hello, just here to preserve my account.

I shall now return to my lurking ways.

Yo. I go by "Ultima". I won't bore anyone with details about myself; I don't think it's important and that's not why I'm here. More importantly, I finished watching all of Utena a few weeks ago, and...wow. I'm always looking for something "more" in my anime, and all I can say is I'm sorry I didn't watch Utena sooner. After letting it marinate in my head for a while, it easily took a spot in my top 5 favorites and I'm now hopelessly obsessed. I just want to re-watch it like 10 more times (and I may have already started lol). At this point, I'm on a mission to pick up the DVD sets, music, and all the manga (and I don't even read manga). Despite the upcoming Blu-ray release in the US, the LE DVD sets look far too gorgeous to not pick up. I also watched the movie and read the movie-manga, both of which I enjoyed, but not as much as the series of course. Judging by comments I've seen in various places so far, I think the movie gets a little too much hate, but I can understand why. I just thought the biggest issue was its length.

I probably won't be posting here much, if at all after this, but at the very least I wanted to give my thanks to the people who put this site together as well as those who contributed the essays, art, and everything else. I love dedicated fansites like this, and the fact that there's a forum, too, is definitely awesome. I've read several of the essays in the "Analysis" section, and I'm grateful for them as they've contributed a lot to my overall appreciation and love of the show thanks to my newfound understanding. I'm personally really bad at (read: nigh-incapable of) reading into symbols and deeper meanings, so I'm always up to reading other people's interpretations as that usually helps me form theories of my own.

tl;dr: Utena is great. Site is great. Love you all.

Last edited by Ultima (12-09-2015 07:14:05 AM)

Hello! I've been coming here every so often for Utena stuff since I watched the show a couple years back, since you guys have a great collection of content here. It's so cool that this fansite has been around for so long - thank you to the people who've been maintaining it all this time!

I've wanted to play the Utena game myself since I read Dallbun's Let's Play on the forums a while back, but I figured it would never happen since I don't know a lick of Japanese. Then a few days ago I found out that there was a full translation finished!! And now I am finally signing myself up here so I can download the game and thank the people who worked on it.

Hi there everyone! Sooo Utena is no quick possibly my favorite anime - as of very recently. Around the start of last month I started Utena somewhat on a whim - it's a show I've vaguely been meaning to watch for a while but watching dat OP several times in a row made me just dive & watch the first episode. I knew that it was about a girl wanting to be a prince lesbians and involved duels but I really had no idea what I was in for. (I have vague recollections of imagining the show way differently when I first read up on it over a year or maybe two ago) I love LGBT romance so I was pretty excited for that & the promise of spurned gender roles.

So it was a slow journey and I watched 1-3 episodes a night (there were maybe 2 nights where I didn't watch any) but I finally finished the show back on the 23rd. I am just in love with this show & it's characters - I've had some of my own theories and interpretations of things & I thought this might be a good outlet. The sheer amount of Utena analysis things is almost overwhelming though (lol) and there are so many deviant ideas that I wonder where I'll fit in heh.

Alsooo...yesterday I watched Adolescence of Utena...at like 2 in the morning (great idea). I loved it but there's definitely a LOT I need to sift through lol. I've read a few of the things back at Empty Movement & also followed along with a few episode to episode/series reviews/analysis things. (Like a reddit thread following it - "Adventuresofcomicbookgirl"'s tumblr - a few other places)

So there ya are - here I am - and Hello!

Hello everyone!

It's lovely to find a place among other fans; I don't know anyone near me who enjoys Utena, and the posts I've read here so far are delightful.

I first saw the show about ten years ago, let it fade, then fell in love with it all over again last year.  There's so much there that's inspiring, heart-wrenching, and thought-provoking, and I'm looking forward to joining in the discussions here.

Also, I finished my first piece of Utena fanfiction recently, and this site was an amazing help - both for useful materials (like analyses and scripts) and chuckles (from some of the discussion threads!).  So THANK YOU very much for making this little garden on the web!!

-Astrinde

Um...Hello! My name is Julie, I'm from the US (east coast) and I've... never used a forum on anything before? I likely won't post much, but I've already enjoyed reading many of the posts here! Utena is very dear to my heart, and I'm currently rewatching it and soaking up the analysis (analysises? analyses?) that people have posted. So... yeah! Nice to meet everyone!

Hello!
I've just finished the anime, but I'm already revisiting episodes for all those things I overlooked the first time. I actually first started watching/heard about SKU because I came across this forum while browsing, so...I suppose thanks for inadvertently introducing me to something cool? It certainly is something that really defies the initial expectations one has.
:-)
I probably won't post very often, but I'll certainly enjoy reading all the interesting analyses here!

Hello! to all our new members!

Ciao tutti!~

After years without knowing that the page was still open ... I 'm back !

I'm Anna, 10 years later with more years in my "back and face" and with another language in my list of languages I have learned.
and... my English still sucks wohooo!! ok no.

Years passed and one is still fan of SKU.

I was from Ecuador but I was "kicked" from my own house (cuz I'm a "old" person, would have to be independent woman ) and now I live in Italy... *trueLovelystoryofmylife*
Okey, that's it...
the truth is that. I DONT KNOW WHAT ELSE I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ME!? I'm bad introducing myself. I'm a person not a dinosaur.(?)

Okey stop,
the end.

Hello! My name is Petra, I watched Utena a few years ago and really fell in love with it! It really means a lot to me, it made me open my eyes about lots of things... I like anime and manga and all that stuff and my all time favourite is Sailor Moon. I also love dolls like BJD's and I also like to draw and sing.
My favourite characters from Utena are Nanami, Wakaba and Anthy! I see a lot of myself in Nanami and Wakaba.
I'm sorry my introduction isn't that good, heh ; it's really hard to write about yourself. English isn't my first language so I apologize if anything I write comes off odd... (Tbh I am not good at writing even in my own language )

Last edited by just-a-princess (03-30-2016 04:44:06 PM)

Hi everyone!
I'm a 20 yo girl from South Italy. This is my first time ever on a forum and I feel quite disoriented, but I really wanted to join here, so I'm happy like this. I'm not used at writing in English, so, if you find something strange written by me, don't have problem correcting me!
I'm a small girl who looks 16, I'm into majokko and a couple days ago I started watching the old Sailor Moon anime, since I've never watched it (I know it's quite strange, I know), because is an important piece of anime culture and because of the touch of Ikuhara. I love yuri, too. I like Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Fate franchise (actually I've played only to Stay Night and Hollow Ataraxia), Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, the Monogatari Series. I enjoy playing videogames but I'm really bad at it, so I haven't much experience. I prefer JRPG. I adore the Ace Attorney series, too!
I watched the Utena anime almost a year ago, after  y e a r s  of fear of anime longer than 26 episodes. I adored it and convinced the one who now is my boyfriend to watch it too (we love Touga). I'm happy I waited some years to watch, since the experience gained during studying and just growing gave me more keys for reading the story. Who knows what I'll discover on the next rewatches?
My favourite character are: Utena, Anthy, Wakaba, Touga and Juri.
After reading some discussions here, I fell in love with the atmosphere... Hope it's the beginning of a nice experience.

Last edited by Illya's Song (04-25-2016 06:15:01 AM)

I'm a student from Rhode Island, and though I've always loved comics and manga, I never really took a shine to anime because watching takes more time than reading. But I had heard of RGU from a lot of comic sites and I finally read the manga. I really liked it, but didn't watch the show until it turned out that my imitation-Netflix had he dub. (I like the dub a lot) I blew through it, it was amazing and I introduced a friend to it. Now I'm trying to read and watch every single Utena thing possible. I joined the forum to get the game and novels, but I hope to be a worthwhile addition to IRG.

Basics:
Name: Toyin (Revolutionary)
Age: 15
Avatar: A character from this rhythm game Trap Volume Two
Favorite Books: Redwall, Bad Kitty, Ruby Redfort, Clarice Bean
Favorite Comics: Hopeless Savages, Courtney Crumrin, The Wicked + The Divine (I read so many
Favorite Manga: Otoyomegatari, Musashi #9, Gals!, The Utena Movie
Favorite Shows: RGU, Jacob Two-Two, Sally Bollywoof, Sandra the Fairytale Detective (I love cartoons)

I'm up for most anything!