Star ☆ Crossed
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Season 1: Porno Graffitti - Saboten
I used to invite you to the movies just to see your face. Back in those days, I enjoyed myself. Why had I forgotten about those times? I usually hated getting too intimate with someone.
I touch the cactus gently with my finger. A soft thorn pierces it, but I don't notice. The subtle signs you gave me... now, it hurts.
Where are you in all this rain? I found my feelings. I'm sure we can make it through this. Look, soft beams of light have started to shine. Let's make a little flower bloom.
Long ago...
In the fall of the Silver Millennium existed a man with a wish to surpass the world. His name has been lost to generations, but this legendary magician was the first to discover the secret power of the falling star: that those who made a wish upon a shooting star would see their wishes fulfilled. He, too, had a wish: to pluck the very stars from the sky and steal their power. Doing so, he became known as the Star Lion, and his armies drowned the Earth in darkness. Even in those early days, though, light shone. A young woman wished in those ages for the power to stop the Star Lion's conquest, and the people called her their Soldier Angel, who fought back the Star Lion's forces and confronted him in his fortress. Her power was not enough to destroy the Star Lion and release his ill-gotten power, so she made a great sacrifice. The power of an entire meteor storm was harnessed, and the Star Lion was banished from this Earth, his power imprisoned within a ring of black pearl.
This is the legend of the Soldier Angel, though few remember it.
Our days
Across the arc of history, the blood of the Star Lion has appeared in ancient Babylon, in Gaul, in Siberia, giving rise to the myth of a secret tyrant in black armor with the power to steal the stars from the sky. The Soldier Angel, too, has appeared across history to stop their dynasty of evil, young men and women who devoted their hearts to arresting his conquest and restoring hope to the land. Today is no different.
Except, by a strange twist of fate, today's Soldier Angel and this generation's Star Lion are best friends from long before either ever took up their mantle. Tokiko Amagawa, the Soldier Angel, and Yoshirou Kurotsuki, the Star Lion, are so inseparable that their school mistakes them for lovers on a regular basis. Yoshirou is of no mind to harrass or harm people, and so they secretly coordinate his attacks, seeking to minimize the harm done in the process.
But Gorou Kurotsuki, the dead spectre of the previous Star Lion, watches over his grandson, and exerts his influence. How long will this situation last?
The theme
Friendships strained at cross purposes. The difficulties that get in the way of friendship and, yes, love, and the lengths we will go to overcome them.
