Good news for Revue Starlight fans out there (yes, hello, I’m a fan yes): the official website of Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight has announced that the compilation film Rondo Rondo Rondo is now set for an August 7 premiere! The film’s original May 29 premiere date was moved due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to this good news, the website also released a new trailer for the film. Watch it here!
The compilation movie will feature brand-new scenes as well as new shots of iconic scenes in the 2018 anime series. It was earlier revealed that the film’s theme song “Saiseisan Bikyoku” is composed by Satou Junichi, member of pop band fhana. The band is known to most for singing “Aozora no Rhapsody”, the opening theme song of 2017 anime series Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid.
“Saiseisan Bikyoku” will go on sale on September 9.
A brand-new sequel film was also announced last year, but details such as tentative premiere date have not been revealed yet.
Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight is a multimedia franchise created by Bushiroad and Nelke Planning. The franchise is composed of a musical where the voice actresses of the anime perform, a smartphone game by ATeam launched in October 2018, and a 12-episode anime series produced by Kinema Citrus and directed by Tomohiro Furukawa. The series has also released three manga adaptations so far, all created by Sora Goto and written by Kanata Nakamura.
Unlike Bushiroad’s other multimedia franchises, Revue Starlight focuses on musical theater actresses instead of idols. The story centers on Aijo Karen, who enters Seisho Music Academy so that she could fulfill a promise to her childhood friend, who has left for London to study. When Kagura Hikari returns to Japan, Karen is surprised to find that her friend has become aloof. One day she stumbles upon an underground audition—presided over by a giraffe—for the “top star”, who is given the power to create any stage she desires. Wanting to fulfill her promise to Hikari that they will stand together on stage as the leads for the play Starlight, Karen joins the audition and fights the eight other aspiring top stars of their batch in a mysterious musical revue.
Source: Anime News Network