Little Witch Academia (TV) high session 7

Episode 18 - Sky War Stanship

This episode has Akko hanging out with Constanze, the short, mute girl. I guess she's kind of another technological witch like Croix.. Akko accidentally breaks one of her robots, and then she starts trying to make it up to her but just constantly bothers her instead... This feels like a Dexter's Lab episode...

Constanze is working on something for this ghost hunt event she's participating in called "Wild Hunt"... When Constanze in unable to borrow a thing she needs from the cooking fairies, due to her being mute, Akko gets it for her easily. Then Akko finds out what she's trying to do, and sees that one of her magic cards points to where another thing is that Constanze needs. Akko goes there and steals the item from an old man, and transforms into a penguin to slide down away from him...

lol.. I wonder when Akko is finally gonna learn how to fly a broom. I mean technically she probably just needs to realize she can fly by turning into a bird or something, and then use that same sort of thinking to power her broom flight, right? Doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but she's just that terrible at magic.

Meanwhile, Croix is studying something regarding this Wild Ghost Hunt thing...

A bunch of people are outside watching for the ghosts that were rumored to appear... Akko is riding with Constanze on their flying boat and catching all the ghosts. Then Croix comes and sends out her demon cube things to possess all the ghosts, and the ghosts turn into demon crows and start attacking everyone. Then when the witches start fighting them, the crows combine and turn into a giant crow monster. Then Akko and Constanze use metamorphasis on their ship and the episode turns into a blatant Gurren Lagann knockoff.

Burning souls turned into magic power! The seven shining stars of justice! A believing heart is our magic! Mahou Senshi Grand Charion! On stage!

They can't actually fight against the monster though because they used up all their magic just transforming into this thing. Ursula is there flying around, she uses a megaphone and asks all the other ghost hunters to lend their power. Then they do an epic drill attack to defeat it.

Miracle Magical Shining Tornado Punch!

Ursula confronts Croix...

I see what you did. An experiment... you caused a panic among the people to gauge

Little Witch Academia (TV) high session 6

Episode 17 - Amanda O'Neill and the Holy Grail

Ursula says the Shiny Rod is hinting towards the 5th word... Something to do with history and tradition. Akko tries to get professor Croix's help, but she doesn't know ancient magic too well, only modern magic.

Amanda helps Akko sneak into some boys school where the holy grail is said to be found... Akko thinks it has something to do with the next word. Amanda is doing it because she's rebelling against the school and wants to drop out... She dressed as a boy to infiltrate the school, and Akko changed to a mouse and travels in her pocket, and scares some guy... He thinks it's a witch's familiar...

We had them all eliminated in order to prevent the deception and corruption of witches in our holy place of learning!

Then Andrew comes in, Akko tries to hide hear face... Andrew already what Mouse Akko looks like. Andrew can't understand why Akko wants to find these "word" spells, when nobody is making her do so...

Akko finds the holy grail easily, after seeing some magic things flying into it. Meanwhile Amanda catches Louis cheating at poker, and gets mad and outs herself as a witch and gets captured. Akko gets captured too after stupidly jumping at them in mouse form... Andrew comes in and tries to stop them from executing the witches, even though it's in their school's tradition... Instead, Louis agrees to duel on a bridge with Amanda, another part of their tradition... Akko thinks this might be the key to reviving another word.

Amanda wins the duel, and Louis goes and breaks the grail... its contents fly out and go into a knight armor and possesses it. Then the armor possesses Louis... Amanda is helpless against him now, since she doesn't have access to magic. Only Akko has the thing that lets them connect to the ley line from here. Akko gets Andrew to untie her and throw the magic machine to Amanda so she can defeat the demon knight. The school decides to let the witches go...

Akko realized this grail never did have anything to do with the word, just that it had some kind of demon inside it... Turns out this was Croix's doing all along...

This was an okay episode, even though not much happened. I think I like the episodes where a word gets unlocked a lot more than the other

Little Witch Academia (TV) high session 5

Episode 16 - The Trial of Pohjola

The Shiny Rod is already hinting towards the 4th word's awakening... Ursula tells Akko she's missing something that is required to awaken this next word.

If you want to breathe life into the words, you need to grow by your own power.

Lotte takes Akko and Sucy over to visit her family... things start to get really serious when a rare disease breaks out from their neighbor's cooking, and Lotte's parents get covered in moss and become immobilized... Lotte and Akko start looking for the ingredients needed to make the antidote, and then Sucy and Lotte get infected as well... Now it's all up to Akko to make the antidote and save them before they crumble. Akko kept being impatient and not waiting for the ingredients to fall naturally, but now that she's on her own and has her friends' lives at stake, she's starting to learn to use patience.

Akko helps a Yeti get his confidence back in order to make the last ingredient... but the deer that brought her there left and she has to walk back, and she starts getting mossy herself... Then she gets saved by the deer's owner and is getting more and more mossy as she gets back and starts cooking the potion... Then as she's using the shiny rod to stir the pot, she sees the rod light up... She remembers the 4th word's meaning.

To see it through... Patience is important!

Mayenab Dysheebudo

This was a fantastic episode...