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- ★ CANON INFORMATION:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AKB0048_episodes (anime episode summaries)
http://akb0048.wikia.com/wiki/Kanata_Shinonome (wikia page that is lacking)
http://myanimelist.net/manga/38047/AKB0048_Heart-Gata_Operation (this a brief summary of the manga, unfortunately it is untranslated. i've written up summaries for each and have included some scans and am more then willing to provide more if needed)
Before we go into Kanata's actual history, I'd like to make a note of the fact that all manga versions of AKB0048 came out before the anime did. Kanata has her own manga which is called "AKB0048 Heart Type Operation". This is set about a year or two before the anime as Kanata couldn't have joined 0048 before she turned thirteen. The importance of missing this however is that, unfortunately, the anime decided to contradict quite a bit of the manga. This was largely done through them messing up the timelines. In Kanata's case it's not a huge deal, aside from few minor kinks, but there's also the matter of canon powers. There's one power she's seen with in the manga that doesn't appear in the anime, but I will explain that in the abilities section!
Pre Series
Not a lot is known about Kanata before the series, however, what we do know are things that guide her through the rest of her life. When she was younger the most important person to her was her father. He was a soldier who fought against DES and he always encouraged Kanata and her younger sister, Sonata, to follow their dreams. It's thanks to him that Kanata sang as she wanted to bring smiles to everyone's faces.
When she was eleven, Kanata's father took them to an AKB0048 concert (it looks to be the 0048 stage in Akihabastar). DES appears at the concert and it's inevitably canceled as the attendees all go into hiding. Kanata, Sonata and their father are waiting for DES to pass when Sonata asks if it will be alright. Their father's response was simply that AKB0048 would definitely come for them...
Unfortunately, right after this, DES finds them. Their father tells them to run and picks up a pipe to fight off the soldiers... Of course when the soldiers are armed in futuristic armor and with guns that's not going to go over very well. Kanata knows this, too, and wants to stay behind with him but ends up giving in. When she hears the clank of the pipe on the ground she hopes that he had decided to join him and/or won but that wasn't the case.
On his deathbed their father told Kanata and Sonata to follow their dreams.
Kanata doesn't care. They're surrounded by DES and there's no way she can get her or Sonata out of this. In this moment, the young girl gives up on everything and wishes Sonata wasn't there with her for it. And then, suddenly, the sounds of the song "Beginner!" fill the air. It's a surprise to Kanata but not to Sonata who joyfully exclaims that 0048 really did come for them!
This is when Kanata decides her dream. As she watches AKB0048 fight DES and sing her dreams becomes to be just like them.
Fast forward a few years later and the girls' mother is unable to make ends meet. Kanata is now thirteen and has decided officially to join AKB0048. She doesn't do it secretly, however, and Sonata doesn't understand why. She tries to force Kanata to stay, but Kanata won't. She says that after the events of two years ago she's going to join AKB0048. That, in order to fulfill her dreams and their father's, she's going to become an idol.
When Sonata exclaims that she too will come along, Kanata Runs.
Heart Type Operation
I want to meet you, only you!
(TIME LINE NOTE:After Kanata leaves home the timeline becomes a bit skewered. We know she passed as a seventy-fifth generation member, which means she's been a member for two years (and thus definitely joined up when she was thirteen). We also know that the seventy-fifth generation quickly lost all of its members through various means and it was only Mimori and Kanata that still remained. What becomes iffy now is one thing: When Heart Gata takes place. The Japanese summary calls the manga "the time when Kanata reached her captain potential," in a way this could be a reference to her succession of Takamina. If we go from that and use the anime references of her being chosen for "a while" or "not too long ago," we can say this happened about a year ago as the new Sae was also in the manga. So for that, I'm going to say that Heartgata took place a year before all the events in the anime!)
The manga starts off normally with Kanata and the other AKB0048 trainees behind the stage. Mimori and Kanata had performed the opening act of the show and are tired out when, surprise, Kanata is called into a meeting with Tsubasa. Both uncertain and surprise, Kanata answers the summons only to become even more so. Several of the successor are also in this meeting: Kojiharu, Yuko, and Acchan. It turns out that Tsubasa has called them all together to perform in a mission together! This mission? There's a famous thief named Elixir targeting priceless items. Her next hit is a school that hosts a couple of the original outfits from AKB48's "". Kanata has been assigned to go with them as she, too, was trained in the art of combat and a member of 00. Tsubasa even gives her a micsaber (it reads like it could have been Tsubasa's previously).
Thus, the girls are shipped off to the school where they're greeted by the school headmistress. They get the run down of the school and she then brings in three more students: two girls named Juno and Lisa as well as a boy named Abel. The girls enter first and Kanata thinks of them both as "cute" as well as complimentary to each other. Abel, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game. She becomes flustered by him and he's fairly, well, attractive. This is something noted by both Yuuko and Kojiharu who take to teasing her and Acchan about him.
They leave the office ad go their separate ways and this is when things really get heated. Juno decides to mention how they really can't be true idols and this ticks Kanata off. She goes to refute which just... makes Juno more smug about her opinion. Acchan was the only other idol present and steps in saying she will handle this. Juno seems satisfied but Kanata on the other hand demands to know why Acchan stepped in. Acchan's response is simple: responding in anger isn't how a idol should act. In that respect, Juno was right, and Kanata was wrong. How could she call herself an idol if she couldn't respond the right way-- the way AKB48 would?
They go to class with Kanata's thoughts stuck on Acchan's words. When the teacher calls for her attention,Juno decides to comment on how despite being an idol Kanata could't possibly sing to their standards. Aggravated, Kanata responds brusquely before ending with "I will sing!" And then with the full radiance of a proper idol she stands in front of the class singing "Aitakatta", much to everyone's surprise. In particular, Acchan was the most surprised when she noticed that Kanata was surrounded by Kirara. Kanata returned to her seat wondering herself if this was her full singing potential, if that was really her up there.
And then when Juno decides to try and belittle her again after class Kanata merely smiles and passes over it.
Unfortunately, Juno's goading had really hit home and Kanata had ran out after that. She ran into Abel, but didn't stop and instead ran to the roof of the school. There she pulled out her locket transmitter and apologized to her family for not being a proper idol. She remembers the moment she left home and is only brought out of it by Abel who brought her a drink. They talk for a while and it ends with Kanata crying after he says it was alright to not be happy all the time.
Eventually they separate and she meets up with the other idols again where the headmistress is showing them where the original costumes where... Uh, and then the wall of the room immediately blows up. Okay. Basically everyone is stuck under the debris and, despite that Acchan helps Abel out from under a piece of the wall and Kanata Yuno. Oh, yeah, and Kanata is doing this with glass shards stuck all up in her ankle. She tries to figure out what to do with the magical weapons Tsubasa gave her when Acchan stops her. Of course, Kojiharu and Yuuko appear and they proceed to be magical girls that fix things through the power of song.
Once all the excitement passes, Kanata passes out. She wakes up in an unfamiliar bedroom with Juno waiting for her to wake up. Juno explains what happened and then more-or-less apologizes. Things turn out fine here and Acchan enters. The two begin to bound and Acchan even says how she once felt the same as Kanata did but her friends helped her through it. Kanata is revitalized by this and tries to go "well now I can do things again!" only to, you know, fall flat on her face because she's still injured. The chapter enters with a very confused Abel entering and Elixir being a creeper on top of the school building...
I want to you by the pool!
This chapter starts by girls being possessed by a person singing in French?!
Meanwhile, the idols of AKB0048 are getting ready for a gravure photoshoot by the pool much to Kanata's dismay. The students are spreading terrible rumors about what happens during/because of shoots which only makes her dismay worse while the other idols are just kind of like... okay! Yuko on the other hand seems to try and help in her own way and tackles Kanata into the pool! She even tries to make funny faces. Unfortunately, this doesn't go as planned between nearly drowning Kanata...
...And accidentally making her lose the top of her bathing suit. Despite being called the pervert of AKB, Yuko doesn't actually realize that's what happened. Unfortunately, it basically happened in front of everyone. Including Abel who, thankfully, at least draped her jacket on her. Yuko apologizes but seems light-hearted about it so Kanata yells at her. It was much to both of their surprise, but Yuko is called away by the cameraman and leaves in her usual playful state.
So she runs away into the changing room where she begins to hear an unfamiliar song in French. She peeks into the room to find a girl she'd met earlier when they were going to look at the costumers. The girl is actually possessed and, in turn, possesses Kanata via some form of dark Kirara. It's also during this time that the photoshoot wraps and Yuko goes in search of Kanata. It's too late, however, as the girl that was earlier possessed/a dark kirara has control over Kanata's heart and drags her to the pool where she proceeds to sing "Heavy Rotation" which is so intense/full of pain it knocks people out. When the AKBs don't seem to fall for it, the girlmanages to get Kanata more in a state and it's such a one that more dark Kirara are created and turn into giant tentacles that, well, you can guess from there.
Yuko, meanwhile, is looking all over the campus for Kanata. She runs into Abel who tells her about what's going on in the pool. Entering the next class room together, Yuko demands information from a hesitant class. Eventually a girl responds saying recently a pendant has appeared that produces kirara for the students. Upon further investigation, Yuko decides that kiraras don't glow that way... And rushes out to the pool once more.
Once there, Kojiharu and Acchan are still being strangled by tentacles... Recomposing herself, Yuko begins to sing Heavy Rotation herself and then shoots Kanata in the chest with a kirara light arrow. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work immediately and she still appears to be possessed. It's not until Yuko collapses on her knees and screams "Let's sing together!" that a reaction happens. Kanata re-emerges as herself full force and tackles the other girl into the pool while singing Heavy Rotation properly.
The dark kirara that was possessing the other girl disappears and they day is (momentarily) saved.
Ponytail and witch!
The third chapter opens with a group of students gathered discussing AKB0048. Specifically, they believe 0048 to be witches and have decided to act upon that to "beat a judgement into them". Aside from this, the chapter has very little to do with plot device and acts more as a tie in for between the first and second arcs. The members of AKB0048 present the dark pendants to the Headmistress, discuss it, and move on. When they leave they're met with a girl selling history books on AKB0048. Kanata fells weird about it and wants to check it out, but Acchan drags her away.
A little while later, she's out on her own and comes upon a couple of girls ripping up pictures of Yuuko. Further investigation leads her into one of the gym changing rooms where a group of kids have beat Acchan up in guise of playing a brutal game of dodgeball. Acchan tells her to run away, but between leaving her and what the other girls are saying Kanata goes in to try to save her... Luckily, Kojiharu pulls her away from doing something remarkable stupid and they run away. Unfortunately, the kids have both Yuko and Acchan in their possession. The girl that was selling the AKB0048 history books then turns to some terrified girls and officializes Kanata's (and the reader's suspecions) by holding out one of the books and saying, "I'm sure if you read this you too will no longer be afraid”.
Abel finds Kojiharu and Kanata and together they hide in a small clubroom. Abel then begins to explain the effect that the books have been having on the students. They're not just being aggressive to AKB0048, but even to each other. They discuss things further and Kanata is the one shown to be most afraid while Abel and Kojiharu bond through agreeing with each other and small plans. Unfortunately, though, it's not long before an announcement comes over the intercom that the students can find Acchan and Yuko in the school courtyard.
The group looks out the window to find that, indeed, their friends are tied up-- in crucification position at that-- with a horde of students surrounding them. Kanata begins to remember everything the two had done for her and wonders if she can even save them. Luckily, Kojiharu is much more used to these situations and confident and doesn't give up. So while the students begin pelting the other two with water balloons and anything else on hand the girls create really stupid masks and...
Jump out the window singing "Ponytail to shushu" and effectively breaking the control the book has on most of the students. They then immediately free Acchan and Yuko. Abel appears saying they have to do something about the books, which they kind of already were, because with their combined force they sing all the students out of the control and the darkness burns up in the books. Acchan picks up a book has the words 1208-7 still written on its pages and they decide to go and check it out.
Oh! On board the flying get ☆
The fourth chapter begins with the AKB0048 members and Abel inside the library trying to find where 1208-7 came from. They haven't had any luck finding the book that corresponds, but it seems Yuko has found where it's supposed to be! Almost immediately after, a girl appears asking if this is the book they're looking for. The girl is nonother then fellow AKB0048 member, Tomomoi Itano "Tomochin"! She jokes about how they'd have to take it by force... Unfortunately for her, Acchan decides to pull out her saber which just has Tomochin pull out her own weapons (earrings that turn into guns).
After a bit of silliness, Tomochin hands over a book entitled "Don Quijote de la Mancha". It turns out the lyrics that are in are the same ones that was possessing some of the students-- and Kanata-- earlier! They discuss how it's difficult to decipher and that only the headmistress would know the meaning. Itano states that they should go check out her office and drags Kanata there. Together they end up finding a box that holds the pendants from earlier in it.
Kanata picks one up before Tomochin can warn her not too... And the music from before starts playing. Back in the library, the others are attacked by dark kirara and are able to fend them off, but unfortunately the headmistress appears in her office! She reveals that she is indeed Elixir and has been behind all of the attacks. She then proceeds to attack both of the girls. Kanata is too stricken to act, but Tomochin manages to fend off a lot of Elixir's attacks while singing "Flying Get!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AKB0048_episodes (anime episode summaries)
http://akb0048.wikia.com/wiki/Kanata_Shinonome (wikia page that is lacking)
http://myanimelist.net/manga/38047/AKB0048_Heart-Gata_Operation (this a brief summary of the manga, unfortunately it is untranslated. i've written up summaries for each and have included some scans and am more then willing to provide more if needed)
Before we go into Kanata's actual history, I'd like to make a note of the fact that all manga versions of AKB0048 came out before the anime did. Kanata has her own manga which is called "AKB0048 Heart Type Operation". This is set about a year or two before the anime as Kanata couldn't have joined 0048 before she turned thirteen. The importance of missing this however is that, unfortunately, the anime decided to contradict quite a bit of the manga. This was largely done through them messing up the timelines. In Kanata's case it's not a huge deal, aside from few minor kinks, but there's also the matter of canon powers. There's one power she's seen with in the manga that doesn't appear in the anime, but I will explain that in the abilities section!
Pre Series
Not a lot is known about Kanata before the series, however, what we do know are things that guide her through the rest of her life. When she was younger the most important person to her was her father. He was a soldier who fought against DES and he always encouraged Kanata and her younger sister, Sonata, to follow their dreams. It's thanks to him that Kanata sang as she wanted to bring smiles to everyone's faces.
When she was eleven, Kanata's father took them to an AKB0048 concert (it looks to be the 0048 stage in Akihabastar). DES appears at the concert and it's inevitably canceled as the attendees all go into hiding. Kanata, Sonata and their father are waiting for DES to pass when Sonata asks if it will be alright. Their father's response was simply that AKB0048 would definitely come for them...
Unfortunately, right after this, DES finds them. Their father tells them to run and picks up a pipe to fight off the soldiers... Of course when the soldiers are armed in futuristic armor and with guns that's not going to go over very well. Kanata knows this, too, and wants to stay behind with him but ends up giving in. When she hears the clank of the pipe on the ground she hopes that he had decided to join him and/or won but that wasn't the case.
On his deathbed their father told Kanata and Sonata to follow their dreams.
Kanata doesn't care. They're surrounded by DES and there's no way she can get her or Sonata out of this. In this moment, the young girl gives up on everything and wishes Sonata wasn't there with her for it. And then, suddenly, the sounds of the song "Beginner!" fill the air. It's a surprise to Kanata but not to Sonata who joyfully exclaims that 0048 really did come for them!
This is when Kanata decides her dream. As she watches AKB0048 fight DES and sing her dreams becomes to be just like them.
Fast forward a few years later and the girls' mother is unable to make ends meet. Kanata is now thirteen and has decided officially to join AKB0048. She doesn't do it secretly, however, and Sonata doesn't understand why. She tries to force Kanata to stay, but Kanata won't. She says that after the events of two years ago she's going to join AKB0048. That, in order to fulfill her dreams and their father's, she's going to become an idol.
When Sonata exclaims that she too will come along, Kanata Runs.
Heart Type Operation
I want to meet you, only you!
(TIME LINE NOTE:After Kanata leaves home the timeline becomes a bit skewered. We know she passed as a seventy-fifth generation member, which means she's been a member for two years (and thus definitely joined up when she was thirteen). We also know that the seventy-fifth generation quickly lost all of its members through various means and it was only Mimori and Kanata that still remained. What becomes iffy now is one thing: When Heart Gata takes place. The Japanese summary calls the manga "the time when Kanata reached her captain potential," in a way this could be a reference to her succession of Takamina. If we go from that and use the anime references of her being chosen for "a while" or "not too long ago," we can say this happened about a year ago as the new Sae was also in the manga. So for that, I'm going to say that Heartgata took place a year before all the events in the anime!)
The manga starts off normally with Kanata and the other AKB0048 trainees behind the stage. Mimori and Kanata had performed the opening act of the show and are tired out when, surprise, Kanata is called into a meeting with Tsubasa. Both uncertain and surprise, Kanata answers the summons only to become even more so. Several of the successor are also in this meeting: Kojiharu, Yuko, and Acchan. It turns out that Tsubasa has called them all together to perform in a mission together! This mission? There's a famous thief named Elixir targeting priceless items. Her next hit is a school that hosts a couple of the original outfits from AKB48's "". Kanata has been assigned to go with them as she, too, was trained in the art of combat and a member of 00. Tsubasa even gives her a micsaber (it reads like it could have been Tsubasa's previously).
Thus, the girls are shipped off to the school where they're greeted by the school headmistress. They get the run down of the school and she then brings in three more students: two girls named Juno and Lisa as well as a boy named Abel. The girls enter first and Kanata thinks of them both as "cute" as well as complimentary to each other. Abel, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game. She becomes flustered by him and he's fairly, well, attractive. This is something noted by both Yuuko and Kojiharu who take to teasing her and Acchan about him.
They leave the office ad go their separate ways and this is when things really get heated. Juno decides to mention how they really can't be true idols and this ticks Kanata off. She goes to refute which just... makes Juno more smug about her opinion. Acchan was the only other idol present and steps in saying she will handle this. Juno seems satisfied but Kanata on the other hand demands to know why Acchan stepped in. Acchan's response is simple: responding in anger isn't how a idol should act. In that respect, Juno was right, and Kanata was wrong. How could she call herself an idol if she couldn't respond the right way-- the way AKB48 would?
They go to class with Kanata's thoughts stuck on Acchan's words. When the teacher calls for her attention,Juno decides to comment on how despite being an idol Kanata could't possibly sing to their standards. Aggravated, Kanata responds brusquely before ending with "I will sing!" And then with the full radiance of a proper idol she stands in front of the class singing "Aitakatta", much to everyone's surprise. In particular, Acchan was the most surprised when she noticed that Kanata was surrounded by Kirara. Kanata returned to her seat wondering herself if this was her full singing potential, if that was really her up there.
And then when Juno decides to try and belittle her again after class Kanata merely smiles and passes over it.
Unfortunately, Juno's goading had really hit home and Kanata had ran out after that. She ran into Abel, but didn't stop and instead ran to the roof of the school. There she pulled out her locket transmitter and apologized to her family for not being a proper idol. She remembers the moment she left home and is only brought out of it by Abel who brought her a drink. They talk for a while and it ends with Kanata crying after he says it was alright to not be happy all the time.
Eventually they separate and she meets up with the other idols again where the headmistress is showing them where the original costumes where... Uh, and then the wall of the room immediately blows up. Okay. Basically everyone is stuck under the debris and, despite that Acchan helps Abel out from under a piece of the wall and Kanata Yuno. Oh, yeah, and Kanata is doing this with glass shards stuck all up in her ankle. She tries to figure out what to do with the magical weapons Tsubasa gave her when Acchan stops her. Of course, Kojiharu and Yuuko appear and they proceed to be magical girls that fix things through the power of song.
Once all the excitement passes, Kanata passes out. She wakes up in an unfamiliar bedroom with Juno waiting for her to wake up. Juno explains what happened and then more-or-less apologizes. Things turn out fine here and Acchan enters. The two begin to bound and Acchan even says how she once felt the same as Kanata did but her friends helped her through it. Kanata is revitalized by this and tries to go "well now I can do things again!" only to, you know, fall flat on her face because she's still injured. The chapter enters with a very confused Abel entering and Elixir being a creeper on top of the school building...
I want to you by the pool!
This chapter starts by girls being possessed by a person singing in French?!
Meanwhile, the idols of AKB0048 are getting ready for a gravure photoshoot by the pool much to Kanata's dismay. The students are spreading terrible rumors about what happens during/because of shoots which only makes her dismay worse while the other idols are just kind of like... okay! Yuko on the other hand seems to try and help in her own way and tackles Kanata into the pool! She even tries to make funny faces. Unfortunately, this doesn't go as planned between nearly drowning Kanata...
...And accidentally making her lose the top of her bathing suit. Despite being called the pervert of AKB, Yuko doesn't actually realize that's what happened. Unfortunately, it basically happened in front of everyone. Including Abel who, thankfully, at least draped her jacket on her. Yuko apologizes but seems light-hearted about it so Kanata yells at her. It was much to both of their surprise, but Yuko is called away by the cameraman and leaves in her usual playful state.
So she runs away into the changing room where she begins to hear an unfamiliar song in French. She peeks into the room to find a girl she'd met earlier when they were going to look at the costumers. The girl is actually possessed and, in turn, possesses Kanata via some form of dark Kirara. It's also during this time that the photoshoot wraps and Yuko goes in search of Kanata. It's too late, however, as the girl that was earlier possessed/a dark kirara has control over Kanata's heart and drags her to the pool where she proceeds to sing "Heavy Rotation" which is so intense/full of pain it knocks people out. When the AKBs don't seem to fall for it, the girlmanages to get Kanata more in a state and it's such a one that more dark Kirara are created and turn into giant tentacles that, well, you can guess from there.
Yuko, meanwhile, is looking all over the campus for Kanata. She runs into Abel who tells her about what's going on in the pool. Entering the next class room together, Yuko demands information from a hesitant class. Eventually a girl responds saying recently a pendant has appeared that produces kirara for the students. Upon further investigation, Yuko decides that kiraras don't glow that way... And rushes out to the pool once more.
Once there, Kojiharu and Acchan are still being strangled by tentacles... Recomposing herself, Yuko begins to sing Heavy Rotation herself and then shoots Kanata in the chest with a kirara light arrow. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work immediately and she still appears to be possessed. It's not until Yuko collapses on her knees and screams "Let's sing together!" that a reaction happens. Kanata re-emerges as herself full force and tackles the other girl into the pool while singing Heavy Rotation properly.
The dark kirara that was possessing the other girl disappears and they day is (momentarily) saved.
Ponytail and witch!
The third chapter opens with a group of students gathered discussing AKB0048. Specifically, they believe 0048 to be witches and have decided to act upon that to "beat a judgement into them". Aside from this, the chapter has very little to do with plot device and acts more as a tie in for between the first and second arcs. The members of AKB0048 present the dark pendants to the Headmistress, discuss it, and move on. When they leave they're met with a girl selling history books on AKB0048. Kanata fells weird about it and wants to check it out, but Acchan drags her away.
A little while later, she's out on her own and comes upon a couple of girls ripping up pictures of Yuuko. Further investigation leads her into one of the gym changing rooms where a group of kids have beat Acchan up in guise of playing a brutal game of dodgeball. Acchan tells her to run away, but between leaving her and what the other girls are saying Kanata goes in to try to save her... Luckily, Kojiharu pulls her away from doing something remarkable stupid and they run away. Unfortunately, the kids have both Yuko and Acchan in their possession. The girl that was selling the AKB0048 history books then turns to some terrified girls and officializes Kanata's (and the reader's suspecions) by holding out one of the books and saying, "I'm sure if you read this you too will no longer be afraid”.
Abel finds Kojiharu and Kanata and together they hide in a small clubroom. Abel then begins to explain the effect that the books have been having on the students. They're not just being aggressive to AKB0048, but even to each other. They discuss things further and Kanata is the one shown to be most afraid while Abel and Kojiharu bond through agreeing with each other and small plans. Unfortunately, though, it's not long before an announcement comes over the intercom that the students can find Acchan and Yuko in the school courtyard.
The group looks out the window to find that, indeed, their friends are tied up-- in crucification position at that-- with a horde of students surrounding them. Kanata begins to remember everything the two had done for her and wonders if she can even save them. Luckily, Kojiharu is much more used to these situations and confident and doesn't give up. So while the students begin pelting the other two with water balloons and anything else on hand the girls create really stupid masks and...
Jump out the window singing "Ponytail to shushu" and effectively breaking the control the book has on most of the students. They then immediately free Acchan and Yuko. Abel appears saying they have to do something about the books, which they kind of already were, because with their combined force they sing all the students out of the control and the darkness burns up in the books. Acchan picks up a book has the words 1208-7 still written on its pages and they decide to go and check it out.
Oh! On board the flying get ☆
The fourth chapter begins with the AKB0048 members and Abel inside the library trying to find where 1208-7 came from. They haven't had any luck finding the book that corresponds, but it seems Yuko has found where it's supposed to be! Almost immediately after, a girl appears asking if this is the book they're looking for. The girl is nonother then fellow AKB0048 member, Tomomoi Itano "Tomochin"! She jokes about how they'd have to take it by force... Unfortunately for her, Acchan decides to pull out her saber which just has Tomochin pull out her own weapons (earrings that turn into guns).
After a bit of silliness, Tomochin hands over a book entitled "Don Quijote de la Mancha". It turns out the lyrics that are in are the same ones that was possessing some of the students-- and Kanata-- earlier! They discuss how it's difficult to decipher and that only the headmistress would know the meaning. Itano states that they should go check out her office and drags Kanata there. Together they end up finding a box that holds the pendants from earlier in it.
Kanata picks one up before Tomochin can warn her not too... And the music from before starts playing. Back in the library, the others are attacked by dark kirara and are able to fend them off, but unfortunately the headmistress appears in her office! She reveals that she is indeed Elixir and has been behind all of the attacks. She then proceeds to attack both of the girls. Kanata is too stricken to act, but Tomochin manages to fend off a lot of Elixir's attacks while singing "Flying Get!"
Unfortunately, despite that, Elixir still manages to capture Kanata in a web of darkness and begins to poison/possess her once more...
Beginner!
Kanata manages to fight it for a little while, but the other girl is also pinned down. She tries to force-feed Kanata a pill that would do so fully and when she's satisfied she thinks she has, she turns to the Tomochin once more. Kanata, however, manages to spit it out but is still under the woman's control enough that she has to break out of it. She remembers her feelings of not wanting to be an idol and being afraid.. But then, this is also when she remembers her father's encouragement to follow her dreams and his subsequent death.
Remembering her will to follow her dreams, Kanata breaks free of her possession. She finally uses the micsaber Tsubasa gave her and is surrounded by a dozen kirara when she begins singing "Beginner!" Elixir is unable to fend off her attack and the one moment it looks like she might beat Kanata is when Tomochin has freed herself and joins Kanata in fighting her off! Elixir tries for one last attack that neither girl see until last moment, but luckily Abel and the others have appeared to help! Abel pushes Kanata out of the way and the others finish up the song. Acchan and Tomochin keep Elixir guarded, but Kojiharu and Yuko step in and create a kirara powered cage to keep her locked up in.
It looks like the day is saved and they go to bury/get rid of the book that caused all the trouble under one of the trees when, oh, Juno appears in one of the original uniforms!
So now let's high-five!
Kanata is surprised to see her new friend in the uniform in a position as an enemy and immediately asks a disbelieving, 'why'? Acchan continues further, asking her what her purpose here is... And then Juno reveals that she's here to stop AKB0048 from getting AKBs uniforms in the name of DTGO/DES and it's further revealed that her father is its leader.
...This is obviously really bad news in the case of Kanata. She realizes this is a member of DES-- a member of the group that killed her beloved father. She sort of snaps, but she's able to hold off a bit remembering what Acchan had said earlier. Of course, Juno can't let it be and brings up how she learned that Kanata's father died by DES and how ironic it is that the parents field of battle has passed onto the children's (and implying that Kanata will die here, too). And that's when Kanata loses it. Kojiharu, however, holds her back saying it won't help. When Kanata continues to fight her, Yuko yells at her. She goes as far as to say that Kanata is one of their beloved companions and because of that she can't let her die. However, they could-- as in all of the friends present-- could fight Juno together.
The tender moment doesn't get to last long because Juno calls forth all of the students she recently possessed... Uh, they're all too in AKB uniforms but not only that they're made to look exactly like Acchan. She immediately has them attack and, unfortunately, there are much more of them and they are pretty powerful so 0048 is getting promptly beat. When it's just Acchan, Abel, and Kanata left standing Acchan asks Abel if when she signaled she'll take Kanata by the hand. He's in shock for a moment, but she proceeds to say that it would give her some relief and that she wants to believe in the. She then tells them to run and Abel pulls an unwilling Kanata away as Acchan is left fighting on her own.
The army of Acchan's begin looking for them and Abel keeps Kanata quiet until they pass. She is obviously not doing okay and wonders why it is that she's the only one that escaped and why he didn't allow her to fight with the others. Abel, in turn, says that Acchan wanted him to save her and he wants to believe in the hope she has for life. It's then that Kanata comes to a sort of revelation. Her father, the others, AKB0048, everyone has always been fighting for their future--their wonderland.
Juno doesn't let the tender moment last because she suddenly bursts through the wall. They talk for a few moments and at the end Juno admits that she's afraid, but then immediately calls in her Acchans. Being alone and weak, Abel and Kanata have difficult fighting them off. When it looks like Kanata might get struck through the heart, Abel steps in front of it. Kanata obviously doesn't take this well and mumbles about why he'd do that; Abel merely makes half-hearted jokes and tries, but fails, to say he likes her. Kanata is unable to move and this is when Juno takes her chance and finishes her...
As Kanata lay dying the kiraras of the others surround her and, feeling their emotions, each one of them heal her and Abel. Juno, thinking she's won is working on burning a tree, when suddenly several of her Acchans are attacked! She's stunned that Kanata, a mere research student, was able to do so much with the kiraras help. Kanata says that, because she's not really alone, it's absolutely possible and charges singing "Give me five!". It seems to becoming a one-on-one door, but there's one hitch in that some of the Acchans are still around! Luckily, this is the exact moment that the other AKBs appear and put them to sleep.
Each of the other successors tell her that they're going to rely on her to finish this battle... And so she does. It even turns out that Tsubasa has the AKB uniforms and they're safely put away! It's even revealed the Abel is the current owner of the uniforms and he wishes to put an end to the entertainment ban himself. Oh, and he kisses Kanata on the forehead and says he'll be watching from afar. It was with these happy endings that the 0048 members went home and the crazy tale ended.