Maron realizes the truth
Source: TV
Layers: 1
Sketches: 3
Cel Number: A1
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Added 12/17/2012
Updated 12/19/2017
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Scene 15, cut 1. But nothing. Maron has had her deepest fears confirmed, and she dashes off, vainly wiping the tears flowing from her closed eyes. We’ve already learned that in her magical Jeanne aspect she can jog at full tilt with her eyes tight shut without running into trees and signposts, and now we learn that she can do the same thing in her everyday aspect as well.
This and the next four sketch sets come from a series of cuts that Toei, in its distinctive way, grouped together as “Scene 15.” The animation is particularly good here, possibly due to some special chemistry between the episode’s animation director, Hisashi Kagawa (also the series character designer), and the gengaman or key animator.
I’ve highlighted the genga above, with Kagawa’s rough in the first thumb and the energetic but less successful layout in the second.
SENSEI CHECK!
If you look at the layout, you’ll see that there was some difference among the artists about whether Maron actually does have tears of bitter revelation flowing freely from her eyes, which is what we’d expect if she really had been shocked to her core by Chiaki’s confession.
Sensei notes that Maron’s eyes are wet in several of the scene’s layouts but nearly dry in all of the final sketches. Only toward the end of the next set of sketches does she finally work up one tiny teardrop.
So Maron’s reaction is in fact a bit of a pose, the reaction that she needs to pretend like she’s having in a situation like this, in order to keep up the pretense that she's a magical girl on the side of God. The rest of scene that follows reinforces this cynical impression.
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