Incomplete Rulers was a duet that HAD to be sung by Riku and Tenn together as a culmination of the relationship between the performers and the audience, which is to say that a performance is only made possible when there is a giver (Tenn) and a taker (Riku). Furthermore, them singing together on stage as mirrors, the taker (audience stand in) coming up to save the giver (the performer), and the two singers being fraternal twins is an illustration of how the roles of giver/taker are interchangeable even if the performer/audience roles stay the same AND that, in the end, the performer and the audience are not so different after all yet STILL are different. So here is how i will dissect the symbolism of twins, fraternal ones especially, and the roles of performer/audience in this essay - *gets dragged offstage*
man i fucking love the villains in idolish7. they all have reasons for why they're so fucked up and insane but they aren't deliberately given sob stories to make them more sympathetic. other series will be like "audience, don't you feel sorry for him? he almost got the main cast killed and tortured the children under his care but it's okay because he feels REALLY bad about it. isn't his remorse sexy 🥺" NO!! in i7 they're all irredeemable garbage bastards who leak carbon monoxide gas in orphanages for fun, which makes them so much more delightfully entertaining
I saw one of these that only had Enstars and Proseka so I'm expanding on that with other games I'm familiar with. Please reblog for a larger sample size and tell me about your faves in the tags!