Volume 5 of Kaleido Star Novel Wings is mostly about explaining the motivation of some of its most hated characters, from prove and past. Rosetta and Sora, along with most of their friends, head to France for a short stint with Noir Circus to withhold their skills modern and to give Rosetta a chance to try her luck with the trapeze. Rosetta is experiencing a lot of misfortune until she encounters a primitive up alcoholic trainer that once taught the elite of the world, including Leon and his deceased sister. He’s impressed not only by Rosetta, but after telling them allotment of the epic of Leon and Sophie’s quest to perfect the Angel’s Maneuver, he gives Sora more insight into her absorb desires and the road to being a upright star. And what secret grudge lies between Leon and Yuri?
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I have to admit, I haven’t been a colossal fan of this second season of a explain I really loved, and even conception at distinct points to conclude watching it. But I perservered through Sora’s uncharacteristic depression wallowing and an absolute disgust and aversion to May to effect it to this point, probably the only friendly volume of this second series! Sora finally gets confidence in herself and decides what she really wants. I don’t gain in her idealistic goal of creating a “stage without battles” because how do you ever fetch better unless you have competition? Without it, you become complacent and ragged. No matter what Sora says, she is fighting to accept her plan to the top, whether she admits it or not. The thing that has always dragged this series down is the total warping of Sora’s character to fit a melodramatic formula, which instead of provocative you, could drive you to Prozac. This is a welcome return to the spirit of the first season and is long overdue!
Here I am again with another attempt..and I say ATTEMPT because the account of Sora’s whisk to become a Kaleido Star gets more complex and more drama unfolds for her.
For those of you who fell in like with the comedic situations in the first season & have kept up with the legend will sight that it has taken a dramatic turn because, honestly, Sora’s road to be a ‘true star’ is no longer fun & games.
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It was also hard to do fair 5 or 6 sentences for these episodes because there was SO noteworthy going on, so excuse the LONG reviews for each episode.
So, here I go with reviews for Vol. 5…with MAJOR spoilers.
Be warned.
Oh, by the intention, who view ‘Anathema’ sounded like some illness when they first saw it.
1. Leon’s Astounding Past
Sora and the gang, with befriend from Rosetta, have been invited to France to participate at the Noir Circus. Once there, they experience a mix-up of being at the faulty location, inaccurate identities and being effect through some horrid stunts.
Meanwhile, Rosetta comes across Alain, a retired trapeze trainer whose last students happened to be Sophie and Leon Oswald, and she wants him to roar her.
Sora and her group finds Rosetta at Alain’s set and winds up being told how Sophie and Leon came to be in his service. Advance to net out they were given up by their relatives when Alain asked to bewitch them in so he could issue them on the trapeze, since he saw how talented they were at it.
To the KS crew’s surprise, it is revealed that Sophie was better at the trapeze than Leon, but you would never know that by the diagram she acts and Alain came to a conclusion that SHE could be the one to do a good Angel’s Maneuver, which is the path to becoming a upright star.
But Leon doesn’t like the rigorous training that Alain puts Sophie through, which is the same training Leon had place Sora through, so they leave [keep in mind they were with Alain for a long time].
Once the memoir is over, Sora asks Alain will he notify her to do the Angel’s Maneuver. But Alain no longer believes in the ‘path to becoming a good star’, but Sora is definite.
Meanwhile, befriend at the Noir Circus, Sora and her posse are performing and May, in her determination to effect on a expose like Sora, starts doing all these wild moves.
I’m surprised she didn’t bustle out of breath because she named every..last..one..of..them and she kept going on and on and on, until Sora told her she had to close so they could waste the point to.
Unknown to the gang, Yuri was watching the exhibit with Alain and it seems like Yuri has something up his sleeves.
2. The Fantastic Fated Duel
The Kaleido Stage crew are finally heading home and they’re surprised to be joined by Yuri who is going wait on with them to befriend effect and form in a expose, with Sora as lead, grand to her surprise.
Back in Kalos’ office, Yuri talks about how the Angel’s Maneuver they did wasn’t the complete one and he wants Sora to do the moral Maneuver.
At that point, Leon walks in and he is NOT gay with the view of being pushed aside and by Yuri Killian of all people.
It seems they have dreadful blood between them from 3 years ago and to acquire matters worse, Yuri taunts Leon by calling him a ‘hopeless coward’ who didn’t want to do the Angel’s Maneuver with Sophie…or Sora. Yuri goes onto say that Leon doesn’t want to have his revenge because of what happened 3 years ago.
Hmm, revenge for what?
Later Yuri talks to Sora about doing the Maneuver and what ridicule
she’ll experience if she fails and he, also, tells her that Sophie died because of him and Sora is terrified to hear this.
As the Kaleido Stage members are glad [..relieved, that is..] that
Sora is support which means no more May, Yuri calls Leon to the main stage, offering him a rapier/sword so Leon can rep his chance at revenge, but Leon refuses to retract it up.
So Yuri proceeds to taunt him saying how distinguished of a coward the God of Death is and how Leon didn’t want to attain the Maneuver with Sophie and hoped such a shame wouldn’t be revealed.
To be unbiased, Yuri old-fashioned some VERY harsh words, but the trigger was when Yuri said Leon was tickled that Sophie was tiring,.
I kid you not and let the fighting start…
I won’t catch into the dynamics of the fight but I will say that Erroll Flynn and Tyrone Power had nothing on these two. I unprejudiced wished the fight was two minutes longer.
Sora do a close to the fight by doing the Angel’s Maneuver technique which stopped Leon’s killing blow. The thing that had me thinking about this scene was as Sora was trying to appeal to the two men, you had a feeling of how connected to the stage Sora is. Now I’ve seen people dismiss the scene as corny, but to me it was heavenly in a procedure.
To bring this to a end, Yuri revealed he was willing to seize the blow for atonement for what he did and Leon, once again, remembers his promise to Sophie and Yuri tells him this is his last chance to get gracious on that promise.
3. Flight of the Astounding Angel
The opening of this episode reminded me of why I deem Leon Oswald is the coolest and most enchanting character in this anime ever since I saw him nail the Screw Go in episode 5.
Here we recognize a younger and happier [..yes, Ecstatic..] Leon Oswald sitting at the kitchen table with Sophie. But it was HOW he was ’sitting’ that surprised me..and no I won’t allege.
Anyway, once again, Sora begins her training but is becoming wretched when she can’t do simple right-leg squats..on a log..in water..without making ripples.
Okay, that is kinda hard.
So, Fool suggests she catch a fracture which she does and while walking around the city, she comes across a woman and seeing-eye dog. The woman, who turns out to be a trainer, seems familiar to Sora and she realizes this is the woman who saw produce ‘Alice in Wonderland’ when Sora was a child.
The woman, Donna, and Sora talk about how Donna left the stage because she couldn’t select the animosity and hatred that was happening backstage. She goes onto say how everyone seemed like demons [there's a lot of mentioning about demons in this season], while working with seeing-eye dogs they were like perfect angels wanting to please.
While listening to her, Sora understands that the Angel’s Maneuver isn’t about becoming an angel but waking up people’s angel hearts inside. Therefore, keen her to perfect her first level of training with a certain mind.
4. The Incredible Injured Swan
Sora’s second level of training has begun and it’s nothing compared to what she has done before. Her imbalance is working against her and it’s taking its toll on her feet.
Leon is doing hands-on training with her and notices the stress she is going through but he chooses to preserve aloof.
During one fraction of Sora’s training where she has to occupy a pose for a long time, Leon notices she can’t hold it up so he ends her training and tells her to blooming tune what she’s learned. But Sora can’t bear that’s all to the training and she refuses to stay, all the while damaging her feet more in the process.
Ken comes up with an belief to exercise equipment he saw on an infomercial to succor with her balance which it does to an extent.
But, when Sora tries to go befriend to her first level of training, her body seems worse off than before.
Leon, seeing Sora pushing her body to such extremes, wants her to end and doesn’t understand why she and Sophie would ‘push themselves mercilessly to conclude their dream’.
Sora responds didn’t he mediate that maybe Sophie wanted to eye him on such a stage where he doesn’t have to fight anymore.
side note: Sora is saying all this because she, instinctively, knew Leon had been trying to protect Sophie from the harsh realities of the stage and as a result, Sophie wanted to gain a conflict-free stage where he could delight in performing again.
Leon, finally, decides it’s time to effect due on the promise he made long ago and resumes the special training on the Angel’s Maneuver..with Sora.
..and that’s enough for now until the next TWO months.
nuff said…
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For those bewitching about the title..
It’s always darkest before the dawn
when your world is weary,
when all is shadowy,
when dreams die and proceed away,
and all of life is stark,
take heart in gentle admire,
for she waits in the wings,
and where she walks,
fairies dance and angels content…
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