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| “ | The music industry is a cesspool these days, so I can't really blame you for putting out mediocre songs when everyone else is doing the same damn thing. But I can blame you, and I do blame you, for being another dumb, no-talent attention whore, who thinks that screaming into a mic proves you're metal. | „ |
| ~ The Unhinged Fan to Retsuko. |
The Unhinged Fan is the main antagonist of the third season of the animated slice-of-life Netflix comedy series Aggretsuko. He is a fan of a band called OTMGirls fan who came to despise their new direction when Retsuko joined them, resulting in him starting to obsessively stalk the poor red panda and threaten her life.
He was voiced by Sohta Arai in the Japanese version and by Ben Lepley in the English version.
Biography[]
The fan is first seen watching the concert when Haida was leaving. He is later seen stalking Retsuko while walking home.
At the fan shaking, the stalker comes with one hundred tickets to have three hundred seconds with Retsuko. He grabs her hands and tells her that their music is trash and their lyrics are unintelligible. He comments that only thirty seconds have passed and have four minutes to insult her.
After this, the OTMGirls manager Hyoudou and some of the fans recognize the emblem on the stalker's jacket, being the same one from the fan's OTMGirls fake account and it was a 2018 limited edition. Hyoudou realizes that the stalker is a fan of the old OTMGirls and doesn't approve of the new direction.
At night time, the fan purchases a box cutter and plans to kill Retsuko with it. When she heads off to work, the fan continues to follow and take pictures of Retsuko on the way and puts them on the fake account. Manaka sees the pictures on the account and calls Retsuko about the fan following her. The fan then approaches Retsuko and tries to kill her. However, Haida, with rage, takes him down. Some of the bystanders hold him down while Haida checks on Retsuko who was unconscious.
After the incident, the stalker is sent to prison and later appears in Retusko's dreams of her fans turning against her and fearing them, prompting her to retire from the OTMGirls and due to the stalker leaking her details on the internet, move to a new apartment and the OTMGirls hired three bodyguards for her safety. On the other hand, it is mentioned in the English dub that he made bail and publicly posted Retsuko personal information online such as her workplace or home address It remains to be seen whether he is prosecuted and punished.
Trivia[]
- The Unhinged Fan is the first truly villainous antagonist in Aggretsuko, as all other antagonists before him were, at worst, incredibly rude people, since the series is a slice-of-life show. The only other villainous character in the series is Himuro.