P-UR Rinze summary. It's a long ass commu that turned into a long ass summary, apologies for the imminent text dump.

>The Girl from the Painting
The commu opens with Rinze narrating a story: a child finds a painting of a barefoot girl, and bewitched by it, draws red, high-heeled shoes over it. The girl in the painting magically comes to life, wearing the shoes, and escapes the canvas to go explore the world. Turns out it's the plot of the movie Rinze has been hired to advertise. She and a few other young talents have been asked to hold a panel about their take on the movie, to be recorded and released later as promotional material.
P and Rinze chat about the story a bit. Rinze is quite fond of it and very obviously identifies with the girl from the painting, both as a fellow "young girl who discovers a wide new world", and because of the detail of the high-heeled shoes: we find out in a flashback Rinze has also been hired for another unrelated job, a cosplay event asking her to wear a very un-nadeshiko-like outfit, including tall high heels she's not at all used to walking in. But that's still days away, the panel takes priority.
Rinze and P's conversation shifts to the ending of the story. Rinze has also read the source material the movie is based on, and mentions the ending differs between the two versions. In the movie the magic ends, the red heels symbolically break, and the girl is sucked back into the painting with a mysterious smile on her face. In the original book this never happens, and the girl is left free to wander the world. The two wonder about the meaning of the smile, with P hypothesizing the girl might have been satisfied with her journey, not needing magic anymore. Regardless, Rinze strongly prefers the original finale and worries about how to express her feelings about it during the panel, but P tells her to just b urself and that the footage will be edited afterwards anyway.

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