That was SO shocking 😭 I really loved Ai's character, seeing Ruby and Aqua grieve sucked. 😭 Patreon will see eps 2&3 this week and additional timer reactions!! patreon.com/hollyreacts ❤

34:23 The president is drinking alone... with a second drink poured for Ai. When he offered Ai a drink earlier before the Dome concert, they couldn't drink together since she wasn't at drinking age yet, but at this point, she would've been of age. He's no fuck

AI’s death hits so hard every time. And yeah, the darkness of the entertainment industry is a major theme alongside Lies. Great reaction, looking forward to the rest of season 1.

I don't know if it has mentioned to you yet, but Ai's voice actress also voices Tomo. Which makes Tomo's scream singing of children's songs even funnier in retrospect.

I also thought about this anime as a lighthearted story about an amazing idol with her secret twins, sprinkled with a little bit of supernatural twist. God damn i was wrong.

I’m excited to see the whole series reacted to! Seasons 2 is OTW!

I love Ai, and Kana is my favorite character of the show and maybe year, but I have to shout-out Miyako Saitou, who stepped up as a mother and a business woman. What a woman.

while "isekai" and "reincarnation" often go hand in hand, they're technically separate subgenres. to me personally, in order to qualify as an "Isekai", the worlds themselves need to be distinct, so I'd only classify it as a "reincarnation" story and not an "isekai"

To be fair the anime doesn't give saitou justice. This dude thought of Ai has his own daughter. he wanted to drink with her one week before the dome concert, when she died She became 20 And so he drinked alone the morizo he was suppose to share with Ai (Even pouring another drink for her "soul" that he will not drink at all) and to be fair. In the anime that's the last time you hear about him compared to in the manga when you know what he became. And that stuff hurts a lot.

Please watch the music video for the theme song "IDOL" once again. I believe you will have a completely different reaction from before because you will understand why this music video has such a unique music composition, why the visual design is like this, and why the lyrics are crafted in such a way. And you will be moved by it. There is also an official English version sung by himself. The incredible aspect of this seemingly unnatural English translation is that it not only aligns with the sounds of the Japanese language but also with the meaning of the story. Furthermore, after listening to the Japanese version several times, when you listen to the English version, there are parts where it sounds like Japanese despite being in English. This part of the lyrics sounds Japanese for some reason. ENG"That emotion melts"=JPN"daremoga mewo". ENG"Completely deny"=JPN"kanpekijanai"

no the post-credit! 😔 idc if it's in the video or not, it's fine as long as you saw it.

This pilot really isn't "beginning, middle and end". It's all beginning. This is the prologue.

This is the best anime of the year.

Definitely anime of the season and a very strong contender for anime of the year. A first class reaction Holly. Thank you very much.

YOASOBI also sings the theme song for "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury." If you watch the music video again after watching the anime from the prologue to episode 24, you will be moved to realize that the meaning of the video is completely different from what you had imagined. The last line of the lyric is very important in the ending of the story. You will understand and be moved by the meaning of the images just as you were when you watched the MV for "IDOL" after watching the first episode of "Oshi no ko".

Great reaction! The end of the credits has an extra scene with Ai, btw.

Its Great to see you are starting this anime, definetly gonna rewatch it with your videos 😌 btw, pretty T-shirt!

I love the slump back comments so real, be comfy its worth😭, enjoy all the episodes this is the best show so far

I am going to tell you, you are going to be in for a ride with this series. You get the best since this is done by the same Love is War author Aka Akasaka.

Ah, looking forward to your reactions... the manga was written by the author of Kaguya-sama and nominally takes place in the same universe; notably by reference to the 'Sweet' shoujo manga that they read in season 2. Whilst it doesn't drop to depicting things as completely corrupt with people being outright evil and deprived, like some stories might, this does a lot to give a gritty realism to how difficult the entertainment industry is in Japan. That being said it can still be funny, sweet and fun at times - look forward to it.

you making the same shocked face as the director at the end was so priceless hahaahah XD

They made us love her then killed her off. Brutal!

Hope you saw the little post credit scene

Fun little fact for ya this is actually set in the same exact universe as kayuga sama love is war.

Not Isekai, but Tensei. (lit. Reincarnation) Another good Tensei series to try is 'Ya Boy Kongming' which is a lighter hearted but big brained fun version of this show.

Them making the first episode more than 1 hour to show Ai's life is a very good move. So far, you are the only reactor I saw who didn't freak out about the doctor. Some can't even move on even after this episode and treated Aqua like a creep. If they split this into 3 episodes, most people would probably drop it after watching 1/3 of this.

そもそも“星野アイ”の名前の由来からミステリアスなんですよ。 日本の場合、“アイドル”とは1970年にオーディション番組の時に作られた造語です。他の国(欧米圏)については私にはわかりませんが。 1989年頃、日本のマスメディアはK-POPの事を当初“K-POPアイドル”と呼んでいました。 アメリカで初めて活動したアイドルは1970年に活動した2人組アイドルのピンクレディー、韓国で初めてコンサート公演をしたアイドルは少女隊。秋元康がプロデュースするAKB48や乃木坂46等を“良くも悪くも”手がけてます。

Damn you...! DAMN YOU!!! Damn you for making me in tears! 😭😭

Isekai?? Maybe you mean Reincarnation

Nah to your eternity ep1 is much more painful than oshi no ko ep1

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Its little suspious i think youve got spoilers.

man this show is so weird.... i don't know how to feel about that

oh honey...you think this the 'the' saddest start to a series ever? Let me introduce you to the Troubled Life of Kotoura-San. First 10 minutes will DESTROY you.

I have a huge problem with this anime story. First, it's unfaire to the other one out there because it's one hour long. Anything can be good if you combine 3 episodes in 1. So why ? Either they weren'y confident enought with what they had in end and needed to finish with a bang or the story was poorly written to begin with. This first episode hardly focuse on Ai until the moment before her death. If I had to change it, I would have set the whole first 20 episodes about her point of view, so that it would been more shcoking when she happen not to be the main character. But my biggest complain is about that reincarnation stuff. Looks to me like it was added to justify Aqua's revenge and it doesn't touch be at all. First because it's an 30 years old man in the body of a child, giving me toxic relationship with everyone around him, and it doesn't stop here. But it doesn't seem like it will play a huge role in the series, because he never talk to Ruby and about their past life. I would have prefer if their were her real kids who would try to avenge her on the one hand and follow her will on the other. It's very easy to do : make Ruby a sickly child who got better as she grow up and make Aqua discover when he was a teen about the whole murder thing because he would have been older, remembered the incident, got some clues for who knows who... All of this save you a lot of time, like not making the manager a bad person to begin with, meaning she would have had a stronger relationship with the kids to begin with. And poof, you have a classic first episode with a heartbreking twist at the end, without the creepy stuff about breastfeeding from a 16-17 teenager. And for the other stuff that can't fit it, you just use anime trump card : flashbacks. But anyway, I did enjoy this anime once I put all the problematic part to the side. I haven't read the manga, only watch the 11 episodes of season 1 so I don't know if what I've pointed out will be corrected. But it doesn't seem so. I'm note sure I'm interested by the characters or the mystery enough to watch season 2 when it'll aired.