History Anime / Interstella5555

* 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''.

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

* CoolShades: Subverted; they're part of the brainwashing process (that's why they're ''screwed into place''). If they break, it wears off.

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Singing English]]: Without any explanation or justification.

* {{Cosplay}}: In one scene during "Crescendolls", you can see two little kids dressed up as Octave and Stella. Shortly afterwards a kid dressed like Arpegius gets an autograph from the man himself.

* CleavageWindow: Stella's alien dress has one.

** The Crescendolls are [[BlueManGroup a group of blue-skinned musicians]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: The music and action, awesome as they may be, rarely have much to do with one another. Particularly unsettling when a rather upbeat tune plays during the [[spoiler:burial scene]] about midway through the movie.
** Then again it is an anime movie. Anime has always had a talent for misdirection when it comes to their soundtracks. You hear a goofy song in say the opening of ''Manga/DragonBall'' or ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', you would expect comedy to ensue. However when watching the show you wouldn't believe it being the same franchise in which that goofy song opened.

** The Creschendolls are [[BlueManGroup a group of blue-skinned musicians]].

* ShowgirlSkirt: The dress Stella wears to the awards show does go all the way around the waist, but the front is a lot shorter than the back, to invoke this trope.

* ShowgirlSkirt: The fancy dress Stella wears to watch the fashion show.

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

* AncientConspiracy: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:the whole Earl de Darkwood business 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.]]

** The true form of the alien who got turned into Jimmy Page looks like a [[StarTrekTNG Ferengi]].

** Darkwood Manor looks an awful like [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} a certain vampire's castle.]]
** The music in that segment wouldn't be out of place in one of those games either.

* SurveillanceStationSlacker: The three soldiers watching the "One More Time" concert rather than paying attention to planetary defense.
** The Record Company guards are too buisy watching a soccer game to notice that [[spoiler: Octave has broken in.]]

* SchizoTech: The Earl has FasterThanLightTravel, a starship that can disguise itself as a 747 jumbo-jet, and various machines that can alter a person's appearance and memories. He's had some of these since the mid-1700s, and by the time the story takes place, people are still using video cassettes and 75 RPM Longplay records.

* StealthPun: The Creschendolls are [[BlueManGroup a group of blue-skinned musicians]].

* The Record Company guards are too buisy watching a soccer game to notice that [[spoiler: Octave has broken in.]]

* SchizoTech: The Earl has FasterThanLightTravel, a starship that can disguise itself as a 747 jumbo-jet, and various machines that can alter a person's appearance and memories. He's had some of these since the mid 1700's, and by the time the story takes place, people are still using videocassettes and 75 RPM Longplay records.

* [[NoDialogEpisode No Dialog Movie]]

* [[NoDialougeEpisode No Dialouge Movie]]

* Cult: The Earl appears to be running one.

* SchizoTech: The Earl has FasterThanLightTravel, a starship that can disguise itself as a 747 jumbo-jet, and various machines that can alter a person't appearance and memories. He's had some of these since the mid 1700's, and by the time the story takes place, people are still using videocassettes and 75 RPM Longplay records.