1,290 likesOshi no Ko's Manga Ending Explained: The Finale That Divided Fans (Spoilers)
Oshi no Ko's manga ending is, with Season 3 of the anime now adapting it, the single most divisive finale in recent shonen — and a Japanese commentary video titled "Why Oshi no Ko's Final Chapter Got Flamed" pulled out exactly the arguments English fans keep asking about. The most-liked Japanese reactions split hard. The recurring complaint isn't really the bittersweet outcome itself — it's two things: Kana Arima slapping Aqua's corpse at his funeral (defenders insist it pays off an earlier "slap my body and curse me out like always" line; detractors call that the flimsiest payoff imaginable), and Ruby — a co-protagonist the whole reincarnation premise was built on — getting her recovery compressed into a rushed digest while pages were "wasted" on side characters. Threading through it all is the verdict that creator Aka Akasaka is "brilliant at opening a story and worse than mediocre at closing one," which is why the most-upvoted plea is for the anime studio to simply rewrite the finale. But not everyone's angry, and the defense that lands hardest comes from the readers telling everyone else to calm down.