The Magnificent Grand Scene - Vol. 15 Ch. 77 - Beginning Anew

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@Romariel Dated april 10th, it essentially states how Covid has spread worldwide and stopped most everything and everyone in their tracks. How, beyond her own inability to watch live ballet performances anymore, it's affected the industry in its dancers, teachers and students, of whom some, like Kanade and Evelyn, were brought back home. And finally, hoping that we can make it through as swiftly as possible.
 
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@TakeiDaloui Yes, this is the last chapter of this volume already.

@Mivas Looks like volume 16 is indeed planned for a September 17th release, but then again, volume 15 was released on may 20th... I'll see how it goes as always.
 
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@EnduranceProtocol thanks for the translation of Cuvie’s note!

And Cuvie is absolutely correct, COVID has had a huge impact on so many ballet companies and theaters. The Royal Opera House, which houses the Royal Ballet, has been posting full ballet productions of YouTube as fundraisers. They’ve been hit really hard, so I would definitely recommend that fans of this manga go over to watch and donate! Right now they have a full version of Sleeping Beauty up, so if anyone wants to see all of the fuss about the Aurora variation in context and the full beautiful ballet, I would definitely go over and watch!
 
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You know, going back and re-reading this chapter I'm actually getting a pretty bad vibe from Rebecca. She's a stickler for the school's rules but I think it goes beyond that. Look at the poster incident for example. It's easy to say it's "just" a poster or even that it "just" holds sentimental value but for Evelyn that poster is a treasure that represents everything that inspired her to become a ballerina and Rebecca's only response is "yeah but the rules" and her apology is less "sorry I was wrong" and more "sorry that you were ignorant of the rules" showing no real understanding of just why Evelyn's upset. So in that context is it any surprise that Evelyn already hates her?

Then what she says to Kanade at the end of the chapter puts what she said about Keira and their old roommates -- that they failed, dropped out and Keira has yet to move on -- in a whole new light. To me it comes off like I read it wrong. She's not hung up on her old roommates at all. Rather to her, they simply weren't good enough and thus were shown the door as is to be expected. Also her reasoning for doing ballet (she lived near a studio and just got curious) and the fact she's been at the school since she was 11... she seems to have a very cold mindset: you're either good enough or you aren't. If you're elite you'll succeed and if you're not then you'll fail, simple as that. There's no room at all for sentimentality in her mind. Just a cold, and robotic adherence to honing your skill.

So that makes her an even greater contrast to people like Kanade and Evelyn who seem to wear their emotions and sentimentality on their sleeves. But maybe I'm reading her wrong.
 
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@Suben Interesting take. I can easily imagine it, but I read her glare the complete opposite, lol. Her feeling the need to mention her former roommates not returning once again made me feel like she was projecting when she mentioned Keira had yet to move on from it... with a high degree of pettiness and passive aggressiveness.
 
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Came and went so fast ;_;

Hope everything goes well.
 
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I doubt anyone will understand or get me here. But somehow i want to see Kanade getting the role of Sacrificial Maiden of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring lol
 

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