Chapter 52

Boyfriend, Girlfriend (カレシカノジョ) is the fifty-second chapter of the Oshi no Ko manga series. It is written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari. It was released in Weekly Young Jump on August 26, 2021.

Summary
Akane is cooking and talking about how she took cooking lessons with her mom. Gotanda's mom says Akane is a keeper and tells Aqua to hang on to her. Gotanda asks Aqua if he is not eating, to which he says he's not hungry. Akane holds some of her rice in a spoon and starts aproaching to Aqua so he eats, but he replies he is not a kid, though he ends up eating anyway. As Akane is thinking how she wants to help him, Gotanda tells Akane that Aqua is his student and shows her an old movie starring Primary School-aged Aqua (Aqua agrees to let Akane watch the thing on the condition that they watch it without him). Akane comments on how cute kid Aqua is before she realizes the reason why Aqua doesn't want to show other people his works. The reason is because of how stiff and "planned" Aqua's acting is. Gotanda also mentions that Aqua had a panic attack during the filming of this movie.

Later on the balcony, Akane and Aqua have a conversation about their goals and futures, to which they agree to help each other: with Aqua wanting to finally get close to the responsible of sending a murderer to kill Ai (though he stricly says he won't do anything to put her on danger), while Akane asks him to help her defeat Kana Arima. After their conversation, Aqua asks Gotanda to teach him "extremely passionate emotional acting."

Characters

 * Akane Kurokawa
 * Taishi Gotanda's Mother
 * Taishi Gotanda
 * Aqua Hoshino
 * Melt Narushima (flashback)
 * Kana Arima (imaginary)
 * Taiki Himekawa (imaginary)
 * Goa (imaginary)
 * Abiko Samejima (imaginary)