Took a brief break to go back and watch the second musical sequence in episode 7 again.
The whole episode is amazing, those scenes structured like your viewing rooms and hallways from a security camera, but the awkard first performance (so much that I had to raise the episode out of secondhand embarrassment more than once) that manages to bring it together by the end, that you'd expect to be a triumphant occasion, but then it's follow by the second, legitimately *fantastic* performance, that is instead an absolute *tragedy* narratively, it's just so surreal. Like, one of my favorite band/idol songs ever in any anime, but the entire time you just want it to end because playing the song was a huuuuuge mistake and Soyo is breaking down on stage the whole time and none of them noticed because they're either too enraptured or, I'm Anon's case, doing everything she can just to keep up
https://ibb.co/p0QxMZM.
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https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD