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[DISC] Oshi no Ko - Ch. 158 (mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

WHAT THE FUCK WHYYYYYY

this better be a fake out. fucking door chains use them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this chapter very quickly escalated in the last couple pages. One moment we are chatting about how great Ruby is doing at an idol, then talking about how youth is fleeting, a phone call with a murderer, B Komachi has a dome concert (yay), a little god-child says some philosophical things, and then stab. It sprung up so suddenly.

Manga is a medium in which I am used to something like a two-day school trip dragging out over a volume or two. To go through this sequence of events in a couple pages was jarring...but I guess getting stabbed would feel pretty jarring too. So, maybe that is the intent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For the first few pages I had a thought: "this feels like a death flag" but then I immediately dismissed the thought as just paranoia from being so anime-brained. In any other series that would have been fine but I made the mistake of forgetting who the author is.

The only thing that gives me hope is that the manga is nearing the end and Ruby dying (or going into a coma or something) would be the dumbest decision narratively and would utterly ruin the story. But I try to avoid thinking from a meta perspective.

Maybe Aqua will successfully save Ruby and tie up his guilt from failing to save Ai, and they just arrest the attacker instead of having another revenge arc.