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Big Leg posted:message to all the nanami haters out there
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the mirrored window shots with juri and utena at the start of episode 7 are really cool. honestly the whole episode has some of my favorite staging in the show up to this point; i like how the majority of the episode is mostly static shots of juri standing around while people talk over her punctuated by brief outbursts of rage. the visual metaphor team also brought their a game.  
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Sep 12, 2023 00:30
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the student council scenes are always really funny imo. thats what its like when overly serious teens sit and plot together for an hour a day
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Sep 12, 2023 00:32
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Ohtori Akio posted:the student council scenes are always really funny imo. thats what its like when overly serious teens sit and plot together for an hour a day yeah they rule. i'm really torn if this one where touga throws a million knives at miki is more or less funny than the one where they play uno
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Sep 12, 2023 00:34
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i thought it was interesting that saionji got a bunch of screen time again in the nanami episode, but after episode 9 it makes way more sense. they both have the same tragic fixation with touga that gives them incredible drive but ultimately leaves them completely pitiful.
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Sep 12, 2023 00:42
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everyone wants attention from him. and hes too busy getting a piece of his kouhais sister. you hate to see it
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Sep 12, 2023 00:44
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sorry for picking on saionji two weeks in a row but the rest of the cast scooby doo gang running away from him after utena calls him a perverted idiot is too funny https://i.imgur.com/f9uop2m.mp4
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Sep 12, 2023 00:48
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no he deserves it
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Sep 12, 2023 00:49
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i believe in the saionji redemption arc
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Sep 12, 2023 00:51
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Couldn't make it thru the TV series (too girly!) so I watched the movie. It's Good! and it's got some Y2K style
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Sep 12, 2023 03:14
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The movie is a very different work from the series, and I was hoping to run a discussion of it after the series concludes. So please treat it as spoiler content in this thread until that time.
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Sep 12, 2023 03:18
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Big Leg posted:message to all the nanami haters out there that's right 
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Sep 12, 2023 10:50
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nanami's song is the best part of the musical
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Sep 12, 2023 19:23
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Big Leg posted:sorry for picking on saionji two weeks in a row but the rest of the cast scooby doo gang running away from him after utena calls him a perverted idiot is too funny It's incredible. The Juri episode is some really good drama, the Nanami episode is amazing, and the Saonji episode is both some nice characterization for him and the first real idea we've gotten of what's going on with the duels. I mean, there's basically no way to no for certain what any of it means right now, but we know a lot more than we did!
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Sep 12, 2023 19:26
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Ep8 noticing a bit of slippage in art quality in some spots They must have completely redone those scenes in the remaster right?
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Sep 12, 2023 23:24
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Episode 8 was originally going to be the 6th episode but ended up being delayed because the studio they were outsourcing to hadn't started production. The finished product is a little rough and is the worst the show ever looks unless I'm forgetting something. As far as I know the remaster is purely an hd release of the original animation. Nothing was redrawn or anything, but it looks amazing. There was a separate 2007 remaster that changed some of the audio a bit and made one or two minor editing changes, and that's the version that's available on youtube as well as the one that was remastered for the blu-ray. The only one I know we've passed is that they changed the sound effect when Nanami got hit in the face in episode 6. Almost all the future ones are connected to major plot events in the future so definitely don't look any of it up! This twitter account is also full of spoilers, so don't go there if you're worried https://twitter.com/ohtori_nu/status/1110698464642367490
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Sep 13, 2023 03:28
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:that's right
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Sep 15, 2023 05:59
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FilthyImp posted:PGSM-style live action Tokuanimu but with Utena and now I want this more than anything. this clip is from the musicals, which deliver at least some of that!
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Sep 15, 2023 06:02
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Nanami is best girl
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Sep 15, 2023 12:17
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He's right. I remember, ages ago on my first watch, the Jury ep being the one that fr hooked me. like, oh, real poo poo? There are lots of good comedy eps, but the switeroo w the curry will prolly always be my fave. lol the way I woulda closed the curtains on saionji's rear end, every window individually
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Sep 15, 2023 20:58
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its an hour to midnight so i made it this week... anthy has the power to make the duelists want to duel for her but i wonder if she has any control over it or if its an automatic thing, or maybe even controlled by someone else it will be interesting to find out actually, thinking about it how much of the "real" anthy (if that even exists) have we seen and how much is just the version of her that appeals to utenas desire to be a fairy tale prince or, on a more meta level, the version that is supposed to make us want utena to duel for her episode 7 is my favorite so far Lady Radia posted:nanami was my fave character for most of the first part. and then she never left that role. she owns so much it might be in the next episode but that thing she did in her backstory soured me on her
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Sep 17, 2023 22:05
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i think the degree to which anthy's presentation to us is authentic vs inauthentic is very important to the show in a lot of different ways
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Sep 17, 2023 22:36
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Utena looks a little too gleeful when she's pulling the sword out of Anthy before fights but I reviewed the earlier time when green hair did it and it looks like the animators just used the same face and skeleton, changing hair and clothing to match whoever is doing it. Also why does Utena do the "gimme revolution" invocation, is whatever Anthy is enchanted by ( ) controlling the sword bearer when they hold it too?
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Sep 17, 2023 22:40
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Next three are up, I believe. Hit the road, Saionji. There's no way he won't be back. Touga is an extremely adroit manipulator; he gets Nanami (more on her later) to make an attempt on Utena's life and plays on Utena's prince memory to get her to throw a duel against him. I'm still a little surprised Utena hasn't done the math to determine that Touga isn't that much older than her though to be fair, when you're a kindergartener the sixth graders may as well be adults. Nanami, on the other hand, is a more terrible person every time we see her. Killing the cat she gave her brother because it meant Touga wasn't paying attention to her is pretty hard to walk back. Breaking the duel rules and risking maiming or death just to take Utena out seemed to be Touga taking advantage of her devotion to him to have her do the dirty work instead of him getting involved. Not sure how the Academy would handle a homicide during a duel - it's still unclear how much the administration knows about the dueling society. Anthy's reprogrammable loyalty is kinda gross and I don't like it but I'm willing to see what's going on with since she seems to be a host for whatever that's about. Telling her to get into the sword to power it up is amusing and I'm sure what we saw isn't the only party trick it does.Lots of peeping through magnified optics in this show. Touga and Juri have both done it on screen and there may be some other instances I'm forgetting. Utena's moping around and deciding to be normal was a mercifully short interlude. They didn't reanimate the staircase climb for her womens' uniform. Slapping is still the Academy varsity sport, it seems. Continuity error: before the duel with Nanami, Utena has a sword in hand immediately before the "pull it from Anthy" sequence happens. Probably an oversight in production. Midjack fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Sep 18, 2023 20:28
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Ah hell, yeah I forgot to make the post. It's Monday afternoon! That means episodes 10, 11, and 12 are open for discussion. The next batch of episodes are 13, 14, and 15, and their discussion will open the morning of Monday, September 25. I love Nanami so so much and her being a hosed up little freak who's done serious bad things makes that more true, for me. Touga likewise is hosed in the head. He's evil, Saionji is evil, but it's such a petty little evil born out of an insecure domination of a petty little space. I think this point in the show is a great place to sit back and think about what "the prince" means. It's motivating so much of the action, is that motivation positive or negative? What does the prince mean outside of the fiction?
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Sep 18, 2023 20:37
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These are the episodes that prove Wakaba is Wakabest.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:55
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I love Nanami because she's a hosed up weirdo, I love Wakaba because she's normal. Episode 12 still hurts even having seen it so many times This almost feels like an ending to the show, do people have any thoughts on where the show could go from here or what they'd think of it if episode 12 was the end?
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Sep 18, 2023 22:58
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We haven't explored Anthy's backstory or End of the World in enough detail to really feel like a finish unless the show had a couple of episodes following Utena before she arrived at the school to set her up as a wandering prince in search of her own prince. As it is, the school and everything Utena encounters there is the nexus of the plot so the writers can't get away with not answering some of those questions.
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Sep 18, 2023 23:13
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The previews at the end of episode 12 are pretty important.
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Sep 18, 2023 23:16
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Guys I found it The allegory is us Saionji is Lowtax, Touga is Jeffrey of YOSPOS. Utena is ADTRW mods. Anthy is the concept of true love. Chu Chu is you and me, the posters Mind blown. I need a sandwich
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Sep 19, 2023 01:31
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For once, I actually caught up on time! Just a few general thoughts:
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Sep 19, 2023 02:34
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They packed so much into eps 11-12  Great BGM leading up to and during the Touga rematch. Character development! My reactions mostly mirror what's already been said- Nanami: On the one hand cat killer  But on the other her duelist outfit is badass  Anthy: Kiiiinda an rear end in a top hat now, didn't like what we saw of her. Do I understand Saionji now? Touga: All according to plan until he underestimated how bad she wanted Anthy I guess? I wonder if Anthy's crying made the sword lose its power Wakaba-Utena is just 
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TwoStoryHouseCat posted:Guys I found it adtrw doesnt have a mod, theory rejected
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Sep 19, 2023 22:04
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Oh poo poo a rewatch of the show that got me to pick this as a username like twenty years ago. Rad!
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Sep 19, 2023 22:14
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Ohtori Akio posted:I love Nanami so so much and her being a hosed up little freak who's done serious bad things makes that more true, for me. i mentioned it before, but i really like the contrast between nanami and saionji. nanami owns because she gets to participate in all the wacky stuff while being awful and saionji owns because he's like forbidden from doing wacky stuff while being awful which is somehow even funnier. there's definitely a huge contrast between utena's conception of a prince (a self actualized person who is true to herself/to borrow from wakaba, a normie) and all the non-miki members of the student council (being a giant dickhead), so i'm really interested to see how these two ideologies continue to push against each other when our mysterious purple haired potential prince finally makes an appearance in the real world.
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chrome line posted:I love Nanami because she's a hosed up weirdo, I love Wakaba because she's normal. this x100 chrome line posted:This almost feels like an ending to the show, do people have any thoughts on where the show could go from here or what they'd think of it if episode 12 was the end? we sort of have our happy ending at the end of episode 12, but the apocalyptic duel music continuing to play over anthy and utena's reunion is such a tonal shift compared with the same scene in episode 1 that it makes me feel uncomfortable more than anything else.
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Sep 20, 2023 07:07
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boke  tsukkomi (comparatively)  moe through helplessness  seemingly "perfect" at first glance 
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Julias posted:For once, I actually caught up on time! Just a few general thoughts: without doing any actual research, it looks like chu chu's eating habits have a very strong correlation with anthy's happiness (see the picnic in 11/chu chu's spread at the end of 12 vs chu chu barely nibbling a singular cracker in the student council meetings). it's very hard to get a gauge on anthy's real feelings up to this point so maybe chu chu kind of works as an approximation.
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Sep 20, 2023 07:14
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Ohtori Akio posted:boke lol but also true
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i resisted the urge to gif saionji getting owned while wearing all denim (lol), instead have some happier moments: https://i.imgur.com/fjf9WYw.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/hjMi7YD.mp4
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