Trivia / Oshi no Ko

• Actor-Shared Background: Juliet Simmons is also a Youtuber like MEMcho whose alias is JubyPhonic.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Overlapping as a promoted fangirl, Ai Hoshino’s voice actress, Rie Takahashi revealed in an interview that she was a huge fan of Oshi no Ko since the serialization of manga. Once she heard the work will be getting an anime adaptation, Takahashi admitted she wants to be part of the project no matter how small of a role she could get. Takahashi also revealed she eagerly tested her voice on all characters that she see may fit using her manga copies at home before going for any of the project’s auditions. Takahashi’s original first choice was Akane, but after trying the role at home many times, in her objective view as a fan of the work, she finds her voice unfit for Akane, but instead may have the potential for Ai. Takahashi thus prepared herself to audition for Ai as her target. Although she still went to try out for Akane on the production's first round of audition, she eventually was cast as Ai.
• Enforced Method Acting:
  • Melt's voice actor, Seiji Maeda, revealed the script he was given with Melt's Bad "Bad Acting" lines were deliberately placed with the obstacle of fully typed katakana with random indentation to prevent him from performing too smoothly.
  • Akane having to deal with suicidal thoughts is something her English voice actress, Kristen McGuire, knows all too well, as well as the fact that she herself lost a loved one to suicide, according to her reply on a thread on r/animedubs regarding episode 6.
• Ripped from the Headlines:
  • Akane's attempted suicide is a very transparent reference to the tragic suicide of Hana Kimura, a massive controversy in Japanese media and only a few months old when the manga chapter this event happens in was published. When the anime episode featuring this scenario aired, Hana's mother was naturally upset as it triggered the memories of her daughter's suicide.
  • Earlier, the death of Ai Hoshino is also a reference to the stabbing of Mayu Tomita by Tomohiro Iwazaki, which led to the revision of real life Japanese law about online threats. Although Mayu survived unlike Ai, Mayu ended up suffering various disabilities and PTSD after the traumatic incident.
• Sleeper Hit: Downplayed, but the manga quickly grew a huge fan following after its serialization. The anime, however, played it more straight; the premiere alone drew critical acclaim instantly, and the second season was announced the same day the first season finale aired.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Akasaka wasn't originally planning to kill off Ai, but grew concerned that she'd overshadow the twins, the actual protagonists of the story. His answer was to have her be murdered by the same crazed stalker that killed Goro so her death could be the catalyst for Aqua's actions going forward.
  • In the Volume 2 celebration stream, Yokoyari and Akasaka discussed the upcoming story arc in Volume 3. Akasaka mentions that he already toned down the original draft. Considering in Volume 3 Akane Kurokawa receives heavy cyberbullying and is unsuccessfully Driven to Suicide...
• Write What You Know: Akasaka used to work for a music company, and he learned a lot about Live-Action TV while visiting the filming sessions for Kaguya-sama's live action movie adaptation, so a lot of the story is based on his personal experience.