Oshi no Ko, the popular idol manga, has revealed the final arc will begin this month, though how long the narrative lasts overall remains up in the air.
“Oshi no Ko” by Aka Akasaka & Mengo Yokoyari will enter its FINAL ARC next week!pic.twitter.com/Fdz7XMOBFj
Though we don’t have many details, previous work by the creative team, Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari, may suggest how long the final arc will be. For instance, Akasaka’s Kaguya-sama: Love Is War took a year to wrap up, once it was known we were into the finale.
We could see the same in Oshi no Ko, and given the large community around it, the team might want to push the story for as long as they can. That said, fans respect the decision of the creators.
“You gotta love a mangaka that ends their series how they want without dragging it out forever,” says one user on X/Twitter. “I thought they gonna milk it assuming it’s crazy popularity but the author made the right choice,” says another.
Others hope there’s commitment to a proper ending, rather than the surprise of more to come. “How ‘final’ is the final arc? I like holding off on reading manga until they’ve nearly ended. Did that with Chainsaw Man cause I heard that was ending a few years back, only to be jump-scared by the words ‘Part 1’ when I finished,” another user asks.
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