10 Best Oshi no Ko Season 1 Moments (2024)

Oshi no Ko's first season laid the groundwork for one of the most captivating, intriguing, and heart-breaking series in manga and anime. Its first episode is more like an event than an episode and the rest of the series keeps the same pace. On paper, the plot of Oshi no Ko can seem convoluted. In reality, it's an incredibly fascinating story about a boy seeking revenge in the entertainment industry. The first season of Oshi no Ko features one of the biggest twists in anime as well, and they do it in the first episode.

Oshi no Ko is funny at times, chilling at others, and thought-provoking all around. The first season was filled with heart-pounding moments across the board, with some being much more positive than others.

No matter what happened in season one, Oshi no Ko kept everyone glued to their seats.

10 Aqua as a Child Actor

Aqua's Acting Skills Are Eerily Good

Before Aqua was Aqua, he was a gynecologist named Dr. Goro. He can be blamed for not acquiring his mom's skills for performing, as he was never really a performer himself. When Ai is filming for a movie role, Aqua gets scouted by the director. The director is impressed by his vocabulary and invites him to perform as a creepy child on his movie set. At first, Aqua is overthinking the role. After a failed attempt, he relaxes and lets his mid-30s intellect flow through his 5-year-old body.

The result is so creepy not even Aqua's fellow actors can handle it. The director praises him for his ability and the audience sees an entirely new side of Aqua they may not have wanted. He's creepy, cunning, and smart enough to know what everyone expects from him and how to achieve it.

9 Dr. Goro's Death

The First Death Caused by Aqua's Future Father

Dr. Goro was a great gynecologist. While he was a huge B Komachi and Ai fan, he was her doctor first, putting her health above all else. Dr. Goro got to know Ai during her stay at his hospital. He got to see a different side of her than the one she portrayed during her performances and loved her even more for it. When he was helping Sarina, the patient who would become Ruby, he was gentle, warm, and understanding. His competent yet caring character was someone easy to root for, making his death hard to watch.

He chased down the elusive man asking about Ai. When he found him, the man pushed him off a cliff where he fell and eventually died from his injuries. His death was the first in the series and let everyone know the tone Oshi no Ko would be taking.

8 Aqua's On-Screen Kiss

He Might Just Be Working, but It Looked Real

Aqua's main goal in life is to find out who his father is and get his revenge. When a producer offered him information about Ai's love life in exchange for an appearance on a reality dating show, it was an easy decision. He joined the show and was fairly disinterested until he met Akane Kurokawa, a woman who profiled his mom better than he ever could. Aqua makes the decision to kiss Akane on screen for a couple of reasons.

First, he wanted to give a good performance for the producer who had information about his mom. Second, he wanted to use Akane and her ability to profile his mom. Aqua then kisses Akane on screen, to both her and the producer's delight. Akane decides that she wants to make this fake romance real, while Aqua is just one more step closer to his goal.

7 Pieyon's Workout

If You Want Subscribers, You've Got To Earn Them

Oshi no Ko isn't the lightest of shows, so when Pieyon made Akane and Ruby workout with him in his bird mask, it was hilarious. Pieyon is a hugely popular YouTuber with a lot of followers. He shares the same agency as the new B Komachi group and is asked to make a collaboration video with the girls. He agrees under the condition that they do one of his workouts with him for an hour straight.

Much to his surprise, both of the girls lasted the entire workout. He even admits that he was planning on editing the video if they couldn't make it. Because they did, he gains a new respect for them and decides to help them even more in the future. His bird mask, weird voice, and jacked body are a funny edition to the first season.

6 Aqua at the Concert

A Big Brother Supporting His Sister

Aqua is an idol otaku in two different lives. When he was Dr. Goro, he was dancing along to all of B Komachi's songs with glow sticks in the hospital. Now as Aqua, he's doing it all over again. When Ruby, Akane, and Mem-Cho revive B Komachi and perform all their old songs again, Aqua is more than ready. He heads to their first performance with a glow-stick colored for each girl and dances like a one-man army.

Akane is in her head before he comes to the performance. She's worried that nobody has come to support her, until she sees Aqua in the crowd. His passionate dance reinvigorates Akane and gives her the courage to perform her heart out. She also decides at that moment to make Aqua fall in love with her no matter what.

5 Aqua Saves Akane's Life

Too Much Online Abuse Could Ruin Anyone

Akane accidentally scratches one of her co-star's faces on the reality dating show LoveForReal and gets very negative press for it. She suffers relentless flaming and trolling online, causing her to back away from her friends and take time off the show. In her solitude, her feelings only get stronger. On a stormy night, she decides to leave the safety of her home to go get dinner. She tells her friends, including Aqua, that she's going, much to their dismay.

She ends up jumping from a bridge during her walk back home. Right as her feet leave the railing, Aqua grabs her. He yanks her back down to Earth where she screams and cries at him for stopping her. Aqua tells her that everything is going to be alright, reassuring her and saving her life.

4 Aqua as the Villain

His Acting Skills Haven't Gone Anywhere

Aqua will do anything to get more information about his mother's and his own murders. When he heard that Akane was working on a project with Masaya Kaburagi, a man with ties to Ai, he jumped at the bit. He joined the project as the creepy villain set to appear in the last episode. While he was no longer confident in his acting abilities, Akane was. Her faith paid off as Aqua delivered a stellar performance that went off script to get the best out of the environment he was in and the actors he was with.

Akane started to pay extra close attention to him after this performance. He also caught the eyes of a few other directors and producers, paving the way for Aqua to act more in season two. It's nice to see Aqua's skills as a child actor didn't go anywhere.

3 Akane uses Ai's Eyes

Aqua Was Speechless for the First Time

Aqua is ruthless, calculated, and hyper-intelligent. He's two steps ahead of everyone around him, so it was nice to see him speechless for once when Akane started acting like Ai. Akane was looking for a way to get Aqua's attention. He mentioned loving Ai Hoshino, a former legendary idol who was murdered a long time ago. Akane then studies Ai's performances thoroughly, profiling her to get to know her even more intimately.

It worked like a charm. The first time Aqua saw her, he couldn't do anything but agree with her. When Ruby saw her on screen, she reacted by saying "Mom?". Akane is known for her genius skills, and they show when she's acting like Ai. Aqua is intrigued by the fact that she can act just like Ai, making Akane think she can slowly make him fall in love with her.

2 New B Komachi is Unveiled

B Komachi and the B Stands for Back

B Komachi was the name of Ai's award-winning idol group during the first episode of Oshi no Ko. After Ai's murder, the band fizzled out, playing for a couple more years before disbanding. Ruby joined Strawberry Productions as an idol, the same production company her mother Ai was part of. She decides to name her new idol group B Komachi again, reusing her mother's old songs in honor of her. The entirety of Oshi no Ko takes place in Ai's shadow, so it's nice to see her memory being honored in this way.

B Komachi's first performance is a hit. Aqua comes to support and dances like nobody's watching, or maybe like everyone is. Ruby is electric on stage, making even the most dedicated of otakus compare her directly to the legendary Ai. It's the first of many for the new B Komachi.

1 Ai is Killed

One of the Most Shocking Deaths in Anime

Ai Hoshino was the poster child of Oshi no Ko season one. She's gorgeous, her animation is bright and vivacious, and her eyes look like the stars themselves. To say her death came out of nowhere would be an understatement. The first episode of Oshi no Ko is a deceptive hour and a half, adapting the first ten chapters of the manga. The directors made sure not to release the first part of Oshi no Ko piece by piece so that as few people as possible would get spoiled and it worked.

Ai answers the door to a fan waiting with flowers, only to get stabbed in the mid-section. She immediately forgives the fan, recounting their past encounter at a meet-and-greet. He flees the scene in shame to later commit suicide. Ai then bleeds out holding Aqua, telling him and Ruby that because of them, she was finally able to say "I love you" and mean it.

Oshi No Ko

TV-14

Animation

Mystery

Supernatural

Oshi no Ko is an animated supernatural mystery series that follows a gynecologist named Gorou, a big fan of an idol whom he is caring for as she prepares to deliver her children. After an obsessive fan of the idols murders Gorou, he is reincarnated as her newborn son - but along with him, a terminal patient he knew is reborn as his twin sister. Years later, after yet another seemingly related murder, Gorou (now known as Aqua) decides to enter the idol world and find the culprit.

Cast

Manaka Iwami , Jeremy Gee , Jack Stansbury , Alyssa Marek , Savanna Menzel , Natalie Rial

Release Date

April 12, 2023

Seasons

1

Streaming Service(s)

HIDIVE

Writers

Jin Tanaka

Directors

Daisuke Hiramaki