"Hey, everyone, we're going to start Kaleido Star!" "When you watch Kaleido Star, please keep your room brightly lit, and sit as far from the TV as you can." "Well, well, well." "What are your fun memories from when you were small, everyone?" "Going places with your mom and dad, and doing things with them..." "You were happy just to be together with them, and those memories stay with you no matter how much time goes by." "They're wonderful treasures, aren't they?" "Me, I'm here because that day happened." "I won't forget." "So I don't want you all to forget things, either!" "I don't!" "I don't!" "Leon." "Leon, are you listening?" "Come on, Leon!" "I'm listening." "Say, make my training harsher." "I want to perfect the Angel's Maneuver before the Festival." "This isn't the only year they'll hold the Festival." "There's no need to rush." "But it's already been more than five years since we left Alain's..." "That's okay, isn't it?" "The time hasn't been wasted." "After all, now all kinds of circus troupes are inviting us to be guest performers, and we've even been nominated for the Circus Festival, even if we are in the lowest seat." "That's all because of you." "I'm just an extra bonus." "To make up for my deficiencies, you're always training yourself without a break." "I want to work harder too!" "This is just the habit I've had since I was a kid, that's all." "Never mind." "I'll make my training harsher myself." "Hey!" "I'll perform the Angel's Maneuver at the Circus Festival." "Perfectly!" "Sophie!" "Okay, I get it." "We'll toughen up the practice menu for the Festival." "Only a demon can raise an angel..." "Flight of the Amazing Angel" "Flight of the Amazing Angel" ""Flight of the Amazing Angel"" "Flight of the Amazing Angel" "The perfect Angel's Maneuver you're shooting for is just like I told you yesterday." "Have you burned the image into your mind?" "Yes." "Then do right-leg-only squats on that log." "But do it without making the water ripple." "If you can't do this, there's no point in going on." "I understand." "When you can do it on either leg, come get me." "Right!" "Come on, let's all do what we need to do." "Okay." "I'll stay with Sora a little longer." "All right, take care of her." "This is going to take a long time, isn't it?" "Again..." "Do you believe that Sora will become a true Kaleido Star?" "To be honest, I can't tell yet." "I can't tell, but I'm thinking I'll try betting this on Sora." "You believe in this that much, but you didn't take any steps when she went back to Japan?" "If she hadn't come back, it would have meant that was the highest level player she could be." "Other than invite Leon here, I haven't done anything." "If I had to say, I suppose all I did was terminate her contract..." "If Sora can really become a true Kaleido Star, no matter how many detours she takes," "I'm sure she'll find her own path." "And in fact, she did come back." "Or rather, it's almost as if the stage is in love with her and doesn't want to let her go." "In love?" "In that case, perhaps what I'm feeling right now is jealousy." "Kalos, I have one proposal." "I want some move..." "I want a new move to compete with the Angel's Maneuver." "Softly..." "Aw, it's rippling!" "No good..." "I wonder if I can really do this..." "Sora!" "Huh?" "You've stopped already, Sora?" "Sora?" "I-l-I g-g-got a l-l-little c-c-cold..." "Thanks for the food!" "It's warming me up!" "You can't push yourself too hard!" "I know..." "It's a good thing Marion was with you." "Sora!" "Hey, will you take a look at this?" "Mia!" "Did you get an idea?" "Yep!" "I've talked about it with Miss Cathy too, and I think it might be good, but I wonder what you'll think, Sora." "The rest of you shout out your opinions too, okay?" "How cute!" "Aren't they just?" "Now, there are a lot of different interpretations of Swan Lake, but the most orthodox one is that even though they defeat the demon," "Odette and Prince Siegfried both die and they're joined together in Heaven." "What about Odile, the demon princess?" "That's right!" "That's the mystery!" "After she's tricked the prince, she disappears from the story!" "Odile loved the prince too, right?" "Can't there be a story where Odile gets to be happy too?" "I thought you'd say that." "And so I tried thinking of Odile as another personality that lives inside Odette." "Odette is the loving heart that cares for the prince, and Odile is the hate that heart, which wanted a monopoly on love, gave birth to." "Even though they're in conflict, what they seek is the same." "Odette realizes that hate too is a form of love, and her love grows to be so great that it encompasses everything." "Hate is love too..." "Odette accepts Odile's hate, and she turns into love itself." "I want to try expressing that Odette with the Angel's Maneuver!" "A happy ending!" "Not bad!" "Truly an angel." "Really?" "Sora?" "Sora, is something wrong with it?" "Oh, no, I think it's good!" "It's really great!" "I was wondering if I could really play such a great angel." "There's nothing to fear on that score!" "Because I've written it all tailored to your normal personality, Sora!" "Okay." "Yay!" "Okay." "All right, I'm starting to get fired up!" "The angel Mia envisions..." "So she accepts her hatred, and becomes a great love that encompasses everything, huh?" "That might be something a true star needs to do too." "But I crumbled under the atmosphere of the Circus Festival and ran away." "Can I become that kind of angel?" "An angel, huh?" "We've decided that Kaleido Stage's first show after its reopening will be Swan Lake." "The lead, Sora Naegino, will present to you the maneuver of a true Kaleido Star." "I hear the Angel's Maneuver will be used?" "Sora Naegino failed in the Circus Festival, didn't she?" "I have enough confidence in her to open the show." "She hasn't mastered it yet, has she?" "Mr. Leon, are you satisfied with Sora Naegino as a partner?" "Of course I am." "It's rippling..." "It's no good." "The rippling of the water is a wavering of the heart." "She cannot become a true star while she still harbors uncertainty." "The angel Mia envisioned for me..." "An angel who accepts even hatred." "She accepts battles, hatred, and everything else." "If I can't do that, maybe I can't become a true Kaleido Star even if I DO perfect the Angel's Maneuver." "The reality is, you won against me and got the lead role." "After all, when all's said and done, I'm competing with May." "What do you mean, you don't want to battle?" "!" "You're just running away from the competition, that's all!" "You should think carefully about how much your attitude just now hurt May." "It's impossible to become a star without being hated or begrudged by anybody." "If I admit that a stage without hatred or fighting is a dream that will never be realized," "I won't have to agonize like this." "So you're thinking that the best thing is for you to have it easy?" "But you shouldn't forget the feelings of the people who are watching, now should you?" "I know that, but..." "Then... instead of a sports bra, one with more frills or something would be more pleasing to look at..." "What are you doing?" "!" "What do you mean, "what"?" "I was just trying to unpack your boxes for you!" "Out of goodwill!" "Thanks, but no thanks." "I see..." "I thought you were giving me advice for once." "Yes, advice about your underwear..." "Thanks, but no thanks!" "If you've become uncertain, it's also important to try taking a break from practice to change your mood." "But..." "Are you confident you can do it just by throwing yourself into it headlong?" "Well..." "Then your chances are the same either way." "Yeah, you're right." "Maybe I'll try going to Cape Mary Park;" "I haven't been there in ages." "While you're at it, it would be great if you'd buy some panties with ruffles." "I won't!" "No uncertainty there, huh..." "I guess even people who look happy sometimes fight and hate while I'm not there to see them." "I should have kept practicing after all." "This isn't making me feel even a bit better..." "Angels..." "It's no good, I don't get it." "Oh, I'm sorry!" "Um, I didn't notice you there..." "Is he okay?" "Yes, he's not hurt." "Good boy." "You handled that so well, Love." "Good dog." "Thank goodness." "I'm sorry!" "It looks like that wasn't intentional, then." "Of course not!" "Some people do intentionally step on his feet or his tail when they realize he's a seeing-eye dog." "Intentionally?" "Yes." "Seeing-eye dogs are trained not to bark while they're working, no matter what happens." "So they step on him to check and see if he will." "I'm Donna Walker, his trainer." "This boy's name is Love." "He's training to be a seeing-eye dog." "I'm Sora Naegino." "I'm sorry, Love." "It must've hurt, huh?" "Miss Sora Naegino?" "Not the one that's slated for the lead role in Swan Lake?" "Um, yes!" "Skipping practice?" "Kalos contacted me, saying he by all means wanted me to come and watch a true star be born." "But skipping is bad, isn't that right, Love?" "For the boss to contact her directly..." "Who is she?" "But I feel like I've seen her somewhere before..." "Well, we're still in the middle of training." "Go straight, Love!" "You're the Donna Walker who played Alice?" "!" "Yes." "I'm a huge fan of yours!" "Oh, that's right, could you please sign my shirt?" "!" "Yay!" "Thank you so much!" "I'm sorry I ended up following you all the way to your training ground." "That's okay, it's kind of a nice feeling thinking that you're my fan." "I'm not the only one!" "Miss Layla is too!" "But you'd already quit when Miss Layla joined the troupe, huh?" "Yes." "I couldn't bear to stand on the stage anymore." "The pain of having to climb to the top even if it meant stepping on someone and the pressure of thinking someone might overtake me someday." "It seemed to me like everyone around me had demons' hearts." "So one day, I ran away." "I couldn't work up the desire to be on stage again." "But..." "But your shows were fun, and they sparkled." "They were really great!" "I believe that Alice if nothing else was bathed in smiles onstage and off!" "That you couldn't have had hatred or fighting..." "Normally I'd tell you you were right, but you're a stage performer." "So I'll tell you the truth." "Then you mean..." "Yes." "The reason I couldn't endure any longer was because" "I felt like I was deceiving audience members like you, Sora." "Love, up!" "But I was mistaken in my thinking." "These dogs taught me that." "They're angels." "Angels?" "Yep, slightly mischievous angels." "Excuse me, what does it mean that the dogs are angels?" "Please tell me!" "It might be scary at first." "Okay." "All right, let's go." "Love, up!" "Go straight!" "Don't brace against him." "Right!" "So fast..." "Wait, that's too fast!" "Love, stop!" "Were you scared?" "Yeah." "But that was slower than a normal walking pace." "Really?" "!" "Love felt your unease through the harness and walked slowly for you." "Now, trust Love and try it again." "Okay." "Love, go!" "Huh?" "This might be going well." "It might!" "It might!" "Huh?" "Wait, where are you going, Love?" "That's not the right way..." "Ow!" "He tried to avoid an obstacle." "Follow where Love leads you." "Right." "Huh?" "Go!" "What's wrong?" "Love, go!" "Sora, take off your mask." "If this were a real street, you could have been hit by a car." "Good dog, Love." "Good boy." "You praise him too, Sora." "Good boy, Love!" "Thanks!" "Good dog!" "Very good!" "Was that hard?" "Yes." "They do all kinds of training like this." "But only about one in three become seeing-eye dogs." "The others become normal pet dogs." "Poor things..." "Do you think the dogs are being forced to train, Sora?" "They're not?" "Look closely." "Do they look like they're suffering?" "No, they look very happy." "They know that if they follow instructions, we'll be pleased." "The thing that makes them the happiest is to please the people they're with." "Come!" "Love, come!" "These creatures wish only to make those around them happy." "That's why I think they're angels." "Back then, I could only see everyone's bad sides, but after I met these guys, I realized "Oh, it wasn't like that."" "Everyone who stands on the stage must have an angel's heart inside that wants to give the audience a good time and make everyone happy." "It's just that the feeling of "l can do this better than her"" "changes that angel heart to hatred." "I'm sure you must have seen everyone's angel hearts as you watched us on stage." "Everyone's angel hearts..." "Yes." "Although I couldn't see them back then." "I see..." "During the Festival, I couldn't see them either." "When Mute and the others were talking about their dreams with their friends, their eyes weren't lying." "Everyone else had dreams too..." "They all had angel hearts that wanted to give the audience a good time..." "And battles and hatred were the other side, the result of that." ""Hate is love too"... so THAT'S what it meant?" "In that case..." "You have a really serious look on your face, so Love is worried." "Love, thanks!" "Thanks to you, I think I can move forward again!" "Sora." "Yes?" "I've got high hopes for the birth of the true star." "Yes!" "Thank you!" "Maybe the Angel's Maneuver isn't a maneuver to become an angel, maybe it's a maneuver to wake up the angel hearts inside everyone." "No, I'm sure that's what it is!" "I'll believe in the angel inside me." "I'll believe in the angels inside everyone!" "I'll believe in the Angel's Maneuver!" "Go for it, Sora!" "Something's different than it was up until yesterday, huh?" "Maybe she's freed herself from her doubts." "Won't doing it that slowly actually cause more wavering?" "No, the log isn't wavering." "The water's not rippling!" "She did it!" "Right leg: success!" "Amazing!" "Impressive as always, Sora!" "You did it!" "She can really do it!" "What kind of woman is she?" "!" "It appears she's cleared the first stage." "Let's return home." "Yes, ma'am." "Like, yes." "Next Kaleido Star:" "New Wings" "I can't show the audience something fake!" "And so, Sora's intense training began." "Why are you going that far?" "Stop this!" "I won't stop!" "I've come to get back my dream that I entrusted to you, or rather, the thing I left forgotten on the stage." "Next time on Kaleido Star, "The Amazing Injured Swan"" "The Amazing Injured Swan" "Next time on Kaleido Star, "The Amazing Injured Swan"" "The Amazing Injured Swan" "The Amazing Injured Swan" "My wings are my dream and on towards the sky..." "The Amazing Injured Swan"