ghost-in-the-corner:

It was so important to have Barbie look at that woman in the bus stop and tell her she’s beautiful. Cause, like Barbie herself says, she (as an idea) doesn’t have an end. As Stereotypical Barbie, she’s meant to be pretty and fun and that’s it.

But she shows that beauty doesn’t end when you get old. Aging isn’t the end of your story, just another phase of it. That old woman is beautiful, and it’s good that she knows it.

That’s why Barbie ultimately chooses to become human. She wants to experience that new and different kind of beauty; not just her physical appearance, but that of a life well lived. She wants scars and wrinkles and cellulite. Barbie’s end is that she lives as a whole narrative rather than some eternal object of visual pleasure.

bizarrette:

I work at a movie theater.

And personally? To be in the tickets booth, and see young girls, teenagers, adult women, coming in to see Barbie,

the most highlighter pink outfits, some of them coming in with the dolls they’re dressed as, laughing to each other, cheering for each other,

to see the men they’re coming to see it with, dressed in pink, cheering them on, taking their pictures with smiles and cheers in the lobby at the photo op

touches something so deep in me

I can’t say any nuances of the movie that haven’t already been said, but like, fuck man, love is so deep and so kind and to be able to see glimpses of it from behind my little ticket desk makes me a little less nihilistic.

animentality:

mothman4life:

the barbie movie very explicitly said that men also suffer under the patriarchy and should support rather than compete with one another and are good enough just by being themselves and shouldn’t define themselves around a woman or relationship and somehow that wasn’t positive enough

bloodfreakpropaganda:

barbie and oppenheimer can be compared in the fact that both movies make you think of your own humanity, and what humans can accomplish.

but barbie shows you the beauty of humanity and leaves you with a sense of hope, oppenheimer shows you the worst of it and leaves you with a sense of doom.

both movies should be seen together to explore the whole range of true humanity.

vinnie-cha:

duality of man

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spongebobssquarepants:

IYKYK

hanzerthenil:

I just recently noticed the similarities between Aqua and Akane’s relationship to Hikaru and Ai

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This isn’t really a new profound theory as I found it on some obscure part of the Internet but I’d like to share some light on it because I just noticed it all of a sudden.

Ruby is usually the go to when people describe someone similar as Ai, after all she is a spitting image of her but blonde, has that similar charisma that draws in people to her, and eventually in traditional Hoshino fashion uses lies as a means to an end.

However, Ruby isn’t the only one with similarities to Ai, Aqua too is also similar to his mother, at least when it comes to some aspect of his love life lol but even if they aren’t physically similar Aqua too has similarities with his mother, in which they use lies as an expression of their love (The difference being Ai yearns for love while Aqua feels like he doesn’t deserved to be loved) wouldn’t be her son at all if they don’t share anything in common after all!

The parallels so far are mostly on how their love lives are similar:

• Both are entertainers who got entangled with Lala Lai Theatre Troupe members for a specific goal in mind
• Eventually they started to get romantically involved with one another
• They both then experienced a fallout for different reasons (Aqua can’t bring himself to have Akane be involved for her safety while Ai started falling out due to the pregnancy, though further details might reveal more on their fallout because ain’t no way it’s just because of that)
• They then started to oppose each other (Akane is actively planning to stop Aqua from self-destructing while REDACTED for reasons unknown went back to murdering again and killed his lover)

That’s where the similarities end and where the differences start within this parallel.

• In the case of Ai she was the older one, while in the case of Aqua he was the younger one lol (if we don’t include his past life that is)
• REDACTED opposes Ai but his motives are out of malice (unless Ai did something so bad to him that warrants murder and more murders following that, he is an evil piece of crap for ruining the lives of his children and many others), Akane opposes Aqua but her motives are pure, which is to save him from self-destructing (I personally don’t think Akane wants Aqua to not chase after REDACTED as someone as smart as she is knows how dangerous he is, she’s probably trying to stop him from destroying himself and find a much “healthier” way to stop him.)
• The romance between Ai and REDACTED ended in a very bitter note to the point of Ai getting murdered by him. The fate of Aqua and Akane is still uncertain.
• Aqua who is compared to “Ai” is the “bad guy” while Akane who is REDACTED is the “good guy” opposite to how REDACTED and Ai was, though further details of their relationship might shed more light on how they are.

Now the question stand, do these parallels mean anything? Maybe or maybe not, I just found the observation to pique my interest and considering I can’t predict the current journey of the story, I’ll leave all of this as me speculating.

If it were true though, I suppose these parallels are a way for the author to allude the trajectory of how their relationship might go. A lot of dark things are currently happening within the OnK-verse but I don’t see this series to have a downer end, it’ll probably be a light after dark ending where after all the shit that the characters have been through, they all will live knowing that they’ve won against their struggles.

Using this Tokyo Blade panel as a complement to this observation, I suppose if Ai and REDACTED’s relationship concluded in a horrible note (but at least Ai managed to die knowing she was capable of “real love) then Aqua and Akane might succeed where their predecessors failed, by making amends and loving for real.

thoughtspresso:

Theory: 【Oshi No Ko】 will be the title of Shima’s movie for Kana

The reason why 【Oshi No Ko】’s title never drops the lenticular brackets 【】 is because it will likely be the title for the movie that Arima Kana will star in, the “masterpiece” promised to her by Director Shima.

Most of us know by now that Arima Kana’s character was based off of Ashida Mana, a famed child actor in Japan that international fans may know from Pacific Rim.

Anyone think Kana’s berets are a parallel to Mana’s red shoe?

After getting famous from the TV Drama “Mother” in 2010 at age 6, they tried capitalizing on her fame by getting her into music, to little success. Mana-chan says in an interview that she, “sings the songs my mother wants me to sing”. In the years that followed, her acting gigs started drying up.

Until year 2020, when award-winning Director Tatsushi Omori cast her at 16yo in the lead role of the film 【Hoshi No Ko】. Literally translated, Child of the Stars or Star Child, but with the Western release title Under the Stars.

A Child Star in a film called Star Child, hmmm.

This move in her career was paramount as a springboard for her comeback, until she had recently been awarded as Newcomer of the Year in the 47th Elan d'Or Awards.

Note: This image is not taken during the awards

I just feel like I wanna see Kana in this dress too

Coming back to its parallels in the show, Akasaka-sensei and Yokoyari-sensei had an interview with Tsutaya, where they were asked this very question: Why does the title keep the double quotations 【 】 and what does it mean?

Many thanks to twitter @aldeberu for pointing this out

Just like how people have pointed out that Tokyo Blade had some parallelisms with the characters in Oshi no Ko, 【Oshi No Ko】 may actually become the title of the film that revives her career and regains her renown and respect in the industry.

I believe that this may be a hallmark event in the plot of the story. Or, at the very least, the reward in its resolution.

Either:

1. Kana’s performance in 【Oshi no Ko】 causes Kamiki to pay attention to her, attempt to harm her, and Kana works together with Aqua and everyone else to thwart him. (In this case, instrumental to the plot’s resolution.)
2. Or, 【Oshi no Ko】 will be the film where Arima Kana’s acting is so honest and impactful that Aqua is so moved that he realizes he is allowed to enjoy acting and filmmaking in this life, that he is allowed to love Kana honestly, and that he has the right to move on and heal from his trauma. (That is to say, the emotional resolution of Aqua’s arc as our main character.)

Option #1 continues to support the theory that Oshi No Ko the manga/anime is meant to be a story about Arima Kana.

But Option #2 supports Aka Akasaka’s tweet “Kurokawa Akane is the child who will take me away. Arima Kana is the child who will bring me back.”

A reminder that Oshi in the title is spelled as 推し, which literally means Favorite. Oshi No Ko’s literal translation is Favorite Child. It is “Hoshi” that means Star, just like in Ashida’s movie “Hoshi No Ko”.

So why would a Japanese manga title literally named 【Favorite Child】 be given a Western release title as 【My Star】 if it wasn’t about her?