Dated 10 August 2023: Here we go again (Umimi 2023)
Oh my God, The Million Live! anime really happening.
Dated 10 August 2022: Here we go again (Umimi 2022)
The Million Live! anime sure is taking its sweet time.
Dated 10 August 2021: Here we go again (Umimi 2021)
It's already been five years.
Dated 10 August 2020: Here we go again (Umimi 2020)
Close enough, eh.
Dated 10 August 2019: Here we go again (Umimi 2019)
Well, it's been another year.
Dated 10 August 2018: Here we go again (Umimi 2018)
Okay, this is getting out of hand.
Dated 6 August 2018: This is Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight
This was a blatant effort to encourage anime tourism.
I starting watching Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight thinking it was going to be an idol anime that would contrast nicely when watched back-to-back with Ongaku Shoujo. Yeah, that turned out to be wrong. It's not an "idol anime" at all, or at least it's less so an idol anime than it is a "wack ass giraffe fight club" anime, as I've seen it characterized on the IRC. To tell you the truth, I'm not entirely sure what to call it.
Très bien!
Not that there's any compelling need to slot Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight into some sort of category. All the really matters to me is that the audition portion of the first episode blew my mind. The fact that we got three straight episodes of "auditions" is rather astounding, although I don't imagine this is something we can reasonably expect an animation studio to keep up week after week. I'm calling them auditions, but you should bear in mind that these segments in Revue Starlight are auditions the way tank battles in GIRLS und PANZER are school sports.
I'm looking forward to these two becoming bitter rivals.
Naturally, since Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight is about nine girls vying for the top spot, I've already picked sides and chosen favorites. There is also some expectation that various pairs will be forced to turn on each other as the competition heats up (it is right there in the OP, okay), but at least we're not likely to see loved ones dematerialize into green sparkles. I mean, they do still need people to put on the show.
Junna here setting totally unrealistic bed head expectations.
After four episodes, Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight holds the top position in my Summer 2018 anime rankings, ahead of even Hanebado! even though Hanebado! has a lot more bitches being bitches. Naturally, I like the Revue Starlight supporting characters more than the leads, but that's pretty much how these sort of things go for me. In fact, I don't see anyone displacing the current top four, incidentally.
Dated 10 August 2017: Umi 2017
What, another year already?
