Those broad swings are what makes Oshi No Ko such a favorite this year among both our IGN anime experts and the viewers at home. By the end of the first episode you'll realize that this isn't the show you thought it was as it veers into a completely different genre than where it began. When he must treat Ai and help her out of a shocking situation, their relationship is forever changed.Įxploring the ever-more popular reincarnation anime trend, Oshi No Ko sets up what at first seems like a supernatural found family story but soon becomes much more. The series' first episode introduces us to a young doctor, Gorou Amamiya (Kento Ito), who adores the pop idol Ai due to his connection with a young patient, Sarina Tendouji (Tomoyo Takayanagi), who he once treated. In fact, there is nothing like Oshi No Ko simply because of just how wild the central premise is. Set in the high-intensity world of Japanese Idols, it might seem like an unassuming if beautifully animated music series about a young pop star named Ai (Rie Takahashi) but that couldn't be further from the truth. Beautifully brought to the screen by DogaKobo, this eleven episode series is based on the manga of the same name by Aka Akasaka & Mengo Yokoyari. We're beginning with one of 2023's biggest and strangest breakout hits. This means Bocchi the Rock was up for consideration in 2023 as it was completed by voting time.) (Note: For IGN's best anime series award, anime must have completed airing their season or cour/parts in the U.S. So we're embracing the weird, celebrating the unexpected, and breaking down the best anime of 2023 from reincarnation to bands all the way through slow-burn slice of life viking stories. That all makes perfect sense for a year in which nothing was what it seemed and the underdogs often rose to the top. While anime has always been a place for subversive and original stories, all our runners up and winner this year offered up something truly unique, especially our number one which, despite being a returning series, completely upended viewers' expectations. 2023 has given us fantastic returning anime series like Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, and Vinland Saga alongside new smash hits like Oshi No Ko, Pluto, and Science Saru's groundbreaking Scott Pilgrim adaptation, and one of the threads through all of it has been the power of the unexpected and unusual.
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