![]() ![]() All the members of the Band of Hawk dress fancily as nobles. ![]() Later, the King holds a dance ball for the Band of Hawk after their victory.He was pleased with the news, to say the least. Later that evening, it was announced that Duke Julius and his son were assassinated by a plot that Griffith orchestrated. First, the King of Midland holds a ball for Princess Charlotte to which Griffith is invited to.In the world of Berserk, the only way for the aristocracy to deal with the constant war, turmoil, and bloodshed that they put their citizens and troops through is to hold pimped-out balls for themselves, even if they all end on a horrible note:.After playing matchmaker by putting Tooru and Kanako together and allowing them to have a beautiful waltz, Haruhi ends up accidentally losing her Sacred First Kiss to Kanako while dancing with her. In Ouran High School Host Club, the club hosts a dance party with a surprise that the chosen Queen gets to receive a kiss from the King (which ends up being Haruhi).This ball allowed her the opportunity of showing that She Cleans Up Nicely, making the spoiled, Lonely Rich Kid Tsukasa fall harder for her. In Boys over Flowers, Tsukushi Makino goes on a cruise vacation with the rest of her rich, aristocratic classmates.It also doubles as an invitation to throw all everyday logic out of the window, if the previous episodes hadn't already convinced you to do so, with massive epaulets hidden under a shoulderless dress, and a functional outfit made from a tablecloth in a matter of seconds. Revolutionary Girl Utena has one, which includes a subplot with a water-soluble dress and enough Les Yay to make men ovulate and females have hard-ons.The only problem is that she's pretty much blind without her glasses, but since she looks much better in the dress without them, she's told to put up with it. In Emma: A Victorian Romance, Emma is convinced to attend one, and is shown to clean up nicely.In Descendants of Darkness, while Tsuzuki and Hisoka go undercover to solve a mystery on a cruise, there's a section where the cruise has a dance and ball (complete with a scene of Hisoka dancing with the local Ojou Tsubaki who was actually an undead ill girl of sorts and one of Muraki's victims).Then the mechs arrived to assassinate her and the evening kind of went downhill from there. Relena's birthday party in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing featured a ball where she danced with Heero and talked to him about his motives.In a rather nice moment of storytelling, Jing and the Girl of the Week actually fight in the finals of the tournament, and it degenerates into something resembling a dance. With a lip service story about why the Masquerades turned into a brutal fighting tournament. It's renamed the "Mas Corrida" which amounts to "Bullfight With People Instead of Bulls".Funnily enough, the beautiful Girl of the Week isn't shown dancing because she's saving her first dance for Jing. However, after Jing manages to steal the object he wants and have the Queen realize the error of her ways, it ends up reverting to being a normal ball. In King of Bandit Jing, there is an arc called "The Masquerade Ball of Zaza." It turns out it's not actually a ball with dancing, but a huge coliseum tournament.Expect a scene where he says he hates dancing or just plain can't dance (Though if he can get into it, he will find he really can dance.) If a character is a Fake Aristocrat this will be the ultimate test of their facade. Other times, it will be used to show that the protagonist (particularly if it's a male lead) is virtuous and cannot understand the snooty ways of aristocrats. ![]() Quite often in a story, Dances and Balls will be used as an opportunity to show that a Beautiful All Along girl (sometimes, but less common, guy) cleans up nicely (to the amazement of fellow protagonists). And when these serious things are war, famine, pestilence, and the like, they don't have to be very straitlaced. Straitlaced members of society may disapprove of the frivolity, particularly if serious things are going on. The terms tend to be "balls" for Blue Blood and Royal Blood guests (expect Gorgeous Period Dress and Ermine Cape Effect, and certainly Pimped Out Dresses, as balls would be occasions when they pulled out the stops), and "dances" for more common sorts of folk. Often occurs at other celebrations, such as a feast. An occasion for gathering and celebrating. ![]()
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