Kanon stops pretending to be anything other than a celebration of itself: a magical girl parody built entirely around watching her sing, mess up, and commit to the bit with zero self-awareness. The absence of Keima strips away the dating sim mechanics and leaves you with pure character comedy, the kind that lands because Kanon's earnestness is genuine even when everything around her is deliberately ridiculous. This is a spin-off that understands its job is to make existing fans smile, not convert anyone new.
Elysia spots an advertisement for an audition to cast Kanon's younger sister in a TV drama and flies to the studio. Along the way she runs into a Runaway Spirit, which gets into the studio and turns Kanon into a child just before the auditions Kanon is meant to judge. Kanon and Elysia have to team up to catch the spirit and rescue the hopefuls. The single-episode spin-off OVA mixes comedy, music and magical girl elements, and it came packaged with the 22nd volume of the Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai manga.
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