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{{quote|''"Some day, Layla, the whole world will come to see the performances of that little girl. I assure you."''|'''Kalos Eidos'''}}
The last clear memory that young [[Genki Girl|Sora Naegino]] has of her deceased parents is the time they took her to an extraordinary circus called the Kaleido Stage, a few months before their deaths in an accident. At age 16, Sora graduates from junior high and decides to try going to the auditions for the [[Cirque Du Soleil]]
[[Break the Cutie|But it won't]] [[Training From Hell|be easy]]. After an incident involving the theft of her luggage, Sora arrives late to the audition and is told to go back home and wait for the next round -- a year later. However, when a performer is unexpectedly hurt, the owner [[Stern Teacher|Kalos Eido]] tells [[The Fool|Sora]] to cover for her. Main Kaleido Stage star [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Layla Hamilton]] wonders if Sora is ''really'' cut out for it and challenges her to either perform Layla's trademark move, the Golden Phoenix, or go back home; Sora trains hard with the help of two other recruits ([[Bifauxnen|Anna Heart]] and [[Badass Bookworm|Mia Guillem]]) and the company's stage manager ([[Non-Action Guy|Kenneth "Ken" Robbins]]), and though she doesn't fully accomplish it, [[Plucky Girl|her determination]] convinces Layla to let her stay. Ever since then, Sora has to struggle extra hard to fulfill her dream: to become the Top Star of the Stage...
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In short, take the [[Frills of Justice|sparkly costumes]] and [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|cheery optimism]] of a [[Magical Girl]] series, remove a good part of the magic except for the [[Fairy Companion]] and have ''everyone'' try to [[Break the Cutie|break the spirit of the main character]] at some point and to different degrees. That's ''Kaleido Star''.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Leon and Sophie's step-parents
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* [[Television Geography]]: "Cape Mery" can't seem to make up its mind whether it's Los Angeles or San Francisco -- it's got LA's shoreline and palm trees but also San Francisco's hills, vintage streetcars, and a dead-on markup toward the Ferry Building and nearby Amtrak terminal in the second season's opening. (Plus, oddly, just a bit of the concrete canyons of New York City...) And just to confuse the issue even further, the {{spoiler|rising sun over the ocean horizon when Sora performs the Angel Maneuver}} in the final episode makes it clear that the open sea is to the ''east'' of the city -- pretty hard to do anywhere in California. Some viewers suspect that it's actually in Hawaii, not California, which would solve most of these problems (and explain some otherwise extremely fast travel times from Japan).
** The dialogue in episode 22 specifically states that the protagonists are from Los Angeles.
* [[Time to Unlock More True Potential]]: Almost every time Sora needs to expand her skills, she finds someone to put her through an ever more grueling [[Training From Hell]].
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Mia and Anna, respectively. Sora is the tomboy when with Layla; with May... it ''[[Tsundere|heavily]]'' depends on May's current mood (and curiously, May ''really'' looks the part of the girly girl, thanks to her [[Rapunzel Hair]] and cute wardrobe).
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