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| The story of Swan Lake, and it has to happen on the day of the ballet festival for the Godai Ballet Studio to perform the ending part which has taken eons in training. And while Junpei still has aways to go with his ballet for perfection, he's so hooked on movies with Luou's Rothbart costume portraying Batman's The Dark Knight for mild jealousy. Yeap, Miyako and Junpei's "flirting" moment isn't so much one of romance, but more of motivation. And Luou is ready to trample on Junpei if he has to avoid facing his torturous grandmother and be able to compete in overseas competitions. The actual performance where Junpei's former friend comes to watch their Swan Lake act, and while Luou easily stands out, Junpei is too excited and enthusiastic to perform over his core basics, that it becomes a stage between the Prince "Siegfried" Junpei, demon "Rothbart" Luou and Princess "Odette" Miyako. It's defo surprising to see Junpei act like a "plot armour" Shonen protagonist to "come back to life" and Luou to reciprocate on his past to win the MVP title (much less an encore that the audience wants more of it). ALL OF THIS, while Swan Lake continues playing in the background in grandeur fashion. What a game changer to shake up the world of ballet, the George Asakura and episode director Hajime Ohtani way. ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. |
KANLen09May 6, 2022 12:53 PM
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| What a great fucking episode. I was already expecting some great moments in this episode just looking at the preview and after looking at the staff and Hajime Ohtani being involved once again. I got what I expected. Pure perfection of an episode. Amazing animation. Great directing and storyboarding as always from the GOAT. Amazing stuff from all the staff and MAPPA. Beautiful. So far, I'm enjoying this show with each episode. |
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| The visual of this episode was already high the moment I seen Miyako's gorgeous make-up, that made me remember of some classic shoujo manga eye, that I love. Awesome performance, but poor Miyako play dead for so long in a uncomfortable place. For the most that I wanted to see Miyako reaction, would be bad have a cut in that scene for her. |
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| u know, i was having so much fun with this episode, 10/10 then they went and ruined it in the last 4 secs of the episode with showing that woman villain |
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| Holy smokes was this episode intense. Jumpei had of course fun, but what positively surprised me was Luou exploding. Seeing him on stage with such a fierce aura was nice. "Lowbrow performance" Here comes the elitist bitch. |
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| Luou's makeup and dance were so beautiful. I don't understand dances, but his was still beautiful. Junpei was a bit annoying because he just did whatever he wanted. On stage! Junpei's friend is back, and is being a tsundere in the background. lol Girl in the audience is looking inspired. Guess she'll be important later. Miyako looks creepy, and she feels so unnecessary to the story. She weakens the plot a lot for me. I think Junpei's arc would have been much stronger if Miyako didn't exist, and he'd decided to do ballet after seeing the bullied Luou dance on stage, looking cooler and more confident than Junpei ever could. |
I think that just a LITTLE more than the intended amount of emotion was displayed on that stage... |
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| This episode is the peak of the current anime season. Remember when everyone started watching Demon Slayer after that certain episode? This is Dance Dance Danseur's "that moment". Now is the time for those who haven't given this show a try to do so. Absolutely amazing. That performance felt like I was watching a new version of the Eclipse from BERSERK, wth. Such amazing animazion, but also choreography and artistry. Junpei was so fun and amazing to watch, and Luou reach entirely new heights when he literally transformed into Rothbart. If Gigguk doesn't make a video on this anime, he missed this season's must-watch. Again: Absolutely amazing. Gonna rewatch the play later. |
| If you haven't watched "Fantastic Children", don't talk about "best anime". Thank you. |
| I'm not familiar with ballet but all I can say is that the performance was fantastic. However, I feel like I skipped an episode. They were practising in the last episode and then all of a sudden they were on stage, ready to perform. |
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that was awesome, it's more and more exciting, probably my favorite anime in this Spring season, I'm routing for Luo so much ! |
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| Ugh, Junpei just keeps getting more insufferable in my opinion. It's hard to enjoy the anime when he's the main character. He just annoys me so much. |
God this shows on a whole different level to anything this season. Incredible!   |
| The intensity that took place during the fight was tremendous, Junpei went completely off script but that helped to create a much greater excitement in the audience and pushed Ruo to his limits, it was great. |
| this really was a good episode, the cgi was reaaaaally good for the budget the anime have, and im not a fan of dancing, but this? this is really interesting |
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| What a fantastic performance! I enjoyed this episode a lot! Luou acted gracefully on stage acting like a true villain, while that idiot Jumpei did the way he wanted on stage and the teacher was not amused >.> At least the audience wanted a rehearsal which meant success, and I'm waiting to see the continuation ;3 |
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| omfg watching junpei sabotage the performance so it would be more fun for him was mortifying. I wasn't sure if I liked him or not before this but wow talk about egotistical. idk if that was supposed to be a cool moment but it was infuriating. even more so considering it wasn't a solo performance and he was actively screwing over miyako, the little girls, sensei, & especially luou who had to improv with him. hopefully he will learn from his mistake but considering the tone of that part of the episode, idk if that's where it's going |
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| It felt like 5 minutes. Absolutely amazing. |
| I've been on the fence for this show, but this latest episode was just incredible. Hope there is more of this to come. |
| Jesus Christ, the second hand embarrassment I felt when Junpei stood up, but that was amazing. While that was a shitty thing to do, it definitely elevated their performance, especially for Luou too. Though he shouldn't do that again, cause he pretty much screwed over the other performers, but aye, that was still absolutely beautiful. I can respect Junpei's passion though. Massive props to Luou for getting through that and he pretty much got lost into the character too, like Junpei, it's like he pulled him in. Well, I guess that's because there was a part of them that related to the character. Ah yes, the strict judge. Looking forward to the next episode! |
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| Probably the absolute best episode of any anime airing this season. Definitely a 10/10 ep. ItI actually got goosebumps while watching it. I hope the rest of this anime can keep up this momentum. Such a shame this show is being slept on this season. |
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| Boy, that play was intense. However, as much as the crowd got excited, it was wrong of him to get up again and disrupt the script just for his fun. It did seem like there's gonna be a critic with things to say so hopefully Junpei's flaws are addressed. Only so far he could go with disrupting things like that. |
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| this might end up being my favorite show this season its so good even if i loved the act i can totally see a pro looking at this and saying how shit it was , wanna get mad at him for being so selfish but boyou was having too much fun |
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| Even the previous friend of Jumpei who frequently insults him is in now denial and was actually drawn-in/enthralled to the entire performance!! 5/5. |
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| Best episode so far. That performance was STUNNING. |
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| Wow, I'm speechless. The performance was simply astonishing and all thanks to Junpei's undying desire to keep dancing no matter what. Screw everyone, him going off-script ended up making this boring ass play ten times more interesting. |
| Bravo MAPPA! That scene with Luou unleashing his inner evil was absolutely beautiful, I was too absorbed in the whole thing and also concerned about how much longer Jumpei was going to go at it, but it all went away with Luou's dance. I absolutely love the scenes where the light is shooting on the characters, made the whole thing 10 times more realistic. But, my face dropped as soon as the word lowbrow got out of that judge's mouth. |
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| DAMNNN GOOD JOB ONCE AGAIN MAPPA. visuals are on point, no like seriously i dont know much about ballet but whenever chizuru pointed out junpei's mistakes i could see it too. even when that lady at the back was commentating on it. performance was dope as heck, i kept laughing whenever junpei resurrected bc lmfaoo this dumbass😭😭😭 poor miyako had to lie down in perfect princess position all that time and luou dealing with him.. def our mvp here |
| Poor little swans, such a lowbrow performance indeed. I like that the outcome will probably be grounded, it makes an interesting premise for what is coming now ponpokorin said: omfg watching junpei sabotage the performance so it would be more fun for him was mortifying. I wasn't sure if I liked him or not before this but wow talk about egotistical. idk if that was supposed to be a cool moment but it was infuriating. even more so considering it wasn't a solo performance and he was actively screwing over miyako, the little girls, sensei, & especially luou who had to improv with him. hopefully he will learn from his mistake but considering the tone of that part of the episode, idk if that's where it's going I believe that the judge reaction is telling, or so I hope, like I feel that they were going for the unexperienced vs experienced eye throughout the whole episode. I couldnt but pause of second hand embarrassment when it happened though lmao |
Gween_GweenMay 11, 2022 3:29 PM
| Best episode of the series so far. Mappa showing us how a ballet anime should be animated. Story wise, big big upgrade in the writing! |
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| Holy shit! I didn't expect that dance to be this intense. Really liked this episode. |
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| Jumpei was really unprofessional, stupid stupid stupid boy. I hope he won't get MVP of the festival. What a piece of shit, poor Lou |
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