【OSHI NO KO】Season 3 OP Song: "TEST ME" by CHANMINA

Okay, since you clearly only know “Greek tragedy” as a buzzword and not as an actual body of literature, allow me to summarize one for you and explain why it’s ironic:

In the play Oedipus Rex, the main character Oedipus receives a prophecy that he would kill his father and commit incest with his mother, so he leaves on a journey far away to avoid that happening. On his way, he kills a man in a dispute, and then later solves the riddle of a sphinx terrorizing the city of Thebes, and in reward he is married to the widowed Queen Jocaste and made king. However as it turns out, the man Oedipus killed in the highway was his true father and the former king of Thebes, and Jocaste is his mother. They had given him away as a baby in hopes of avoiding a similar prophecy that they had received. This is ironic because the steps the characters took specifically to *avoid* their tragic fate directly contributes to that fate coming to pass.

Now, for [Oshi no Ko.] >!Aqua’s fate is not ironic. Quite literally nothing about it is ironic. He took no steps to avoid it. Fate did not conspire to bring him inexorably to that point despite his best efforts. He had a character arc that was clearly leading him to choose not to kill himself, and then he did it anyway. Also it had nothing to do with revenge. He’d already let go if the revenge motive by that point. He killed himself to make sure Ruby still had her idol career.!<

[Oshi no Ko] >!Yeah, Dark Ruby serves as an explanation for how we get from B-Komachi being an up and coming idol group to being on the verge of superstars, but that’s it. It has no long-term impact on Ruby’s character development nor dies she ever face any consequences for the awful, manipulative shit she pulled during that time. And again, Aqua didn’t kill himself to save Ruby from revenge, he did it so she could prance around on stage as an idol.!<

[Oshi no Ko] >!You’re missing the point with the incest. Yes, at the end of the day Ruby is actually in love with Gorou, not Aqua, but the point is that the plotline is very blatantly exploited for cheap engagement bait and is never developed beyond that and is dropped once the engagement bait-iest part, the kiss, happens. We never see Ruby grapple with or come to terms with the fact that Aqua isn’t Gorou anymre, the kiss has zero impact on the plot or Aqua and Ruby’s relationship as siblings even though it *really* should, and it ultimately has zero bearing on the ending. Like so many other things in the last 40 or so chapters, the plotline is so poorly handled and implemented that you could cut it entirely and lose *nothing.*!<

And since you didn’t address it, I assume that you agree that [Oshi no Ko] >!Crow Girl is a pointless character?!<