this time it’s my favourite starlight kukugumi songs yippie!!!!
a few notes on exclusions before we start;
i’m not including covers (even though i REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to put bara wa utsukushiku chiru here 💔)
i’m not including stage play songs
i’m not including any of the la revue eternal or arcana arcadia songs, the ranking this time around is solely for the girls of starlight kukugumi!! there may…eventually…be one with every song (if i can get my gremlin hands on all the stage play songs…) but that probs won’t be for a while
i’m not including any variations of songs (i.e. the different fmtts versions, the different polestar versions, etc.)
as an add-on to the above point, the rondo3 songs are kind of an exception; i’m only including the songs that are changed enough from the original versions to be counted as a “standalone”, those of which being the star knows -another-, koi no makyuu 7kai ura, yoi hanasaka uta, re:create movie version, and star diamond movie version
i’m not including star darling because the full version isn’t released yet (i’m waiting…so patient…)
i’m not including explanations for why each song is at the spot it’s at bc then it would take me ten trillion billion million years longer to make this
okay enough disclaimer, let the revue begin
60. Hoshitsumi no Uta
59. Green Dazzling Light
58. Butai Preparation
57. Lesson na Week!!
56. Butai Shoujo Kokoroe Makuai
55. RE:CREATE - Movie Version
54. Starlight Theater
53. Yoi Hanasaka Uta
52. Seishun Traveler
51. Jounetsu no Mezameru Toki
50. Fly Me to the Star
49. Negai wa Hikari ni Natte
48. My friend ~Arrie~
47. Discovery!
46. Butai Shoujo Taisou
45. Koi no Makyuu (7kai Ura)
44. Pen:Chikara:Katana
43. Butaiura no Revue
42. RE:CREATE
41. 99 ILLUSION!
40. Hoshiboshi no Kizuna
39. Hyakuiro Remain
38. Star Diamond - Movie Version
37. Caramelized Finale
36. Sekai wo Hai ni Suru Made
35. MEDAL SUZDAL PANIC◎〇●
34. Yoroshiku Kukugumi
33. -Star Divine- Finale
32. Saisei Sanbikyoku
31. Koi no Makyuu
30. Hoshi no Dialogue
29. Fancy You
28. Hanasaka Uta
27. Watashitachi wa Mou Butai no Ue
26. Starlight
25. Polestar
24. Butai Shoujo Kokoroe
23. Dream of You
22. Super Star Spectacle
21. The Star Knows -Another-
20. The Star Knows
19. Hokori to Ogori
18. Koi wa Taiyou ~CIRCUS!~
17. Kirameki no Ari ka
16. Suteki na Dress Kisasete yo
15. Bright!Light!
14. Romantic Cruisin’
13. Star Diamond
12. Star Parade
11. Wagamama Highway
10. Star Divine
9. wi(l)d-screen baroque
8. Yakusoku Tower
7. Utsukushiki Hito Arui wa Sore wa
6. Junjou Unclassified
5. Circle of the Revue
4. GANG☆STAR
3. Saikai Aizu
2. You are a ghost, I am a ghost, ~Gekijou no Ghost~
1. Kiraboshi Distance
honourable mentions!!!!!! (this is where i can put ones from the excluded songs hehe)
—Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru
—Tear
—Gyoshite Gyoshaza (NanaKuro Version)
—Polestar (MayaKuro Version)
—Fly Me to the Star - No. 10 (the mayakuro version)
—Hokori to Ogori - Movie Version
—Hoshiboshi no Kizuna - Movie Version
—Starlight - Movie Version
—Star Darling (it’s for sure gonna be in the top 5 once the full version releases)
this was actually kinda hard lol, why did i do all this bye…
so y’know in the revue of souls, the moment when maya lost and was looking at claudine in the picture frame?
the first time i watched the movie, i thought that the burning cross as it fell into the abyss symbolised that they were going to hell bc some people believe/claim that gay people are going to hell, and maya saying claudine is beautiful was an admission of her feelings and therefore they are homos… 😭😭😭 i’m so sorry for completely missing the mark in that moment
i watched revue starlight for the umpteenth time and decided to collect some of my favourite moments because they’re just so silly (this is in no particular order btw)
1. when futaba knew kaoruko was about to do some bullshit
2. i like how this part made a small appearance in the movie during the revue of souls
3. any close-up angle of the giraffe is so funny for some reason
4. one of my favourite things in anime is when there’s a wide shot of a scene and the characters are drawn tiny with minimal details. like look at them, there’s not a single thought in any of their heads.
5. karen mimicking kaoruko’s eyebrows being ripped off
6. when karen and mahiru crashed their revue
7. as a fellow glasses-wearer, i understand the pain of the lenses getting foggy from steaming food
8. claudine when kaoruko says she's going back to kyoto because she's petty
9. I LOVE MAYA!!! LOOK AT HOW HAPPY SHE IS!!!!!!
10. everyone's reactions to futaba moving in with claudine
11. this whole scene was so funny, but i will never not laugh at the way futaba and kaoruko sneak to the door
12. i have never wanted to be karen more than in this moment
okay that's all of them for now, if i find more then i’ll add them later lol
so we all know the end credits for revue starlight, fly me to the star, and how it usually relates to the characters that were the focus of the episode
and i noticed, with the duos, the colours of the spotlights in the last part of the credits
all of them shine the assigned colours on the respective stage girls…
EXCEPT for maya and claudine, where they have the other girl’s colour instead of their own
My second favorite ship dynamic is "requited but they're both fucking idiots" my favorite, though, is "Requited, but one of them (let's call them a made up name, like 'Claudine Saijo' for example) is a fucking contrarían idiot that refuses to take the desperate flirting of the other at face value"