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Luna Amatista
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Thanks for the review and recommendation, I hope it will encourage other people to engage with the franchise, and I’m glad to hear it improved on the anime’s shortcomings!
I have a small note to make, and it’s that in the ninth paragraph, Junna’s name leads to the page of the singer JUNNA, whom I adore, but is entirely unrelated to Starlight. |
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SenpaiDuckie
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@Luna Amatista
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GhostStalkerSA
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Saw it in a fairly packed theater in Times Square on Sunday, and while quite a bit of the nuances flew right over my head (I’m a really surface reading person, my literary interpretation skills are decidedly lacking; though I did get that this was a graduation metaphor), it was still a super fun spectacle to watch, and built upon the anime quite a bit. Not enough to get me playing the mobage again, but enough to make me want to listen to the songs again. Too bad the Butai shojo from the other schools didn’t get an appearance, but I guess that would’ve just crowded things too much and detracted from the theme of the movie.
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whiskeyii
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This is definitely the kind of movie I have to watch multiple times to get. That said, as much as I enjoyed the wild surrealist aspect of it all and the crazy spectacle of the fights, I couldn’t help but feel that the commentary about the Takarazuka industry from the series was more interesting than the graduation anxiety on display here, which we’ve seen done many times before in other shows. Even so, I had felt like Futaba and Kaoruko specifically weren’t all that resolved in the series, so I was glad to see the movie put some finality to their conflict in the end.
As of right now, I think I prefer the anime on a thematic level, but I wonder if subsequent viewings of the movie would endear me to it as I came to understand it more clearly; I kind of suspect it would. |
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zrdb
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I've already watched this twice and I'm usually very quick on picking up on the plot but this still has me scratching my head as to what's going on in quite a few places. But this is an excellent movie and it fantastic in the staging of musical numbers and fight scenes.
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KyokoBestMeguca
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The music here is just incredible. It brings back a lot of of motifs from the TV insert songs and brings them back bigger and flashier in the new songs. One thing I loved which you didn't mention was just how long some of these duels are in the movie. The one between Claudine and Maya was probably my favorite, and not just because Maya's song was my favorite from the TV series. Their song in the movie is nearly 11 minutes long and the movie is going all-out that entire time.
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chrisb
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I was lucky enough to see this at a local theater. Absolutely beautiful film. I took my boyfriend who knew nothing about the show. His only take away was “so these girls are all lesbian and too stubborn to let each other go” but he at least said it was amazing visually and musically. I agree that even people who haven’t seen the show can appreciate the movie on a purely aesthetic level. I think there is enough information for the film to not be too confusing for newcomers.
I still don’t totally understand what happened to the giraffe. |
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Nate148
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The giraffe is a stand in for us the audience the stage girl consume our want and emotions as fuel for the stage and we in turn are burned by there passion and are moved. |
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