I’m watching the old myus and it gives me an appreciation for the starlights. The anime didn’t give them that much charisma at all. Also it’s pretty fun how myus fuck with canon I wish we’d see more of that.

Ahhh I love the old myus so much for how much fun they have and how little they worried about sticking too closely to canon.

And I feel like the Starlights work best in musicals, both because the musicals aren’t afraid to have fun with them (and poke fun at them), and because I think the musicals have the best balance of not padding out things without being too streamlined. There’s room for distrust and conflict without it completely steamrolling their good traits and their tragedy. I also, personally, think Kakyuu was handled better in Eien Densetsu than in anything else, and it’s amazing how much more that sells the Starlights for me. (And I say that having liked them in the anime too. I think I buy into things the narrative wants me to pretty easily, and the things I already liked were just done better in the myus.)

I hope if the new myus continue, they get into some of the same canon-irreverent territory the old ones lived in. I’d love to see more original stories, or just more twists on the ones we have. I mean, even if it was just more villain- shuffling like in ED and SDK I’d love to see it.