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| This episode takes a darker turn, especially for Ruby. After finally landing the lead role as Ai Hoshino, this isn’t a “clean” victory, but the start of a much heavier mental burden. Her trauma regarding her parents begins to resurface, and it’s clear that Ruby is slowly heading toward a state of increasing psychological distress. On the other hand, Kana lands a role in an idol group that hates Ai; unfortunately, Kana’s current feelings are being manipulated within Aqua’s game of revenge. Aqua, edgy and manipulative as usual, but her reunion with Akane after their breakup shows that their relationship isn’t truly over—there are unresolved emotions, but also a gap that can no longer be bridged. This ship has already sunk; it was toxic from the start, let alone now. This episode isn’t about major plot progression, but more about affirming the direction: Ruby will be the center of the next tragedy, and all the other characters are just orbiting around that game. |
| Not sure if it's because I watched this episode on the same day a family friend passed away, but witnessing Ruby's true feelings about her mother's and the doctor's deaths and how she is still haunted by their deaths, hit hard. Not to mention that after credit scene, where Ruby's feelings towards her mother from her previous life came boiling back up. At least the cat is finally out of the bag and Ruby now knows a little bit about what her brother has been up to this entire time. And not only her, seeing the reactions of Kana, Frill and Akane to the script in the episode was a nice touch. Excited for the final episode of this season. |
| in the next season, i think we will see Ai for real on the show with good screentime... i mean the movie they are filming will be about her life.. so I guess more screentime for her past life scenes |
| i actually really hate that it was not Akane for Ai's role. She truly understands Ai as she was during that period of time, which Ruby has never bothered to figure out on more than a surface level. Ruby may "understand Ai's pain" as her daughter, but I don't feel like that was enough of a reason to grant her the role. And Ruby pulling that as the reason she should have the role? "I'm Ai's daughter"? She wouldn't be able to do that unless Aqua made that information public. Which she told Aqua off for. She told him she couldn't trust *anybody* because of that, and now that's her reason? Ruby is not ready to take on this role as she is right now. and that showed in the end credits. |
This scene was the one that really made me go "what a asshole". |
| Ruby's trying so hard despite still struggling with the trauma of Ai's death, and now she'll potentially have to deal with the turmoil of meeting her own (Sarina's) neglectful mother. Her resolve is admirable, but I hope she doesn't push herself too far or she'll really break. On the other hand, Aqua's aura is becoming increasingly sinister after fully dedicating himself to revenge, especially with how he challenged Akane to stop him if she can and mentioned how easy Kana is to manipulate. He's clearly already planning on drawing out Hikaru using the movie, though I wonder if he'll hesitate to actually kill him when the chance comes, as he might realise during filming that Ai wouldn't want this. I'm also excited about the final episode of S3 being an hour long, since I was a little upset when I heard it'd have two less episodes than S2. It should give them more time to build up towards the 15-Year Lie arc, which will hopefully deliver a fulfilling ending to the series. |
| Ruby playing Ai just makes sense. Akane is truly an amazing actress but the role just suits Ruby. Even if she wasn't the daughter of the woman the role is based on, her ability to easily connect to Ai's true depressive side is on point. Kind of like, you could cast any actress to play a lesbian who could easily kiss another woman. But it's entirely different story when the person casted is an actual lesbian. |
🇦🇷🇪 🇾🇴🇺 🇷🇪🇦🇩🇾, 🇳🇦🇳🇴🇴🇰? 🇮❜🇻🇪 🇧🇷🇴🇺🇬🇭🇹 🇾🇴🇺 🇩🇪🇸🇹🇷🇺🇨🇹🇮🇴🇳! |
Reply to Fairytelly
SARINA'S MOM??? That's crazy I feel so bad for Ruby.
Glad good things are happening for Kana.
Veryyy excited to see how they do the 1 hour special next week.
Glad good things are happening for Kana.
Veryyy excited to see how they do the 1 hour special next week.
| @Fairytelly I totally forgot about that until you mentioned it! Yeesh, now the last scene makes more sense as a cliffhanger. Will be interesting to see if they reorder things for this finale coming up. |
| Akane is such a bitch, ruby was literally talking about her mom (and of course they knew it was true, not a lie), and Akane fkng goes and impersonates as Ai lmao I appreciate that Ruby's classmate actor saw the script and immediatly understood that, without even really knowing him, Aqua is a piece of shit lmao And what does Aqua plan to do after everything is solved? Fkng kill himself? lol Crow Girl ❤️ |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it. |
| Ruby :< So that's why this season is listed with only 11 episodes, we're getting an hour-long finale. Still can't believe how well they're cooking this series, I can't wait for next week! |
| I liked it! I am not fully on board with where the story is going at this point, but the adaptation itself remains top notch, with the animation, visuals, music, and overall production in general being S tier. This is also a really sympathetic depiction of Ruby, which makes her incredibly easy to empathize with in spite of her obvious sociopathy. I guess that just serves to make her that much more tragic (yes, in case it was not clear, that post-credits scene really hit hard for me; in fact I'd say up to that point this episode was a 3/5 for me, and that basically singlehandedly lifted it to a 4/5). A 1 hour finale next week, let's see Doga Kobo bring it home. |
| So Ruby will play the lead role of her late mother but the lady that was introduced at the very end is supposedly her other, or first, mother? Damn I can see that really complicating things if Ruby sees her, hope it doesn't mess up her acting role. Meanwhile Aqua got visited by the crow girl again and I think that she's in his head, in other words imaginary but that was after I thought maybe that was Ai reincarnated... not really sure. Anyways, I'm looking forward to the 1 hour long finale and I can't recall watching a series with an extended final episode, especially one that also had an extended first episode. |
| Ruby at the beginning of the episode reminded me of something that Aldia from Dark souls 2 said... ''And no matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie.'' |
Reply to Syureria
In my opinion, Ai's lie movie is not as hype as the first episode of OnK, hopefully next Sunday week, the hour-long broadcast will be as hype as the start of the anime
https://x.com/i/status/2034276135887114651
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| @Syureria Is the finale this Sunday or is it still on Thursday next week? |
| yoooo this is gonna be good!!! is this 1hr final ep next week like the end-end?? surely not maybe a special or movie after that, dunno (non-manga reader here) |
Ah OK Thanks for the clarification. |
Reply to raff-rafflesia
ruby inner monologue during audition
| @raff-rafflesia oh. So I did just brush past that bit after all. Thx for showing this |
| I like how they animated Kana reaction :D that was great Ruby acting gave me chills and tears ;o THIS IS GONNA BE SO GREAT EPISODE!! 1 hour long! anime only watchers prepare yourselves for BIG SHOCK ! :D |
| (づ￣ ³￣)づ ちゅっ ちゅっ キス (´｡✪ω✪｡｀) I hate it when anime/manga that I enjoyed ends, especially when there could be much longer plot and when I love main heroine :P I wish I had magic glasses that let me see real world in anime colors ;) |
| I've already read the manga, but as a brother with a little sister whose mother abandoned us; this episode's acting really hit home, came down crying... |
Reply to KingShisui
this season's finale will be a 1 hour special 🙏
| @KingShisui your profile picture plus that post LOL |
| No matter what happens, I'm team Akane. Didn't expect her to get a supporting role in that movie. |
| Ruby being honest and covering it up as acting has to be one of the greatest scenes of all 3 series, and we all know there is plenty to choose from, but those two are pros so they surely realized which one was real, as even confirmed by Akane's follow-up, which was also really good. Mood and expression switches in those scenes are once again brilliant. Aqua manipulating Kana was also a great scene in the end, but poor Kana, blinded by love and not realizing his recent change of attitude is too fishy to be real. We got introduced to a creative process of another medium, this time film-making, although it would be even better if they were more thorough with it, like with the others (2.5D Stage Play, Reality show). Even the after-ED scene showing and explaining Ruby's grind was insane. Again and again thanks to Oshi no Ko for constantly outdoing itself and confirming to be one of the best. |
| 🎯 Truth Score : 9.4 / 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ 🇺🇸 A performance-driven episode where elite voice acting and strong direction elevate the emotional realism of the story. |
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| I really dislike the loli crow-god. I don't get why it's there. If it's a figment of Aqua's imagination I would have thought he'd be haunted by Ai herself. |
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