Revue Starlight Compilation Film Set for A May 29 Premiere in Japan

An update was recently revealed on the earlier-announced Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight compilation movie! The franchise’s official Twitter account has revealed this Wednesday that the compilation film entitled Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Rondo Rondo Rondo will premiere in Japanese theaters on May 29.

A recent livestream event for the franchise also announced that the compilation movie will feature brand-new scenes as well as new shots of iconic scenes in the 2018 anime series.

A trailer of the compilation film was also released on Youtube, which you can watch here.

A brand-new sequel film was also announced last year. The previously-mentioned livestream event revealed that the new film will be about the students’ 3^rd and last year of performing Starlight, and how they deal with this development. A new character will also be introduced in the movie but it was not made clear if she was a student or something else.

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: ANN