Overflowing cuteness left and right! Yume no Tobira, or Door of Dreams, an iconic song performed in this episode. If you read the lyrics, you would see that it exactly mirrors the previous episode's 'learnings'. It especially shows in the music Maki composed. Performance aside, the costumes were also pretty great. The incorporation Kotori made out of the flowers Hanayo had shown her back then was really pretty. It also feels so magical as they performed under the vast skies full of stars, which was another callback to Nozomi's words previously. This is also the episode I started side-eyeing HonoTsuba lol. You'd understand once you watched the ep, and Nico and Hanayo were also on the go as soon as they saw Tsubasa. Maki was also being a little prickly here, which was pretty funny to me as a NicoMaki shipper given the reveal about Nico's way of supporting A-rise long before their own group was formed. However, this is also one of many circumstances in which I didn't like the anime's treatment of Nico specifically. All for funsies and all that, which was fine, funny, but I never liked how it came at the cost of her character. Overall, the animation was pretty done well, especially given the era it was released. It goes to show just how much the animation grew and how much effort were put into it. Also, Nico's twin buns were really cute!!