Kaleido Star: Aratanaru Tsubasa – Extra Stage

Synopsis:

Streaming Platforms:

• Crunchyroll

Characters:

• Fool (Main) - Voice Actors: Koyasu, Takehito, Hickman, Jay
• Naegino, Sora (Main) - Voice Actors: Hirohashi, Ryou, Martinez, Cynthia, Czető, Zsanett, Regina, Márcia, Marulanda, Shirley
• Passel, Rosetta (Main) - Voice Actors: Mizuhashi, Kaori, Varghese, Serena, Fésűs, Bea, Bastos, Lene
• Barbara (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kasahara, Akira, Christian, Luci
• Benigni, Jean (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugawara, Junichi, Opella, Eric
• Dupont, Sarah (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hisakawa, Aya, Christian, Luci, Szabó, Gertrúd, Reis, Denise
• Eido, Kalos (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Fujiwara, Keiji, Burford, Rick
• Guillem, Mia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nishimura, Chinami, Novotny, Nancy
• Hamilton, Layla (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ohara, Sayaka, Haffner, Anikó, Krasa, Sandra
• Hanna (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yanagisawa, Mayumi, Carter-Essex, Emily
• Heart, Anna (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Vincent-Davis, Kira, Bogdányi, Titanilla, Lee, Hyeon Jin, de Sá, Isabel, Watanabe, Akeno
• Jonathan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Grant, Tiffany, Kozakura, Etsuko
• Killian, Yuri (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chiba, Susumu, Guardiola, Illich, Előd, Botond
• Oswald, Leon (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakurai, Takahiro, MacRae, Mike, Varga, Rókus, Monteiro, Dado
• Robbins, Ken (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Swasey, John, Shimono, Hiro, Lucindo, Fábio, Csongor, Szalay
• Thompson, Macquarie (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shima, Ryouka, Manison, Kelly
• Wong, May (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nakahara, Mai, Haag, Hilary, Vadász, Bea

Staff:

• Hatta, Shinsaku (Producer)
• Uchida, Tetsuo (Producer)
• Daichi, Akitarou (Director)
• Hiraike, Yoshimasa (Director)
• Satou, Junichi (Director, Original Creator)
• Hirohashi, Ryou (Theme Song Performance)
• Mizuhashi, Kaori (Theme Song Performance)
• Tanabe, Keiji (Theme Song Arrangement)
• Fukushima, Toyoaki (Key Animation)
• Harada, Hiroki (Key Animation)
• Ishikawa, Shinichirou (Executive Producer)
• Kajita, Kouji (Production Manager)
• Katou, Yuu (Key Animation)
• Kubota, Mina (Music)
• Lee, Sang-jin (Key Animation)
• Mishima, Akinori (Editing)
• Nishikawa, Junichiro (Art Director)
• Nozaki, Shinichi (Key Animation)
• Oizaki, Fumitoshi (Chief Animation Director, Character Design)
• Onji, Masayuki (Animation Director)
• Sanchez, Gilmara (ADR Director)
• Suzuki, Ayako (Key Animation)
• Suzuki, Shunji (Key Animation)
• Takanashi, Emi (Sound Effects)
• Watanabe, Hajime (Character Design, Chief Animation Director)
• Yamada, Minoru (Sound Effects)
• Yun, Hui-yeong (Animation Check)

Reviews:

• User YuuChanneru (Score: 4/10):
  I am a big fan of Kaleido Star and there is a huge reason why this Episode was absolutely unacceptable for me. If you look very very very closely you will see a lot of camera angles you have not seen before in the Anime. You can just look at the Opening and you will notice it. It's not about Kaleido Star anymore. It's about the sexualisation of the female characters in this OVA. Somehow the characters lost their usual feeling and I see a lot of people doing extremely strange things that are over the top or not so in character. The characters feelused, not brought into the episode normally. And somehow the female body parts are very, very emphasized, even with Rosetta. The actual performance at the end is not even important. What the heck. You will get what you can get from 1000 other Anime this time. Boobs, ass, legs, and yeah the, don't do that with the male cast. This episode really disappointed me and is a disgrace for Kaleido Star. The directors should be ashamed.
• User bmoore07 (Score: 4/10):
  Have you ever measured yourself to someone else and felt inferior in comparison? Have you ever thought to yourself that, no matter what extremes you;d undergo, you’d never surpass your peers? Maybe it’s something small, like your neighbor Peter having more trophies on his PS4 account than you. Maybe it’s something big, something colossal, something life-altering, something that overpowers you mentally and emotionally. Whatever the case, an inferiority complex can be destructive to your well-being. You doubt yourself. You ridicule your own aspirations. Your engulf your mind with feelings of worthlessness. In the end, you longingly gaze at your peer’s monumental accomplishment before settling fora second-rate replication of what they’ve achieved.nnThat said, the Kaleido Star OVA has an inferiority complex.nnThe original series integrated explosive, illuminating, all-consuming fervency with sophisticated, soul-searing psychological drama. It explored an array of ideologies and thematic elements while maintaining an aura of carefree innocence. It interweaved a melange of literary references, some blatantly obvious and others deceptively subtle, into the individual arcs of its characters, enhancing the cast as a whole. It presented each episode as something essential to the overall story and it always ensured that each episode would be notable in its own fashion. It was marvelously entertaining, structurally outstanding, and near-perfect in every facet. It was so for virtually all of its 51 episode run. In short, Kaleido Star showcased some impossibly high standards for the OVA to achieve.nnWhether or not the OVA reached the original series’ expectations depends entirely on how you feel about Rosetta (voiced by Serena Varghese). In the original series, Rosetta was an aspiring circus performer with prodigious talents that viewed Sora Naegino (Kaleido Star’s lead) as both a role model and a friend. Good-natured and charitable yet incredibly stubborn at times (almost as much as Sora), Rosetta came across as a likable character, if more than a bit generic. Sure, she possessed a few highlights (namely her staged showdown with Sora in her first appearance) and she performed fairly well as the centerpiece of a few episodes but at no point did you think that Rosetta could be the star of the show. After all, there have been plenty of occasions where someone else outshined her as a character,nnYou can’t condemn me for being surprised at Rosetta headlining an OVA all by her lonesome.nn“Does Rosetta do well in this OVA?” you might ask. Well, I have to say that while ther are new layers to her personality that are introduced, it’s ultimately not enough to justify Rosetta being the OVA’s protagonist. The other characters fare no better. While the original series provided nuance, purpose, and development to its cast, the characters here are given barely visible slivers of screen time, tossed aside like a ragdoll in humiliating fashion. Leon Oswald, a tortured man of mystery, the infamous “God of Death”, Kaleido Star’s ultimate Byronic Hero, is briefly seen twisting his body in an unnatural position and uttering indecipherable noises while iconic characters like Layla Hamilton, Kalos, and Yuri…

Forum Topics:

• Kaleido Star: New Wings Extra Stage Episode 1 Discussion

External Links:

• AniDB
• ANN
• Wikipedia

Related Anime/Manga:

• Kaleido Star (anime - Prequel)
• Kaleido Star: Legend of Phoenix - Layla Hamilton Monogatari (anime - Sequel)