History Anime / ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Unexpectedly, the Worldwide server had one important conversation edited and changed for unknown reasons. [[spoiler: Aruru found Shizuha cutting herself, asking her why during the Arcana Arcadia Main Story, as Shizuha was having trouble with the 'Judgement' role she is playing.]]

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: In Japanese, Karen's name is meant to be pronounced as "Kah-ren" (with the "a" sound being like how "father" would be pronounced in English), but the English dub instead pronounces her name as it typically is in most English-speaking countries (with the "a" sound being pronounced like "air"). While the name "Karen" is one that can be found in several different cultures, it's still a bit odd.

* AbortedArc: Despite having a live concert revolving around it, the ''Starry Diamond Revue'' story arc in the ''-Re LIVE-'' mobile game is this, as out of the six songs, only the ''Sirius'' and ''Orion'' Revues got full event stories and playable units featuring all the characters involved in those Revues. ''Gemini'', ''Auriga'', ''Taurus'', and ''Procyon'' weren't as lucky as they only have ''1 card each'' attached to their respective Revues before the game abruptly stopped releasing content related to Starry Diamond. What's worse is that only the events of the ''Gemini'' and ''Sirius'' Revues are referenced in later event stories outside of the characters' Bond Stories, while the rest don't get so much of a mention or a hint of acknowledgement after all is said and done.

* AbortedArc: The Starry Diamond Revues seems to be this, as the game only released full event story for the Sirius Revue and the Orion Revue. The other 3 Revues only had 1 card attached to them before the game abruptly stopped releasing content related to Starry Diamonnd.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:In the finale, the Giraffe turns to the "camera" and addresses the audience directly. Not the audience of the revue, the audience of the ''show''. He theorizes that performances such as Karen's and Hikari's exist because audiences such as the ''viewer'' wish to see them. He implicitly blames audiences for the tragedies that appear to be unfolding, directly discussing the entire show's theme about how cutthroat and competitive the musical theater industry is in Japan - ultimately building greater spectacles on the crushed hopes and dashed dreams of those talented individuals who still come up just a little short.]]

* ChildhoodFriends: Karen and Hikari are this. Futaba and Kaoruko also have this relationship. Aruru and Misora from Frontier in the game are also this.

** Perhaps due to their school's America motif, all of the Frontier kids [[spoiler:including Elle]] have at least a word or two in their revue introductions.

** In the English localization, Akira will occasionally be referred to with he/him pronouns.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sweet ''Mahiru'' ends up giving Karen a run for her money during their audition duel, all the while saying that she has no talent, confident or radiance. This applies to ''-Re LIVE-'' too. Michiru presents herself as the most approachable of all the Edels but has quite the tactical mind and a respectable streak of ruthlessness. Tamao is probably one of the nicest, if not the nicest, character in the game, but by Arcana Arcadia, she becomes impressive enough to garner the attention of Akira and Kaoruko, both of whom had previously looked down on her.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Subtly implied with Nana, who despite appearing less proactive towards revue than her classmates, is ranked third in the class. [[spoiler:Not to mention that, throughout the GroundhogDayLoop, she was skilled enough to become Top Star ''every single time'' before Hikari came along.]]

** In episode 11, Hikari disappears for months and nobody seems to know where she has gone or how she can be contacted. Episode 12 reveals that [[spoiler: Hikari was trapped in the underground theater, endlessly repeating a one-person reenactment of the tale of ''Starlight'']].

* ShownTheirWork: The writers are clearly well-versed in the field of Japanese revue, with [[https://twitter.com/andrearitsu/status/1018943007922507776 several subtle nods]] to the field that might be missed by a casual viewer.

** [[spoiler: The new Main Story released for the JP server's 2nd annivesary is titled Arcana Arcadia, referencing tarots. A new card set also titled Arcana Arcadia was released in conjunction, starting with "The Hermit' played by Mahiru.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Mahiru delivers one to Karen during their duel, calling her out for spending so much time with Hikari.

** The 'Wartime of Farewell, Rerun' event is a second performance for the in-universe play. The event story expands on plot points mentioned in the related card set and had few scenes altered.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Hikari comes across as this when she meets Karen for the first time since they were children, though it is hinted that her aloof nature is an act.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite the characters all vying with each other to be Top Star, and their not too pleasant interactions with each other at times, they all band together to try and keep Karen and Hikari from getting into trouble after both girls miss the school curfew and don't return for the night. When the two girls do return in the morning, the rest of the class is there to greet them and welcome them back.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sweet ''Mahiru'' ends up giving Karen a run for her money during their audition duel, all the while saying that she has no talent, confident or radiance.

* BoardingSchool: Seisho Music Academy is this, with a few of the characters being roommates. The other three schools introduced in ''RE:Live'' are also this as well.

** Lalafin from ''Re:LIVE'' is Half-German, Half-Japanese.

* CoatCape: As seen in the page image, the characters all wear this as part of their revue costumes. Stage combat in the series is won by the victor managing to dislodge the loser's coat. The girls from Siegfield in the mobile game wear coats like this as well.

* ShesAManInJapan: "A Wartime of Farewells", one of the plays in ''-Re LIVE-'', is about knights on two opposing sides of a war. The English translation has characters refer to roles in the play by male pronouns, which posed little issue at launch even if considering [[CrosscastRole Seishou is an all-girls school]]. However, Chapter 7 of the Main Story, released for the Japanese server eight or so months after launch, revealed names of some knights... obviously ''female'' names like "Mariavera", "Claudia", and "Katalina".

** "A Wartime of Farewells", the play alluded to in the Seishou students' higher-rarity cards at launch, [[ChekhovsGun becomes relevant again in Chapter 7 of the Main Story]], when most players would either have seen characters from the set on gacha banners or pulled them and therefore have some knowledge of its story.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Whether the revues do involve actual fighting or not, the hypercompetitive environment these characters are in is not doing them any favors mental health-wise, with consequences ranging from working to a self-harming degree (Junna in Episode 2 of the anime and [[spoiler:Shizuha]]) to inferiority complexes (Fumi and Misora, just to name a few) and more. That's not even counting outside circumstances, such as the pressure Kaoruko has had on her since birth to take over her family's dance school or [[spoiler:Aruru's baggage over being left at an orphanage when she was a baby with no knowledge of her birth parents]]. However, there's no sign that any of them have mental health support.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Whether the revues do involve actual fighting or not, the hypercompetitive environment these characters are in is not doing them any favors mental health-wise, with consequences ranging from working to a self-harming degree (Junna in Episode 2 of the anime and [[spoiler:Shizuha]]) to inferiority complexes (Fumi and Misora, just to name a few) and more. That's not even counting outside circumstances, such as the pressure Kaoruko has had on her since birth to take over her family's dance school or [[spoiler:Aruru's baggage over being abandoned at an orphanage with no knowledge of her birth parents]]. However, there's no sign that any of them have mental health support.

* RealityEnsues: To cover for Karen and Hikari when they miss the school curfew, the girls think of a ruse that mostly relies on the teacher looking in the right direction in the right time and failing to see through Claudine's obvious acting. It seems to have worked, but as the teacher casually informs them the next morning, it didn't.

%%Note: Use ''-Re LIVE-'' when pertaining to the game for consistensy in naming format.

A mobile game titled ''Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight -RE Live-'' was released in Japan on October 22nd 2018, while the global version was released on April 22nd, 2019. ''Shoujo☆Conte All Starlight'', a series of animated shorts, premiered in July 2019. Episodes are first made available to ''-RE Live-'' players within the game app, then uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpcs9GP_NIBxzDfNTWolNPw official YouTube channel]] and are free to view for 2 weeks.

* TheAce: Maya and Claudine excel in all areas of revue. The former is the daughter of a famous actor, while the latter has been acting since childhood. Akira and Shizuha from ''-RE Live-'' as well as Koharu from the second stage play are also their own schools' respective top students.

** Seisho's Christmas event in ''-RE Live-'' is a perspective-flipped retelling of the ''Overture'' manga's Christmas story in its final chapter, detailing what the rest of the 99th were up to while Hikari was out preparing her Christmas surprise for them.

* AlternateContinuity: At first glance, the stage plays and the anime may initially share certain plot and character elements, but ultimately are this to each other due to the differing plot points and character relationships in each medium. The ''Overture'' prequel manga and the ''-RE Live-'' mobile game both follow the anime's storyline while ignoring or contradicting the plays' events, while the second stage play continues where the first stage play left off and incorporates characterization from the anime at some parts. Curiously, the pamphlet of ''#2 revival'' suggests that [[CanonWelding some of the events in the anime (or at least, events that happened similarly but may not have played out exactly the same way due to said plot contradictions between both mediums) also took place in the stage plays' continuity]], such as stating, "[Claudine and Maya] teamed up on the final day of the auditions".

* CanonWelding: The franchise seems to be doing this lately by welding the canon of the stageplays with the mobile game, ReLIVE.

** Mahiru and Karen happily reminisce the day they first met each other during ''-RE Live-'s'' first Christmas event, the story of which was given more detail in the first chapter of the prequel manga, ''Overture''.
** "The Ghost in the Theater" play the 99th (sans Hikari who had yet to transfer at that point) did during their training camp in their first year as detailed in the ''Overture'' prequel manga ends up [[ChekhovsGun becoming important]] in the 7th Chapter of ''-RE Live-'s'' Main Story as it winds up being the one crucial piece Claudine needed [[spoiler: to fully remember the disappeared Maya.]]

** With ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' in ''-RE Live-'' in a collaboration event, where the girls of Poppin' Party get to meet the five main characters of ''-RE Live-'' and help them for a special play involving bands.

* EldritchAbomination: The [[TheHeartless Korosu]] are dark, oddly shaped creatures who exist to feed on stories from around the world and wipe them off from existence completely unless they're defeated in stage combat. Though their exact purpose and origins are completely different between the stageplays and ''[=ReLIVE=]'s'' iterations, their inhuman nature stays the same.

* HowWeGotHere: The main story of the mobile game ''-RE Live-'' opens with Karen and Hikari clashing against Siegfeld's Akira Yukishiro and Michiru Otori in a dual revue overseen by the Giraffe. The rest of the game's story then shows the circumstances that led to these new round of Auditions against the new schools in the first place.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: In the ReLIVE mobile game, some cards will give the stage girls things that match the theme that they will wield as their weapons such as Cheerleader Yachiyo using pompoms as her crossbow, Yuyuko throwing christmas bells instead of kunais in her Oyuyu card and writing brushes in her Magician card.

** Nana runs the risk of it in ''-RE Live-'', admitting that in the course of writing her adaptation of Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, she found herself over-empathizing with the Phantom.

* ShesAManInJapan: "A Wartime of Farewells", one of the plays in ''-RE Live-'', is about knights on two opposing sides of a war. The English translation has characters refer to roles in the play by male pronouns, which posed little issue at launch even if considering [[CrosscastRole Seishou is an all-girls school]]. However, Chapter 7 of the Main Story, released for the Japanese server eight or so months after launch, revealed names of some knights... obviously ''female'' names like "Mariavera", "Claudia", and "Katalina".

* ShowWithinAShow: The in-universe play ''Starlight'' is the main focus of the anime and stage plays. ''-RE Live-'' also features productions of several shows by the various schools, some of which are original works, and some of which are references to well-known fictional works, usually in conjunction with the gacha release of characters in their stage costumes.

** "Elysion" and "Captain Twins" feature in the storylines of Siegfeld and Frontier respectively, and the Rinmeikan production "Ghost Patrol Story" is featured in various Memoir cards. Variants of characters from these schools wearing their stage costumes are permanently in the ''-RE Live-'' paid gacha pool.

* SiblingYinYang: The Yumeoji Sisters from ''-RE Live-'' have polar opposite personalities. Whereas Fumi is more temperamental and blunt, Shiori tends to be more soft-spoken and meek compared to her older sister.

** In the 7th chapter of ''-RE Live-'s'' Main Story event, [[spoiler: Maya seemingly gets erased from existence with none of her classmates from the 99th remembering anything about her.]]

A mobile game titled ''Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight -RE Live-'' was released in Japan on October 22nd 2018, while the global version was released on April 22nd, 2019. ''Shoujo☆Conte All Starlight'', a series of animated shorts, premiered in July 2019. Episodes are first made available to ''RE Live'' players within the game app, then uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpcs9GP_NIBxzDfNTWolNPw official YouTube channel]] and are free to view for 2 weeks.

* TheAce: Maya and Claudine excel in all areas of revue. The former is the daughter of a famous actor, while the latter has been acting since childhood. Akira and Shizuha from ''Re LIVE'' as well as Koharu from the second stage play are also their own schools' respective top students.

** Seisho's Christmas event in ''Re Live'' is a perspective-flipped retelling of the ''Overture'' manga's Christmas story in its final chapter, detailing what the rest of the 99th were up to while Hikari was out preparing her Christmas surprise for them.

* AlternateContinuity: At first glance, the stage plays and the anime may initially share certain plot and character elements, but ultimately are this to each other due to the differing plot points and character relationships in each medium. The ''Overture'' prequel manga and the ''RE Live'' mobile game both follow the anime's storyline while ignoring or contradicting the plays' events, while the second stage play continues where the first stage play left off and incorporates characterization from the anime at some parts. Curiously, the pamphlet of ''#2 revival'' suggests that [[CanonWelding some of the events in the anime (or at least, events that happened similarly but may not have played out exactly the same way due to said plot contradictions between both mediums) also took place in the stage plays' continuity]], such as stating, "[Claudine and Maya] teamed up on the final day of the auditions".

* Bowdlerize: Unexpectedly, the Worldwide server had one important conversation edited and changed for unknown reasons. [[spoiler: Aruru found Shizuha cutting herself, asking her why during the Arcana Arcadia Main Story, as Shizuha was having trouble with the 'Judgement' role she is playing.]]

** Mahiru and Karen happily reminisce the day they first met each other during ''Re LIVE's'' first Christmas event, the story of which was given more detail in the first chapter of the prequel manga, ''Overture''.
** "The Ghost in the Theater" play the 99th (sans Hikari who had yet to transfer at that point) did during their training camp in their first year as detailed in the ''Overture'' prequel manga ends up [[ChekhovsGun becoming important]] in the 7th Chapter of ''Re LIVE's'' Main Story as it winds up being the one crucial piece Claudine needed [[spoiler: to fully remember the disappeared Maya.]]

** With ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' in ''Re LIVE'' in a collaboration event, where the girls of Poppin' Party get to meet the five main characters of ''Re LIVE'' and help them for a special play involving bands.

* HowWeGotHere: The main story of the mobile game ''Re LIVE'' opens with Karen and Hikari clashing against Siegfeld's Akira Yukishiro and Michiru Otori in a dual revue overseen by the Giraffe. The rest of the game's story then shows the circumstances that led to these new round of Auditions against the new schools in the first place.

** Nana runs the risk of it in ''Re LIVE'', admitting that in the course of writing her adaptation of Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, she found herself over-empathizing with the Phantom.

* ShesAManInJapan: "A Wartime of Farewells", one of the plays in ''Re LIVE'', is about knights on two opposing sides of a war. The English translation has characters refer to roles in the play by male pronouns, which posed little issue at launch even if considering [[CrosscastRole Seishou is an all-girls school]]. However, Chapter 7 of the Main Story, released for the Japanese server eight or so months after launch, revealed names of some knights... obviously ''female'' names like "Mariavera", "Claudia", and "Katalina".

* ShowWithinAShow: The in-universe play ''Starlight'' is the main focus of the anime and stage plays. ''Re LIVE'' also features productions of several shows by the various schools, some of which are original works, and some of which are references to well-known fictional works, usually in conjunction with the gacha release of characters in their stage costumes.

** "Elysion" and "Captain Twins" feature in the storylines of Siegfeld and Frontier respectively, and the Rinmeikan production "Ghost Patrol Story" is featured in various Memoir cards. Variants of characters from these schools wearing their stage costumes are permanently in the ''Re LIVE'' paid gacha pool.

* SiblingYinYang: The Yumeoji Sisters from ''Re Live'' have polar opposite personalities. Whereas Fumi is more temperamental and blunt, Shiori tends to be more soft-spoken and meek compared to her older sister.

** In the 7th chapter of ''Re LIVE's'' Main Story event, [[spoiler: Maya seemingly gets erased from existence with none of her classmates from the 99th remembering anything about her.]]

** With ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' in a 2021 collaboration event, featuring Tsubasa Kazanari and Maria Cadenzavna Eve. There's also a ''Fushichou no Flamme'' (Tsubasa and Maria's first duet) covered by Maya and Claudine.

* YouJustRuinedTheShot: Karen's BigDamnHeroes moment to "save" Hikari after Junna [[PinnedToTheWall pins her to a stage fixture]] is met with disdain from both of them, as Karen interfered with the revue the other two girls were participating in.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Claudine wears a Type A with her school uniform.

* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler: Hikari's reason for taking part in the auditions is to pull one of these off to prevent Karen from having her brilliance stolen. Her plan is to become Top Star but refuse the wish that came with it so the brilliance of the losers wouldn't be taken.]]

* EldritchAbomination: The [[TheHeartless Korosu]] are dark, oddly shaped creatures who exist to feed on stories from around the world and wipe them off from existence completely unless they're defeated in stage combat. Though their exact purpose and origins are completely different between the stageplays and ''Re LIVE's'' iterations, their inhuman nature stays the same.

* TarotMotifs: Stars and a Tower (right next to each other in Major Arcana numbering) figure prominently in both the play "Starlight" and Hikari and Kagura's story.