History Anime / Interstella5555

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

* AlliterativeTitle: With the sub-title NumbersToLetters 5-to-S, ''Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''

* BigBad: Earl de Darkwood is the main antagonist of the film.

->''Let's start the dancin'...''

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* 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, cathode ray tube televisions, and 78 RPM Longplay records.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: One connects The Crescendolls' galaxy to our moon. It's rhombus-shaped, looking like a white version of the PhantomZonePicture in [[Film/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.]]

''Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem'' is an anime-style visualization of the Music/DaftPunk album ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation. 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?

* AndYouWereThere: Though it's a rather subtle take on the trope.

* BoundAndGagged: What Octavio does to the janitor whose clothes he steals.

* MuggedForDisguise: Octavio steals a janitor's clothes when breaking into the record company.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: One connects The Crescendolls' galaxy to our moon. It's rhombus shaped, looking like a white version of the PhantomZonePicture in [[Film/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.]]

*** During the music award, Baryl's disguise includes Anime/CaptainHarlock's coat and hat, and his humanized character design resembles ''Captain Harlock's'' Tochiro.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Stella for Shep, as just moments after meeting him she has a very similar romantic daydream of the two of them, that Shep had of her, after touching his hand, [[spoiler: right before he dies from his wounds.]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Children in this film are often portrayed as sweet, WideEyedIdealist, dreamers, [[spoiler: particularly the one who dreamt up the entire movie.]]

* CelebrityParadox: Daft Punk appear cheering on the Crescendolls at an award ceremony and don't seem bothered that their songs were plagiarized.

** The Earl's spaceship, both through its looks and its ability to shape change, 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]]''.

* CelebrityParadox: Daft Punk appear cheering on the Crescendos at an award ceremony and don't seem bothered that their songs were plagiarized.

* SlasherSmile: [[https://i.imgur.com/sXq0z3V.png The Earl's face]] when he recieves his 5,555th Golden Record. [[spoiler:This award will allow him to take control of the universe, explaining this look.]]

''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?

%%* DisneyVillainDeath: See LoadBearingBoss below.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The dress Stella wears on her home planet has a heart-shaped CleavageWindow just above her breasts (i.e. in the usual place), a very thin division between the two halves of her bodice, and another also heart-shap[ed 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.