History Anime / Interstella5555

** In a sense, Daft Punk themselves, working with [[LeijiMatsumoto their favorite anime director]] to create the movie.

* GasMaskMooks: The band's kidnappers are an army of identically-dressed gas mask-wearing humanoids. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since the mooks use knockout gas to subdue the band and audience.

* HerHeartWillGoOn

* LostSuperweapon: The object that landed on [[spoiler:Earl de Darkwood's family manor centuries ago has an unusually high teck feel about it]] especially since [[spoiler: It's already calibrated to disguise aliens as other species and brainwash them, they didn't have that in the days of the first Darkwood.]]
* LuckyCharmsTitle / Letters2Numbers: ''The '''5'''tory of the '''5'''ecret '''5'''tar '''5'''ysem''

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Before the Crescendolls, Earl de Darkwood's previous victims were famous musicians who look an ''awful lot'' like WolfgangAmadeusMozart, Music/JimiHendrix, Ella Fitzgerald, Music/JanisJoplin and Jimmy Page.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Baryl is shorter than the other characters and has dots for eyes. This is a staple of LeijiMatsumoto's style.

* OneWingedAngel: The Earl comes back from the dead as an EldritchAbomination to thwart the Crescendolls' return to their planet.

* SelfDeprecation: Music/DaftPunk appear as themselves in a cameo at the music awards ceremony, where they lose to the main characters. In case you don't get the significance of that, in a 65 minute video (opening and credits included), they have a five-second cameo, and then they ''lose to a fake band playing their music''.

** The guards at the record company watch a soccer game between France and Japan. This is a subtle nod to the cross-cultural cooperation that produced a Japanese anime set to the music of the French Music/DaftPunk. (Note the score: 2-1 for the French -- the Daft Punk duo and the one LeijiMatsumoto.)

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Seemingly played straight when it turns out the malevolent invaders are from Earth, [[spoiler:then subverted when the rest of the population is informed to the Earl's plans and do everything they can to help the Crescendolls.]]

* AlienAbduction: InvertedTrope. For once, those are humans from Earth kindnapping aliens.

* AlienAbduction: InvertedTrope.

This film features no dialogue, yet the animation is expertly synced with music, making for an easily-followed yet captivating film.

** The cyborgs' car is crushed by a truck, and when emerging from it, the damaged cyborg has a red eye behind sunglasses, like in ''Film/{{Terminator}}''.

* HumansAreBastards: Seemingly played straight when it turns out the malevolent invaders are from Earth, [[spoiler:then subverted when the rest of the population is informed to the Earl's plans and do everything they can to help the Crescendolls.]]

* Ancientconspiracy: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:The whole Earl De Darkwood family buisness has been going on for a VERY long time.]] Especially obvious because [[spoiler:Aliens resembling everyone from Mozart to Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin make an appearance during the history revelation scene.]]

* ArcNumber: 5 and variants, most notably 5555

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Earl de Darkwood made a deal with an unidentified supernatural entity during his childhood, in which he gives 5,555 award-winning musicians to it in exchange for cosmic powers. The main characters will be #5,555 if he isn't stopped.]]

This film features no dialogue, yet the animation is expertly synced with music, making for an easily followed yet captivating film.

!!''Interstella 5555'' provides examples of:

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Aside from those with blue skin, other aliens on the planet are shown to be green, purple, pink or orange.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: {{Hyperspace}}

* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:Shep saves the Crescendolls ship in hyperspace from the evil spirit of Earl de Darkwood]].

* TheCameo: Music/DaftPunk show up in animated form at the Gold Record Awards. They're nominees in the same category as the Crescendolls... and lose. They don't seem unhappy about it though, and somewhat pleasantly surprised they were nominated in the first place.
** Well, Bangalter is quite happy about it, anyway. As for Homem-Christo, when he finds out they lost to The Crescendolls, he claps politely, but still has a "heartbreak" symbol on his helmet.

** TheHero: Shep
** TheLancer: Arpegius
** TheBigGuy: Octave
** TheSmartGuy: Baryl
** TheChick: Stella

* GasMaskMooks: The band's kidnappers are an army of identically-dressed gas mask-wearing humanoids. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since the mooks use knockout gas to subdue to band and audience.

* LuckyCharmsTitle
** Letters2Numbers: The '''5'''tory of the '''5'''ecret '''5'''tar '''5'''ystem

** Darkwood Manor looks an awful like [[{{Castlevania}} a certain vampire's castle.]]

* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The 3 soldiers watching the "One More Time" concert rather than paying attention to planetary defense.

* [[spoiler:BackupFromOtherworld]]: Shep saves the Crescendolls ship in hyperspace from [[spoiler:the evil spirit of Earl de Darkwood]].

** When "One More Time" climbs to #2 on the charts, #1 is "High Anxiety" by Mel "Bean" Brooks -- ''HighAnxiety'' being the title (as well as the title song) of an actual Creator/MelBrooks film.

** When "One More Time" climbs to #2 on the charts, #1 is "High Anxiety" by Mel "Bean" Brooks -- ''HighAnxiety'' being the title of an actual Creator/MelBrooks film.

'''''Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''''' is an anime-style visualization of the Music/DaftPunk album ''Discovery''. A group of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue-skinned]] extraterrestrial musicians are kidnapped, {{brainwashed}}, and altered, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mind]] and body, to be identical to ordinary humans. Under the control of their abductors, they become rock stars on Earth, playing their music and skyrocketing to massive fame. Can an alien pilot rescue the band, return their memories and get them home? Or will they be forced to play their part in the scheme of the evil, greedy Earl de Darkwood?

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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Baryl as an alien, but not as a human.

** Several shout outs to Leiji Matsumoto's works:

** When "One More Time" climbs to #2 on the charts, #1 is "High Anxiety" by Mel "Bean" Brooks -- ''HighAnxiety'' being the title of an actual MelBrooks film.
** The cyborgs' car is crushed by a truck, and when emerging from it, the damaged cyborg has a red eye behind sunglasses, like in ''{{Film/Terminator}}''.

* GasMaskMooks: The band's kidnappers are an army of identically-dressed gas mask-wearing humanoids.

* NightmareFuel: Just look at [[SlasherSmile Earl's]] [[http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/NSFS/2-1.jpg face]] when he gets the Award.

* OneWingedAngel Earl comes back from the dead as an EldericAbomination to thwart the Cresendolls' return to their planet.

* TokenBlack: Octave as a human. Justified because Alien!Octave has a FunnyAfro.