Is the ending that bad?

Well first,leaks are often correct about the outline of the chapters,we dont havd any panels but the leaks told about the premiss of 166

Second, the source have a history so i have my trust

Lastly,like ive already said,it wouldnt take a genius to know how 166 would go (people dealing with Aqua's death and move on) because thats literally the basic of writing a story with someone died at the end. Maybe there could be some surprise but it wouldnt change the core of last chapter

@HoangNguyen2107 Are you sure? The final chapter will be released the day after tomorrow, but all the so-called leaks that I found on the Internet describe two chapters before that. And yes, no matter what the leaks are, they still need to be confirmed. Which obviously won't happen before the release of the original chapter.

@RobertBobert Whole raw chapter is already online

@bastek66 I saw it, but it’s so bad that I don’t want to believe it even more. Because if the last chapter looked like just a bad epilogue, then this chapter seemed to be done on the knee to lazily end the story with a formal ending after its destruction.

@Hitagi__Furude Kaguya's ending was just mediocre, as if Aka had run out of steam and was formally writing poorly thought out chapters about nothing. But here he literally ruined a bunch of things, right down to the main idea of ​​the manga. And ended it with a couple of shitty chapters with an epilogue montage. Compared to this, Kaguya was finished just fine. Seriously. I'm usually used to having to argue with people to prove why I think something is bad, but this is literally bad on so many levels.

@RobertBobert Well if it makes you feel better, apparently there's supposed to be an extra chapter included in the volume release. Doubt it will change much but sometimes manga authors put the "real" ending in them (Hoshino-san me o tsubette comes to mind).

@hyperknees91 Real one? Isn't just an attempt to soften the fandom's butthurt with an alternate ending or manipulate them like in the case of Prison Schhool?

honestly I think the ending suits the manga I did felt sad when aqua died but honestly that's the whole point oshi no ko was never a happy story but a tragic one and it ended that way tragic ending doesn't equal to bad ending

@quietkun27 It was always a tragic story, but it taught how to prevent new tragedies and protect a happy future. Which is what this ending destroyed.

@hyperknees91 From what I see, they also announced a new LN about Kana and Akane. I hope this is just a spin-off about their childhood and not an attempt to distract the attention of fans with a yuri after the death of the male lead. Then it will just be bingo.

@RobertBobert Lawl...the one thing this story needs is more pointless ship teasing. I'm expecting it will be just like the bloom into you light novels.

@hyperknees91 I think Bloom into you LN was actually even better than the original manga in some aspects. But if this really is an attempt to distract fans with a G-Orphans style ending one way or the other, I'm really going to hate this manga.

@RobertBobert Good lord G-orphans ending was so strange for a gundam show. Shipping has really gotten out of control in anime.

I was giving Aka the benefit of the doubt with Kaguya's ending in that he was just burned out. But I think this story solidified for me that he just gets bored and wants to move on as soon as he can so I think will be the last work I read of his.

@RobertBobert Must have had some good merch sales is my guess...

That's possible but I think getting into that sort of speculation territory isn't very productive as there's really no way to tell (especially with Japan defamation laws, they would never admin to something like that). At the end of the day, if he really cared about the manga, he wouldn't have ended it like that even if he was spiteful about something going on behind the scenes.

@hyperknees91 Well, this is the second time he has so blatantly torpedoed his work in order to move on to a new one. So we already know that Aka is at least inclined to completely abandon things even if they have great significance.

Have only read volume 1. After the Attack On Titan ending hate campaign, I've never trusted anyone's opinion about bad endings ever again. Even without including the Attack On Titan drama, I've experienced that Westerners lack reading comprehension. So yeah, I'll make my own opinion when I read it in the manga/watch it on the anime.

I have lose interest not even gonna read manga or watch Oshi no ko anime season 3. Killing Aquamarine Hoshino is like killing Oshi no ko series itself. Game over no sequel shit ending. I pretend I never watch or read about Oshi no ko.

The people who I call whiners are the type of people who send death threats to/bullying the author, burning manga and bullying people who do like the ending, which was in the case of AOT a large part of the vocal minority.

The group of civil dissenting people who dislike an ending are not included in this.

idk what the message or theme of the story is still

@mrjdko Entertaining is lying.

That’s the message.

Entertainers lie to protect themselves, they lie to hide their scars, they lie to inspire hope. Ruby thought she could do it without lying, she was wrong.

@sharydow Yes, but we were told almost the entire manga that this was bad and MC even died trying to support Ruby’s desire to become a star without repeating the fate of her mother. If Aka really intended this from the very beginning, then he was simply lying himself and deceiving the audience, convincing them that he was going to protect his characters and inspire the audience to believe in the victory of truth and a healthy mentality.

Just finished it myself.

I haven't read Kaguya to the end so I cannot speak on that ending, but after this one I can't in good conscience read another work from Aka Akasaka. A masterclass of how to milk your audience dry for their money, and then ruin any respect they or you may hold for your work.