History Anime / Interstella5555

* AbsoluteCleavage: The dress Stella wears on her home planet has a CleavageWindow just above her breasts (i.e. in the usual place), a very thin division between the two halves of her bodice, and another cutout several inches below the waist. The effect is oddly innocent -- similar to a midriff-baring top -- but just try to pitch that design to anyone on Earth.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Well, singing English, without any explanation or justification. Then again, there's no actual dialog for the entire movie, so....

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Baryl the drummer seems to have a rough streak. While the other Crescendoll's memories while they were being rewritten were standard childhood fair like riding bikes, Baryl was being held back after knocking another kid to the ground.

* {{Bishonen}}: Shep, Octave and Arpegius are all slim and toned, with soft, handsome features. In his alien form, Arpegius is so pretty that he's nearly identical to Stella.

** The Earl's spaceship is quite impressive too, and can change its appearance for camouflage purpose.

** Earth; all of the Crescendolls' fans hear great music, and have no idea about the brainwashing.

* FailedASpotCheck: One of the security guards in "Short Circuit" somehow doesn't notice that the janitor's uniform Octave is wearing is several sizes to small.

** Several allusions to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' with Shep's space walk and the psychedelic wormhole. ''Discovery'' was released in 2001.
** The Earl's spaceship, both through its looks and its ability to shapechange, is very similar to the protagonist's spaceship from the French graphic novel ''[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Vagabond_des_Limbes Le Vagabond des Limbes]]''.

* FailedASpotCheck: One of the security guards in "Short Circuit" somehow didn't notice that the janitor's uniform Octave was wearing was several sizes to small

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

* MrFanservice: Arpegius; Shep; Octave

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Earl de Darkwood

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Before the Crescendolls, Earl de Darkwood's previous victims were famous musicians who look an ''awful lot'' like Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, Music/JimiHendrix, Ella Fitzgerald, Music/JanisJoplin and Jimmy Page.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The story implies that [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]], Music/EllaFitzgerald, and Music/JanisJoplin among others were previous alien victims of the BigBad.

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

* FreezeFrameBonus: Near the end of “Crescendolls,” the covers of the Monthly Charts (seen briefly before each chart position of “One More Time”) show issues labelled September, October, and November. It took at least three months for the Crescendolls to become famous and for Shep to find them.

*** During the music award, Baryl's disguise includes Anime/CaptainHarlock's coat and hat.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The story implies that [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]], Ella Fitzgerald, and Music/JanisJoplin among others were previous alien victims of the BigBad.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: One connects The Crescendolls' galaxy to our moon. It's rhombus shaped, looking like a white version of the PhantomZonePicture in [[SupermanTheMovie the Superman movies]]. The interior is an AcidTripDimension full of large objects that can damage spaceships. Both ends disappear after [[spoiler: The Cresendolls use it to get home at the end of the movie.]]

* JukeboxMusical: Sort of.

* MaleGaze: Stella gets tons of it; her first <script id="gpt-impl-0.06841631676070392" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gpt/pubads_impl_82.js"></script>close-up is of her backside. And again in the finale, the camera lingers on her rump for several seconds before panning out.

* MaleGaze: Stella gets tons of it; her first close-up is of her backside. And again in the finale, the camera lingers on her rump for several seconds before panning out.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Interstella5555: One connects The Crescendolls' galaxy to our moon.  It's rhombus shaped, looking like a white version of the PhantomZonePicture in [[SupermanTheMovie the Superman movies]]. The interior is an AcidTripDimension full of large objects that can damage spaceships. Both ends disappear after [[spoiler: The Cresendolls use it to get home at the end of the movie.]]

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: The characters travel between their galaxy and the Milky Way by means of a warp of some kind.

*** The hand-on-heart salute of the alien is similar to the one in ''Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato''.

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

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

* BrokenMasquarade: [[spoiler:Not only did everyone learn the Crescendolls are aliens, but became aware of Darkwood's secrets.]]

* [[spoiler: BrokenMasquarade: Not only did everyone learn the Crescendolls are aliens, but became aware of Darkwood's secrets.]]

'''''Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''''' is an anime-style visualization of the Music/DaftPunk album ''Music/{{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?

!!''Interstella 5555'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AbsoluteCleavage: The dress Stella wears on her home planet has a CleavageWindow just above her breasts (ie; in the usual place), a very thin division between the two halves of her bodice, and another cutout several inches below the waist. The effect is oddly innocent -- similar to a midriff-baring top -- but just try to pitch that design to anyone on Earth.

* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens Singing English]]: Without any explanation or justification. Then again, there's no actual dialog for the entire movie, so...

* [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Beethoven Was an Alien Musician]]: The story implies that {{Mozart}}, Ella Fitzgerald, and Music/JanisJoplin among others were previous alien victims of the BigBad.

* [[BitingTheHandkerchief Biting the Hat]]: Baryl when [[spoiler:Shep is dying]].
* {{Brainwashed}}

* CarChase
* CatGirl: The true form of the alien that got turned into Janis Joplin.

* DisneyVillainDeath: See LoadBearingBoss below.

* [[ETGaveUsWiFi E.T. Gave Us Music]]

* HerHeartWillGoOn
* HeroicSacrifice
* HollywoodCyborg

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

* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon

* [[NoDialogueEpisode No Dialogue Movie]]

* RockOpera

'''''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?

''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?

* DescendedCreator: Music/DaftPunk themselves appear in the film.