Audience reviews
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TheFlyingSoda
Now I’ll admit, I’m not really into musical anime. While I do appreciate the ideas of music used in any show, most of the time, they felt one-sided and too gimmicky for my personal liking. At least to me, the use of musicals isn’t really executed well due to how they’re portrayed as background themes instead of story purposes. But there’s one anime that caught my attention and I’ve been a huge fan ever since. Of course, I’m referring to arguably KineCi’s best show, Revue Starlight. When I started watching this, I was keeping my expectations in check for the most part solely because again, my stances with musical anime. But as soon as I finished the show (and gave it a re-watch because why not?), I have come to appreciate the passion and creativity this show holds.
The story is about two g…
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Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight - If Mawaru Penguindrum, Shoujo Kakumei Utena and BanG Dream! had sex with each other.
I can't explain this series but I'll just say a few things. First of all, I did not expect this show to have psychological aspects in it at all. Second of all, I also did not expect it to be quite action packed and elegant at the same time. I guess that's "revue" for you ( A revue consists of song and dance woven into a mesmerizing play ).
It took me quite some time to realize that I have to concentrate more than usual in order to keep up and understand the show just like Mawaru Penguindrum and Shoujo Kakumei Utena. Man it was awesome. Though the ending felt a bit rushed, this was probably the best experience I've got from an idol anime.
11/10. Very good. Recommended t…
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Theater has been one of my biggest passions for a long time now. I started performing in fundraising cabarets my dad would host for our local theater when I was ten, and when I finally started acting for real in high school, there was no going back. I have a deep and abiding love for the stage that surpasses pretty much every other hobby I indulge in, even writing about anime. I love acting, I love directing, I love playwriting, I love the process of watching a production pull together, I love watching a performance grow from the first tentative rehearsals to opening night, I love the struggle, I love the success, I love the chaos and nerves and catharsis, I. Love. Theater. And I’ve been so bummed for the longest time because as much as anime has to offer, I could never find an anime that…
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"This whole anime felt like drinking lukewarm water. "
I went into this with no expectations really. The art looked good and I needed something to watch that was dubbed so I could work while watching it. Despite the lack of expectations it still managed to fail them. The single reason I finished this show was because I didn't want to bother to go out looking for something else.
This anime is a mix of a bit penguindrum in the way is has absurd things happen that aren't really meant to be taken literally but also aren't completely metaphorically. And a bit of Madoka Magica almost exactly as far as plot points, I wont go into detail because of spoilers though. The worst part is, it does both these things badly.
There are like zero stakes for any of these people, and the one stake they give…
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Revue Starlight
After watching a couple of episodes i already started thinking on how should i review this godly anime yet so underrated, at first the anime is pretty confusing and they already introduced a number of characters that has their very own development the confusing parts will get you excited to watch the next episode the good thing is all of the episodes are all aired and available to watch, you can continue the hype by watching it straight until the ending
I love this anime because its no ordinary anime a unique set of characters filled with enjoyment and a bit of slice of life that may be encountered in real life
Revue Starlight is about a stage play / playwright with a mixture of action filled animation and wonderful amazingly soundtracks including different ending singers…
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This show has a lot of ambition and a lot of potential. However, it doesn’t use that potential to its full extent, leading to thematic sloppiness and loss of clarity. Still, if you can overlook that (and it seems many have), it’s an exciting watch even if you don’t generally like idols or musical girls.
Let’s start with the good parts: the sound and visuals are great. The songs are well sung, but even more importantly the background music is used to create a lot of tension and depth even in the clumsier moments. Choreography is on point, and though the quality isn’t consistent, when your worst is still good you’re doing well. The transformation sequence went slightly viral and it’s definitely a really good example, but many of the fights are just as eye-catching and the atmosphere of a c…
Read at the sourceLolaf
There is really no way to avoid spoilers for the first episode in this review so while I'll try to be vague about later developments there will be spoilers ahead.
I'll admit going into this I have a clear bias towards the particular subject matter, I'm a theater student with a love for musicals, well animated fight scenes and light yuri bait; this show was built from the ground up for people like me. So let's just break this down.
Story: 8/10
The Story has been done before, to put it lightly, which is why it misses out on full marks but the presentation of it is unique and clearly comes from a place of understanding theater and what goes into making theater enough to really elevate it to places the story has never been before. A classic tale of young girls bound by a promise and once mo…
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This is a horror show disguised as a musical and slice of life anime. Everything about this anime should have been viewed as a psychologically manipulative and sociopathic antagonist tempting impressionable performance arts students into acting, singing and dancing for his twisted entertainment, using dangerous weapons to deliver battle ending blows to their opponent. Lying to them about what their participation means at the end and the destruction/theft of these performers' identities.
Unlike others who have criticized this show for its dialogue, voice acting, and character development, I think all of that was done very well. This show had the potential to be great but missed its climactic turning point, dived right into the absurd, and played the entire climax to the end while breaking…
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If Revue Starlight put as much effort into the story as it did into presentation it could’ve been a great show. However not balancing the two and not at least compensating on something in particular it brought down both elements. There will be some spoilers in this review but given how lackluster the writing is I sincerely don’t think they matter.
Starlight starts off rather simple before trying to make things more complex and failing. We got a few girls, they attend an art school that teaches them all about theater and their ultimate test is to be top stars during a yearly Seisho Festival. However there’s a caveat. Outside of interpersonal drama and the hardships of study and practice, girls have to compete in a mysterious underground audition ran by a talking giraffe who serves sort of…
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Starlight Review is what happens when you aim high but fail in execution. One could almost forgive the director for all of the homages to Ikuhara (though curiously I didn't catch any to Penguindrum, a project he actually worked on) peppered throughout the work, but when all is said and done these references, set among a half-baked story, may come off as clumsily endearing but end up holding it up to these other, better works and highlighting where it falls short.
Stylistically, this work comes off saturated in Ikuhara, and from episode one it takes up some very explicit imagery from Utena (the duels, the tower) and sets them to a very pretty orchestral score and even musical theater. An underground audition! A scoring system which rules over students mercilessly! Calls from a mysterious e…
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If you pluck the tiny star, then you may obtain a tiny measure of happiness. If you pluck the giant star, then you may ask for a great reward.
Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight is maybe the most confusing anime to watch from Summer 2018. But at the same time, it's also the most predictable. It's a(nother) Bushiroad idol project. But at the same time, these characters are not idols - they are Stage Girls. Its story originally conceived by the people who usually work on the famous Takarazuka Revue. Its anime adaptation is directed by Furukawa Tomohiro, a close friend x protege of the famed Ikuhara Kunihiko, known for the heavy use of metaphors, symbolism, and a rather eccentric plot in all of his anime.
Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight is neither an idol anime nor an opera play. It might come as a…
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Another one of those shows which has a great first episode, however is completely lacking throughout the series in story, character development and to a degree, sound direction. For a show with an arts school setting and singing each episode, you would think that story and sound would be a priority, not for this show though. The biggest disappointment so far I've watched. The first episode was actually really great, and I thought it had potential, sadly the rest of the show just pales in comparison.
I have no idea why they even made this show, when it was so obvious that the animators wanted to make a show about manufacturing. Literally the best part of the show was the transformation scene. I've never even seen such a high production transformation scene before. I graduated mechanical en…
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YES THE TIME HAS COME, TO REVIEW MY AOTS AND FAV ANIME OF SUMMER 2018, REVUE STARLIGHT! I have never been a fan of music/idol anime(THOUGH REVUE IS NOT IDOL). To be honest, I actually didn't plan to watch Revue Starlight this season, it wasnt on my ptw list. Until someone recommended the anime on discord. And I was quite curious as well, so I thought, well, since I dropped quite a few anime already and this season has been pretty meh or bad, maybe I'll just give this anime a try? And boi, not only do I not regret watching this anime, this anime has become my AOTS! 10/10 anime! Idk there's something in this anime which really places it above the rest. The unique story, the excellent choreography with the stage arts, the out of this world music, and the diverse cast of characters just sets t…
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Passion, Longing, Pride, Jealousy, Promise, Isolation, Bonds, Fate and Tragedy, everything needed in making a Top Star.
Before LA even starts, Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight is about THEATER stage girls not idols, alot of people make the comparison and THEY are different and it's because of Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight's focus on theater stage girls that initially caught LA interest in this anime, as LA knew even without looking at the staff and studio that this was gonna be unique in the realms of the "entertainment industry" anime, in this case theater girls but it takes a much more thematic look at it in being the "Top Star".
Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight both dives into the daily grind of intense training into being a theater stage actor both in the scripting and live performances an…
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"Let us go, to pluck that star together! Starlight, it's the story of the goddesses drawn by the glow of the heavens, yet they are pulled apart, never to meet again, it is a sorrowful tale."
Thank goodness Revue Starlight isn't an idol anime, nor is it an action anime either, it has elements from both genres, singing and dancing from idol anime, and fighting from an action one, but it's different, unique and original, how it does everything, how it foreshadows things episodes before they actually happen, I just love this anime, I only wrote this review because I believe this is a hidden gem and it deserves more appreciation.
Story (8/10) : 2 girls make a promise when they were young to stand together on the same stage and do the "Starlight" performance, with a small twist of having real…
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Honestly, I went into Revue Starlight expecting it to be another idolesque multimedia project trying to recapture Love Live’s success, and once the series actually began, it was swarmed with comparisons to Revolutionary Girl Utena. Unfortunately, these comparisons have been unavoidable in the discourse surrounding this anime, and few people are trying to appreciate the series for its own appeal. So, before going into what makes this series great, here’s a bit of background.
The idea that Revue Starlight is just another Utena-like is mainly based on the director of the anime being Tomohiro Furukawa, who worked under Ikuhara on Mawaru Penguindrum and Yuri Kuma Arashi. However, rather than being inspired by works like Utena, it would be more accurate to say that they share the common inspira…
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This is a story of a distant and nearby review site, from long ago, in the faraway future. It is the Fall 2018 Season, celebrated through legions of anime fans in a small world.
{Below the shower of anime that passes through four times a year, I met Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight.}
[And I met SanaeK10.]
In a fated encounter.
[{I think we two have always been together. So let us all meet together again in the future. On the next season of the anime shower.}] The two of us have been connected through a distant promise. But. On the Season of Fall where I first watched Revue Starlight...
[SanaeK10, we met for the first time this year.]
{Who...are you?}
[SanaeK10?]
{I don't understand! Your impeccable direction, your brilliant soundtrack, the ratings we’ve made...I feel as though they were…
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Damn, does this series truly knows no bounds at knowing how to captivate its audience, by showing the weaknesses that breaks you and cultivating that into the strength that makes you better and more spirit-willed with confidence. That's the vibes I got with watching Shoujo Kageki: Revue Starlight, truly a hidden gem, sleeper hit, AND a seriously underrated masterpiece that can compete with the likes of Your Lie In April, in terms of musical development (more on that later). And before you ask, this isn't an idol musical fan-fest anime (like so many that I come to despise over the years).
Since this is an original series, I might as well first introduce to you, one of the strongest staff line-ups for this series (because its their efforts that made the show stand out):
Director Tomohiro Fu…
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Anime gets often called 'art' instead of simply 'entertainment' for the simple reason that its audiovisual achievements are more noteworthy than the characters and story that can never really reach the same level as books or manga. But like with everything in life, the polar opposite view point exist. To some viewers there seem to be nothing that kills the industry harder than 'style over substance', and those who despise this way of being should now take notes and never watch this anime.
But I can like both. Especially in today's industry where substance is often lacking, new series are copy-paste of everything else that has already been made, and in generally the industry has reached a point where quantity of anime series is high yet the outcome is starting to look like serial productio…
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There are so many ideas spawning in anime making these days that sometimes, you wonder if there’s enough. Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight originally gave me the impression of an idol series with musical themes with its promotional material. I’m not going to lie, idol series these days have become very redundant in terms of context. With some exceptions such as Love Live, the majority of anime musicals haven’t impressed me in recent years. Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight soon made its presence for Summer 2018. To my pleasant surprise, it became a showstopper that exceeded my expectations and also left me with an appetite of wanting for more.
Right off the bat, I should mention that the series can be deceptive looking at first glance. You wouldn’t be wrong if you’re getting flashbacks from seri…
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