少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト 舞台奏像劇 遙かなるエルドラド Reviews

never thought I needed nanamahi until now. I need to go... I have a score to settle(with ao3)

Revue Starlight has undoubtedly changed me forever. El Dorado will stick with me for a long time;; words cannot describe how I felt watching it all go down, everything falling into place... an undeniably perfect sequel. Thank you, for everything. [i]We are but fools upon God's stage. But if these are our given roles, at least our actions are our own. We are mere humans, all of us, not gods. We cannot create a miracle simply by setting the stage! In the play that is my life, I decide. I am the sun that lights its own path forward—a person whose free will cannot be denied![/i]

its very sad that revue starlight el dorado doesnt tackle the central irony which is that the characters in the play are chasing after el dorado, yknow the fictional city european settlers foolishly searched for, and could never find because it doesn't exist. especially because i got to stew on it on each repeated scene through the routes the fact that they are textually searching for something that doesn't exist as their motivator could have been played up a lot more. im obviously not surprised they didn't handle the matter of having cristopher columbus as a character delicately (and the lack of self awareness clearly means my hopes and dreams would never be satisfied here). definitely felt like a letdown, even if i didnt expect that it would be able to match the peak that is the movie... they did start to pivot away from the whole "we have to be constantly revolutionising the self and working ourselves to death" message towards the end but very much not satisfied. perhaps i should have seen the writing on the wall from the ending of the anime... still a hearty recommend to anyone looking for more food of their faves (and i would be remiss to omit that i did tear up at the ending hehe) but it feels like they could have done better. i think that revstar is at its best when they're playing up the magical realism elements and the fact is they only really do it in a handful of scenes here and it feels very half-hearted in that the story very quickly goes from submerging itself in the Revues and rising again to 'reality.' it makes sense when you consider that the main conceit is seeing how the interpersonal dynamics work out when different girls take the lead roles, but it means we don't get bespoke Revues written for specific character dynamics. i am still glad we got to explore these new character dynamics, and if they had just given us one route with the casting in the trailer it's very possible it would have just felt like a run-back of the anime series' plot, but it just feels a little sad.