Oshi no Ko season 2 revealed 2024 plans back in November of last year, and this weekend’s AnimeJapan 2024 event served up the perfect opportunity to announce further details and preview the continuation. The series unveiled a new teaser visual and a video to go along …Read more »
The Oshi no Ko anime has been massively successful — so successful, in fact, that it shocked the voice actors involved. “The manga was of course already well known, and there’s a buzz when each new book comes out,” Megumi Han, the voice of Kana …Read more »
On November 26, 2023, Rie Takahashi, the voice actress of Ai Hoshino in Oshi no Ko, did a live performance of the anime’s hit opening theme song, “Idol.” This was part of the “Ichigo Production☆Fan Thanksgiving 2023” event, and it turns out, it’s not the …Read more »
The Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, named for the Godfather of Manga himself, is now in its 28th year, and the finalists for this year’s prize have just been unveiled. The 10 manga up for the prize are: Ikoku Nikki (Tomoko Yamashita) Oshi no Ko (Aka …Read more »
The winners of the Tokyo Anime Award Festival have been revealed! To be eligible, an anime had to premiere between the dates October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023. Let’s take a look at who won. The award for best TV anime went to Oshi …Read more »
The Oshi no Ko anime adaptation dominated the past year, from the anime itself to song charts and Google searches. Now, in a practically inevitable move, the series is going the live-action route in the form of a TV series and film. Amazon and Toei …Read more »
A recent survey of elementary schoolers in Japan that asked “who do you admire?” had many of the results you might expect: mom, dad, teacher, a friend. But there were also some surprising entries. In third place was Ai Hoshino, the singer from the manga …Read more »
The year is almost over, so Google has released its global top-trending searches of 2023, and we can see plenty of otaku have been looking things up. For instance, the fourth most Googled TV show of 2023 was One Piece, probably due to the Netflix …Read more »
Yahoo! Japan (yes, Yahoo is still a commonly used search engine in Japan) has just released its Search Awards for 2023 — a list of pop culture faves that received the most searches for the year. The search award for anime went to Oshi no …Read more »
This weekend marked the Ichigo Production Fan Appreciation Festival 2023 event, which revealed some more information about the Oshi no Ko anime. In addition to unveiling a new key visual, the event confirmed that Oshi no Ko season 2 is set to premiere sometime in …Read more »
Oshi no Ko, HIDIVE’s top launch and the anime whose opening song keeps making records, is now teaming up with the RPG Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis for a limited time. The game’s official website explains: In addition to Ai’s idol costume and outfits …Read more »
The Oshi no Ko theme song—YOASOBI’s “Idol”—has been breaking records ever since the anime debuted. Now it has another trophy to add to its heaving shelf, because it has now become the fastest song in the history of the Oricon charts to go beyond 400 …Read more »
As Oshi no Ko fans have likely heard by now, the smash hit series is going on hiatus. While Aka Akasaka recovers, this story of love, music, and revenge will be taking a little break. So what can fans do in the meantime? Besides theorize, of …Read more »
Shueisha was happy to reveal that the popular manga Oshi no Ko is set to have more than 12 million copies in circulation by July 19, when the 12th volume is published in Japan. The publisher didn’t say if they included digital copies to reach …Read more »
Manga about idols are usually about glitz, glamour and romance. Oshi no Ko, on the other hand, is about the dark side of the entertainment industry, and it’s good for the creators to have the bravery to show it like it is. That said, Oshi …Read more »
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