This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)

#51 | Back to Top10-29-2008 04:17:49 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Oh, and let's not forget Miki's piano instructor!  emot-gonk

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#52 | Back to Top10-29-2008 04:42:30 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

OnlyInThisLight wrote:

Oh, and let's not forget Miki's piano instructor!  emot-gonk

I always found the panting sounds he makes running down the stairs to be a little on the obscene side...altho maybe that was just me and my filthy, filthy mind XD


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#53 | Back to Top10-29-2008 06:37:09 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

BlackRoseVixen wrote:

the boys pop up on the screen and turn and look at you.... *shudders*

*agrees wholeheartedly*

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I guess I'm in the same boat as Hiraku (albiet for different reasons). If this is the case, I'm a sick individual.

I don't like you anymore. emot-tongue Kidding. *hugs*

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Am I the only one that found Touga about to eat a Nanami-stake creepy?

Nope. I was planning to mention it actually--until you beat me. school-devil


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#54 | Back to Top10-30-2008 03:31:04 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Well there are some scary scenes in SKU...
1) Utena (in Anthy`s body) is going to write in Saionji`s diary. She was soooo angry...
2)When the people killed Anthy. She wanted to protect Dios...
3)The swords were going to kill Utena, when she sad: "Sorry, Anthy. Sorry for playing prince".


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#55 | Back to Top10-30-2008 03:35:54 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Oh my, I remedmber now!

While the swords were approaching, there were whispers all around "Witch! Witch! Witch!"... That creeped me as much as Nemuro boys emot-gonk


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#56 | Back to Top10-30-2008 05:16:41 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

To Me, the creepiest moment will always be finding out Mamiya was actually Anthy.


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#57 | Back to Top10-30-2008 07:04:37 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Akio: You didn't even take off your ring that one time.
Utena grins

Not exactly creepy but dismaying.

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#58 | Back to Top10-30-2008 07:06:59 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

brian wrote:

Akio: You didn't even take off your ring that one time.
Utena grins

Not exactly creepy but dismaying.

This scene is particuarly creepy when it fades to the flashback. For a second it looks almost like Young Utena sitting on the couch as the background changes. I think that's the same episode....


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#59 | Back to Top10-31-2008 02:25:07 AM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

The Terms of the Duelist gets to me. Next to the finale, I consider it the most intense episode. Mikage's sheer delusion and madness is both sympathetic and utterly pathetic. Not to mention I think Mamiya's performance revealed so much of Anthy. His talk of eternity seems far more sinister in light of her history. Not to mention this is the episode where Akio's true ruthlessness is shown; he arranges the brutal and horrible murder of a hundred young men, after all. In comparison, his "deflowering" of Utena seems rather insignificant. And just think...all those spirits still linger on campus. If someone dies in Ohtori, is someone trapped there forever? Why the hell was Mikage stupid enough to have pictures of his victims on his walls? Genius my ass.

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#60 | Back to Top10-31-2008 04:19:46 AM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Katzenklavier wrote:

Why the hell was Mikage stupid enough to have pictures of his victims on his walls?

Just in case he was suspected, of course.

Mikage: "Why, of course I didn't kill them, your honor. I have pictures of the victims on my walls." emot-biggrin

Speaking of which, when Utena sees those pictures, a close-up of once flashes on screen and all the boys in the photo turn to face her (i.e. us). That's pretty damn creepy too.

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#61 | Back to Top10-31-2008 05:46:43 AM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

OnionPrince wrote:

Speaking of which, when Utena sees those pictures, a close-up of once flashes on screen and all the boys in the photo turn to face her (i.e. us). That's pretty damn creepy too.

My favourite moment with those pictures is when one falls facedown, and then the others fall together in the duel arena. It's not creepy, exactly, but it still twisted my guts something terrible. Poor crazy Professor Nemuro. emot-gonk

ETA: The narrative reason for Mikage having those photographs, IMO, is that it was symbolic of what Akio calls the time where he stopped changing. Mikage is sustained by a perfect memory, a "snapshot" of the time when his life was perfect (which is often what a photograph can be; a tangible memory). However, Akio photoshopped the hell out of Nemuro's memory in order to create Mikage, and when the real photograph of Mamiya and Tokiko falls over that is when Mikage lets it go.

OnionPrince's reason may hold up better in court, though. But don't try this at home, kids -- as always, your mileage may vary. emot-biggrin

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#62 | Back to Top10-31-2008 06:57:50 AM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Clarice, your analysis of even the most twisted moments in Utena never ceases to amaze me school-freud


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#63 | Back to Top10-31-2008 09:44:59 AM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Clarice wrote:

Akio photoshopped the hell out of Nemuro's memory...

*dies laughing*


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#64 | Back to Top11-01-2008 05:55:00 AM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Katzenklavier wrote:
Why the hell was Mikage stupid enough to have pictures of his victims on his walls?

Personally I think it's for the same reason that Akio and Anthy do it in the middle of the observatory, over and over, when Utena is sleeping in the next room and could walk in at any minute!

That's right...DAMN GOOD TV. school-devil

On a more serious note, you analysis was cool Clarice.

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#65 | Back to Top10-26-2009 10:25:11 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

I was first introduced to the fandom through the movie, so I had no idea what the actual series was about because the movie makes no sense.
But anyways, that scene, where Anthy is undressing to show Utena her 'scar' or whatever you'd call the gaping hole in her silhouette, and then they start zooming in on the paintings, I wanted to close my eyes it was so eerie and I had no idea what was going to happen next. Utena's eyes were widening and at the time I kept thinking of the bloody corpse from The Shining so I was thoroughly afraid of what might happen next.

The same reaction came later on when the 'video' of her brother and her comes up. I think its the lack of a soundtrack or anything moving in the scene, just the figures. I determined SKU was part horror after this, and was surprised to see nothing else quite that eerie in the series until Anthy started disappearing from her dresses...which was also followed by the creepy 100 victims staring at the viewer and the outlining of the dead bodies on the duel floor during the Black Rose arc.

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#66 | Back to Top10-26-2009 10:56:21 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

The movie did creep me out too. That part where she shows her the scar, and mainly with Makio the rapist drugging her. The creepiest thing is music. It's this waltzy crap that keeps repeating itself.
*Duh duhn nuh, Duh duhn nuh, Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuhn Nah Nah*

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#67 | Back to Top10-27-2009 01:41:05 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

sharnii wrote:

Katzenklavier wrote:
Why the hell was Mikage stupid enough to have pictures of his victims on his walls?

Personally I think it's for the same reason that Akio and Anthy do it in the middle of the observatory, over and over, when Utena is sleeping in the next room and could walk in at any minute!

That's right...DAMN GOOD TV. school-devil

I always assumed Anthy/Mamiya put them up, which is part of why she is absent for the first part of that episode.

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#68 | Back to Top10-27-2009 04:01:44 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

OnlyInThisLight wrote:

I always assumed Anthy/Mamiya put them up, which is part of why she is absent for the first part of that episode.

Or else Mikage simply doesn't see anything bad or questionable about what he does, and fully intended to go straight with Utena once she'd been allied with him, thinking that she'd naturally agree with him. Geniouses can have blind spots, too. emot-rolleyes


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#69 | Back to Top10-27-2009 04:25:49 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

^

Actually I thought someone put them up so others would find them, to brag about what happened. Like a serial killer displaying clippings of their murders on the wall.


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#70 | Back to Top10-27-2009 04:41:05 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

My Anthy theory is more based off on how she got those photos... and we all know Akio is the one running the projector and loves his camera.  Although, Lightice does make a good point.  And it really works for Mikage's character.  Perhaps Mamiya gave him the photos, and in addition to the reasons Lightice mentioned, displays them like a proud parent putting his child's doodles on the fridge?

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#71 | Back to Top11-02-2009 05:05:32 PM

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For me, one of the creepiest moments, or at least a disturbing moment is when Touga burns Saionji's exchange diary. I think that's when the anime started to "turn" from being a lighthearted teen show into something more sinister...or at least, that's the first real hint of where it's going to go.

Also, seeing Utena and Akio kiss. Near the horse in the forest. It's the ideal prince/princess scenario, and it's wrong, so so very wrong. I mean, she's 14 and he's--what? 32?

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#72 | Back to Top11-02-2009 06:23:17 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Utena's 14, but Akio and Anthy are, for all intent and purpose, timeless.

Which kinda renders the whole "half your age plus 7" thing a moot point.


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#73 | Back to Top11-02-2009 08:12:30 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Hmmm.

I'd say the first time Anthy takes off her glasses and does that slow dead-eyed turn around.

In the very last episode, when the swords are heading towards Utena, screeching. That last shot before they cut away. OMG. So effed up.

The first time the Black Rose boys turned around at the end of the thirteenth episode.


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#74 | Back to Top11-04-2009 04:03:01 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

BioKraze wrote:

Utena's 14, but Akio and Anthy are, for all intent and purpose, timeless.

Which kinda renders the whole "half your age plus 7" thing a moot point.

It makes it even worse!

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#75 | Back to Top11-05-2009 09:35:14 PM

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Re: Creepiest Moments in SKU

Whenever Anthy uses her shiny glasses motif, and especially when she's watching Utena with those indiscribable eyes... All the red chalk outlines of the fallen people in the arena also does it for me, and whenever Akio wants to be CLOSE to Utena by using his White prince personality and the car outside, kissing her foot...ick. Anthy the witch stabed Utena with her sword without heistation.  Little Utena asleep in her coffin emot-gonk
*the scene in Akio's car with Touga and Sainoji* emot-aaa

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