time to once again watch the greatest fight scene in cinematic history
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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:
hi! person who's entirely unfamiliar with the source material here - this is cool as shit without being entirely over the top, and i appreciate that, but also what's going on? why's everyone acting like this Nana is pulling a "suspiciously out of character"-class face-heel turn? i like that the blood is a stage effect that's fun but is this all, like, entirely performance? is that why she only cuts the cloaks' clasps?
It's all entirely performance and it's all entirely not! The plot of Revue Starlight is about theater nerds fighting in a combat/musical tournament (called "the audition") to get a magic wish, so it spends a lot of time dancing between entirely metaphorical and entirely literal. The cutting of the cloak clasps is how fights are determined in the audition: a metaphorical kill for a metaphysical fight.
Daiba Nana is an interesting character! She's got an incredibly sweet exterior but is undeniably the most hardcore person in the cast, for Extremely Complicated Lore Reasons. Everyone likes her but also she's a completely broken person in a cast of completely broken people. The line that Nana keeps saying -- "this is not an audition" -- is a reference to the fact that this is a fight without rules or stakes, entirely for the satisfaction of the audience (literally us; this is from the movie epilogue, which exists exclusively because fans wanted more after the show had reached its ending).
revue starlight good
i see! that... sounds really cool, actually. like that's some of the most badass reasoning to get meta about it. might have to check all this out
Revue Starlight kicks ass, it's an incredible time start to finish and I think the movie is a great capstone for it.
Well, now I have a series to catch up on after catching back up on gundam witch