Kenrantaru Grande Scène (La Magnifique Grande Scène)

When Kanade was very young, she went to a ballet performance of her neighbour, Lisa, and was overwhelmed by her amazing dancing. She decided then and there that she wanted to dance like Lisa, and her parents agreed to let her take ballet lessons. Ballet is much harder than Lisa's beautiful dancing may have led her to believe, but Kanade is determined to endure and become a wonderful ballerina!

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Kenrantaru Grande Scène has been digitally published in English as La Magnifique Grande Scène by Media Do International/Akita Publishing since February 13, 2018.

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Ariya, Kanade

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Kurisu, Sakura

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Itou, Shouko

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Fujita, Ema

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Smith, Oliver

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Garrel, Eugène

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Nichols, Abigail

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Tamaki

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Tolstaya, Vasilisa

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Ariya, Kazuya

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Feb 16, 2021

Domsa

Recommended

Preliminary (82/? eps)

I really enjoy finding those quite quirky, underrated and definitely not popular enough series and, lately, I've been doing that mostly, although I haven't read some of the 'big boys' of the medium. During my 'research' I've come across one such manga that has stuck with me as one of my favourite series: La Magnifique Grande Scène - the crown jewel of manga that doesn't even get a fraction of the attention it deserves. Slight spoilers ahead. I'm not much of a reviewer and definitely not much of a writer so I'll use the classic format where I unfairly dissect a manga instead of rating ...

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Apr 10, 2020

Peanutonaboat

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Preliminary (72/? eps)

If you asked me what the most underappreciated manga out there was, I would probably say Grande Scène. You don't need to enjoy ballet to enjoy Grande Scène, just as you don't need to enjoy fashion to like Runway de Warrate, Karuta to like Chihiyafuru or sports to like sports anime. This is a non-standard battle manga.

The story is about a young girl, Kanade, who becomes enamoured with ballet. We follow her from absolute beginner to... well, let's just say pretty good. The manga's story is, to be honest, fairly standard in its weak-to-strong style, but it's done so well that it doesn't matter. ...

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Nov 29, 2018

Sakuya_Sasaki_33

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Preliminary (32/? eps)

This manga is quite different from what I'm used to read, but I really enjoyed and enjoy it.
I really like the fact that this manga treats of something very realistic, and thus I don't get this imagined story feeling I get from other mangas (which isn't a bad thing in itself). The centre of the plot is not school life, love or anything such, but something that's a first for me in mangas: classic ballet.

Since I dance a bit myself (of course as a hobby, I am nowhere near the level of the characters), I can say that the subject is treated carefully ... and the mangaka really put a lot of effort in searching for the different ballets and the different choreographies in each of them. The dancers are also drawn really well, and also the costumes and the pointe and ballet shoes.
You can also clearly see the world of dancers that's hidden from the public. Whenever you watch a performance, you always think "how on earth can they do that as if it's easy-peasy?" But all the professional dancers have hours and hours of training and they suffer a lot to get the level they offer us in performances. You really get the feeling of competition and elitism of this discipline in the story.
But the story still has a clear plot of course! It follows the path of a young girl who wishes to become a dancer. That's why the whole story is filled with ballet elements.

The characters are really realistic, you can see in each of them different aspects of the world of ballet: naturally gifted or training hard, those who failed and those who kept on...
You get quickly attached to all the characters, with their different personalities, their hopes and dreams. I think they really mean something to us, we can relate to them, especially if you're a child or a teenager.

You also get to see the different jobs related to ballet performances: the costumers, the choreographer, the teachers in studios...
What I also find interesting is the fact that since it's taken from the Japanese dancer's point of view, you get to see aspects of ballet you don't when you're in Europe or America, which is the cultural wall that's evoked in the story. Indeed, for us, most of the ballet stories are well-known, since they're part of folklore fairy tales or from famous authors (Don Quixote or Esmeralda for example). And thus, with the ballet, we also get to see a bit of culture (Greek and Latin mythology for example)

I would thus definitely recommend this manga to girls who like arts, but even those who don't will like this story once they get past the different terms used for ballet positions (arabesque, attitude... which are all French terms, thanks to Louis XIV (14th)). It might, however, be a little delicate for boys to appreciate the manga, except if they dance themselves.

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