I watched Karen's movie tonight. I didn't understand it at all. I was sad when Banana cried and appreciated the Fury Road reference but basically everything, from the symbolism to the plot, went over my head.
Gekijoban Revue Starlight
Nathaniel Peterson
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Adam Perez
It's not even that complicated or deep, it's an amazing continuation and ending to the same themes that were handled in the show.
One of the best movies of the last decade
Anthony White
Imagine cumming into that face
Austin Ward
Bery Bananaice
Noah Anderson
Karen needed a dream that wasn't tied to Hikari. All the other girls needed to let go of her gf to pursue their dreams. All of them were too stubborn to do what was needed to be done. The movie is them dealing with it. Karen got the better deal. She got a new dream and Hikari.
Samuel Barnes
watch Utena next
Aiden Campbell
Banana did nothing wrong.
Jacob Thompson
underage drinking
William Nguyen
>All the other girls needed to let go of her gf to pursue their dreams.
For most of the pairs, that was true. Not for Maya and Claudine though. Their revue was basically Claudine telling Maya "you don't have to give your entire life and soul to the stage, you can still enjoy other things like kissing me or having steamy lesbian sex with me while also being a stage girl" and Maya accepted that in the end.
Charles Davis
I've already seen Utena. I didn't like it, and I didn't understand it.
Xavier Hernandez
It was about how they needed to take the next step in life.
Life/time is the train going to the next station. The girls needed to decide whether and why they were getting on the train
Thomas Russell
What's our next cope event love cobra sisters?
Adrian Scott
When's the next big JP convention?
Jaxson Hill
finally a revue thread
has Ikuhara or Furukawa said anything about being inspired by Yukio Mishima
I've been reading his books lately and noticing some connections
Brayden Bennett
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Furukawa said that he used the setpiece from the movie based on him to represent Nana's search for beauty
Carter Price
based, she just wanted to be friends forever
Ethan Martinez
I’m really envious of Banana, in a way. I don’t have any close friends whose absence I would miss, I’ve felt listless and empty and starved for real connections for years now. That she goes to such extreme lengths for her friends is astounding.
Sebastian Adams
Neat how he brings up the side of Furukawa that doesn't like being labelled just an "Ikuhara disciple" and filed away, in that latest interview Furukawa's asked what references or homages he wanted to make in the movie and instead of answering he makes it clear he doesn't set out to reference anything, he draws on what those works do well but builds on it from the perspective of the work he's making. Thinking back on that helped me identify his own idiosyncrasies and I'm hoping love cobra will refine that image even further
Henry Clark
But she's underage.
Kayden Roberts
Jordan Powell
Rondox3 is a rondo of the TV anime itself and Nana and Kirin are watching/commenting on it but also performing in it, and then toward the end after the seemingly happy recap ending we get the added part that basically goes "ha, as if" and brings in the idea of the train inexorably going to the next station and everyone already being on stage despite just having seen the happy Starlight ending. There we also get the first instance of wi(ld)screen baroque.
Then we get to the sequel film that follows up on what the absolute fuck they were talking about at the end of Rondox3. Now that their big Starlight play is over, what's next? The overarching themes are pretty much whether the starlight kukugumi will perish and be gone forever after only managing that or get to the next station and thus become eternal. Karen finds her eternity at the ending revue and this is reflected when she's auditioning for her next play this day, right now (i.e. the timelessness of stories themselves and thus her by extension now)