GochiUsa season 1 recaps/screenshots

This looked like it'd be boring at first... but the characters quickly grew on me, on the first episode.

Episode 1 - I Knew at First Glance That It Was No Ordinary Fluffball

Cocoa moves to a new cozy small town, and then comes across a cafe called "Rabbit House"... she gets excited and runs in looking for a rabbit. Chino, the small, quiet girl greets her and asks for her order. She says she wants a rabbit, and then sees the fluffy round rabbit sitting ontop of Chino's head... Chino says that rabbit is not for sale... and tells her she can only pet the rabbit if she buys coffee. The rabbit, Tippy, apparently speaks Japanese...

Then Cocoa learns this Rabbit House is actually the place she was sent to live in... Chino is the granddaughter of the owner of this place... her grandpa passed away, but her parents still work here...

There's also a part timer girl, Rize. She's very strong and military-minded because of her dad being a general or something...

Cocoa wants to help out at her new home any way she can... but she doesn't have any special talents... Rize can memorize types of coffee really quickly just by smelling it, and can carry bags of coffee beans no problem. I dunno what Chino's talent is, but they find out Cocoa can do math really well, so at least that's something.

Rize also has a cute side... after she shows off her coffee cream drawing talents, and Cocoa tries it out and draws a bunny with a crooked mouth, she loves it and tries to hide her gushing... and then they get Chino to try drawing something and it's this crazy abstract art... Chino's the weird one for sure.

Oh, and Rabbit house becomes a bar at night, and Chino's dad is the bartender. Tippy works with him at the bar as well, sitting on his head just like with Chino.

Cocoa loves it when Chino calls her "Cocoa Onee-chan"... she follows her around all night and acts all sisterly... even goes into the bath with her, and asks for them to sleep together, since she doesn't have her stuff here yet, and she wants to bond with her more.

Chino doesn't like being treated as a teddy bear.

The dad is talking to Tippy... who we find out is actually Chino's grandpa, stuck in the boddy of a stuffed rabbit for some reason.

That ending theme

Little Witch Academia (TV) high session 11 (finale)

Episode 23 - Yesterday

Lotte and Sucy tell Diana that Akko has gone missing. Diana goes to tell Ursula...

Chariot's full backstory is revealed... Just like Akko, she wanted to make people happy with her magic, but she was bad at it... Then she was chosen to revive the Grand Triskelion, and kept using her teacher's phrase, "A believing heart is your magic", as inspiration to find 6 of the 7 words...

Then she accepted an offer to work as a performance artist, hoping that would lead her to the 7th word, but it didn't go anywhere, and her popularity started dropping... then Croix came and helped her out, by getting her to use Dream Fuel Spirit to charge up her powers and put on better performances... It was only after she started doing this that Croix revealed how Dream Fuel Spirit actually works.

After that she refused to use it anymore, and people started losing interest in her shows... so then she did something crazy, and used a powerful attack to shoot the moon and made a huge cross-shaped crater on it. I guess after that, she was so ashamed she changed her name and appearance and became a teacher.

I see... so it was never really Chariot's fault at all. This should lead to an easy resolution then... Still leaves 2 episodes to resolve the Croix issue and learn the 7th word.

Diana goes to ask Ursula about Akko, and also tells her she's figured out that she is Chariot. Ursula tells her everything, but she doesn't want to go and find Akko... Diana's still so calm and collected after finding out about what Chariot did, and she says she's more disappointed in her for not going after Akko than anything else.

Diana finds Akko outside in the cold, and brings her to a coffee shop... She shows Akko her rare premium Chariot card that she was secretive about up until now... Diana wasn't able to go Chariot's shows, until her mother helped her sneak out to go see the same show that Akko saw. Akko realizes that's what Andrew was referring to when he said Diana lost her magic and had to work hard to get it back... Diana tells her that it was thanks to Chariot's show that she never gave up and was able to become a great witch even despite the setback.

Unfortunately, the more I learned of magic and the more

Little Witch Academia OVA 1 rewatch, screenshots dump

Rewatching this after seeing the series (up until ep 22) is really interesting.

The story is a bit similar to the beginning of the series, but some differences.

Akko can actually fly... just really badly.
Ursula has everyone in her class do an RPG dungeon challenge... Diana is really awesome in this...
Akko finds the Shiny Rod and thinks of that as the treasure Ursula was telling them to find... meanwhile Diana unseals a demon, and finds out that using magic on it only makes it stronger...
Ursula sees that Akko has the rod... tells her to take it to the Sorcerer Stone before the dragon gets to it. Wow this action scene is amazing.

This has so many good still frame shots...