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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b7wNSIIXYY Eh Adolescence has more typical action choreography and I honestly prefer the series ( ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfdog4Xemo ) with the shots through the side of the arena and the heavy use of alternating character closeups. I think the heavy use of close ups throughout most of the fight scenes really emphasizes how they're more about the different characters' inner turmoil than Utena being the best swordfighter or whatever. Outside of a few really suspenseful (and awesome) moments like Juri being defeated by the sword falling straight out of the sky (which pans past the girl she loves and the guy kissing as it falls, a shot that appears repeatedly with the girl covering Juri's eyes) the fighters clash for a while and then Utena autowins when the prince comes down, and in many of the fights the fighting is interspersed with cuts to the character conflict established earlier in the ep (juri with that one girl, miki and his sister etc.) In a Kurosawa movie the fights are about one party triumphing over the other in martial skill and the choreography is appropriately flashy to demonstrate that, in Utena they're there to explore the characters' emotions; like how in Miki's car fight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qdNAbCh6NM) he's starting to beat her, but gets distracted by his sister kissing Anthy (his jealousy over her being his reoccuring issue throughout the show) and then you get that cool car swerving still with the light trails and the crashing sound effect as his rose gets popped. And for stuff like the cars and the black rose desks I think the more theatrical rather than realistic fighting style helps integrate the really surreal elements into the scene, because all of it feels sort of unreal rather than having more realistic choreography clashing with the completely unrealistic environment. (Obviously the latter can be done well but what Utena does is already works) tldr: 
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:Utena is the best anime. This is it, the moment Cant abandoned Love Live.
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I had an Utena av well before I had a LL av.
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The hosed up thing is I I took the time to write this effort post at three in the morning and I don't even like it that much
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That's a lie but it's not like, my favorite show ever
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DisDisDis posted:The hosed up thing is Die DisDisDis posted:That's a lie but it's not like, my favorite show ever Die rescinded
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pootena. utenah. 2/10-a
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DisDisDis posted:The hosed up thing is I firmly believe that feeling that way means you did good
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Utena duel song lyrics are the best part about the show. 
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I was seriously obsessed with the duel song lyrics in highschool for a while. All the one's that were like, weird impressions of ancient stuff really got my imagination going.Srice posted:I firmly believe that feeling that way means you did good I actually appreciate it a lot more after analyzing it like that, after not having really thought about it for a long long time. It's a lot smarter than I really noticed watching it the first time.
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Sorry Corals posted:Nanami Is good, yes.
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So Netflix's Devilman may be good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyO6hdw6IzU Directed by Yuasa aka Tatami Galaxy, PingPong and Space Dandy.
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AnoHito posted:Is good, yes. Or should we say that she's bad?
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dogsicle posted:nanami is a cow
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i love utena as a weird surreal art-comedy thing and not so much utena as The Deepest Anime Ever Made
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Endorph posted:i love utena as a weird surreal art-comedy thing and not so much utena as The Deepest Anime Ever Made well yeah, it's not Evangelion
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Xinder posted:deconstruction that's the thing that's been happening in the South, right?
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Xinder posted:deconstruction Slows down mexican highway traffic
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Knorth posted:
Cute girls
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Red Minjo posted:that's the thing that's been happening in the South, right? *loud sighing* yes
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DisDisDis posted:The hosed up thing is You can have unique fights and still be theatrical. It's not mutually exclusive. The problem is that the show is so hamstrung by its obviously low budget when it could've been even better. Each battle is meant to be insight into their deeper desires and feelings, and it completely undercuts the emotional tension as a visual metaphor for a battle of wills; people meant to be special, composed of a unique sense of destiny- because the entire thing looks cheap. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:I had an Utena av well before I had a LL av. It was a good av. E: This is also a good av though.
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dogsicle posted:i don't think repetition to that degree was a result of production constraints Hand animation ain't cheap and rotoscoping original content is time consuming.
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Mister Macys posted:Hand animation ain't cheap and rotoscoping original content is time consuming. yeah but it seems just as likely that an artsy auteur like ikuhara did it because he wanted to
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Came across an old writeup on Katanagatari that I really liked. Really helped me parse some of the character motivations at play during the finale and how they tied into the overall meaning of the story.http://wrongeverytime.com/2013/07/15/katanagatari-and-the-weight-of-legacy/
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My god the Utena degeneracy has infected everyone. The downfall of anime has come twenty years late but has arrived. Seek shelter. I have yet to encounter an elf who becomes addicted to delicious fried food and needs my help to lose weight. 
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