Author: Armitage

Hello everyone, and welcome to the halfway point of Kageki Shoujo. This week we get more insight into the lives of a couple of other girls who are part of our class of aspiring actors. And as has been the norm so far, we also get peeks into the pasts which seem to drag them down. Though, the highlight of the episode was still the opportunity to be able to see our lead duo finally get to go out in front of an audience and display their acting chops.

Did that all these individual acts add up to form an irresistible tour de force?

Let’s find out!

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Our lovely group of girls aiming to be the top Kouka star return in this week’s episode to come back to their usual school life and all the pressures of competition that come with it. While some of them are happy to be making incremental progress, others are satisfied with where they find themselves in comparison to their peers. Someone finds a passion they want to pursue; someone else starts tunneling into a pit of extreme self-criticism.

How do all these conflicting scenarios unfold?

Let’s find out!
Continue reading “Kageki Shoujo!! – 05 [The Chosen Maidens]” →

After putting the viewers through the emotional gauntlet last time around, Kageki Shoujo returns this week attempting a more balanced tone in narrative, adding in bits of slapstick humor interspersed between moments of self-reflection and painful reminders, while focusing on Ai’s stalker and delving into the reasons behind his mega-fandom of JPX.

Some parts don’t work as well as they could have but the ones that do really put the series’ strengths front and center.
Continue reading “Kageki Shoujo!! – 04 [Tears Overwritten]” →

When I was little, six or seven years old, I used to wonder where babies came from.

The story about a hardworking stork carrying them around had started to seem less plausible by that age. Moreover, our home didn’t even have a chimney! No, no, it just didn’t add up. I had realized by that time that mummy and papa were tricking me and not telling me the true story of how I came to be on this planet. So, one day, I confronted my mother about the truth. “I would be tricked no longer. Hmph!” I must have thought to myself. I remember pestering my mother till she finally gave in and told me that it was she herself who gave birth to me. That after she had married my father, she had gotten ‘pregnant’ and a whole nine months later I had come out of her tummy. Which, truth be told, sounded even more preposterous than being delivered by a stork. But since she assured me that it really was the truth, I reluctantly believed her.

I had asked her how does a person get ‘pregnant’ and she’d told me that, “After a boy and a girl get married and start living together and fall in love with each other even more, they try to show their love by making a baby.”

“But how do they show their love?” I had asked.

I remember the question flustering her for some reason and her only response being, “When you’re older, you would understand”. Heh, little did she know that I was a real smart kid. I had seen plenty of movies to know that when a boy and a girl were meant for each other, they’d share a kiss.

That’s how they showed that they loved each other.
Continue reading “Kageki Shoujo!! – 02+03 [Those Who Long to Cross the Silver Bridge | The Teddy Bear]” →