I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an idol fan (although plenty of the seiyu I like are in idol units or act the part), but I do appreciate a good story about characters who are or are in love with idols. Maybe because the fandom of it is quite similar to the otaku fandom when you’re really into a show or character. I can relate to those feelings readily enough. And there’s certainly a whole lot of manga based on this subject recently, especially in the BL genre (seriously, there are so many). But when I pulled 推しがファンのファンになっちゃうお話 (Oshi ga Fan no Fan ni Nacchau Ohanashi), out of the backlog, I discovered it had a fairly novel take on the concept.

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