Tune in to this week’s broadcast AanK for the most recent information on the delivery business. It has been a very long time coming, really – this aspect of the story hasn’t had a lot oxygen this season between the sausage-making and the occasional forays into the revenge plot. After all, the romance angle can be carefully tied to these threads, and in some attention-grabbing ways in which may make clear how issues will in the end play out. However I do not assume Oshi no Ko will quickly (at the least for an extended time frame) change right into a collection that focuses on romance.
I’ve already famous that so far as the place I match into this triangle (I might put it at a couple of 6/10), I am firmly on Workforce Kana. I do not dislike Akane as a personality, however Kana is clearly my favourite. That is a bit uncommon for me, since I are inclined to choose the delicate and troubled over the manic pixie in these conditions (Hiromi and Noe would fortunately have a phrase with me). However Kana clearly wins right here. Perhaps it is Megumi Han’s efficiency (I am a fan, I will not deny that). However I additionally admire that Kana is mostly extra of a straight shooter than Akane. She will’t deliver herself to admit, however she’s positively extra open and sincere about her emotions in most methods.
Which ends up in the query which lady Aqua is in, which this episode is about however doesn’t actually confront. In concept, he doesn’t must retreat any longer along with his grand plan in life in tatters (though that clearly received’t stick). Kana invitations herself on a date with Aqua to select a brand new curler bag for the Miyazaki journey. She form of messes it up from the beginning, taking without end to resolve between cute and attractive and arriving in Shinjuku half an hour late. She overthinks all the things that occurs, right down to the colour of the bag Aqua buys and his paying the invoice for lattes and dinner. However of the 2 encounters this week, this one positively feels extra like a “date.”
What are we to make of Aqua making a dinner reservation (at a Churrascao) with out understanding if Kana would even be up for it? It reveals a variety of belief that he knew she would try this. She does confront him about his emotions for Akane, which within the context comes fairly near a confession. So what are we to make of Aqua saying he needed to “clear issues up together with her”? In some ways, Aqua is extra sincere with Kana, however with one main exception: the aspect of his life he refuses to share together with her.
In that sense, Akane is undoubtedly a confidante in a method that Kana just isn’t. Their interplay is the standard unusual mixture of intimacy and ritual, evasion and brutal honesty. One may very well be accused of being biased to counsel that, nevertheless it’s not a stretch to counsel that Aqua retains that aspect of his life hidden from Kana exactly as a result of she’s the one he has romantic emotions for – emotions he doesn’t wish to sully with what he rightly sees because the ugliness that consumes him. The truth is, essentially the most attention-grabbing second in Akane and Aqua’s interplay is when he says that he’s by no means had romantic emotions for her – and she or he doesn’t actually deny it.
After all, issues are about to get fairly tousled, and delivery is more likely to be placed on the again burner. Akane has instantly noticed a gap in Aqua’s story (through Taiki, although she doesn’t understand it but). She’s completely satisfied (which the final scene roughly confirms) that he’s mistaken about his father being useless, and for some apparent motive, she assumes he’s simply lacking it as a result of he subconsciously needs to place all of it behind him so badly. After all, she’s not going to inform him—for now, anyway—as a result of his misunderstanding places Aqua in romantic turmoil, and that’s a struggle Akane isn’t keen to concede anytime quickly.
As for that final scene, it takes place within the cemetery the place Ai is buried, which Ruby visits. The person (performed by Miyano Mamoru) who follows her to the grave definitely appears to be her father, and naturally Aqua’s. That might nonetheless be a deception, however there’s some reality to it. We’ll see. At the least for me AanK actually benefited from being freed from all that business stuff that Akasaka likes to wallow in. It may simply be a campy, pulp drama with out having to hold round any of that extra baggage, and this collection does a reasonably good job in that mode.
