Co-Star Revue

### Winner

***WARNING: This section may contain spoilers for the anime and the movie. It is not recommended to be read unless one has seen both.***Mahiru Tsuyuzaki

## Chronology

### Next

Hunting Revue

The **Co-Star Revue** (競演のレヴュー, *Kyouen no Revyū*) is the third Revue, as well as the second 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 Kagura runs around the train station as she finds a train platform. After entering it, a small Mr. White figure with wheels enters with her, and she is faced by a large sporting field. From the side, she finds Mahiru Tsuyuzaki with a ton of Suzdal Cats, with the audience being reporters and paparazzi Suzdal Cats. Hikari calls her, but Mahiru does not give her attention. She spins her mace and it turns into a torch, and swears to a fair game with sportsmanship and such.
The Revue starts without Hikari knowing what is going on and Mahiru only telling her that she has always looked forward to this Revue. Hikari asks her where Karen Aijo is, which Mahiru laughs off by telling her to forget about Karen, since Hikari herself is now the only one in this Revue.

The Revue consists of a series of sport competitions that begins with a starting pistol that signals the start of a hurdle marathon which switches into fencing, then figure skating, tennis, volleyball, baseball, synchronized swimming, basketball and weightlifting. While those are happening, Hikari keeps on trying to talk to Mahiru, to ask her about what's going on and where Karen is. At the end is a high jump, but Mahiru asks Hikari why she wasn't asking. She hits the button of her cape up onto the high jump bar as it crosses it and Hikari's cape falls.

What was once a sunny field suddenly becomes dark as Mahiru enters a mood of horror and anger as she asks Hikari continuously why she won't act with her, to which Hikari then tells her that she has always hated her. Hikari runs away in fright as Mahiru chases her all the way to the backstage. Mahiru asks her if she is escaping, just as how Hikari escaped Karen's stage when they finally got reunited.

Riding an elevator, Suzdal Cat cutouts corner Hikari, all while Mahiru's voice continues to plagues her. The elevator then reaches the 101st floor, and Hikari ends up on the stage platforms on the ceiling. Mahiru chases her all the way there as she once again asks how Hikari was going to win this Revue, show up and meet Karen in this state, and the kind of lines she would tell her. Mahiru then grabs Hikari by the collar as she proceeds to push her off a ledge.

Hikari shrieks as she falls in the middle of a large Mr. White stuffed toy, and through crying and sobbing she apologizes, saying the reason she left was that she was afraid. Mahiru then climbs the toy and tells her that they are the same since she was afraid whether she was going to be able to fulfill the role or not, and even now, she was still afraid too.

The field lightens up again as Mahiru presents a gold button in the form of a medal and puts it around Hikari's neck. She tells her that she still has a role to fulfill, that as much as she wanted to continue acting in this revue with her, she has to go to Karen now. She pushes Hikari to run towards the finish line, telling her that Hikari should say all of her unsaid lines, and that they should finish their fated stage, as well as saying that she had fun finally being able to act together with Hikari.

Hikari smiles and tells her that Mahiru was amazing; she was like a true actress, and that she acted really scarily, just as she crosses the finish line and down towards a platform. Mahiru then holds the starting pistol from the start of the Revue again as she shoots it in the air again, saying that she has decided that she will live on the stage, and that she will continue to be a bright star.

## Trivia

* The official translation for this Revue is "Co-Star Revue". However, the common meaning of 競演 (*kyōen*) is competition. More specifically, it means a competition of acting or other performance; 競 (*kyō*) meaning "compete", and 演 (*en*) meaning performance).

## References

1. ↑ Courtesy of Revue Starlight International