Warning: of necessity, this review will contain some spoilers not covered in the book’s back copy.
If you pick up Oshi no Ko based solely on the back copy and expecting the cute story of an obstetrician caring for his favorite idol during her pregnancy, you are bound to be disappointed. What’s described on the back of the book is in fact only the first chapter, and it leaves out the important detail: that said obstetrician is murdered at the end of that chapter and subsequently reborn as one of the twins his favorite idol is carrying. The majority of the book follows him in his new life, and while it definitely has its funny elements, the story as a whole is not a light and happy one. While it doesn’t go into the depth of something like Perfect Blue, it does still have some very dark moments about what it means to be an idol and the sort of constrained life that they have to…
