Thread 279663296

soon

I miss them

I did not understand this anime.

>>279663397
What did you not understand

>>279663296 (OP)
>King cobras have a typical life expectancy in the wild of about 20 years
Still well over a decade before we can say Love Cobra is dead!

>>279663869
Love Cobra isn't alive

karen was shit and worst girl
she ruined the series too

I like the Siegfeld plays.

>>279664050
worst post on the internet

>>279664050
Non non, dayo

thanks for letting me know
T-what?

>>279664285
get in now for pre show

Bakaren a shit.

>>279663296 (OP)
Is the VN any good?

>>279664300
I can't find last week's thread, could you post the image with link again?

>>279664462
oh right, it was the full title.
arigato.

it's just one movie right

>>279664050
True

Can I preemptively request this for after the movie? I always get emotional watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPEIRH7oSY

what the fuck just happened

rewatching this now (remux). this is after sitting on the movie bdremux for 2+ years, so this is kind of a preprep for that. last time i watched was probably pre-pandemic. i forgot how fucking incredible this show is. direction for ep 1 in particular was sublime. currently at ep 5. taking a break to catch up on my thurs-sat anime backlog. i don't want to rush my rewatch. i want to savor it

>>279663723
Everything

>>279663439
>we are approaching the 4th anniversary of the announcement
Can they just tell us if it's dead or not? I need closure.

i lost my fucking glasses
I'm not going to be able to watch the movie
i want to kill myself

>>279666880
jsut get closer to the screen

>>279664068
I'm glad Rerise sold out and did well as far as I know, I watched it last night and I hope the Sieglets live forever. Or until they get a conclusion as satisfying as the Kukugumi movie. Or at least until they star in Conte 2.

>>279666880
how the hell do you lose your glasses
how does that happen
I have worn glasses for 15 years and I have never been unsure about their location, even in the wilderness.

>>279667362
okay turns out my dad thought they were his (????????) and TOSSED them in the front seat of his fucking car and now they have streaks on them that won't come off and he tried to gaslight me saying I did it when I put them in the chair
me, the fucking obsessive compulsive
after he just said he wasn't gentle with them
i want to fucking strangle him to death

/r/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVMY23Y4u1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgS66VvWQxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_e5d8ef-E
https://streamable.com/rkkkv6

>>279667428
leave him to me

Conte intermission /r/
https://youtu.be/s18AzuOgFXU?si=POq7y8E9puxYXOm2

https://x.com/revuestarlight/status/1930097180356075806
If you're in Japan at around the end of August / start of September, they'll be airing the movie in cinemas for the 4th anniversary. Check it out, especially if you have never seen the movie in a proper theatre before.

Hold up, Kirin actually talks in this one. With his mouth and all.

>>279664050
She's more of a symptom that the show could've been something truly amazing if it wasn't so comittee-directed. If the show were allowed to have a less generic artstyle and wasn't mandated to inclulde a short-haired genki girl with a pin and her black haired deuteraognist who has a 50% chance of being voiced by Mimorin as the lead like every other all-girl cast anime, the show wouldn't have had to twist itself into a pretzel trying to justify Karen as the lead. The second movie tried to rectify this in post and mostly succeeded, but even then they could've just made an incredible story from the getgo without her.

The subs are all over the place on how to spell Siefield, lel.

/r/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdmR9g7k0b8

I still have the app on my phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY
/r/

/r/ this emote

How one sided. (No I don't know what happened to the blue line.)

futaba a shit

>>279668663
Okey. And seriously. You're Claudine x Maya fag. Don't you?
Why do you people suddenly have so much adoration for super-talented people with only positive qualities and no flaws? After all, we all know very well that more than 90% of people are closer to Karen than to May. Or is it a matter of your generation being fucked over and being a bundle of complexes and self-loathing?
Seriously Anones, what the fuck is wrong with you?

WAKE ME UP (can't wake up inside)

>>279669688
>>279670216
It got to 3192.

A friend just introduced me to this series.
Anime was good but I was blown away by the movie.
Junah is my wife

>>279476858
>>279477200
Thanks for these anon. I never noticed that Banana saying "a stage that no one can predict" is what caused the loops to change.
>She repeated the same wish 66 times.
Where was this mentioned?

>>279668010
I wonder if we'll get another showing in the US. I should've went twice.

>>279670493
when was that

>>279670564
June 5-6, 2022

movie in 5mins

fuck, I'm too drunk to type

>>279671265
Evidently false.

literally tehe best anime

>>279671581
Can't believe Banana killed her wife...

>>279670090
Kek nice try, ESL-kun. I'm not a shipper and the closest thing I have to a favorite character is Nana, the undisputed most interesting and liked character of the franchise. Nana fits perfectly as the primary antagonist/heel character to the show while Claudine and Maya are fine as the "overpowered" rival characters with hidden depths (mostly on Maya's side). Karen's the most basic and uninspired part of the cast for the sake of "playing it safe" and having that be your main character is a flaw of many Japanese works, Revue isn't unique in that regard. However there's proof that there was more concept to Revue than the usual anime, which is why it's a shame that it had to be executed as a standard anime project instead of a more experimental work in the undistilled vision of Furukawa.

Banana milk is easy to make. I also add chocolate or spirulina.

>>279671661
how do you milk a banana?

Requesting that we watch this last
https://youtu.be/ezv4BkcuaMA

>>279670393
It was never explicitly mentioned, but it’s inferred from this scene in episode 7. The fact that the director is Ikuhara's apprentice makes it easier to take this as fact.

nigga wtf is going on

beautiful

>>279672286
lesbian truck jousting

>>279672286
buckle up bitch

>>279664050
>>279664333
>>279664869
>>279668663 (retarded)
>>279671655
Karen haters really piss me off. They hate her and say she’s a bad character without putting in the effort to understand her. I can forgive that take if someone’s only seen the 12-episode series, since Karen barely feels like a full character there. But the movie gives her a lot more time and development. Most people just brush those scenes off and then blame the show for making her writing weak, even though her writing in the movie clearly has more depth.

Karen has spent her whole life working toward becoming a stage actress because of her promise to Hikari. From elementary school to high school, she’s been gaining experience nonstop. Her backstory doesn’t fully come together until you see that scene with the Giraffe and Hikari standing on the platform.

“Throwing away the joys of ordinary, the fun of girlhood.”

That line sums up Karen’s character. She gave up the joy of youth for the sake of her craft, for the sake of becoming a Stage Girl. And that reflects real-life people who give everything to acting or the entertainment industry. It’s a brutal path. Even if you’re talented, the risk is high. Some end up in their fifties with no savings, still scraping by because they do it for the love of the craft.

>I missed the stream again
nyooo

>>279673069
another bakaren who can't use a calendar!

>>279672836
I don't hate her, in fact, I like her even more than Hikari, it's just that I like to make fun of Bakaren. It was merely a joke lol (at least from my part).

>>279673140
Sorry lol. I misread as Bakaren is shit

I like that Revue Starlight doesn’t fall into the usual cliché like a lot of theatre-themed shows. Most would go for the bare minimum and take heavy inspiration from The Phantom of the Opera for their revues. Props to them for actually being a bit creative.

And I love that they referenced Mad Max of all things. It’s my favorite movie of all time. AND THEY REFERENCED MY FAVORITE SCENE FROM MAD MAX, THE TORNADO SCENE. The team behind this show is based.

so what the fuck was the giraffe
i know he was not a normal giraffe

YOUR THOUGHTS, FIRST TIME WATCHERS?

Loli Karen and Hikari do things to me.

so did the director for this show do anything afterwords?

>>279673476
anon, i...

>>279673424
Someone doesn't wakarimasu

>>279673492
its ok i can handle the truth its over isnt it?

>>279673507
The plays are still going, they just announced an El Dordo one for next year.

>>279673476
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezv4BkcuaMA
>Dec 2, 2021
>Nothing since

>>279673535
rip

i've seen this almost 10 times now and every part is still fucking amazing. i love it so fucking much

am i even supposed to be thinking about the plot of this movie

So, what was the morale of the movie? What did (we) learn from it?

>>279673497
*snap*

>>279673621
>So, what was the morale of the movie?
Dondon.
>What did (we) learn from it?
Anime musicals are an underestimated form of entertainment.

>>279673621
>So, what was the morale of the movie?

Siegfeld Junior High anime when

I nodded off after conte, but at least I caught the tail end of it all again.

>>279673621
We are already on stage.
We're gonna need fuel.
Eat your friends (sexually).

>>279673621
>What did (we) learn from it?>

I like Banana, she did nothing wrong.

AAAAAAA HELP ME

>>279673757
She's too powerful

Hear me out here.
What if this is Love Cobra?
https://youtu.be/oJSna-vMATY
It's Kinema Citrus. It's surreal. It's in production hell. It checks out.

>>279673802
Doubt it, Furukawa is heavily involved in Love Cobra and I don't see his name attached to this anywhere.

>>279673802
I'm pretty sure this isn't Furukawa, but Sayonara Lara has a bunch of other staff that worked on Starlight so I've been looking forward to it, too. In fact it's probably the only thing I'm keeping an eye on other than Love Cobra, and they are both so dead that it's very easy to stay up to date!

>>279673788
>>279673806
Kino overload

>>279673802
I've been looking for this trailer ever since I watched it, and I couldn't find it because I forgot the name of the series.

Thanks anonymous.

>>279673621
>no matter how nice a stage of your life is, no matter how tied you are to the people of that time, you will have to move on when the time comes
Such an inspiring message. Let's watch the series again next year.

>>279673701
sucks that happened
conte is an overload for me. after the first year of watching them all I just watch the first few that introduce the other schools then put it on my second monitor until the preshow requests start.
though I wish the full rinbu revolution played just before the movie again.

GET BACK IN FOR THE ENCORE

>>279673802
Damn, I forgot that existed too. I hope both come out alive someday.
Music reminded me to go back to Princess Tutu again in the meantime.

I still think El Dorado was only kind of better than the average ReLIVE gacha story. I enjoyed the PV though so I'm not really upset
Now make El Dorado Conte with the rest of the girls and it will surpass the movie with ease

>>279673690
Surely announced at the end of the next live or something... Stella's era is coming fast!!

where is the revue ending explained
is that old teaser ever actually going to become anything

>>279674204
What part do you need explained?

>>279674262
Murder is ok when it's method acting.

>>279674635
WOEEEE

I miss my friends Junna Lalafin Yuyuko and Mei Fan

>>279664050
Wrong.

>>279674204
The ending of Revue Starlight is basically about the whole group graduating. They're in their third year and getting ready to move on to tertiary education.

That final scene is a meta reference. I can’t remember the exact source, so correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s said to reference Koyama Momoyo (Karen’s voice actress) and her very first voice acting audition. She started quite young as an idol and wanted to try something new, so she took a leap and gave voice acting a shot. Karen’s white shirt outfit matches what Koyama wore during that audition.

The flood?

did something happen? is something going to happen?
still haven't finished the game tho

>>279673802
Love Cobra is practically confirmed to have Kaizumi Moeka, so that's unlikely. During the concept movie Love Cobra is also referred to as wi(l)d screen circus, so it's very likely to be a movie as well.
>>279674635
WOEEEEEE

Tendou Maya touches little girls

>>279675963
is this a euphemism for potato

>>279675895
Where this visual from?

>>279676381
Sieglets PV

https://youtu.be/YITlXR3VJzU

rondo rondo rondo

>>279663397
Giraffe hands typed this post.

dondon

>>279672836
The fact that the anime itself is just a 7/10 thanks to a weak lead and bumped up to a 9/10 or 10/10 only with a movie that was clear about fixing everything wrong with the anime series says a lot. Karen in the movie becomes an acceptable character but any of the cast could've had the exact same development.

>Throwing away the joys of ordinary, the fun of girlhood

That's all of them. Hell, even Junna has more of that to her since she's less talented than Karen and came from an equivalently normalfag background like Karen and Mahiru.

I noticed that the movie completely ignored all the surreal plot of the show and that it was a lot more enjoyable because of it
unless I didn't understand the ending

>>279679256
the movie is what the audience wanted

>>279672836
Why is it wrong for someone to continue to dislike Karen even after viewing the movie? Sure the movie fixed her but the anime makes up much more of one's time with the fandom that how bad she was in the anime cannot be ignored. Maybe it would have been better if the movie came only a year after the anime instead of 3 years.

I always thought Karen was great. I will try my best English major impersonation and say people don't really like or understand Karen because she's not the main character, the main character in the anime is Hikari, and the story is mostly being told following Karen.
Now this might sound retarded, but

And then for the movie, Karen is unambiguously the main character, to whom Hikari is playing the supporting role, while all the other girls tie up their own loose ends in the background, more or less.
I've grown to appreciate the B-gumis chattering and all the lead up to the second half of the movie much more on subsequent watches, too.

Banana no... please ....

>>279673441
what about this

Did they both quit at the end
I don't get what happened

>>279672836
>“Throwing away the joys of ordinary, the fun of girlhood.”

No that was Maya. Maya was the one who sacrificed her entire life and persona in the pursuit of acting.

>>279679796
They moved on from the Starlight play and graduated from Seisho

>>279680204
but what about the time looping and fuel shit

>>279680377
Fuel (symbolized by fruits and vegetables) represented their drives to be their best selves as stage girls on stage.

>>279680692
yeah but doesn't that giraffe need to steal it from them for the stage
or something

>>279679342
>Why is it wrong for someone to continue to dislike Karen even after viewing the movie?
You can dislike whoever you want. Just stop acting like Karen is unfit for her role. With her experience, she is more credible than 90% of protagonists in Anime & Manga.
>Sure the movie fixed her but the anime makes up much more of one's time with the fandom that how bad she was in the anime cannot be ignored.
She wasn't bad. She was lacking motivation. And she had her reasons for that.
I don't understand this. With other titles, you folks clap your ears more the more pathetic protagonist is.

>>279680910
The giraffe is the audience. And flammable.

>>279680937
Anime in general seems to have a serious problem with certain main characters. They're often slabs who have no real distinction beyond maybe sharing traits of other characters to a lesser extent but we're supposed to root for them because they got the most heart or some other vacuous nothing statement. They'll spend most of the series with a gormless look on their face, have some last minute moment of apotheosis were we're told they're the best and just because they're the main character.

>>279680937
>With other titles, you folks clap your ears more the more pathetic protagonist is.
Way to assume that people who don't like Karen are the same people who then love pathetic protags from other anime.

>>279680910
Nope. It already got what it wanted in the TV show.

>>279681003
so hikari really just fucked off after that?
what is her problem

>>279678597
>"Throwing away the joys of ordinary, the fun of girlhood"
>That's all of them
I'm the anon. And of course it's a "no shit" situation for all of them, even I know that. But that doesn't take away from her character just because she shares the same struggles as everyone else.

>>279679342
>would have been better if the movie came only a year after the anime instead of 3 years
I really don’t get the point of arguing when the sequel movie already fixed the issue. If you still hate her even after understanding her character, you do you. Karen’s appeal to me is that she’s super relatable. After watching the supplementary material like the Live Stage stories, I’d sum up her character like this: Karen speaks to viewers by being the one who hesitates and feels unsure about the future in a coming-of-age story.

>>279681025
Yeah. It's autism but she has a similar problem to Karen in the movie but is no where near as thorough as Karen.
She is, surprisingly, captivated by Karen the same way Karen is to her and became scared of being her fan. More important to know is that she wasn't confident about herself as a stage girl in Starlight without Karen and was mesmerized by her.
From there, there is no concrete reason but you can come to some "logical" guesses. I personally believe that she goes back to London to stay sharp like before she came back to japan, and not be so captivated by Karen that she becomes intimated by her. I personally believe this since Hikari ate fuel and said she will continue to act regardless of what happens, and Karen's Final Lines is her admitting she doesn't want to lose to Hikari.

>>279681090
>But that doesn't take away from her character just because she shares the same struggles as everyone else.

As the central character there's nothing that makes her more unique than any of the other girls. This is where the hang up is. When ever other character has that plus their own unique situations Karen just comes off as pointless and dull. Why do we want to follow her over someone like Junna or Claudine. The problem isn't that it takes away from her character but rather than she doesn't even HAVE a character to take away from.

>>279681090
Extreme example: a main character spends 99 episodes being a whiny little bitch but the 100th and final episode fixes all of his problems. People won't flip their opinion on him even though he is perfectly fine by the end because most of their experience with him was negative.
This is the situation for Karen. People who didn't like Karen because of the anime spent 12 weeks watching Karen barely feeling like a complete character and then spent a day watching Karen be a good character. For most of the time Revue Starlight was a part of a person's life, Karen wasn't good.
I expect new viewers of Revue Starlight who binge the anime and then the movie will have a better opinion of Karen then those who watched while it was airing.

>>279681414
Yeah it's not that the movie didn't do a good job, but it simply too little too late.

>>279681025
Hikari has a really bad habit of ditching Karen (or anyone), and it’s even mentioned in the VN. If you put together all the times she left her:

1. When they were kids
2. After the TV show/the 100th Starlight performance at the Seisho Festival
3. After the movie

She went back to London after the 100th Seisho because it was part of an exchange program.

Then she left again after the movie but that makes sense, since the whole point of the movie is about people chasing their own spotlight. Karen and Hikari were meant to perform together in Starlight, but not in Wildscreen Baroque.

[Pic is VN spoiler]

Even in the movie Hikari comes off more like a main character than Karen did. Karen mostly just sulks her friend left. She questions why she acts but that's the same thing everyone else is doing. Juna is on the verge of quitting entirely. Hikari is the one who comes back trying to make up for her actions.

>>279681516
I’d argue it’s even worse than that. She’s kind of like Banana, but worse. Banana got her wake-up call after losing to Hikari and Karen in Starlight, but because of the time loop, you don’t really see any delayed development in the original timeline.

In Karen’s case, she gets her wake-up call after fighting Hikari in the movie. You could argue that it ends there and the Stage Live story or manga isn’t canon, but it still adds something to her character. I remember Karen still feeling lost around the time the other 99th students were taking entrance exams for their dream acting academies. I think she skipped the exam, and the ending shows her finding her own path.

It's genuinely the best anime movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I could watch this over and over and never get tired of it. Music was spot on, visually looked incredible just... FUCK it was sooooooooo good god dammnit. Why can't I have my memory wiped and watch this for the first time again.

>>279681353
>As the central character there's nothing that makes her more unique than any of the other girls. This is where the hang up is.
Ah yes. Slowly we are getting to the heart of the matter. The narrative shifts from "she is too average, she doesn’t have the qualifications to be where she is" to "but she is just as good as the others, and she should be exceptional". Now I’m just waiting for one of Karen's haters to outright admit that it’s just because she is not Tendo Maya! or Banana.

>>279681839
You're a special kind of illiterate.

It's been a while since I've watched the anime so I could be misremembering, but was Karin ever shown to be on Maya and Kuro's level in the real world before the 2v2 revue? I remember her still being worse in reality which made the win feel like a bullshit "fated" one. I don't actually mind that Maya and Kuro lost because their scene after the defeat was 110% worth it.

>>279682003
No. She just gets a sudden MC plot bullshit boost

>>279682003
How often does it happen that the protagonist in anime starts from the position of being the best?

>>279682073
More than you think.

>>279681767
rebellion is better
eoe is better
redline is better
lagann hen is better
disappearance is better

>>279682073
You're missing the point. It would have been better if Karen was shown to be improving a lot in the real world. At the point of the 2v2 she should have been a serious contender for a lead role if the revues weren't a thing. The mismatch between her real skill and revue power makes the win come off as MC plot armor which doesn't endear me to Karen.

>>279682003
>>279682016
>Karin ever shown to be on Maya and Kuro's level in the real world before the 2v2 revue
In Mahiru’s episode (episode 5), we see Karen slowly grow through consistent routines and good habits while working with Hikari. In Banana’s timeline, Karen was the weakest, even weaker than Junna. But in the current timeline, Hikari acts as a catalyst for both of them because of their promise.

Based on events on the real world, everyone aside from Banana is growing rapidly, and Karen and Hikari are rising to take the lead roles in Starlight (ref. Ep 5).

>her still being worse in reality which made the win feel like a bullshit "fated" one
To properly judge the MayaKuro Revue in episode 10, you also need to look at the Banana vs Karen Revue in episode 9. Karen explicitly mentions that everyone is growing day by day.

The thing about the Revues is that they aren’t just about raw skill. Banana is the most skilled (shes the reverse Junna who has the most passion but no skill), yet Banana still gets pushed back by Junna in the movie. It’s about passion. The only reason Banana wins in her timelines is because she’s genuinely passionate about redoing Starlight.

And when it comes to passion and the drive to steal the spotlight, Karen and Hikari are at their peak during the MayaKuro Revue. That’s the best version of them. And it’s not far-fetched at all when you remember Karen actually beat Kuro in episode 8.

>>279682108
>rebellion is better
10 minutes of Kyubei yapping during the "Homura reveal" segment in Rebellion is really fun and not boring /s

Banana was kind of a cunt

How's the stage show going in Japan? Its been like 4 years since I follow up with it.

>>279681767
I feel the same way, it's easily the piece of media I've rewatched the most. I never get tired of it and I tear up every time.

>>279673341
The game had the phantom of the opera arc I think.

>>279673621
Move the fuck on, which no one in this thread learned since they're literal nana's who keep rewatching.

>>279682391
Banana has such cruel moments in the movie. It was shocking

>>279683602
All the butai shoujos have serious mental issues.
Except Kuro, who is merely gay. And French.

>>279663296 (OP)
I loved Kageki Shoujo so a friend recommended this and said it was really similar. It wasn't.

>>279682108
>eoe is better
get out of here

>>279684002
>French
is it possible to heal from such terrible condition?

This, Symphogear, and AKB0047 are my favorite post-2000 shows

>>279685086
Symphogear was such a great show.

>>279674785
>She started quite young as an idol
I thought Momoyo started as a stage actress (still is mostly)

>>279684734
Her french lessons were very informative

>>279682357
On point.

>The only reason Banana wins in her timelines is because she’s genuinely passionate about redoing Starlight.
I would say that Nana wasnʼt capable of winning the auditions that many times *because* of her passion. Or rather, that was the case at first, but later it was because she knew what was going to happen and was just following the script, so, when Hikari shows up in our timeline, and Nana grows desperate to keep things the same, she is not fighting with passion anymore, so, despite of how talented she is, she ends failing both against Hikari and Karen, who are in better condition than ever, and keep improving even mid-revue.

Have any good doujins been translated recently?

How would I go about reading/watching the manga and stage plays? Is there a specific order for it, and are the stage plays subbed anywhere?

>>279673768
Yo Mr white…

>>279687623
Release order. Subs are on nyaa.

Any anime that are similar to this that I haven't already seen?

>>279688717
bananas are better cold

>>279691203
any Ikuhara anime
any David Lynch work
Mishima A life in 4 chapters
Kitano Yakuza trilogy

>>279691771
Yes, it's very similar to Yuri Kuma... um...

>>279692122
in direction not subject matter

>>279687623
The stageplays are good in release order, if you only watch the Seisho ones for example I'm pretty sure characters from the other plays show up
The manga is mostly just adaptations of the stageplays except Overture which is a prequel to the anime, Saikai Eyes which is a short story that came with Blue Glitter, and the little prequel manga before Rerise. Someone should make a nice chart but I feel like it's been done already

I missed the train.

>>279695805
We'll be at the next station next month