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I just finished Starlight Revue. Pretty good, though I've never been good at analyzing works with heavy metaphorical/allegorical structures. Considering the parallels the story supposedly has with the Takarazuka Revue, I was expecting a more direct confrontation with the Giraffe. I was going through it viewing him as representing the patriarchal structure surrounding the Revue. But, I guess if he was more supposed to represent the audience, I guess it makes a little more sense they never confront him. That fourth wall break near the end made me eye roll, though. And the way they dropped Banana's storyline kind of made me mad. I guess I'm just a sucker for time loop dramas (Steins;Gate is one of my favorite stories, ever), but they could've done a whole season just on her. Instead, we get an awesome scene of her being secret strongest girl, show the effects of her wish coming true, and then the next episode shifts to Hikari, and Nana loses almost unceremoniously just because, woops! Hikari and Karen are the mains. Not very bananice.  I understand why that happened on a logical level. It is obvious her wish was untenable and one of the major themes was moving forward, but it seemed so hamfisted.
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Maera Sior posted:That didn't land for me either. I have to assume it was meant for a different audience and that I'm not part of it. AFancyQuestionMark posted:That fourth wall break was never about the anime audience, I think. The giraffe represents the audience of the Takarazuka Revue. Many of the more destructive aspects of the system depicted in the show are the results of the Takarazuka appealing to audience desires - the obsession over a single headlining "top star" in the troupe and every other performer just being there to support the top star's performance. The show is basically laying the blame for the most negative aspects of that system at that audience's feet, which is why the giraffe is the one that oversees the auditions. I don't know. If the fourth wall break wasn't meant for the anime audience, there's no point in doing it at all. He could have easily referenced the Revue audience without specifically calling out "you". Overall, its a minor nitpick, though. Random Note re: Penguindrum. It actually had a big roll in my Masters program. I just finished watching it right around the time I had to decide the topic for my capstone thesis, and I ended up deciding to write an analysis of Aum Shinrikyo and Asahara Shoko. The entire series of events that led to the sarin gas attack still blows my mind. And it is a good reminder that similar to Al Qaeda and ISIS, the most dangerous terrorists aren't poor uneducated religious folks but radicalized middle class specialists who have a chip on their shoulder.
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