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| Whew. This was visually captivating -- Furukawa is embracing Ikuhara's style and developing it to make it his own. Furakawa uses a lot of wide shots, chiaroscuro (fitting since it does focuses on theater) and primary colors (usually to indicate a character in focus). I love the music. I really hope the Revue cast comes to AX to perform. This video sums up my appreciation towards the themes presented in Revue Starlight. The first half of each episode really provides context and reason why these characters fight for position zero. I guess it's time for me to finish Mawaru Penguindrum and Symphogear haha. |
RoseVueOct 5, 2018 9:58 PM
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| 7/10 (good) The surprise of the season. I really enjoyed this one. (I'm a sucker for singing + action) Best girl: Juuna This final episode I thought was a fitting end for the telling of "Starlight" throughout the entire series. Edit: I'm surprised how much MAL liked this... |
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| Ahhhhh that was nice. I didn't quite understand everything going on but I loved this anime. Actually I think in the end, I just loved the new voices the most, I just really enjoyed hearing some new girls with very distinct voices. On top of that, everything was just very well done in my opinion, I mean, it was pretty cliche, and the looping timeline thing kind of came out of nowhere to me but I seriously don't care, I loved it anyway. |
A Wild and Small Otaku has Appeared! |
| This anime sure was a good watch. I really enjoyed it until ep. 9 or so. But since neither Karen nor Hikari were of my liking, these last episodes were just ok. Not that I disliked them or anything. It's just that I wasn't as invested in them as I would have liked. Overall, it was a nice experience. The performances were great and the insert songs they used were nice as well. I liked mostly all the characters and their respective motivations to be on stage were both interesting and appealing. In the end, I really enjoyed this show and due to its not so typical story, it was really pleasant to have given it a chance. |
| Pretty damn solid ending if you ask me, this series was a whole lot more enjoying than what I first expecting this series to be. With that very unreal way of auditions and interesting character development it sure gave it an interesting and unique spring. All in all I quite enjoyed watching this to be honest! |
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| tbh this series i really did love it at first but then at a certain point the series just took a really stupid turn and just got really dumb and predictable as i said it would be not to mention what was even worst was the main 2 characters themselves smh only thing i can really say is at least it ended as expected and as best it could though even the ending was dumb but i am glad its over... was in to deep to just drop it but in the end was such a waste |
| "one step at a time" |
| Well this show was a clusterfuck. The characters are barely more interesting than cardboard cut-outs, and the fights are total dogshit. Top that with bad songs and you've got a pretty bad anime. The most enjoyable thing was the fucking giraffe. |
| This was disappointing and wasted potential. Episodes 1-2 were interesting enough that I wanted to watch more. Episodes 3-5 got me hooked. Episodes 6-10 were incredible and the tone got serious and then episodes 11 and 12 came and were like "We know we set this up like a mature story but we're just going to sweep that off the table because we want a 100% happy ending," We got beaten over our heads over and over that Starlight was a tragedy. Then there was a clear connection established between Starlight and the story of the anime. Hikari and Karen were implied to be Flora and Claire whose story ended in tragedy. Everything was gearing up for a grand finale and bittersweet ending. And then bam, the story gets flushed down a toilet, we have an episode of Karen crying which could have and should have lasted less than 5 minutes. Seriously, why didn't she bother to check the Starlight stage? Not even after the cop asked where she saw her last? There is only so much dumb that can be forgiven in a character. After the crying episode we have an episode where... stuff happens and it's supposed to be deep. What did the characters learn? Hikari and Karen stayed literally the same since their childhood. Their goal, to stand on a stage together, got fulfilled. And it was given for free. There was literally no struggle anywhere on screen, Karen and Hikari simply beat everyone, Karen beat Hikari because screw the rules and their literally rewrote their own story to get a happy ending. Story over. It started good, got amazing and then it just went full cliche and dull because I suppose the writers didn't know what to do with the story they build. So they made one non-sensical sob episode where Karen acted like utterly mentally handicapped and then just concluded the story with "And so Karen went and saved her. The end." It's a pity. 7/10 |
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They may never make me president, but I got the best first ladies! Sometimes as far as the eye can see, whoo wee! |
| Well this was absolutely worthless. It was great at being slow and pretentious. 1/10 |
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| This show was beautiful *wipes tear* Though I wish they focused abit more on the other girls especially Banana... it's almost like they forgot her after episode 7... oh and the re-make/transformation scene... I wish it wasn't exclusive to Karen but oh well... わかります！ |
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| If the pillar meant nothing according to Hikari and was just bait for the girls then why did the top star at the British academy perform even better winning her own audition? |
| All you can hope for in your worldview is consistency |
| hidden gems..... this show surpassed my expectation of music anime, with a unique, strong, and impressive of soundtracks and storytelling. OUTSTANDING 10/10 <3 great execution, great anime at all ^.^ |
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| I'm gonna miss the transformation theme song. Did Kirin just break the 4th wall. Now that I care about him trying to act all knowing like that. Karen loses and then wins against Hikari with persistence. And they act as Flora and Claire, nice. They were very fitting for it. Good anime. Ending could be more fulfilled but oh well. |
| I finished rewatching this yet again and felt dropping some comments and resources for people who want to hear and know more about this unique anime. GenesisAria said: I could sit here typing like a maniac and giving people walls of text to suffer through, but there are actually a ton of videos that combined cover basically everything there is to be said. That is not to say there is not much to say, there is LOADS to say, but there are so many intelligent people assessing and digging out all of it's nuances and aspects. While many stories, you can read all kind of themes and ideas that were not purposely written into it, however in this case that was the entire intention, to weave a deep and nuanced narrative that you can get limitless narrative from. Also, when talking about Takarazuka Revue, it's important to know that lesbianism is a significant factor in the metatextual. playlist from above for episodic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3K1-n0kzlFkf76pDadhTXsE8HkzZsBCc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takarazuka_Revue When i watched this anime, and learned about Takarazuka Revue, it taught me a lot about entertainment media in japan. It is especially relevant in the present world, where AKB48, was the new age Takarazuka. The existence of modern idol groups populated by girls, was spearheaded by the success of AKB48, which was created very much in Takarazuka Revue's image. The parallels between these two theatre cultures are countless. I had watched the anime AKB0048 back when it aired, fascinated by the bizarre cultural concepts presented within it, but upon watching Revue Starlight, it really empowered my understanding of it all even further, by knowing the source of the concepts (including competition for position 0), and the long history behind it. An amazing album of cosplay: https://imgur.com/a/2bEzkMo Overall response to this anime:  |
GenesisAriaOct 13, 2019 11:24 AM
❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. 🔗CosmoGenesis Project “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” “A truth seeker has no patience for BS.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
| Really good animation and OST, the fight scenes were well made and concept is kind of original, but horrible characters are killing the anime : 5/10 |
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| Average anime, first few episodes were okay but after the banaloop episode, there were some inconsistencies in the plot specifically about Karen entering the auditions when she shouldn't have been. The giraffe should have included Karen in the audition together with the new addition (Hikari) since she was always in the auditions despite ranking last everytime, yet Giraffe didn't include her at first in this loop-breaking timeline. Why is that? Why was Giraffe wondering why she wasn't included at first? It's a little hard to explain the inconsistency clearly here, just that I think it breaks the flow a little. There are other tiny inconsistencies here and there but this is the one I remember being most concerned about. Giraffe's 4th wall breaking was nice. Last episode felt extremely drawn out. I feel like Karen could have come up with some motivation to clash against Hikari after falling into the water from last episode and the way the final battle plays out could still be the same as what we see in this episode. Song-wise, apart from the opening, all the other songs doesn't sound as good to me (maybe I just don't like these stageplay-type songs).  |
| Felt hollow and pointless. I liked the episode that focused on Mahiru a lot, because it addressed the issue I have with these kinds of shows: characters who are way too dependent on another person. The episode that followed it was good too, though it did the opposite. After that my interest slowly diminished as the anime seemed to try and do too much with characters that weren't fit for it. The Banana episode should have been interesting. It was the perfect chance for the anime to mesh the more fantastical and surreal elements with the everyday-life feeling inside the school. Instead, it was awkwardly paced and quickly forgotten even though it was supposed to introduce a general idea to the story. Ironic, since the tedium of repeating the same scenes over and over again to avoid tragedy is the focus of that episode, yet we get the ending we get, where everything is made to be as perfect as possible. Overall, just lots of jumping around on stage and melodrama about promises and shining that I don't care about. Disappointing. Maya is best girl. |
syncrogazerDec 27, 2020 7:20 PM
| This was a pretty god show. From what I've seen, the direction and symbolism in this show definitely offers a deeper experience but I don't care enough about it to appreciate it at more than a surface level. This episode was fine. Hikari and Karen are my least favourite characters in this series and their struggles just did not resonate with me. Somehow I feel like there was a deeper meaning to this episode but I don't care enough to find it. To be honest, I did not expect to like this as much as I did. I'm not huge fan singing, dancing or theatre. The only reason I watched this is because I watched one of Gigguk's videos, where he mentioned that this show had a talking giraffe. That's it. I just came here for the talking giraffe and along the way I found an enjoyable show filled with a lot of characters I liked and a decent story. Bana-nice/10. |
| This was a pretty good and unique anime. Beautiful animation, cool battle scenes with fitting OST. The character chemistry was also great. |
SerafosDec 23, 2023 3:38 AM
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| Expected ending in hindsight (even if i wasn't waiting any more for the previously teased final battle Karen vs Hikari) but at least everyone's happy. 4th wall breaking giraffe was a nice idea. Overall, 8/10. |
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FafetteApr 23, 2022 5:44 AM
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| I loved the animation from start to end. The battles and the transformation outfit scene is where it really shone. However while the whole weird alternate stage/world thing caught my attention at first. It really was just there for all stage girls to hash out their problems and represent how going for the top you have to take others "light and shine". In which case it follows more of the standard route of other idol shows but shown more beautifully. |
| Not to enjoyable to watch for me, maybe because having a high expectations of this anime make me feel it will be great but it was just so so, the story is a little bland very few plot that made it exciting and it made me feel like a wasting time to watch, well 6-7/10 for me atleast |
| Welp, I really liked it, but I feel like something was missing so it stays at a 9/10. 8/10 Anyway, I have seen some people comparing this to Utena or that it's something Ikuhara-like... Yet... I really did not feel these vibes much to be honest. EDIT: Thinking about it better. Most characters felt really shallow, that's what it missed. |
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