Series:

When Touga confessed his love to Utena.

Manga (Adolescence Mokushiroku):

The consumation of love between Touga and Utena.

Movie:

Parting scene between Touga and Utena.

My reason is simply because I'm a die-hard Touga/Utena fan.

- Mikage's final scene, with him finally realizing that he was the one who burned 100 boys to death. Then he realizes Mamiya's deception and the picture frames crack and fall. It was a surreal, disturbing, and frankly shocking scene.

- Wakaba's Black Rose duel. Her speech was great because it was so very true, and her viciousness was refreshing and interesting.

- Juri appearing as if she's attempting to seduce Utena, then proceeding to rip her apart. I wasn't expecting it and it surprised me pleasantly.

- Utena's sex scene. It's one of the best-animated sequences in the series, and manages to feel so disturbing even when only showing Akio's hand and Utena's head and shoulders. Implication worked at its best there. The leftover feeling is so ominous.

- Touga finally coming to terms with the fact he has the ability to care for another, and his subsequent explanation to Utena.

Those are just some out of a long list of many.

I have only two.

The first one is Utena's sex scene, as katzenlkavier said it. QFT.

The second(okay, and third) one is the shot of Touga on the floor when utena defeats him. The black shading
on his face really does it for me.

Subsequently, the scene two episodes later when Nanami opens the door to Touga's room and we see Touga angsting to the sound of his own recorded voice over his (granted, humiliating)defeat is one of the most hillariously lame moments in anime EVAR.

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Manga: Anthy breaks out the witch powers and stuffs people in glass coffins. And she looks so sad doing it.
Movie-manga: The end bit with the planetarium. So I'm a sap, sue me.
Movie: The 'art-class' bit. Weird, sexy, and kind of sweet.
Series: That moment in the last epsiode where Anthy finally reaches out to take Utena's hand...

Oh, and any scene with Juri in the shower. Or Juri and Shiori. Or both.
Yeah, I know, that never actaully happened. But I can wish.
*puddle*

Oh It is very hard to say! I like the fountain scene when Juri goes off on Utena...it's unfortunate that scene didn't take a sexier twist.......most of Juri's scenes are good for me, personally. Although I dislike Ruka's character. I know, I'm blasphemous.

I can't help but love the scenes with saionji popping up in the background, spouting poetry and talking about his "secret love" just to be ignored or brushed off by the other characters. that gave me the best laugh.

I can't think of anything from the manga specifically, but I enjoyed the bit of backstory it gives us at the beginning, which the series lacks.

The movie... of course the scene where Touga drowns is beautiful but sad. I love the way they juxtapose Shiori's story with the scenes of Touga's youth. It's just brilliant. Plus it's a great animation sequence.
I like the scene where Utena throws anthy on the bed and the lights flick off. Not just because it's got sexy implications...it's a tense and carefully planned scene, it tells us a lot about anthy, utena, and the state of their relationship. I like the twist they took with the Utena character in the movie. I like that she finds Anthy tempting, even if she doesn't...yknow....go for it. I mean seriously....series Utena is just a little TOO straight for me.

I just about had a fan-girl-orgasm-heart attack the first time I saw how they changed Utena to have shorter hair and be somewhat more masculine in the movie. Short hair on girls (like kozue ) is super cute.

oh no this post isn't very to the point....I every scene!

Although I'm not a Miki fan, and I'm a Touga fan... I loved this little bit.

Juri:  Nanami-kun fought only to lose...
Juri:  ...just as Student Council President Kiryuu Touga had planned, right?
Touga:  It's regrettable that you see it that way.
Touga:  Since I always try to treat Nanami with affection...
Miki:  Like a pet cat?

In fact, I loved almost all of the diouloge in SKU.  It was just so edible.

Like this:

Anthy to ChuChu:  "This was yours and not mine, wasn't it?"

Just about every time Kozue appeared on screen was a favorite scene of mine.  So awesome... like, her casually screwing Touga in the piano room and then bumping into her brother, her remorse and loneliness, her duel scene, and then all the epically awesome things she said in "Miki's Nesting Box."

The part where Utena actually LOOSES to Touga!  I loved that, it made it feel so much more realistic.  Her fighting in the girl's uniform was one of my favorites in the entire series.

Touga and Saionji riding a bike together.  It was so bittersweet and sad.  Not to mention, how gorgeous the animation was in that shot.

Anthy and Utena... after Utena has gotten back with her date with Akio, and Anthy tells her how "All girls are like the rose bride."

Seitokaichou wrote:

allegoriest wrote:

Seitokaichou wrote:

Movie:

Parting scene between Touga and Utena.

I want that to be my favourite so bad. But I absolutely HATE how he swims away. His Touga feet, paddlin away. I love it so much, but then I see his Touga paddle swim, and I go NOOOO. I can't think of anything else though, its certainly a love/hate thing.

LOL @ Touga feet, paddlin away. You're not alone actually. I was ready to bawl my eyes out until I saw that part; I sadly started chuckling before the tears could trickle down my cheeks. Seriously.

I wish it had gone from the kiss to her face into the solid wall crying. I really do. How I would have loved that so. ;___;

Series: That has got to be episode 25, where Akio loses a bit of his.. Akio-ness (?) and grabs Anthy.

Manga: Akio's pants.

Movie: Kozue & Miki's bathtub scene.

In the Anime, Wakaba's Duel,  Shiori right before she pulls the sword out of Juri and when Miki kisses Kozue's forehead after her duel with Utena.
In the movie, when Anthy stands on the edge of the rose garden right before she is confronted by an angry Utena, when Juri is with Miki in the garage and Miki and Kozue's bath scene
Why. I'm always eager to look into the romatic side of Miki and Kozue's relationship. It is no often you see Juri so vulnerable and Anthy is just so cameragenic you have to love it every time you see her actually thinking by herself.

Last edited by Rose Rust (12-24-2008 03:50:17 PM)

When it comes to the manga I agree with dollface and for the same reason. For the series it's pretty much all of episode 34 where we hear different versions of history. (Anything with Shiori in it is a near-tie). For the movie it's the dance scene. And for the movie manga, it's any scene where Anthy speaks her mind.

How can I choose?

Series: The oh-so morbid and beautiful imagery of Anthy being stabbed by the swords of hatred has and always will be my favorite. There's just something about it that's so spooky and mysterious and creepy and ..well, symbolic, like the rest of the series. I just love it so much. Every time I see a picture from those scenes I have shivers going down my spine and it reminds me how much I love that show. Damn, that sounds kind of creepy.

Movie: The dancing lesbians scene, of course. So beautiful.

Manga: It's been a while since I read it, so I'm not sure. ): Probably when Anthy kissed Utena. The whole "marriage" ceremony thing.. the idea of the engaged getting married to reach the castle and revolutionize the world was just so cool. (I'm remembering this correctly, right?)

Last edited by SleepDebtFairy (01-05-2009 03:25:24 PM)

*waves shyly* Well, it's hard to pick favorites, and I haven't made a thorough rewatch of the series (or reread of the manga for that matter) in a LONG time (will be taking care of it soon btw), so these favorites are most an off the top of my head thing rather than a well reasoned list :-D

Manga (regular, not the movie one): I loved the comedy bits in it, so I'll go with the Touga in a towel scene someone already mentioned, and the curry episode. I remember that cracked me up.

Series:
there are so many - I'm tempted to say all the implied and not-so-implied sex, tee hee. But since I just rewatched it - Wakaba's Black Rose speech about special people was really impressive. What with all the surrealism and the borderline relationships in the series, Wakaba kicks us back into reality with her (very relatable if you ask me) resentment over those who are just on a whole other league than her. I also found it interesting because, in a way, she's the first (?) to really question Utena's role as the hero of the story. Utena is sincere in believing in her "princely" values, she is brave and generous - but like most privileged people, she doesn't see the privilege. And sometimes that's the worst offense to those who aren't privileged (or if it isn't the worst, it's damn annoying).

Movie:
Okay, the dance scene wins. But I also like the elevator scene where Utena realizes Touga is dead. Aww, sad.