The Last Line (最後のセリフ, Saigo no Serifu), also titled the Revue of Rebirth (再生産のレヴュー, Saiseisan no Revyū), is the sixth and final Revue, as well as the fifth and final chapter of wi(l)d-screen baroque, in the theatrical animation Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight.
Revue[]
WARNING: This section may contain spoilers for the anime and the movie. It is not recommended to be read unless one has seen both.
Hikari only looks at her, asking Karen if what she said were her thoughts, or the lines in this Revue. The billboard rising at the back shows an image of five-year-old Hikari's letter to five year old Karen, her invitation to see Starlight. It is finally fixed in place, and Karen is seen in her Revue outfit. She stands inside a coffin-shaped floor, the tomato rested untouch on Position Zero inside the coffin.
A confused Karen suddenly feels nervous, asking if she and Hikari are being watched. Hikari says Karen is correct. Karen asks if the audience was always this close, which Hikari says is also correct, then wonders what she should do as she's suddenly so nervous, with Hikari telling her that's what a stage is. Karen then starts walking towards Hikari, telling her that suddenly she's scared and she doesn't know what to do, because she doesn't know what comes after Starlight, and that after she has acted out Starlight, she has nothing.
Karen suddenly collapses onto the floor, and the tomato that Karen did not pay attention to suddenly explodes into pieces. Hikari then panics as she runs towards Karen, asking her if what happened was just an act as she checks her breathing and pulse, but gets no response. Hikari shakes her body as she tells Karen to wake up so she can apologize, before calling her an idiot through tears as she shakes Karen. She holds her body as she tells her that the reason she left for London was that the Karen she saw was so bright, she was so scared she had turned into a fan, she had to be away from her.
Hikari says Karen was the one who gave birth to the Stage Girl named Hikari Kagura, and the stage they saw back then was so bright, that before she even tried to reach it, she's already given up. But Karen gave her light and her words of promise brought Hikari back to life, and now it is Hikari's turn. Hikari puts her letter onto Karen’s chest, saying she'll send Karen another letter, and encouraging her to come back to her.
The platform below Karen then opens as Karen falls into a large Position Zero and she turns into a small pink Position Zero with a crown chained onto a jeep. The jeep travels through her past, which includes a five-year-old Karen putting the tomato onto her hand as she is sent through a time skip. Hikari calls for her, saying that this is her stage, and that she'll be waiting for her on top of the stage. The chained T arrives in front of Hikari, and once again, Karen is reborn. She has come back, and that she rode the train to go back there, as Hikari welcomes her back.
The billboard behind Karen and Hikari now says Revue Starlight, as they introduce themselves and battle each other. Hikari says something very vaguely of that the herself now in the Revue is the most selfish. Karen then says that this Hikari is so pretty, and that she's so pretty, but also scary, but she would always be so pretty, that she was frustrated at her, envious of her, and she had turned into a fan of hers, that she was simply dazzling, and that she's finally realized what she wanted to do. Karen's sword snaps into half as Hikari dares her to try and strike her with her radiance.
They lunge at each other as they close in, slashing down at each other as Hikari stabs her knife through Karen’s heart, as their foreheads touch and tears fall from Karen's eyes. Silver colored Position Zeroes suddenly burst out of Karen's body as they split the Tokyo Tower in half, launching it outward as it falls towards the train tracks as Karen is laid on the ground. Hikari smiles as she cuts off her own cape and it flies into the wind.
Hikari walks towards Karen as the latter gets up from the ground and says that she's acted out all of Revue Starlight, and feels as if she's the emptiest in the world right now. She touches her chest, which has a diagonally ripped "T" on it, showing a little bit of her skin. Hikari throws her a tomato, telling her to go and find it: the next stage and role. Karen smiles at her as she accepts. Hikari then says that the train will absolutely reach the next station, but questions the same for the stage girls, to which Karen grins at her, saying they'll absolutely do so, onto the next stage.[1]
Trivia[]
- This is the first Revue in the entire franchise to not be given the title "Revue of [blank]" within the media.
- While not mentioned in the movie or any other media, screenwriter Tatsuto Higuchi revealed that the official title of this Revue is the Revue of Rebirth (再生産のレヴュー, Saiseisan no Revyū).[2]