Nonoa and Aria enter the picture.
Unfortunately this is the arc of the manga/anime that has the least amount of fanservice. It’s short, however. Noa gets her introduction properly in episode 13 as a girl that has massive social anxiety and is trying out cosplay as a means to get over that and find some friends.
Obviously nerfed in the anime. Unfortunately for those that are fans of wanting to see Noa nude there’s scant few manga panels where she’s actually portrayed that way. I’ll probably post the panels in the relevant episodes later.
Nagomi shows up again to crush the skulls of all the other girls. The theme this time is obviously an homage to Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls. A good choice as Idolmaster girls are very lewdable.
We get a few good reaction faces from Noa this episode.
Noa remembers the first time she put on her cosplay of her character Coulia before taking her stage name of Nonoa.
Lilysa shows up in her crossover Lilliel cosplay with Cinderella Stars. Noa gushes over how nice it would be for them to be friends and holy crap is that a nipple bump? I guess small miracles do happen once in a blue moon.
Episode 13 covers chapters 38, 39 and 40 of the manga. This also closes out Volume 5.
Here are the Volume 5 extras since the anime will most likely not show these:
Episode 14
Pickings are slim in this episode so I’ll start with a few parts of the new OP.
A shot that I feel falls flat in the anime and was done so much better in the manga.
That’s pretty much it for episode 14. It covers chapters 41, 42 and 43
Episode 15
Unfortunately the blu-rays had 0 corrections and no nipples added and the shots that look cropped are left unchanged.
Aria arrives on the scene. She’s the token gyaru of the group and apparently they were really fond of her booty and hips here. Of course, with this adaptation it’s going to be give and take.
This scene plays out more or less the same in the manga, except for the part where Noa isn’t wearing a top. We don’t quite see her nipples yet though. This is also bizarre because later in the episode we see Noa’s back.
They don’t show Noa’s back up to this point while in the Nokiel cosplay so I never thought about this. Weird given the previous scenes, though.
The episode ends on Aria in the changing room getting into her cosplay. I want to say with certainty that this will not be uncensored in the blu-ray and such, but I have no clue. It does seem to be the case with Pony Canyon blu-rays that nothing is changed and it’s the laziest premium item ever.
Episode 15 covers chapters 44, 45 and all but 2 pages of 46.
