shoujo kageki revue starlight, episode 10 script

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Episode 10: The Show Must Go On


HIKARI
I thought maybe I was the only one who remembered our promise. The same sparkle we saw that day… Our fate, our curse; our future, our obsession. But you remembered all along. Even though my foolishness cost me everything, I was reborn as a Stage Girl once again thanks to you. So that we could be Starlight together… That’s why…

GIRAFFE
This is the final day of auditions.

[Rank:
TENDOU MAYA
KAGURA HIKARI
SAIJOU CLAUDINE
AIJOU KAREN]



Who, oh who will be the one to pluck the star from the top of that tower?
The heat of a silent flame is burning in all of our chests.

This is the Wheel of Fortune
But we aren’t merely being forced to dance upon the stage
Spring forth!

I know that on that day
I saw the sparks of starlight spread
Until I’m able to touch
That faded promise…

We begin before the curtain rises,
The story is being written before our very eyes.
Now that I have been reborn,
I have been reunited with you here
Once more



[Smartphone screen:
FINAL DAY]

JUNNA
The final day of auditions, huh… These announcements are always so sudden.

BANANA
Today the winner will be decided, and a new Stage of Fate will begin. “No matter how far your dream seems to be, as long as you believe it possible, it will always be within your reach.”

JUNNA
That’s Herman Hesse.

BANANA
Is it Bananice?

JUNNA
Yeah… you’re right. We just have to do everything we can until it’s over… aiming for the stars.

BANANA
Yeah! Me too. As a Stage Girl, until the very end—


FUTABA
Man, these auditions passed in the blink of an eye.

KAORUKO
So the day has finally arrived for me to become Top Star.

FUTABA
If anybody’s gonna be Top Star here, it’s me.

KAORUKO
Futaba-han…

FUTABA
Hm?

KAORUKO
How many times did you win?

FUTABA
What about you, Kaoruko?

KAORUKO
That’s a secret.

FUTABA
Then I’ll keep it a secret too.

KAORUKO
Well, there’s no point dwelling on it now.

FUTABA
You’re right. We just gotta do our thing until the end.

KAORUKO
…Did you beat Tendou-han?

FUTABA
I said, it’s a secret.

KAREN
The last day… the last day of auditions…

MAHIRU
Karen-chan, you’re dropping crumbs!

KAREN
Now what? What should I do?

MAHIRU
Ahh, not you too, Hikari-chan! Both of you, leave!

KAREN, HIKARI
Huh?

MAHIRU
This is the last day, so I want to keep my heart AND our room clean!

KAREN
Oh… Then I’ll help!

HIKARI
So will I.

MAHIRU
You’ll just make an even bigger mess, so no! Neither of you is allowed back for a good long while!

HIKARI
…Now what?

KAREN
What SHOULD we do? Ahhh! I just remembered our promise!

HIKARI
Our promise?

KAREN
Let’s go!

HIKARI
Ah, hey, wait—

MAHIRU (crosstalk)
Hee. All right, let’s get started!


CLAUDINE
Ack, she’s here.

CLAUDINE
Sigh.

MAYA
Hm?

CLAUDINE
You really are just the worst. You ALWAYS manage to get the drop on me.

MAYA
You don’t suppose that’s simply because we always have the same ideas?

CLAUDINE
The same ideas?

MAYA
The 100th Seishou Fest. The next Starlight. The determination to birth something new. The courage to challenge the unknown. Group B’s overflowing passion. The only thing that can reciprocate our stagehands’ hard work is…

CLAUDINE
The Top Star’s sparkle.



KAREN
Ohh, so this is where you took it!

KAREN
Woohoo, they’re open!!!

HIKARI
Is this what you meant by our promise?

KAREN
We said we would come back some other time, right?

KAREN
Hikari-chan, did you forget?

HIKARI
I remembered. I did.

KAREN
I figured you would!



MAYA
Do you have something to say?

CLAUDINE
I was so embarrassing.

MAYA
What do you mean?

CLAUDINE
You probably don’t remember this. But during our entrance exam, I invited you to stretch with me. The genius purebred Stage Girl whose name was on everyone’s lips, Tendou Maya… I wanted to see what you were capable of. And I got burned. From our entrance exams to Seishou Fest, I was always stuck at Number Two. I can’t imagine getting more egg on my face.

MAYA
Of course I remember that.

CLAUDINE
But… well… merci. I used to be so full of myself after being praised as a genius child actor and future Top Star. You destroyed my complacency so I could be reborn. Even so, I won’t lose to you. I’m gonna become Top Star and prove I’m not just here to make you look good.

MAYA
I look forward to it, Saijou Claudine.

CLAUDINE
You are the ABSOLUTE worst.


KAREN
Wow… A lot may look different, but this place hasn’t changed at all! But it really has been twelve years… since we bought these hairpins and traded ‘em.

HIKARI
Yeah.

KAREN
Ohh… Hikari-chan, lookie!

KAREN
This place is still just the same!

KAREN
“It’s almost as if we’ve known each other forever.”

HIKARI
“Let us meet again here next year.”

KAREN, HIKARI
“On the night of the Star Festival!”

KAREN
It’s just the same as that day, Hikari-chan!

HIKARI
On our way home from the play that day, we played “Starlight” here. Hey, Karen… have I changed since then?

KAREN
You haven’t changed at all, Hikari-chan. “Let’s be Starlight together.” You haven’t changed one bit since the day we made that promise.

KAREN, HIKARI
“Then let us go together, to claim that star!”


KAREN
Ahh, that was fun!

HIKARI
I didn’t realize we’d gathered an audience. That was kind of embarrassing.

KAREN
Just a little bit!

KAREN
Hehe. Let’s come here again, Hikari-chan!

HIKARI
Okay, Karen. Let’s meet here again one day.

KAREN
Hikari-chan, your email…

HIKARI
Thank you, Karen.

KAREN
…!

HIKARI
Thank you for remembering our promise all this time…!

KAREN
Huh?

HIKARI
Thank you for being together with me!

KAREN
Hikari…chan?

HIKARI
So…



KAORUKO
Are we…

FUTABA, MAHIRU, BANANA, JUNNA
…in the audience?!

KAREN
What’s going on…?

CLAUDINE
What’s the meaning of this?!

GIRAFFE
As we had an extra participant this year… some adjustment to the schedule is required. From our results thus far, the participants with a chance of qualifying are the four of you in the upper ranks. And so, this final audition will be a special two-on-two performance, a Revue Duet.

HIKARI
A Revue… Duet?

MAYA
Two on two…

CLAUDINE
So, a tag team fight?

KAREN
Hikari-chan…!

KAREN
See, we CAN both be Stars!

HIKARI
Karen… Are we getting special treatment?

GIRAFFE
Without further ado, Tendou Maya-san. Which Stage Girl will you choose?

MAYA
Your preparations are ready, yes?

CLAUDINE
Oui.

GIRAFFE
And you, Kagura Hikari-san? Which Stage Girl will you choose?

HIKARI
Aijou Karen!

KAREN
Yeah!!

[BOX:
Theatre Refreshments Inner-Curtain Bento]

KAORUKO
Aww, look, he even gave us snacks. Sigh…

FUTABA
Kaoruko?

KAORUKO
What’s the point of watching the match if we can’t even become Top Star? We’re going home, Futaba-han.

FUTABA
Nah, I’m gonna stay and watch. After all, how am I supposed to get good if I don’t know what they’ve got that I haven’t?

JUNNA
I’ll watch, too. I’ve got to watch, and then practice, and make sure I’ll never lose to anyone again!

MAHIRU
It’s really frustrating that I can’t stand on that stage… It’s frustrating, but…

BANANA
We should see this to the end. We should see what sort of Stage of Fate they choose!

KAORUKO
Hmph!

GIRAFFE
A Revue Duet! Do you understand?

HIKARI
In the hand I raised with all my strength…

KAREN
…blooms a resplendent flower of love!

HIKARI
Even if it shall end in tragedy…

KAREN
I make my unscheduled appearance on this glittering stage!

HIKARI
Kagura Hikari, of the 99th class!

KAREN
Aijou Karen, of the 99th class!!

KAREN, HIKARI
We’ll make EVERYONE Starlight!

CLAUDINE
Everyone gets an equal chance to shine. So I shall dance my love more passionately than anyone, and fly on wings of freedom to heights no one can reach! I am Saijou Claudine, second chair in the 99th class! C’est moi, la Star! (I will be the one to become a Star!)

MAYA
The brilliance of the moon, the love of the stars. In this moment, I shall deliver the light I have gathered to your heart. I am Tendou Maya, first chair of the 99th class! Tonight, I shall bring my sparkle to you!

GIRAFFE
We henceforth begin the final audition… the Revue of Fate! If any one of you loses your jacket, it will be your team’s loss.

MAYA
Then…

CLAUDINE
Ça commence! (Let us begin!)

KAREN
Let’s go, Hikari-chan!

HIKARI
Okay.

MAYA, KAREN
There’s no time to hesitate
The wheels of fate have begun to turn
So take in your hand
The sword called resolve

CLAUDINE, HIKARI
The curtains have risen on our Revue
But we don’t know its conclusion yet

MAYA, CLAUDINE, KAREN, HIKARI
I will recreate myself once more

MAYA, CLAUDINE
When I whisper the wish that suffuses my heart
A star shall twinkle to guide my way

MAYA, CLAUDINE, KAREN, HIKARI
Star Divine, that shines so bright
With your newborn light
Star Divine, cut me a path
To the future I shall not forsake

MAYA, CLAUDINE
May glory alight upon my blade!

CLAUDINE
We all carry fierce wills in our private hearts
Fierce sparks illuminate your breathtaking profile
I can’t even blink, I shan’t avert my eyes
No matter how we clash, I believe in you!
Position Zero is a place where only one can stand
But you’re not alone anymore

MAYA, CLAUDINE, KAREN, HIKARI
Star Divine, you mustn’t lose
Don’t lose sight of your future
Star Divine, get to your feet
No matter how many times you’re hurt
The stage keeps us alive

CLAUDINE
I can tell. I can always tell.

MAYA
How you’ll move, how you’ll leap…

CLAUDINE
The only one who can keep up with you…

MAYA
The only one who can follow me… Saijou Claudine…

CLAUDINE
Tendou Maya…

MAHIRU
Look at how they’re sparkling…

BANANA
Wow, look at those two…!

JUNNA
We can’t lose to them.

KAREN
I’ve become stardust, the constellations that stitch up distant skies

KAREN (crosstalk over lyrics)
Ah…

HIKARI
This is fate

HIKARI (crosstalk over lyrics)
Karen.

KAREN
This is instinct

KAREN (crosstalk)
Hikari-chan…!

KAREN, HIKARI
Now I shall become myself once more

KAREN, HIKARI (crosstalk)
I am reissued!

KAREN, CLAUDINE
Star Divine, that shines so bright
With your newborn light

MAYA, HIKARI
Star Divine, cut me a path
To the future I shall not forsake

MAYA, CLAUDINE, KAREN, HIKARI
Star Divine, you mustn’t lose
Don’t lose sight of your future
Star Divine, get to your feet
No matter how many times you’re hurt

MAYA (crosstalk)
They move… as one! That is the source of their sparkle…!

CLAUDINE
We can do it too!

HIKARI
Then let us go together…!

MAYA
The stage keeps us alive

KAREN
May glory alight upon my blade!

HIKARI, KAREN
Position Zero!

KAREN
Hikari-chan…!

HIKARI
Yeah.

GIRAFFE
The Revue Duet is now over!

CLAUDINE
Wait! The one who lost here is me! Me, and no one else! Tendou Maya hasn’t lost! Not to anyone…! Tendou Maya hasn’t lost!! Maya… hasn’t lost…! Ma Maya à moi… Impossible qu’elle perde maintenant comme ça… (My Maya… She can’t lose at a time like this…) Maya… n’est pas la perdante— (So Maya hasn’t lost…!)

MAYA
Exactement. (Exactly.) Je n’ai absolument pas perdu. (I have not lost.)

CLAUDINE
Huh? Ahh…

MAYA
Ces deux-là… ont juste eu plus de—Starlight que nous à cette Revue. (In that Revue… those two were simply more Starlight than we.) Rien n’est perdu… donc— (I haven’t lost… so—) Lève-toi, “Claudine”— (Get up, “Claudine”—) Avec toi—je peux aller toujours plus loin et encore plus haut. (With you, I can fly higher than ever before.) T’es mignonne aussi quand tu pleures… Ma Claudine. (You’re cute when you cry, too… my Claudine.)

CLAUDINE
Méchante… va! (You suck!)

KAREN
We beat them… We really beat them!

HIKARI
Yeah.

KAREN
So, we’ve won this audit—whoa!! What’s going on?!

GIRAFFE
We henceforth begin the final audition… the Revue of Tragedy! Sing, dance, and plunder in your quest to become Top Star.

KAREN
Hikari-chan…!

HIKARI
Well, that figures. Only one person can pass this audition after all. We can’t become stars together.

GIRAFFE
I see.

HIKARI
Thanks, Karen.

KAREN
Hikari-chan…?

HIKARI
You remembered me. You were together with me. Your sparkle shone upon me and guided my way. I was reborn once again as a Stage Girl thanks to you. All so we could be Starlight together… But… I can’t steal your sparkle. I won’t let it be stolen by anyone. So, Karen…

HIKARI
This is goodbye.



I’ve been watching you all along
It seems like you’ve left your loneliness behind
Tonight too the moon is smiling down at me
Please turn my way, and fly me to the star

I couldn’t tell you how I felt
So I imagined other lives and I’ll try acting them out
Because I want to catch your eye
Oh fly me to the star



Next Episode: We Are

MAYA, CLAUDINE
Girls’ Opera, Revue Starlight.

GIRAFFE
I understand.