K-ON!! 18

with the results of the class polling, Mio has been selected to be playing the role of Romeo in their class play and being unable to take the shock of being chosen as a lead character, she faints in her own seat. After regaining her senses, Mio immediately objects to the decision made but was denied by Nodoka since it was of the majority vote and no one else was nominated or volunteered themselves. Ritsu tries to comfort Mio and to make her accept the fact of the Romeo's role. Coincidentally, Ritsu was chosen to play Juliet and objected too as well but the both of them were clearly ignored by Nodoka. While deciding on who would design the costume, Sawa-chan volunteers herself to design the costume and both Mio and Ritsu looked at Sawa-chan and appears to be afraid of what she was going to make for them. Back in the music room, Mio had remained emotionless in a corner, staring closely at Ton-chan, while Ritsu was thinking about her own role as Juliet and was laughed at by Azusa who just couldn't control herself being amused by Ritsu taking up Juliet. Azusa then goes to Mio and tells her that she would be in the spotlight on the stage, Mio immediately receives the impact and later walks off, saying that she plans to transfer school and would be back after the school festival. Her self denial continues with her thinking that the role she had taken was all just a dream but Ritsu quickly drags her off to practice the scripts. Meanwhile, Yui had been standing still all along as she plays a tree in their class play and was adviced by Nodoka to practice standing still. Mio later finds Nodoka and tells her that she really cannot take up the position as Romeo and before Nodoka agrees to it, she tells Mio that everyone had believed that she could perform the role best and with that, Mio feels motivated and accepts the role to not let everyone down. The duo then started practicing lines but the both of them still had problems with Ritsu not being girly enough and Mio being totally embarrassed after reading the script and being unable to project her voice. After returning to the music room, Yui suggests to them that they should start acting like their roles in the play and tries to make Ritsu more girl-like and Mio more boy-like but it wasn't long before Ritsu grew tired of it and dragged Mio to her house for more practice. Just as Ritsu began to speak her script, Mio began to laugh uncontrollably and the situation continues with the them still being unable to totally match the characters. While teasing each other, the duo suddenly "caught" the voice as was finally able to properly act out their respective roles. Mio was however still unable to project her voice even though she did quite well in Ritsu's room and Mugi decides to bring her to a special training during the weekends. Mugi had brought everyone to work at a cafe where they would serve the customers as waitresses and since they are all strangers, Mio would be able to boost her courage after the training. Mio wasn't really up to the task and was rather clumsy while serving the customers and couldn't really speak up. Azusa wonders why Mio was still able to sing during the school festival in front of the audience and Ritsu tells her it was because she wasn't given a choice and with that, she thinks of a perfect plan for Mio. While everyone was given a chance to rest, Ritsu deliberately leaves Mio to tend to the customers alone and while given no choice, Mio could actually perform better. The others then decide to check on Mio after some time and did see her perfect smile and sending of the customers but after stoning there, she had fainted once again while standing as due to extreme stress. The next day in school, Mio seems to be unable to remove her smile after practicing it for so long and was finally removed with Ritsu's cheek grabbing technique. In the end, the training did seem to have paid off a little and Azusa feels wierd practicing her guitar with Yui standing still in front of her.

just another typical episode, would lovely wait for the next school festival episode...

P.S. Mio was extremely depressed after having larger hips than the rest .____. Mio's self delusions is just awesome. Still Tree FTW! xD