In theaters on June 4, "Revue Starlight the Movie" will open to rave reviews. The fastest review of "Revue Starlight the Movie," which opens in theaters on June 4, 2012.

The completely new theatrical anime "Girls☆Geki Revue Starlight the Movie" opened in theaters nationwide on June 4, 2021.

Due to the recent situation, there have been some restrictions on the opening of movie theaters, but thanks to the efforts of various quarters, the movie was announced for screening in Tokyo and Osaka on June 1, and the screening schedule for "The Movie: Girls☆Geki Revue Starlight" including the stage greeting is being decided at a rapid pace. Nothing would make fans happier than to see the curtain rise on this long-awaited work.

As a matter of fact, I just saw the first screening at a theater in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I received permission to publish a review article, so I would like to now vent my enthusiasm after the first viewing of "Girls☆Geki Revue Starlight the Movie" as a theater review.

I don't intend to be so nonchalant as to transcribe the story of the theater version verbatim, but I know that many people consider the very act of writing about the impact and impressions they felt after seeing the story to be the most important spoiler to avoid.

I understand.

Therefore, I would like to make a caveat in advance that this article contains only spoilers for "Revue Starlight the Movie. If you like "Starlight" so much that you are concerned about whether or not there are spoilers, I guarantee that you will not regret running to the theater right now. This may be a spoiler, though.

By the time you think it's a bad idea, it's too late.

The first thing I thought after watching "Revue Starlight the Movie," or rather, within an estimated 40 minutes or so after the screening began, was that I was now the goose that was being turned into foie gras.

The story and the relationships between the girls were very sweet to my body, which was starved for the experience of the story and "Starlight". However, after the 30-minute mark of the screening, my inadequate body sensed a rise in my blood sugar level. Even the most delicious and sugary tomatoes are poisonous to the body if eaten in excess. However, the creators of this film do not know how to take it easy at all. One after another, the best delicacies are poured into the mouths of the customers.

The TV anime "Revue Starlight" has given the kind of otaku who delights in contemplation and deep reading a very sweet time, with plenty of time in the week leading up to the next broadcast to encounter, ponder, review, and wrestle with the 30 minutes of footage. But ...... once a theatrical film starts to flow, there is no stopping it.

Show Must Go On.

The express train named "Girls' Opera Revue Starlight the Movie" can only push forward to the end of the line once it starts running.

"What was the meaning of the current scene?"

"What was the expression on that girl's face at that moment?"

Even if these questions repeatedly cross your mind, the story continues. It goes on. After realizing that too much pleasure is poison to the body,......, it's a battle of patience and stamina with the creator of the story. So, if you are thinking of going to see this film tomorrow or on the weekend, get a good night's sleep the night before. It will be a physical challenge that day, and you will probably have trouble sleeping that night or dance with indescribable dreams.

You will wonder what this theater piece was all about. I am thinking about it right now, to rave reviews. I can only come up with a clichéd answer now, but I believe that this was a journey to find what the girls and their makers had forgotten. The stage girls, who were defeated and ended up watching the revue from the audience, were they really able to accept the outcome? Will the girls who have watched their childhood friends from one step behind continue to be good at that position? The girl who has been snatched away by her childhood friend who suddenly appeared from the side, the girl who is dearer to her than anyone else? The gentle girl who has continued to cut and cut and cut her way through the thin ice of the stage, and who has continued to turn the stage that goes on forever. And the girl who has chosen the only one and only position zero, the height of the world, to pursue her dreams with her fated partner.

The TV anime "Girls' Opera Revue Starlight" was the story of Aishiro Hanako. So the intricate threads of the story eventually converge into the story of Aishiro Karen and Kagura Hikari. But the nine stage girls, no, all stage girls and all lovers of the stage are supposed to be the main characters in the stage of their own lives. This theater version foolishly and straightforwardly confronts the story that should exist in as many lives as there are lives.

Hanako and the other 99th students of Seisho Music Academy are now in their third year. It is their job to show the cute new students around the school, tell them what Seisho Music Academy is all about, and give them guidance.

Even though they are stage girls, the concerns of high school seniors are the same: What to do after graduation? What will I do after graduation? Will I be able to leave something behind during my school years? Will I be separated from my favorite friends when I graduate? These may seem like small worries from the outside, but for the girls in the middle of it all, it is a life-shaking event. It is more than enough reason for them to burn their lives on stage and cut ties with their best friends.

They are adolescents, too, and some of the girls may become aggressive. Thinking about making everyone happy, working hard without being known, baking them sweets, and winning them over. They have been preparing for the stage by grinding themselves to the bone, only to have their hand snatched away by a girl who is just a flash in the pan. It was as if it had never happened. But as I tried my best to regain my composure and return to my daily life, I found that the girls who had started on their own paths were grumbling with gloomy expressions on their faces. That would make even the mild-mannered girls angry, wouldn't it? Sorry, that was a spoiler.

Toward the end of the story, after finishing a revue, Hanako utters a line. In the field of animation production, which is conducted in 3 months and 1 course, the end of one work means the beginning of another. In the field of animation production, which proceeds in units of three months and one course, the end of one work means the beginning of another, and it is in animation production that we struggle continuously to get on a new train to the next station. There may be a type of artist who can quickly change his mind to the next train. I am sure that professionals are like that by nature.

When I interviewed Director Furukawa several times, he told me that he admired Director Hideaki Anno as one of the important pieces that shaped him. However, it seems that his respect was more for the visual pleasure and pleasantness of his work, rather than the pedantic side of Anno that is often associated with him.

Director Furukawa is also a right-hand man and a favorite pupil of Kunihiko Ikuhara, the director of "Revolutionary Girl Utena" and "Sailor Moon," from whom he learned the ins and outs of animation production. In this film, too, there were some depictions that showed Ikuni-ism (such as that thing at the train station), but I thought he would rather have something like that, right?　I think it was the result of his laughing fanservice. I digress.

Anyway, an active creator who has the factor of Hideaki Anno and Kunihiko Ikuhara is working on a work that entrusts the depiction of the relationship between the girls to battle. I remember being very convinced that I should be attracted to this work. And from my point of view, Director Furukawa was a classical and charming artist, the type of artist who makes films while pouring out his own guts and spilling blood. So perhaps I took the liberty of seeing Director Furukawa's sentiments in Hana Koi's dialogue.

What was fortunate for Director Furukawa was that he met Tatsuto Higuchi (screenwriter), a craftsman who meticulously listened to the world inside him and put it into a screenplay format while discussing it with him. I also came to observe a scenario meeting at ...... with a light heart to see if she could help me with the lyrics, but she turned out to be a talented woman named Nakamura Kanata (play script and lyrics), another pillar of the "Starlight" worldview. In addition, I met Teppei Nojima (music producer), a man who understands the music that is indispensable to depicting the theme of "Opera". There were many other encounters that created an environment in which the genius Tomohiro Furukawa could devote all of his energy to his work.

If I were allowed to give away one major spoiler about the "Girls' Opera Revue Starlight the Movie," it would be to say that the story of nine stage girls and a revue about a giraffe will probably be the very last. Perhaps the Hua Koi and their friends go to the beach, take a trip, or go camping. Or, if the people of Seisho Music Academy are involved in a story with the stage girls of another school, it might be possible.

Still, the story of Hanako, Hikari, and the girls that began with the Tokyo Tower will surely come to an end. That is how much I put into this work. It was a great story.

Well, that's enough spoilers that aren't really spoilers. I'd like to fall asleep and dream about the stage girls. What time was the screening tomorrow, ......?

PS. All lyrics were written by Nakamura Kanata.

(Reporting and writing by Kiri Nakazato)