History Anime / ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight

%%** ArcherArchetype: Junna is this.

%%** BladeOnAStick: Kaoruko uses a naginata.

** In the ''"Detective Karen on the Case"''event, Karen is forced into better understanding her role of Sherlock Holmes by being given an actual mystery to solve, that being to find who stole her precious umeboshi. Also applies to the girls in the roles of Lupin and Moriarty[[spoiler:(Yachiyo and Mahiru respectively)]], as it's them who collaborate to steal it and make it a mystery for Karen to solve, effectively putting them in their respective roles as well.

* SwappedRoles: In the ''Mafia Famiglia Crossfire'' event in ''-Re LIVE-'', a mix-up in the costume department causes all the girls' costumes' measurements to be incorrect. It was the measurements themselves were assigned to the wrong roles, so the costume that was supposed to be for Kaoruko fits Nana perfectly, the costume intended for Maya fits Kaoruko, and so forth. Interestingly, the roles they were going to play were ones that fit their characters to a tee, with Maya playing a powerful and strategic mafia boss, Kaoruko playing the dainty and sheltered mafia boss' daughter, and Nana playing the maid who would do anything to protect the daughter from harm. But because of the wardrobe mix-up and a limited timetable, the girls have no choice but to take on each other's roles at the last minute, with Maya as the dutiful maid, Nana as the daughter, and Kaoruko as the boss. They make it work, and they note that being put in roles that were unnatural for them helped expand their acting capabilities.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/BrittneyKarbowski voicing a character named Karen. [[LightNovel/Gamers2015 Hmm, sound familiar?]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Each character wields a different weapon for stage combat.
** ArcherArchetype: Junna is this.
** BladeOnAStick: Kaoruko uses a naginata.
** CarryABigStick: Mahiru wields a mace.
** CoolSword: Claudine uses a longsword, while Karen wields a cutlass.
** KatanasAreJustBetter: Nana wields not one of these, [[DualWielding but two]].
** RoyalRapier: Maya's weapon is this.
** WhipSword: Hikari wields a downplayed example, a dagger tied to a rope (a westernized ''kusari-gama''), though she can also use the dagger on its own.

** AnAxeToGrind: Futaba's weapon is this.

* {{Homage}}: Many scenes in the anime have visuals and thematic beats paying tribute to ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''; of particular note is how both series involve the characters having surreal one-on-one fights with each other that involve knocking something off the opponent's body. Considering director Tomohiro Furukawa worked with Creator/KunihikoIkuhara on two other anime series and is considered his protégé, it makes sense.

* {{Homage}}: Many scenes in the anime have visuals and thematic beats paying tribute to ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. Considering director Tomohiro Furukawa worked with Creator/KunihikoIkuhara on two other anime series and is considered his protégé, it makes sense.

* BreakingtheFellowship: [[spoiler: The main conflict of the second movie, as the girls participate in another round of revues to come to terms with their respective partners taking different paths after graduation.]]

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted; the class's wacky scheme to conceal Karen and Hikari's nighttime absence from the teacher appears to work, but when they get back the next morning, the teacher passes by on a bike and sentences everyone involved to a CoolAndUnusualPunishment known as "The Legendary Hazing", it's left to the audience's imagination [[NothingIsScarier exactly what it entails]], but Junna's discription of it doesn't paint a pritty picture.

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted; the class's wacky scheme to conceal Karen and Hikari's nighttime absence from the teacher appears to work, but when they get back the next morning, the teacher passes by on a bike and sentences everyone involved to a CoolAndUnusualPunishment known as "The Legendary Hazing", though it's left to the audience's imagination [[NothingIsScarier exactly what it entails]].

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted; the class's wacky scheme to conceal Karen and Hikari's nighttime absence from the teacher appears to work, but when they get back the next morning, the teacher passes by on a bike and sentences everyone involved to a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, though it's never revealed what it is.

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted; the class's wacky scheme to conceal Karen and Hikari's nighttime absence from the teacher appears to work, but when they get back the next morning, the teacher passes by on a bike and sentences everyone involved to a CoolAndUnusualPunishment.

Two movies have been announced. The first movie: ''Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Rondo・Rondo・Rondo'', which was released in Japanese theaters on August 7, 2020, is a feature-length recap of the anime's events told in [[PerspectiveFlip Nana's perspective]] with brand new scenes not shown in the original TV series. The second movie features a brand new story set during the 99th's third year in school and is currently scheduled for release on 2021.

* ContinuityNod: [[https://twitter.com/satohina1223/status/1150770556402143233 According to]] Creator/HinataSato, when coming up with the third tragedy of Junna's rant about class 2-A's "three great tragedies" (itself a reference to the "great tragedies of Creator/WilliamShakespeare", something Junna mentioned in the first musical) in ''#2 revival'', she took into consideration the anime and ''4-koma Starlight''. Satou changed up this particular line for every showing of ''#2 revival'', and while "half-twintails that don't suit me," used in the matinee on day 3, was presumably about one 4-koma gag of Junna putting her hair up for an audition, it also drew titters from viewers who knew of Satou's [[ActorAllusion other roles as twintailed characters]] Leah Kazuno in ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' and Alice in ''Stray Sheep Paradise''.

* SecretKeeper: The Auditions are not common knowledge, and known to only a small handful of students. The giraffe also threatens Karen with penalties if she were to tell anyone else about the auditions.

** The ED, ''Fly Me To The Star'', gets extra credit for the number of different versions it has. In each episode the same song is sung by different characters, either solo or as a duet, as each character gets focus on them in the plot.

* ShoutOut: The premise of the series is very heavily inspired by the Creator/TakarazukaRevue. More specifically, Seishou Music Academy is based on the real-life [[http://www.tms.ac.jp/english/ Takarazuka Music School]], right down to the similar uniforms. The military-esque uniforms the girls wear during stage combat are also typical of the kinds of costumes common in Takarazuka productions, and the dramatic direction of the "auditions" calls to mind the melodrama that characterizes Takarazuka productions. It's worth noting that Akiko Kodama, who currently directs the Revue Starlight stage musicals, was part of the Takarazuka Revue for almost a decade.

* AdaptedOut: The teachers from the stage play: Class A's meek adviser Tsuruko-sensei, Class B's stern adviser Karasuma-sensei, and the imposing Seisho headmaster Souda-sensei are all missing in the anime version and are instead replaced by Class A's adviser, Urara-sensei (though Class B's adviser has yet to be seen) and the Giraffe, both of whom are composites of all three characters. Subverted with the Korosu from the stageplay as while they're absent in the anime, they show up in the game as enemy units the girls have to fight against.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Because the anime adaptation is a LighterAndSofter take on the story, nearly all the girls, with [[NiceGirl Karen]] being the sole exception, are considerably nicer to each other in the anime unlike their more aggressive stage play counterparts. In the stage play version, their rivalry with each other is borderline hostile enough that they mostly don't consider each other as friends and their revue auditions are comparatively more aggressively intense as a result. In the anime, their rivalry is friendlier, and while still intense, their revue auditions are much less hostile as a result.

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

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Kaoruko is interrogating Mahiru on [[SchoolgirlLesbians her feelings towards Karen]] in the bath, she holds a rubber duck between her fingers and makes it ''squirt water''.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Ee-yup. Mahiru's character is largely built on her having a massive, blatant crush on Karen, and the prequel manga all but explicitly states Futaba and Kaoruko are dating.

* {{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.]] This only applies to the English translation, as the Korean and Traditional Chinese translations are not edited like this.