Take my revolution

Twenty years ago today saw the debut of the "Revolutionary Girl Utena" anime.

In celebration of the anniversary: Utena thread, bitches!

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>tfw when we got absolutely nothing to mark the occasion

Even a fig of some sort would've been nice.

mh utena CD corrections.

I miss utena (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

Been waitin' for this thread

Oh, now that is pretty

She's shining right now, don't worry.

Does Sup Forums think Akio is childish?

Does Sup Forums think Akio is a villain?

Akio is what would happen if /r9k/ became alpha.

So yes.

Akio is also victim as anthy.

By definition an antagonist.

Sure he's mildly obsessive, fucks teenagers, and is a manwhore in general, but it's a good look on him (it's not a good look on almost anyone irl. maybe it only works with anime). As for being a villain, only if you consider manipulating people to be automatically villainous, since his string-pulling isn't intended to hurt anyone and you could argue he's not responsible for any harm that comes to the other characters, who after all are free to make their own decisions

My favorite duel song were this.
Shiori vs Utena

what is your most favorite?
nicovideo.jp/watch/nm4202620

Utena fans are almost all women,right?

I think it's a 50/50 split between genders if we include the Tumblr crowd.

Disregarding that crowd, I'd say it's mostly male.

Maybe but it's well made and I enjoyed it

Underrated post

thank you

You should make a picture of them from the backside too.

>I'd say it's mostly male.

Majority utena fans in Japan are female.
It's surprised.

It's shoujo after all.

Hmm, over on ohtori.nu I don't think anybody would say that.

It's fascinating how the userbases of different communities (Sup Forums, Tumblr, Empty Movement and so forth) tend to interpret SKU in different ways that are specific to them.

Yeah.
But Utena was revolution of shoujo.

They're all everyone's favorites.

I love every song too.
But shiori's duel song is fucking cool.
That song is no deserved to her.

>Revolution

Utena didn't actually revolutionise shoujo as a whole in any real way. It pales in comparison to RoV and Sailor Moon in that regard.

Utena deconstructed shoujo and was a quality show, but it didn't change the industry.

Shiori was the best character, fool.

Ikuhara pls

Utena made revolution for many shojo's heart.

It's enough for called revolution.

I just realized that the car is a metaphor for sex.
So Akio basically fucked everyone?

Tsuwabuki and Chu Chu are really the only pure characters in the series.

>You should make a picture of them from the backside too.

k

OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL DUEL SONG POWER LEVEL

God Teir:
Kozue, Shiori, Tsuwabuki, Keiko, Saionji 3rd, Ruka,Juri 2nd, Touga 3rd, Akio,

Great Teir:
Juri 1st, Touga 2nd, Kanae, Nemuro, Nanami 2nd, Saionji Movie, Juri Movie (would have been god if it didn't go on for so long)

Good:
Saionji 1st, Nanami 1st, Touga 1st, Miki 2nd

Meh:
Saionji 2nd, Miki 1st

My brothers of african descent

>Tsuwabuki
>hanaiki is god tier

lel
but noice.

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What is "Engage Toi à Mes Côtés"? Seems its an audio story with some unique soundtrack and another disc with vocal image songs by Anthy (?)

It was Drama CD.

and some utena's musical song.

inside

>Miki 2nd, Nanami 1st, Touga 1st and the movie songs not in God Tier
>Not putting Saionji 1st in Meh Tier

Shit taste.

>what is your most favorite?

youtube.com/watch?v=lNIfM9m2MuI

That CD is manga ver of utena's drama CD.

nanami the best

mickey mouse the worst

I don't like this musical ver.
But I fucking love Juri's song.noice.

>siscom and brocom

both are fucking insane.
But I love it.

I LOVE that picture of Utena in thr coffin!

I'm just going to leave this here.

youtube.com/watch?v=E9nirtvUVdc
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Who here actually liked the movie, though?

hmm...I didn't like that movie.
Because story is boring.
art and ost were god tier though.

I want one so bad

The movie was fantastic.

I liked the movie but I was young when I saw it so I didn't really get it.

youtube.com/watch?v=vJl-TPPkQqs

>blocked

What made Unena the success it was? Straight-up yuri romance is a too small niche even Ikurara's own YuriKuma flopped. Was it the abundance of male chins that carried Utena?

I bet you're a girl.

Think about it in non-romantic terms.

who started fencing because of SKU here?

Characters, themes, visual aesthetic, soundtrack, etc.

See There's nothing else like it. Also, to this day 20 years later people still like to discuss the series.

I would love to start, but no fencing in 100km radius in here.

ZETTAI

UNMEI

MOSHISHIROKU

Does anyone played this vidya??

I really wanted this...but it was sega-satan...
I only have a playstation2...

micky kissed by mc.

You could use an emulator.

That spoils all the fun.

nani the fuck?

Is this a boy or a girl?

Anthy cucked by mc.

looks so fun.

mickey is a boy.
mc is a girl.

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>if /r9k/ became alpha.
That doesn't mean anything. If /r9k/ was alpha it wouldn't be /r9k/

The movie was great. It basically condensed what happened in the series, without all the redundancy. It was also much less subtle, which seems to be one of the more popular criticisms of the anime.

Why was it called end of the world

Because Akio wants to create a new world by replacing the old one.

I don't want to cuck Utena's cast, I want them to cuck me.

Yousei Teikoku does Akio's duel theme.
youtube.com/watch?v=uKvbChJ8XNY

TOKI NI

It has a translation patch and works on emulator.
It's a fun game because it's as insane as the anime and has some cool details, like how Touga is Student President only because he's the oldest of them.

Did Ikuhara even have anything to do with it though?

Now Shitori doesn't even have Juri to go back to. Juri is best girl.

AI WA SUYOKU

Do I start with Utena,l?
I saw a flow chart recommending other shows to watch first, but I can't find a good reason why.
Unless its like that German reason to watch a ton of movies before das boot

No idea. Google tells me he 'supervised' but who knows. It has an OC protagonist and villain and is set between episodes so it's hardly canon.

Juri deserves the best.

I've never seen it. What's revolutionary about her?

Her spats.

It's fearless. It handles adult issues with childlike simplicity and childish issues with adult sensibility. It works on many levels at once. It is superbly written. Superbly performed. Superbly scored. It's characters are memorable and all have fulfilling character development and satisfying arcs. Its emotions are real while it's presentation is surreal. It deconstructs heroic archetypes while giving context to the facade of lofty ideals. It criticizes heroism while championing camaraderie. It confronts the hypocrisy of authority and the frailty of innocence. It is progressively sexual but never preaching or boastful of extra-heterosexual romance. It is stylized in its presentation and unflinching towards taboo and deeper emotions of the human condition. It's Ikuhara's greatest work, so masterpiece is a fitting designation.

So she doesn't stage a coup?

I wish.

Tainai Toshi Tokei Orurori
youtube.com/watch?v=LC_e8kSuQ4U

The transition from child to adult.

She isn't in it to rule or even put some specific system in place. Her goals are not anything to be achieved by an outright coup.

Though achieving them would pull the foundations out from under the system governing the world of the series.

MOKUSHI KUSHIMO SHIMOKU KUMOSHI MOSHIKU SHIKUMO

bump

An Utena figma was announced last Wonfes

the art direction for this series was top notch.

on a related note, if i ever become a playboy billionaire, i'm getting one of these

Utena is one of those shows that I won't forget but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's too gay and none of the characters are good peopleexcept Rukaeven if Nanami is best girl.

The visuals from the movie were top notch.
The scene where Touga gets raped was also pretty well directed too.

youtu.be/HQjxKll3XE8
The art direction was surpassed only by the sound direction. Utena has one of the best soundtracks in anime.

Personally I really like all from the third arc, Nanami's first, Kozue's, Tsuwabuki's and Keiko's.
I like the others too, just not that much. And find Touga's first and second lackluster.

Name a movie with better art direction than AoU.

You can't.

the movie was gorgeous, but the plot was a letdown in comparison to the series' best episodes (last 2 episodes of black rose arc, entire apocalypse arc).

treating it as a 'sequel' to the series is an interesting idea, given the cyclical/stagnant nature of time at Ohtori academy.

>rewatch Utena
>it's not as good as I remember it to be

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