Teaser Revealed for New “Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight” Film Set for 2021 Release

In a surprise reveal, the official Youtube channel of the Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight franchise revealed this Monday a half-minute teaser of a brand-new sequel film for the series. The still-untitled movie is set for a 2021 release. Check out the teaser here!

The film is (so far) the last of two films that the franchise announced last year. The first film, Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight: Rondo Rondo Rondo, is currently showing in Japanese cinemas. Rondo Rondo Rondo is a compilation of episodes and iconic scenes in the 2018 anime series, with 10 minutes of brand-new content—which is being talked-about much in Japanese Twitter, as the added scenes appeared to have changed the outcome of the series. The 2021 film appears to be a direct sequel of the compilation film.

The only information available so far for the 2021 film’s plot is 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 this person is a student or something else.

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.

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