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EP. REVIEW: Narenare -Cheer for you!-

It got a little better in the second episode, but the show so far feels overcooked, with too many threads they're trying to develop that are largely disconnected from Kanata and the cheerleading aspect of the show.

2) Kanata did not injure Megumi: Megumi was diagnosed with an unspecified illness in middle school and Kanata and her team won that year's nationals for her. She is in rehab because of that illness still, not because of an accident.

The accident in episode one happened early in Kanata's first year in high school, at the Gunma prefectural competition and was not her fault. This is what is shown at the start of episode 1. You see Kanata is launched successfully by her support team while the team next to her gets in trouble. Why she was traumatised by this is still unclear but from episode two it does look like the problem is mental, not physical.

All this happened only weeks or at most a few months ago; it's still early in the school year and she's still a first year.

2) Kanata did not injure Megumi: Megumi was diagnosed with an unspecified illness in middle school and Kanata and her team won that year's nationals for her. She is in rehab because of that illness still, not because of an accident.

The accident in episode one happened early in Kanata's first year in high school, at the Gunma prefectural competition and was not her fault. This is what is shown at the start of episode 1. You see Kanata is launched successfully by her support team while the team next to her gets in trouble. Why she was traumatised by this is still unclear but from episode two it does look like the problem is mental, not physical.

All this happened only weeks or at most a few months ago; it's still early in the school year and she's still a first year.

The accident in episode one happened early in Kanata's first year in high school, at the Gunma prefectural competition and was not her fault. This is what is shown at the start of episode 1. You see Kanata is launched successfully by her support team while the team next to her gets in trouble. Why she was traumatised by this is still unclear but from episode two it does look like the problem is mental, not physical.

All this happened only weeks or at most a few months ago; it's still early in the school year and she's still a first year.

I'm not even sure if all these girls go to the same school

I can answer this based on the uniforms: they do not /all/ go to the same school.
Nonoka and Anna go to school 1 (can't remember if any names where given)
Shion and Suzuha go to school 2.
Kanata attends school 3, where Megumi wanted to enroll but apparently couldn't due to her current situation. But she does want to transfer/go there when she'll be better.

Between the proliferation of sports anime and the marketability of moe anime girls, I'm somewhat shocked that I haven't seen an anime about cheerleading until now.

The show tells and shows everything necessary. People need to just pay attention (There IS a problem in episode 2, but it's CR's fault: The accident that traumatized Kanata (the first scene of the show) wasn't "last year", it was prefectural competition a few months ago, they translated wrong)

Seriously, having watched both episodes: everything you need is perfectly clear

Maybe you got it, but it was not "perfectly clear." I was paying close attention, but this shit was confusing.

Just passing by to try to clear up some people's confusion.

The opening scene from the first episode takes place during the Sukoyaka Cheerleading Contest in Gunma. This is where Kanata has a yet-unspecified accident while competing with the Hawk Wings, the cheerleading team from her high school, Takanosaki High School (鷹ノ咲高校). The fellow flyer she locks eyes with during this competition as she's falling - a black-and-red haired girl with a ponytail tied with a red ribbon - is NOT Megumi, who has black-and-pink hair. In fact, the other flyer is not even a named character so far; just another girl from the Hawk Wings. If you try to find her in other scenes, it becomes fairly obvious that she and Megumi have very distinct faces when they're not in shock.

The last two images in this Tweet should work as a fairly decent comparison between both characters.

Later in the first episode, after Shion helps Megumi return home from her rehabilitation and they sit in the latter's room for a bit. Here, they talk about having found out about Megumi's illness in the middle of a cheerleading competition in middle school, when Megumi and Kanata were part of the Bell Lowers, which you can see in Megumi's uniform. Their team had then talked about winning Nationals together; then we see a close-up of the picture of the Bell Lowers gathered around Megumi, who's holding the Nationals trophy in her hospital bed. She also mentions at this point that her role was spotter - specifically for Kanata -, not flyer.

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Oujou Girls Academy High School (桜城女学園):
• Suzuha Obunai: somewhat of a social media sensation due to doing parkour during her school commute.
• Shion Tanizaki: daughter of the next director of a general hospital and a former model; gymnast and aspiring singer-songwriter.

Omaebashi High School (桜城女学園):
• Anna Aveiro: aspiring YouTuber born and raised in Brazil, with a Brazilian father and Japanese mother.
• Nodoka Ohtani: Anna's childhood friend; her website description is hilarious but since the only hint at it was not obviously one I'll leave you to discover it later