>>or for added comedy, the
>>discovery that Shizuka has picked up her own fandom back home :)
>
>Comedy potential indeed — am I right in remembering Shizuka was
>introduced in canon as a sort of Yoshika fangirl (military type)? And
>she thought her brain hurt before... ;)

That is true, yes. It's implied that she thought Yoshika was kind of a Sakamoto figure; she spends much of the movie grappling with her disappointment upon finally meeting her idol and discovering that she is actually a weirdo, then kind of comes to terms with it upon learning that she's a different kind of awesome. (She is also presumably unaware at that point of how crazy Mio really is. Fusō witches didn't only get that reputation in Europe from Yoshika. :)

With that promising foundation to work with, one of the subthreads in OWaW has been bringing Shizuka gradually out of the aftermath of that and into a new comfort zone, because a Sam the Eagle-type character really only has one note to play.

Also, one of the fun thing for me about bringing her on this expedition is the opening to revisit one of my favorite lines from "Operation Grass-Snake" as a running gag. :)

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