TV series
Kageki Shojo!!
Overview
The curtain rises on Sarasa Watanabe, a starry-eyed 5'10" student who hopes to perform as a male lead role in the all-female Kouka Acting Troupe. She forms a friendship with her new roommate, a former idol. Together, they’re in for the role of a lifetime.
Details
- First air date
- 2021-07-04
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 13 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, Comedy
- Network
- AT-X
- Production
- PINE JAM, Quaras
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Sayaka Senbongi as Sarasa Watanabe (voice)
- Yumiri Hanamori as Ai Narata (voice)
- Sumire Uesaka as Sawa Sugimoto (voice)
- You Taichi as Kaoru Hoshino (voice)
- Rico Sasaki as Ayako Yamada (voice)
- Risae Matsuda as Chika Sawada (voice)
- Satsumi Matsuda as Chiaki Sawada (voice)
- Kana Hanazawa as Hijiri Nojima (voice)
- Mikako Komatsu as Risa Nakayama (voice)
- Yuka Terasaki as Tomomi Takei (voice)
- Junichi Suwabe as Mamoru Ando (voice)
- Kenji Nojima as Taichi Narata (voice)
Creators and crew
- Yutaka Suwa - Producer
- Kazuhiro Yoneda - Director
- Hitomi Ezoe - Director
- Takashi Ando - Director
- Megumi Soga - Director
- Naotaka Hayashi - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Beneath the Cherry Tree, in a Rain of Petals
After leaving the popular idol group JPX48, Ai Narata starts a new journey into the world of the Kouka Revue, an all-female musical theater troupe. It's there that she meets Sarasa Watanabe, a tall, semi-obnoxious go-getter with lofty dreams.
Episode 2: Those Who Long to Cross the Silver Bridge
The Kouka High School freshmen meet their sophomore advisors, and Sarasa needs to think about her aspirations. Later, the freshmen take a backstage tour of the Kouka Theater.
Episode 3: The Teddy Bear
Ai confronts an overly pushy Sarasa. A traumatic experience in Ai's past leads to her cold disposition, her decision to join JPX, and her fall from grace.
Episode 4: Tears Overwritten
When Ai runs off, leaving Sarasa with the stalker, Sarasa decides to hear out his side of the story. An explosive argument threatens to end any hope of friendship between Ai and Sarasa.
Episode 5: The Chosen Maidens
Yamada struggles to keep up with the rest of her class. As her diet grows more extreme and more detrimental to her health, she begins to wonder if she really belongs in the world of Kouka.
Episode 6: A Glimpse of Stardom
A surprise present from Tokyo rings in Sarasa's sixteenth birthday. When the class is assigned a scene from Romeo and Juliet, Sarasa's group struggles to put together their performance.
Episode 7: The Hanamichi and the Silver Bridge
Sarasa and Ai head back to Tokyo for summer vacation. Kabuki actor and Sarasa's boyfriend, Akiya Shirakawa, reflects on his childhood with Sarasa and their memories of kabuki.
Episode 8: Kaoru's Summer
Kaoru looks back on her last summer before attending Kouka, where she struggled with misplaced assumptions about her on her fourth and final try at auditioning for the illustrious school.
Episode 9: The Two Juliets
The first-year class learns they'll be participating in the once-a-decade Kouka Grand Sports Festival. A spark of jealousy and deep-seated resentment tear a rift between Chika and Chiaki.
Episode 10: A Once-in-a-Century Autumn
When the Superiors grant a rare opportunity to Sarasa, the decision earns her the ire of the second-year students. Finding herself uncharacteristically nervous, Sarasa turns to Ai and her senpai for advice as the Sports Festival begins.
Episode 11: 4/40
The first-year class gets another opportunity to act, this time in front of a crowd at the Culture Festival. However, there are only four roles, and forty students, which only means one thing: auditions.
Episode 12: Surely Someone
The Romeo and Juliet auditions begin in earnest. Yamada looks back on her pre-Kouka years as she finds her bearings in her role. Sarasa revisits a conversation she overheard between Kouzaburou and Akiya.
Episode 13: Kageki Shojo!!
Sarasa takes the stage as Tybalt. Sugimoto struggles with a crisis of self-worth. The cast list for the Culture Festival performance is revealed.
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