Every day I wake up and think about how irreversibly Arcana Arcadia has altered my brain chemistry. They did not have to go that hard for an arc exclusively in the mobile game and yet
recommending bandori its mygo to all of my friends who are into revue starlight and then recommending the revue starlight siegfeld juniors stories/plays to all of my friends who are into mygo. vicious cycle
The existence of Siegfeld jhs as specifically future stage girls is one of its most fascinating themes.
The central conflict that they all must overcome is finding the determination to become stage girls.
They have all in one way or another already failed. What awaits them now is to exit the stage, unless they can find the resolution to decide to keep standing on stage.
As future stage girls they face extinction, they lack brilliance, and are weighed heavy by their failures. However stage girls can always improve and be reborn. If they can make that step, find that courage, they can continue to stand on stage and can overcome it all.
Throughout all of Regalia we see their failures and struggles made apparent. Akira antagonizes and goads them. It is clearly spelled out that their life on the stage is going to end.
They lose in Revue Siegfeld. But ultimately by then it didn’t matter. Because all of them simply decided that they were willing to stand on stage. From there, a stage girl can do anything.
Elle’s farewell message makes it clear, “A revue is not once-in-a-lifetime. As long as you don’t give up, you will have as many chances as you want.”
Regalia is fascinating because it is a story focused on becoming stage girls rather than being stage girls. Especially because through the somewhat outside lens the many harmful aspects of performance and pressure are made abundantly clear as they are forced onto characters who are the youngest in the entire series.
Regalia does not pull punches. But ultimately the message is that those pressures can’t actually stop you. They are real, and harmful (as revue starlight shows extensively), but as long as you can accept that being a stage girl will mean facing them, and still choose to stand on stage that’s enough.
The only death to fear is before you are reborn. Simply resolving to be a stage girl is enough.
Translations referenced are by: https://spicyveggiesub.tumblr.com/
watched remains and felt compelled to meme the new heights of fucked up theatre drama revstar has reached with jhs which is really saying something in this franchise