It may be BOLD to compare the soft tennis sports anime Stars Align aka Hoshiai no Sora to Neon Genesis Evangelion BUT IS IT REALLY? (lmaolmaolmao). In this anime review of Stars Align, we’ll discuss the public sentiment that the anime’s production behind the scenes affected the overall story, the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ themes particularly gender identity and the specific significant discours around being non-binary as well as the dark cabal of parents and how they affected perception of new characters that were introduced.