Fame as a System: To Be Hero X, Oshi no Ko & My Hero Academia

🌟 Unlock special gifts with our latest podcast highlights and full VODS. Gain early access on our Patreon: patreon.com/ivebeenmeaningtowatch. 🌐 What does it actually cost to be famous? This week, host Monika is joined by returning guest Vicky (@viviwithav2.0), a character design creator with nearly 20K TikTok followers and over 1M likes, to pick apart fame as a system across three anime: To Be Hero X, Oshi no Ko, and My Hero Academia. We open with Media Mania, our weekly entertainment news segment, this time on 18-year-old Mason Thames and how he became the first actor since Jim Carrey to headline three number-one box office films at once. Then we dig into the main event: hero rankings, idol culture, and trust value systems, and what happens when heroism stops being a person and becomes a title. We compare how Lin Link, Ai Hoshino, and Izuku Midoriya each carry the weight of being watched, ranked, and consumed by an audience. We close with our Watch List segment, sharing what's next on our queue, including the Chainsaw Man movie and My Hero Academia's final season. New episodes drop every week with a new topic and a new guest. Follow Vicky at @viviwithav2.0, and tune in for more anime breakdowns you didn't know you needed. Vivi's Socials YouTube    / @viviwithav   TikTok   / viviwithav2.0   Manika's Socials Youtube:    / @manikadulcio   Instagram:   / mdulcio98   Twitch:   / manika3000   Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manika3000?is... Podcast Socials YouTube    / @ivebeenmeaningtowatchthatp2316   Twitter:   / beenmeaning2pod   Tiktok:   / ivebeenmeaning2pod   Facebook:   / ive-been-meaning-to-watch-that-11328008376...   Instagram:   / ivebeenmeaning2   Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. We really appreciate it. If you would like to support the podcast, you can subscribe for 4.99 a month. https://anchor.fm/ivebeenmeaningtowat...