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By the time Akko and Lotte returned to their dorm room, the two are horrified to see it has been overrun with mushrooms and Sucy still sleeping in the middle of it all. The panicked Akko then tried to wake her friends while crying out over their situation, but oddly enough, Sucy doesn't immediately wake up even with the mention of mushroom. Akko then tries to go for the teachers, but is stopped by Lotte whom deduced that the chaos was likely caused by Sucy's experiments judging from her strewn equipment and they cannot add another troubles in their list of face the risk of expulsion. As Akko becomes desperate in waking Sucy up, Lotte realizes that their roommate might contracted sleeping witch disease and that can only be cured by having someone waking her up from her inner spiritual world. Consulting with her magical medicine book, she found the spell to solve the disease, but unsure whether she can pull it out until more mushrooms growing out of control and literally bumped their head against the ceiling. Removing offending mushroom, Lotte tried to check on vials of potions in Sucy's small storage for Akko to bring along, but eventually gives them all to Akko before commencing the spell where hilariously, it involves forming a baseball-like magic construct around the wand before smacking it against the volunteer(Akko)'s head, causing her to fell unconscious beside Sucy's unconscious body. |
By the time Akko and Lotte returned to their dorm room, the two are horrified to see it has been overrun with mushrooms and Sucy still sleeping in the middle of it all. The panicked Akko then tried to wake her friends while crying out over their situation, but oddly enough, Sucy doesn't immediately wake up even with the mention of mushroom. Akko then tries to go for the teachers, but is stopped by Lotte whom deduced that the chaos was likely caused by Sucy's experiments judging from her strewn equipment and they cannot add another troubles in their list of face the risk of expulsion. As Akko becomes desperate in waking Sucy up, Lotte realizes that their roommate might contracted sleeping witch disease and that can only be cured by having someone waking her up from her inner spiritual world. Consulting with her magical medicine book, she found the spell to solve the disease, but unsure whether she can pull it out until more mushrooms growing out of control and literally bumped their head against the ceiling. Removing offending mushroom, Lotte tried to check on vials of potions in Sucy's small storage for Akko to bring along, but eventually gives them all to Akko before commencing the spell where hilariously, it involves forming a baseball-like magic construct around the wand before smacking it against the volunteer(Akko)'s head, causing her to fell unconscious beside Sucy's unconscious body. |
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Sleeping Sucy (眠れる夢のスーシィ Nemureru Yume no Sūshi?) is the 8th episode of the Little Witch Academia anime series.
On Netflix, the episode is titled "Akko's Adventure in Sucyworld".[2]
Overview
After drinking an experimental brew, Sucy falls into a deep sleep and won't wake up. To save her, Lotte sends Akko into Sucy's mushroom-filled dream.
Summary
The episode begins in the dark and stormy night as Sucy finally completed her ominous ultimate potion brewed out of rarest strains of mushrooms (arguably same rare magical mushroom species she had Akko collected on her behalf in events of Chamber of Time). After boasting how she would awaken all her magical potential and importantly, gain control over every mushrooms all over the world with it, Sucy is about to drink the ultimate potion before reconsiders to test it on Akko in case of her botched it. However, at the very last moments, she decided to use it on herself as things would become boring if the potion induced a desired effect on the bubbly witch.
Hilariously, it's turned out that in the next morning, Sucy forgot to remove the funnel she put on Akko's mouth and the bubbly Japanese still has it as she hastily change her clothes before finally spitting it up as soon as she awaken from her sleep. Simultaneously, Lotte tried to awaken Sucy to no avail, but since they now about to enter Finnelan's class and not wanted to start another trouble with the strict professor, the two eventually leave the room without the Manbavaran, all while overlooking latest oddities (the funnel in Akko's mouth and later, a red mushroom popping out near Sucy's pillow.
By the time Akko and Lotte returned to their dorm room, the two are horrified to see it has been overrun with mushrooms and Sucy still sleeping in the middle of it all. The panicked Akko then tried to wake her friends while crying out over their situation, but oddly enough, Sucy doesn't immediately wake up even with the mention of mushroom. Akko then tries to go for the teachers, but is stopped by Lotte whom deduced that the chaos was likely caused by Sucy's experiments judging from her strewn equipment and they cannot add another troubles in their list of face the risk of expulsion. As Akko becomes desperate in waking Sucy up, Lotte realizes that their roommate might contracted sleeping witch disease and that can only be cured by having someone waking her up from her inner spiritual world. Consulting with her magical medicine book, she found the spell to solve the disease, but unsure whether she can pull it out until more mushrooms growing out of control and literally bumped their head against the ceiling. Removing offending mushroom, Lotte tried to check on vials of potions in Sucy's small storage for Akko to bring along, but eventually gives them all to Akko before commencing the spell where hilariously, it involves forming a baseball-like magic construct around the wand before smacking it against the volunteer(Akko)'s head, causing her to fell unconscious beside Sucy's unconscious body.
Awakening at a strange wonderland, which is unmistakably Sucy's inner spiritual world, Akko sees that the world takes the appearance of a beautiful plains full if mushrooms if various shapes and size. The awestruck Akko then stumbled upon small humanoid mushrooms carrying sword and shield, but is ambushed by a small Sucy-like imp who proclaimed that she would take her soul. As this happens, another small Sucy, this time an angelic one, stopped her devil counterpart and suggested to kill Akko with more peaceful manner. Confused, Akko asked them what they are, and the two introduce themselves as representations of shoulder devil and shoulder angel of real Sucy, whom hasn't around for some reasons.
Order of appearances
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Trivia
- The episode has some allusions from popular culture such as:
- Sleeping Beauty: The title of the episode, as well as the climax were allusions to Sleeping Beauty. When Akko tries to wake up the original Sucy, she tries to give her the medicine via mouth-to-mouth, even commenting that she is stealing her first kiss. Interestingly, during this point, the gigantic Sucy monster whom chase Akko morphed into a kaiju that greatly resembles Maleficent's dragon form from the Disney movie.
- Dexter's Lab: The beginning sequence where she creates the potion is an homage to the introduction of Dexter's Laboratory.
- Gravity Falls: The scene in which Lotte reads the way to cure Sucy's illness is similar to a scene in Gravity Falls in which Dipper Pines reads how to enter someone's mind out of Journal 3.
- Inception: Akko goes inside Sucy's dream to wake her up.
- Wizard of Oz: Sucy's dream is set in a location quite similar to the golden road of the Wizard of Oz.
- Your Name: One of several Sucies encountered writes あほ (idiot) in her face, referencing a famous scene from the movie.
- Star Wars: One of several Sucies encountered dressed like Obi-Wan Kenobi and even had a lightsaber, a Jedi's weapon of choice.
- Transformers: One of several Sucies encountered transforms her face, causing it to reaemble the Transformers from the Michael Bay movies.
- Shin Godzilla: One of the Sucies encountered by Akko in her dream behave and looked like Godzilla's incarnation of Shin Godzilla, with some of her hair protruding on her back like Godzilla's dorsal fins and one of her legs rose like Godzilla's tail. Even this Sucy breathes atomic breath with whilst also releasing atomic lasers from her dorsal fins and the tip of her "tail" leg (due to possibly avoiding copyright issue, this Sucy's atomic breath looked like a stream of fire while her lasers are white).
- Silent Hill: Two Sucy Executioners dressed like Pyramid Heads, iconic monsters from Silent Hill franchise.
- Classic Walt Disney animations: The movie scene is a reference to the old-school Disney animations.
- AKIRA: The movie scene where Lotte gets squashed by masses of growing mushroom is eerily reminiscent with Kaori's death when she was squashed by uncontrollably growing biomass of Tetsuo's in climatic scene of AKIRA.
- When Akko found the sleeping original Sucy in her room the climax, she was seen carrying a sword along with a shield that she previously found carried by small humanoid mushrooms upon entering Sucy's dream. Oddly enough, Akko was never seen grabbing those, only being seen with them after after she was inside the room.
- The car's plates read LWA 008 = Little Witch Academia episode 8.
- When one looked closely on Sucy's personality which desires plastic surgery transformed, one can see that her normal left eye is missing, though her post-transformed face does had two eyesockets.
- The room number 666 is an allusion of the Mark of the Beast, also known as the symbol of Satan.
- The statement by the Policewomen Sucy to the Nice Sucy ("You do not have the right to remain silent. You also do not have the right to consult an attorney.") when she arrests her is an inversion of the rights law enforcement in the United States must inform suspects in their custody of before they are interrogated, the most famous of which is the right to remain silent. Together these rights and the warning that anything the suspects says can be used against them in a court of law compose the Miranda warnings.
- The Netflix title "Akko's Adventure in Sucyworld" is likely a reference to the famous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- This episode takes place in the beginning of September after the summer vacation ends, as stated in the chronicles book.[3]
Gallery
| Sleeping Sucy has an associated gallery here. |
References
External links
- Impressions
- Random Curiosity - Little Witch Academia – 08 by Passerby February 27, 2017 at 5:46 am