When people are like "Trickstar are just lil dudes vibing and having a good time" they're right but also it hits different when you know that Subaru's dad was basically killed by the idol industry and yet he still loves being an idol more than anything. Makoto got so traumatized by his experience as a child model that he became a shut-in for a year and developed a phobia for cameras and now he's starring in a film.
Half of Trickstar is literally tragic past central.
Like yeah they're just vibing and having a good time but you have to appreciate how incredible that is that they're like this, I think.
Like the thing about Subaru specifically is that his carefree attitude is an act of selfish defiance against an entertainment industry that turned its back on his father. Against an industry that never wanted him.
They use to graffiti his house with curses when his dad was in prison. He knew he wasn't wanted, he could have taken literally any other path in life and it'd be less painful.
But he remembered how much his dad loved being an idol, how much he loved seeing his dad on stage, and decided that the story wasn't gonna end in tragedy.
And like. That's why he was such a gremlin in his first and second year. (He's still a gremlin but he's learning lol...) Like. His cheerfulness wasn't a shield to hide behind, it was a weapon, sharp and barbed. His carefree attitude was a "fuck you, I'm gonna exist where I'm not wanted, and I'm gonna have fun" to the industry and the world.
