) but what do you think of Aquakana? Or any other ships in ONK! Personally my favorite is Ai x Happiness :)

AI X HAPPINESS IS THE ONLY OSHI NO OTP THAT MATTERS YOU'RE SOOOO RIGHT ANON

Out of the "official" OnK ships tho, you're right in that I don't really care for AquRuby, at least as presented in the text. It was never going to be a ship I was on board with since I'm just too exhausted with anime being the way it is about sibling incest to even pretend to take it seriously but the manga itself also seems to have the same attitude. Since 123, Ruby's feelings for Aqua have mainly been treated as a joke that relies on having Ruby act out a caricature of an archetype that was ALREADY shallow and dated in the 2010s lmao. I think Ruby -> Aqua would at least be interesting to read about if the story was actually willing to take her seriously and properly examine her feelings in a way that feels consistent with her character and to actually dig into the reality of a person developing incestuous feelings in a society that condemns incest rather than using her as a gag prop. I care less about it being incest and more about it being badly written incest basically LOL

AquAka I think it's interesting on paper and there's a lot of elements to it I think are really neat to chew on in discussions and character analysis but as a ship, it doesn't really work for me in execution. Part of it is that I don't really like how Aka handled most of Akane's stuff post TB and most of it is just that the majority of their "real" relationship happens like... offscreen, in a time skip? So there was no real time to get attached to their dynamic as a real couple and I'm the kind of person who mostly gets invested in ships based on the strength of their moment to moment banter and rapport. AquAka have a lot of big, dramatic moments but I didn't feel like they quite had the necessary downtime rapport to serve as the connecting tissue that would've made it land.

It also doesn't help that I feel like, a lot of what *I* think is interesting about AquAka is really not what the fandom sees in it LOL So it's really hard to discuss the elements I like without people getting Genuinely Angry At Me for daring to say the relationship is unhealthy or that both Aqua AND Akane completely fucked up and that's why it didn't pan out. That conflict and tension and the simmering undercurrent of codependence and toxicity that both of them unintentionally brought to the relationship is sooooooo fascinating but I feel like so many people actively talking about AquAka just kind of ignore that and treat it as an entirely wholesome, uncomplicatedly good relationship and Akane as completely flawless within its context. I think that's both unfair to Akane and kind of boring but I've also really drifted away from the question here, huh...

Anyway! AquKana is the 'canon' OnK ship I like the most by far! I wouldn't say I'm like Actively Shipping It in the sense that I go out of my way to seek out fanworks about it, but I think they're cute together and I like them, especially in the anime - I've said before it was the adaptation that made me actively a fan of Kana and that goes for AquKana, too. Like I said up there, a couple's moment to moment banter and dynamic is really important to me and that's a big part of the AquKana appeal to me. I really like the way they bounce off each other and I particularly enjoy the way Kana encourages Aqua to be a better version of himself - not necessarily in an "I can fix him" way but in that his friendship with Kana encourages him to be better out of respect and fondness for her. Kana serves as a sort of window into life as a normal boy for Aqua, with no revenge or ulterior motives, and in that space a lot of Aqua's worst traits that are exacerbated by trauma get softened and filtered through a kinder lens. I also really love the ways Aqua's support helps to uplift and encourage Kana to do her best - she was such a lonely person for so long, seeing the way she glows once she has someone to shine for is so sweet.

I definitely don't feel as strongly about it now as I did coming right off the anime because it's been pretty out of focus for a while... Honestly, come to think of it, I think that's part of why AquAka didn't really hook me at all. It's hard to get invested in something that's making a character you already liked more feel so bad LOL

Circling back to Ai, though... Ougghh it really does kill me there's no straightforwardly lovey dovey ships for her in OnK. I'm a lifeform that draws sustenance from seeing my faves getting loved and doted on, especially when they're someone as starved for love as Ai... don't get me wrong, I love KamiAi and AiNino because yandere love is pure love but sometimes I just want to see nice things happen to her...!!!

Anyway this is the part where I pull out my License To Be Cringe And Free and admit that I do have a whole bunch of crosscanon OTPs for Ai that I've written with friends LOL Honestly I do feel very spoiled with how many I've gotten to write and how good they've been... I've even commissioned some art here and there. So if you're ever on an internet walk and stumble across a piece of art that makes you go "hold on, why is Ai holding hands with Rinne Amagi from EnStars" or something, you have this bitch to thank!!!

[manyaplayers]

here is the person who plays Akane in my Ninjago x oshi no ko au (the rest of the story here) designed with the help of @teenotakugirl (thank you very much for helping me with his lore btw!!!). Made an oc for Akane because not many characters around Sora's age can fit the role. BTW kana is Jordana and Wildcat shipping( is that what Sora x Jordana is called?) might be cannon

Lore under break

Name: Satoru Hoshi

Age: one year older than Sora and Arin (TBD the age of both of them when they meet

Element: Stars

Relatives: Unnamed Mother, father (deceased), Sora/Ana (girlfriend), Zen (teacher)

Summary:

only child

father died when he was young of natural causes (he was like 8?)

that caused him some scares

he learns phycology out of understanding his father's "mentality" because he was kind of distant

ends up with his power after the merge

Zane finds him and Satoru is now his apprentice

Meets Sora and bond over dead father

not very open to Sora at the start but is getting there

fails Sora/ Zane in some way

feels empty and gets lost in a horrible situation (details TBD)

Sora saves him

somewhat what happens with Akane

have to decide how to write him a tad bit better than Akane(Akane is good but I want to write Satoru more outside a love interest)

Sora learns his father was with the sons of Garmadon

Tries to get closer to him only to get attached to him and learn his father called quits when Satoru was quite young and became a decent person

so that lead is a dead end for her but she does deeply care for him

Satoru decides to help Sora and tries to understand Lloyd's mentality by mimicking him

Satoru tries to help Sora find Harumi but gets cut out by Sora cause she sees how detrimental this chase is to him and his mentality (Sora liked Satoru as himself too).

Satoru then sees that Sora is trying to cut everyone off and descend into darkness herself without hurting anyone.

So he now mimics Lloyd to try to convince Sora to get revenge

And about his and Jordana's rivalry

It starts as a basic fight for Sora ( which is more one-sided) but then they begin to admire each other (Jordana admires how Satoru is a quick study and is great with his power while Satoru admires how Jordana is smart and knows magic)

I might end this au with a threesome because I firmly believe in kana x Akane x aqua (even though aqua does not deserve any of them).

[thecollectiveanimeyuriband]

Meet the crew!!!! [Quick Disclaimer: This is purely fan made. None of these are the creator, Pyxilate (or Pyxilatezero, her alt)'s original characters. This is for the memes, not a serious blog. You could think of them like a VTuber agency, except I’m working alone and I’m not getting paid because I’m too young to legally make money]

⚠️SONGS WITH CURSE WORDS WILL NOT BE COVERED UNLESS A CLEAN VERSION EXISTS OR THE SONG IS EASY TO COVER WITHOUT THEM [E.G. “Eyes Half Closed” BY CRYWOLF]. ⚠️

Lead Singer & Costume Designer Rae Taylor from I’m In Love with the Villainess. Quote: “As long as it doesn’t get in the way of my Claire time.”

Stage Production & Backup Vocalist Elsa Dorothy from Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess. Quote: “If it will make Yvonne like me more, I’m down. What do you mean, I can’t cheese this with magic?”

Choreographer & Backup Vocalist Malori Crowett from Mage & Demon Queen. Quote: “You put me in charge of the choreography? It doesn’t take a genius to know I’m not the most well coordinated. Although… look at the other options.”

Head Publicist & Backup Vocalist Ruby Rose from RWBY. Quote: “You should see the other me. Whom I look like now because anime.”

Music Arrangement & Backup Vocalist Kana Arima from Oshi No Ko. Quote: “After learning that chasing after Aqua was futile, I decided to stay way from the romance department. And then [Hoshino] Ruby literally knocked down my door and said, ‘Hello, not an option.’ So I’m bisexual now.”

[Disclaimer: knowledge of this character is limited solely to the first season of Oshi No Ko as an Anime and not at all extended to the manga]

Manager, Assistant Publicist, and Forbidden from Singing Kino Himari from Whisper Me a Love Song (or Whispering You a Love Song depending on your Google translate history). Quote: “Now I can manage two wonderful bands! Although REMRK is closer to a cover performance group than a band. I wonder…”

All ships/relationships to be noted for character interactions:

I’m in Love With the Villainess: -Rae Taylor x Claire François -Manaria Sousse x Philine Nur -Yuu Bauer x Misha Jur -Lilly Lilium x Clarice Répète III

Really the only ship in Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess: -Elsa Dorothy x Yvonne Smollett

Mage & Demon Queen: -Malori Crowett x Velverosa Ghalaztox -Fenn x Leora -Cerik Aldebrandt x Melathia -Cecilia Doltessa x Fillonne

RWBY & RWBY: Ice Queendom: [there’s a lot] -Ruby Rose (RWBY) x Weiss Schnee (RWBY: Ice Queendom) -Jaune x Trauma [this is a commonly made joke by Ruby] -Yang x Blake (Universal) -Winter x Penny (RWBY) -Sun x Neptune (Universal) -Velvet x Coco (Universal) -Oscar x Whitley (RWBY) -Summer x Raven (RWBY) -Jaune x Pyrrha (RWBY: Ice Queendom) -Ren x Nora (Universal) -Cinder x Emerald (RWBY)

Oshi no Ko: Ruby Hoshino x Kana Arima Aquamarine Hoshino x Akane Kurokawa

Whisper me a Love Song: Kino Himari & Asanagi Yori Izumi Shiho x Mizuguchi Aki

[I know this is a stupid idea. Please refrain from repeating unnecessary reminders of my horrible plans gone awry. Sincerely, Pyxilate]

[ecargmura]

Oshi No Ko Episode 15 Review - The Shadow Of His Former Self

The first half of the episode ends the GOA and Abiko conflict happily yet there are still more problems as Aqua getting criticized for his lack of emotional acting. It turns out that his trauma from Ai’s death is repressing his emotions. I have to say that the transition from all the GOA-Abiko stuff to focusing back on Aqua was quite intriguing, but it flowed well.

For the first half of the episode, I do like that the weird game of telephone finally comes to an end as Abiko, GOA, Raida and Abiko’s editor are finally on a video chat with each other. If only they had done this sooner, this whole ordeal would’ve resolved earlier and the actors wouldn’t have to crunch the last two weeks of rehearsal for the revised script. Also, props to Raida for wanting the play to succeed to the point that he’d **** an old geezer’s ****—his words, not mine. I also like that he finally manages to convince Abiko to work together with GOA since he told her that the Ping Pong stage play was written by him.

Well, the resolution of this conflict was thanks to Aqua who now has an issue of his own in the form of emotions acting. Since he’s sixteen and he was around four when Ai died in front of him, it’s been twelve years since then. I do like that trauma just doesn’t go away and that he’s been living with regret and guilt for the past twelve years.

I feel like people say Aqua’s edgy, but he’s not. The trauma didn’t make him edgy; it made him empty. From what I can see, he likes helping people resolve their conflicts, even if he denies it. He says that it’s for his revenge plan, but I see it as a way to assuage his guilt from not being able to help Ai during her death. While sabotaging Ruby’s chances of being an idol was sort of jerkish, he did have good intentions as idol agencies are sketchy. He also helped Kana with the Sweet Today issue. He also helped Akane when she was getting hate comments and even tried to help the other members of the dating show cast make a video to let Akane know that she’s loved. He even invited Mem-cho to become an idol to help achieve her dream of becoming one. For this season, he even resolved the issue with Abiko by giving her a ticket for the stage play, which caused her to change her mind about the script and allowing Raida to get through her for good. While the trauma has caused him to become empty, helping people out were happy moments and it did feel as if recalling them has filled up the void in his soul in a way. It sucks that he only thought about happy memories after Kana accidentally triggered his PTSD.

The moment where the shadow of Goro showed up, preventing him from basking in happiness was really crazy. It was animated well and the color choices were a subversion of the usual bright colors Doga Kobo is usually known for. Like I mentioned in my previous review, how much of Aqua is Aqua and how much of him is Goro is still a mystery because when Goro died, he was reborn as Aqua and because the baby retained all of his memories from his previous life, Aqua never really had a chance to be an actual child. However, at the same time, it makes me wonder if Aqua was behaving how he did as a child because he had retained all of Goro’s memories and that made him develop an ego at an early age.

I’m honestly a sucker for sad boys, which is why I like Aqua the most in this show. I also tend to like sad boy x sad boy comforter ships a lot. I usually never had much opinions for Akane, but I do think she was the strongest presence in this episode with the way she actually figures out Aqua and Ruby’s connection with Ai and why he gets PTSD. Her analytical skills are crazy; she could seriously outclass any professional detective if she tried. However, I still do find it a bit…unsettling that Akane is comforting Aqua because she’s still acting the role of Ai but it’s something he needs right now as Aqua’s inner demons cannot be vanquished.

I wonder if Aqua can conquer this hurdle whether it be during rehearsal or during the actual performance. It’d be nice to see Aqua with emotions later on and not someone so consumed with revenge to the point that it’s the only thing fueling the emptiness inside of him. What were your thoughts on this episode?

[rachelraygifs]

With the full cast (or at least, all of the major players) of OnK basically finally appearing in today’s episode, I’m pretty curious about the type of person whose a fan of which character. Specifically in the ‘shipping wars’ as they were. Spoilers for the manga up to chapter 116 under the cut.

More broadly, I kind of am curious about who exactly is a fan of Akane x Aqua and who is a fan of Kana x Aqua. I think the actual series itself is pretty unambiguous -- it pretty explicitly says that Aqua is, at the very least, smitten with Kana. But all that aside, I’ve seen a lot of Akane x Aqua stuff and people talking about Akane like she’s the “best girl” or whatever, and while I really love Akane as a character, I’m a little baffled by how much certain elements of the fandom like her.

So I’ve been wondering, kind of, why people consider her to be all that. And like, the biggest answer I keep seeing is her support of Aqua’s clearly deranged motives and plans, and her desire to basically be his sin-eater, and idk. It just strikes me as a very.. dude view to like her for that reason, like she’s his mom or caretaker or something, and it bothers me. From a personal development standpoint, Akane’s mostly kept Aqua in stasis by knowing he was using her as a tool and not caring. Akane completely sublimates her self and her life for Aqua, and that’s like, not actually a good thing. But it’s also not like, unhinged yandere type of stuff that would appeal to the dollgirl mental illness girlies.

It just seems weird that she’s lauded as being the best for her functionally erasing herself for someone who half-loves her, and it feels, at least to me, to be twinged with a sort of misogyny about what women should be. And I say this all as a really big fan of Akane. It’s just...odd, to me. idk.

Anyway mem-cho supremacy we stan a 25 year old lying queen.

[xian1na]

buncha words bout some spring animes #5

Now that I'm a Serious and Employed Person I appreciate series like Skip and Loafer or SpyFam even more. There's nothing better than coming back home and relaxing with some cute and funny anime. It may well be that if I rewatched some older series which I'd dropped or skipped altogether because they seemed boring, I would actually like them much more now. Well, for now let's stick to spring shows. Enjoy!

The Witch from Mercury (season 2, ep. 1-3) - one more week and I'll finally catch up to GWitch. These first three episodes were a real rollercoaster - we started with a pretty chill one, just reestablishing the characters and plot for the second cour. AND THEN! Episode two was wild. I gotta say, what's really amazing about the writing in this series is how it keeps introducing asshole characters, only to make you feel sorry for them after just a couple of episodes. And it actually works, I really care about these guys. I want to believe they're going to be alright... I don't know how dark Gundam endings usually are, but I get a feeling it's better to expect the worst and get a nice surprise, instead of the other way around.

Oshi no Ko (ep. 6) - yeah, yeah, I've watched another one. I planned to give it one last chance before dropping it but then Oshi no Ko had the gall to drop the best episode since the prologue. I still have some issues with it but I think it did a great job characterising Akane (and Yuki, too), making her relatable and sympathetic. What helped a lot was that Aqua was barely present in this one. You know what guys, I don't think I like Aqua very much. Which is a shame, because acting and film stuff in this series interests me more than idol stuff. Methinks I should look for some anime/manga about acting.

Skip and Loafer (ep. 7) - The highlight of this episode was seeing the drama club pres guy actually doing something decent for a change. And of course we have a brand new character introduced in the last minutes of the episode. I guess she's either Shima's family or one of the people he met when he was an actor. I wonder how will this plot develop and how will this person be neutralised by Mitsumi. Or hey, maybe she won't be! There are some people with whom you just don't get along, and I don't see that a lot in anime, I don't think.

Heavenly Delusion (ep. 6-7) - We got less school and more Maru and Kiruko's adventures, I'm definitely fine with that. Episode 6 had some great jokes, faces and cuts of animation, and episode 7 on the other hand got really disturbing towards the end. I like how this series treats the characters' sexuality (so far) - I mean, they're kids, they're figuring things out, and it's presented with honesty you don't often see. These episodes were also a bit thinner on plot elements and mysteries, but I liked that. I guess it could be a breather before what comes next.

Hell's Paradise (ep. 7) - Last week I speculated, that something major was going to happen this episode. That... turned out to be wrong, more or less. We now know a little bit more about the island and the elixir of life, but the majority of the episode was devoted to lighter character moments. So now I don't even know what I should expect next week. To be honest Jigokuraku is also close to falling off my watchlist but I'll give it one more chance.

Insomniacs after school (ep. 4-6) - Aaaand I caught up to Insomniacs. I think it's growing on me - the side characters were nicely fleshed out in the recent episodes and the relationship between the two leads is cute (not my top ship of the season, but they're nice kids!). Am I really going to watch another romance series this season? I almost never watch them!

I skipped Yamada-kun this week, but I'm definitely coming back to it next time. And finally:

Spy x Family (ep. 10-12) - Ok, two things: 1) Bill Watkins (6) was even better than whatever I was picturing before watching the episode and the whole game of dodgeball was a riot. 2) And then episode 11 had some brilliant Anya Starlight Anya moments. I can't wait to see the pupper. Thankfully I don't have to wait three months, I can jump right in the second cour. Episode 12 was kind of a weak follow-up to the two preceding episodes and a weird finale to the whole season, but the penguins were cute. So really, it's impossible to say if it was good or bad.

And that's it from me! Thanks so much for reading, have a great week and see you next Saturday!

[thoughtspresso]

A 4-part Oshi No Ko fanfic series, starting from the end of the anime season 1 extending through to the 6-month time skip when Aqua and Akane are dating.

In which, Aqua tries to deal with his trauma, sense of guilt, and the ideas of whether or not he deserved peace and happiness with someone he loves.

It has both Aqua x Akane and Aqua x Kana scenes, but because the main ship is Aqua x Therapy haha it doesn't necessarily end well each time. They're all sad.

[intotheabyssofunknown]

In oshi no ko...

Since I have shipped aqua x akane...

So I am pretty sure the winner would definitely be aqua x kana😅😅...

There's just no way what I ship would come true anyway...

[anika-kanroji16]

Okay sooo topics I am doing

Sooo I am gonna do a list of ships I gonna talk about cause I HAVE ALOT and I want do them

Why I ship SaneGyiuu @kokushibosbestie

Unpopular opinion lol [Aquakane+Aquakana]

Why ZenNeu is THE BEST in KNY

Why I LOVE RubyKana

Douma x Kotoha to ship or not to ship 🤨🧐

Does Goh deserve the hate (The answer he doesn't)

Why I ship LikoRoy Part 2

Goh x Chloe??? Why does it exist??? 🫥

I am tired of this quote "Aqua doesn't love Akane" part 2

Why I like LikoDot Part 1

Akane is plot device discussion???

Akane vs Kana bullshit

I am tired of this quote "Aqua doesn't love Akane part 3

Why I dislike Aquakana part 3