![]() ![]() As two idol-obsessed people watching Hoshino Ai, doctor Amamiya Gorou and hospital patient Tendouji Sarina have formed an obsessive bond with her and her almost-divine performance presence, capitulated further when she discreetly arrives at Gorou’s hospital pregnant with twins. I emphasize this para-social quality between entertainment and consumer because it is the very lifeblood that ** uses to get its start, and stubbornly refuses to emphasize or embrace further as it goes along. The para-social relationship we have with the media we consume is sometimes not as simple as “I like this thing” with posters or casual merchandise it can move beyond human ugliness or frailty and into the abyss of pure horror ![]() Yet no matter how many times we get shocked by the reality that we see when the curtain gets pulled back, there’s always the next cultural object or talking point to swallow our attention even as the people within its own industry cry out to let their pleas for mercy be heard. We also know that the industry is not run by angels. It’s engineered by hundreds of people we never know beyond the abstract to make something we think is worth the time and financial or emotional investment. Even in the supposed “reality” of reality television, we all know and acknowledge on some level that everything in entertainment is manufactured or a conglomeration of lies to get a desired affect or impression. Stranger still though is the relationship we have with it. The whole reads more as someone who only just discovered what the entertainment industry is like, is repulsed by what they saw, and has a lot they want to say, but must make a contractual deal with the devil in order to get the story told, a provision of which is to not wholly besmirch his name in the process.Įntertainment is, just as a general note, a strange entity. It hints at the phantoms on the wall rather than confronts them. industry that Akasaka supposedly wants to discuss. As a result, the show does not actually delve into the darkest contortions and disquieting undercurrents of the entertainment But to do so would involve having its cast be outsmarted or exploited by the teeth of the very beast that they seek to enterprise in, and by the nature of the show’s framing, it cannot have that. It wants to follow the comedic and dramatic conventions for storytelling that Akasaka has in mind, and also wants to unravel the disquieting undercurrent of the entertainment industry within its gaze. ** is a series caught within a bizarre Catch-22 as an actual piece of entertainment.
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