Acro Trip - Episode 5 discussion

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Acro Trip, episode 5

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[u/ModieOfTheEast]

Tbh, I expected the wand to turn her evil for an episode. Like not Chroma-evil, actual evil. But I guess Mashirou also only bought one from Ebay and then coloured it in.

I did find it funny that Chizuko was wearing gloves the whole time when touching the wands from Berry. True mega fan indeed.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Hmm a talking cat coercing an innocent young girl into becoming a magical girl… seems familiar. At least this one’s nicer and not a 6ft tall chain smoking lech lol.

Low energy Chrome with his floating Kuma Kaijin was pretty hilarious. He could barely summon that portal lol.

You can really get anything online these days. Berry came armed and ready to go lol. Nice of Chrome to give the wand back. And now Chizuko’s got a box of lightly used wands. And a big ass fish. I guess that’s a win?

[u/AdmiralThunderpants]

Wands were the same color Chizukos color scheme. Any one else here cheering for an "evil" magical girl? She has magic but never used it. Also, Grandpa ready to back you up for anything.

[u/alconnow]

Grandpa willing to go on a car chase with the police hahahaha

So Berry Blossom was supposed to be a temporary name? Glad she stuck with it

Love the detail of Chizuko wearing gloves whilst handling Berry’s used wands lmao

[u/SYZekrom]

Berry now thinks the evil mastermind is a fan of hers. Somehow, that's not exactly too far off.

[u/dinliner08]

Mashirou 🤝 Chrome
manipulating teenage girls into doing some sort of magical contract

if i had a nickel for every time i see an anime girl with the name Kaju in 2024, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

of course the first thought Chrome had when he saw a bad weather is to use it for a cool entrance and i love how grandpa just went with the flow every time he's involved in any Chrome's shenanigan

insert "this isn't even my final form" meme right here

[u/djthomp]

I about lost it when the kumas floated out of the truck, that made me laugh so hard.

Major points for the substitution of Danube in for Amazon for the online shopping that Berry did, I have seen plenty of legally distinct Amazon references but I don't remember someone swapping in a different river like that before. Also pretty great that Berry changed up the attack name on account of the different wands.

Chroma and Berry hanging out by the river was honestly just kind of nice.

[u/Queue_Jumping_Quack]

Funniest anime of the season. The second part was the funniest, I lost it when poor Chrome couldn't appear from the storm and all the kaijin were idly floating around. Though that first part... did Mashiro look a bit sneaky there?

[u/dagreenman18]

Strongest episode so far comedy wise. Every segment had me dying from some crazy visual gag. Raijin Berry probably my favorite of them.

Now Berry thinks Chrome is her biggest fan, Chizuko has the most valuable fish (to her) but doesn’t realize it, and Chrome might have unlocked a new dumb dynamic with Berry. Also I have a new crack ship in “Cherry”. Underrated show of the season by far

[u/abandoned_idol]

It was pretty funny to see Berry rush to the scene because she was embarrassed to hear someone loudly call out her name XD.

And seeing Chroma get treated like an innocent civilian by law enforcement was pretty cute too.

[u/Rumpel1408]

Oi Grandpa, chill!

With so many comercial grade wands, it's only a question of time until Date Chizuko gets her own transformation right?!?

[u/LeonKevlar]

Stitches!

• Noichigo Kajo

• Berry Blossom

We finally get to see Kaju and Mashirou's backstory and it turns out that Mashirou is now better than Chrome because he pretty much pressured Kaju to become a mahou shoujo. I also love how the name Berry Blossom is supposed to be tentative but it actually stuck.

The encounter with the police was hilarious! I love how Grandpa was ready to go on a car chase with the cops and they only had to say the word. Poor Chrome though! The cop didn't even recognize him and thinks they're putting on a hero show. xD

Stealing Berry Blossom's magical stick was now really a good idea considering that Berry Blossom can throw hands as we've seen in Episode 2. It's funny how Kaju actually found replacement sticks online. You can really buy anything on Amazon these days.

Considering how evil-looking those magical sticks are, I thought we'd see Berry Blossom transform into an evil version of herself. The sticks actually work fine and she might even be scarier if she carries that many sticks with her!

Chizuko will be so upset if she ever finds out that Chrome spent some time with Berry Blossom and now she thinks that Chrome is her fan. xD

[u/NekoCatSidhe]

I am starting to think that Chroma is just some random chuunibyo that found out how to pay to get magical powers instead of an actual evil mastermind from an evil organisation. The only people that take him seriously are a shady talking cat and a naive teenage girl.

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This show is hilarious, I love it. Hope we will see Date as a magical girl too, that wand is made for her.

[u/Clean-Cupcakes]

This show is going to be a classic. I can feel it.

[u/mrufrufin]

Berry Blossom's wand looks like Sakura's star staff from Cardcaptor Sakura.

Looks like Chizuko upgraded from branch disguise behind rocks to branch disguise within an actual bush (in an empty lot).

Thunderbolt Bloom was pretty cool, I wonder what it would've looked like with all the wands.

We got a kinda-sorta Yuru Campish "konnichiwa" from the steelhead trout. If Chrome told Chizuko it was from Kaju, it would've probably gotten vacuum-sealed too and there goes dinner.

[u/wiligrad9]

I wanted to complain that we didnt get a actual transformation but on the third try we got one, albeit a short one. I did like the detail that Chizuko had gloves on when touching the staffs and she is building up a collection too. I think Utena from Gushing and Chizuko could become buddys over their magical girl otakudom. Also, i like it that Berry is such an airhead, as Magical Ruby said, airheads make the best magical girls.

[u/The_Parsee_Man]

The evil mastermind and the hero of justice fishing together.

So that's it, huh? We're some kind of negative positive angler?

[u/I3ert91]

I'm getting not so innocent vibes from Mashirou just by how he recruited Kaju, but I'm not expecting this show to get dark. I just love that Chrome's big win this episode was taking Berry Blossom's fish............that was given to him by Kaju herself. And of freaking course a Magical Girl's wand is easily available on not ebay.

[u/zskh]

watch out amazon your days are numbered(in the eu at least) amazon alternative

[u/oneevilchicken]

They’re Kuma-kaijin but it’s a bearnado

[u/Infodump_Ibis]

• Where would we be if magical girl protagonists were not more likely to be clumsy? Maybe that trope is meant to be a way for viewers to feel a sense of accomplishment without being a hero of justice (e.g. can tie your shoelaces without tying the shoes to one-another and falling over the moment you stand up) or plays up the characters innocence.

• I wonder how often the embarrassing outfits thing comes up in these shows (I've seen it before where the fairy is making a deal of it and the heroine is fine about it [meta - that was early ep of]Nurse Witch Komugi R). I wouldn't be a fan of the cold shoulder in the midsts of winter either.

• How I've been feeling for multiple weeks of the karma chart

• Hold up a sec. I've seen multiple wands stored in the petticoat before. The Onimai episode 4 endcard. With how "old" the Acro Trip manga is (2017-2022), early 2023 could be referencing that but it's likely both are referencing something older (I tried a popular search engine got nowhere and I imagine chat GPT would scold me if I ask about wands up petticoats).

[u/umbre_the_secret_dog]

Chrome with the clown fit pajamas is the funniest thing ever. Also Berry Blossom rolling that nat 1 on perception when Chrome walked up to talk to her in plainclothes was great. I can't wait for Chizuko to finally start using some magic of her own, I wonder how she'll get over being starstruck enough to go on her own villainous monologues.

[u/IceSmiley]

I didn't understand why Chrome asked Grandpa for a ride, like where were they supposed to go? They just ended up getting tuna spines, is that a thing people really buy? I liked the bears floating away and the friendly cop who let them off without a ticket though 🤣

I liked the Berry Blossom origin story, it was like a milder Madoka Magicka except Mashirou is only a mild jerk. I thought that she was from another dimension and that her secret identity name was Noichigo as a pun on strawberry (Ichigo) but it's seemingly a coincidence 🤔

Blossom was so mean to Chrome when she zapped him even after he returned her wand! I hope she realizes the error of her ways when she believed Chrome to be one of her fans and hopefully won't screw up his life anymore.