This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#26 | Back to Top05-16-2010 12:18:00 AM
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Syora wrote:
Jumped-up preps duel each other in order to gain metaphysical powers to solve their problems instead of learning common sense and proper communication skills.
This, to me, looks like a winner. 
God, so true.
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#28 | Back to Top05-16-2010 10:12:48 PM
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Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
"Rings. Princes. Roses. Engagement. Duels. The End of the World."
This has my vote, although the others are (arguably) funnier.
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#29 | Back to Top05-16-2010 10:19:05 PM
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randomprojects wrote:
Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
"Rings. Princes. Roses. Engagement. Duels. The End of the World."
This has my vote, although the others are (arguably) funnier.
Actually, I was going for minimalist deadpan zen more than funny. 
I'm glad you liked it, though. Thank you!
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#30 | Back to Top05-16-2010 10:55:18 PM
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Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
randomprojects wrote:
Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
"Rings. Princes. Roses. Engagement. Duels. The End of the World."
This has my vote, although the others are (arguably) funnier.
Actually, I was going for minimalist deadpan zen more than funny.
Here I thought you were going for the Princess Bride vibe. You know: fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love...
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#31 | Back to Top05-17-2010 10:27:37 AM
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Here I thought you were going for the Princess Bride vibe. You know: fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love...
That works too! I must admit, I'm not as big a Princess Bride nerd as I probably should be. 
I like the movie quite a bit, but my major allegiances have always been Spaceballs and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 
I'd like to think up a couple more, but it's trickier than I thought to summarize a show in such a sentence or two!
Unless I use my own standby, which has its own prerequisites to fully get it:
"It's Neon Genesis Evangelion, except with roses and duels instead of biomechs and Angels."
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#32 | Back to Top05-17-2010 10:54:16 AM
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I'd like to think up a couple more, but it's trickier than I thought to summarize a show in such a sentence or two!
Unless I use my own standby, which has its own prerequisites to fully get it:
"It's Neon Genesis Evangelion, except with roses and duels instead of biomechs and Angels."
The second time I decided to give the show a try (this was successful) was when I heard something like this. The first time I tried to watch the show (could not after first episode, I couldn't adjust to the art style just yet :/ ) the summary was more like "Sailor Moon if lesbianism* was allowed and Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon actually had sex."
*Ironic because I think Sailor Moon had more Yuri content than Utena, which is funny because a lot of Yuri fan girls get Utena recommended to them despite lack of sexual content, and yaoi fangirls generally hear nothing despite OVERT AKIO/TOUGA sex scenes.
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Its an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco-Oscar Wilde.
Anyone get the feeling finding Utena is going to be a lot like where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
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#33 | Back to Top05-19-2010 04:05:20 AM
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Here's my version: A High school girl with a tomboyish outlook gets 'accidentally' engaged to a former Indian princess while in the older brother's 'study'. Much cross-dressing, philosophy and MOAR teenage angst ensure as the High school girl involves the cultish Student Council in her fiasco... AND HER ENTIRE CLASS
In lumine tuo, videbimus amor ('In your light, we shall love') Slippy slippery mambo~ everyone at Ohtori is in some kind of spiritual land, created by Goddess Anthy and her brother Akio?!
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#34 | Back to Top05-19-2010 01:19:30 PM
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Girl seeks prince. Realty TV like stuff occurs.
Though of this because of bravo daytime programing.
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#35 | Back to Top05-19-2010 01:50:40 PM
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"Jumped-up preps duel each other in order to gain metaphysical powers to solve their problems instead of learning common sense and proper communication skills."
This.
Just... so... true
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#36 | Back to Top05-20-2010 06:57:20 AM
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A 39 episode series where a girl searches for her imaginary boyfriend. She doesn't find him.
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#37 | Back to Top05-20-2010 04:16:48 PM
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Jock steals nerdy guy's girlfriend. Nerdy guy's friends and their wacky teacher try a variety of crazy schemes to woo the girlfriend back, and get even with the jock.
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#38 | Back to Top05-21-2010 11:58:39 AM
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Wait wait so who's the nerdy guy? 
Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade.
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#39 | Back to Top05-21-2010 01:04:14 PM
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Giovanna wrote:
Wait wait so who's the nerdy guy?
I was wondering that too.
Saionji=nerd?
thothptah wrote:
A 39 episode series where a girl searches for her imaginary boyfriend. She doesn't find him.
This one has my vote, up there with both the mullet ones 
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Its an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco-Oscar Wilde.
Anyone get the feeling finding Utena is going to be a lot like where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
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#40 | Back to Top05-21-2010 01:57:20 PM
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- A man with a mullet compensates for the size of penis, pointlessly because apparently it's fucking huge.
Yasha: Mullets are always relevant.
Pardon, the offensiveness of your statement has caused a minor hitch in my ability to control my intellective bowels, hence the delay. Did you actually state that mullets have any actual purpose? You must know that I inserted that detail only out of my extreme distaste for Akio and the wispy little dong hanging off the beefy arse of his neck. It in no way has a hypnotic control over me - 'twas merely an illustrative detail. And furthermore I don't give a damn about yourwhat's this you say? You...you want me to pet you? But I'm typing on the forum. Everyone...everyone would know.
No. No. I must resist. This epidermal indulgence must not come to pass, no matter how much business is in the back. I don't go in for these back door shenanigans. Your power is useless against my endless contempt for
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#41 | Back to Top05-21-2010 03:36:36 PM
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Katz, I fucking love you.
Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade.
~ Professor Arisa Konno, Eng 1001 (Freshman Literature and Composition)
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#42 | Back to Top05-21-2010 03:37:20 PM
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Katz, your back door mullet shenanigans never cease to amaze me. I can only imagine that someday, somehow, something I say will again stroke you to these heights of intellectual and emotional vigor.
You truly awe me.
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#43 | Back to Top05-25-2010 09:58:21 PM
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A three-car pileup between Sailor Moon, Brother Dear Brother, and Demian results in the weirdest gnostic allegory since God hit Philip K. Dick with a pink laser.
E: Everybody's got something to hide except... wait, no, especially me and my monkey.
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#44 | Back to Top05-27-2010 02:27:03 AM
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. . . My username?
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#46 | Back to Top06-25-2010 01:12:45 AM
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Rose of Versailles' successor, with better hair.
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#47 | Back to Top06-25-2010 05:55:33 AM
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Naji wrote:
"Crossdresser cries her way into a coffin. Former prostitute escapes with her monkey."
This. I think I die of laughter every time this summary pops in my head.
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#48 | Back to Top06-26-2010 11:44:55 PM
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Student Council Arc wrote:
Crossdressing girl with a GF finds herself engaged to a girl; Insists she is totally straight.
Black Rose Saga wrote:
Personal issues are dealt with after listening to psychobabble in an elevator.
Akio Arc wrote:
Three girls move into a giant phallus. A half naked man ignores road safety rules.
Apocalypse Arc wrote:
A girl stops being a pincushion, leaves with her marmoset.
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#49 | Back to Top06-27-2010 02:41:24 AM
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You know, the other night an absolutely terrible one hit me as I was trying to go to sleep:
"Indian brother and sister emigrate, attempt to introduce sister-shish kebab to the discerning Japanese diner. It doesn't work out."
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#50 | Back to Top07-23-2010 03:19:30 PM
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An absurdly powerful student council, a mysterious girl, and a tomboy. All have issues… THEY FIGHT CRIME!
Alternatively,
An absurdly powerful student council, a mysterious girl, and a tomboy. All have issues… ADVENTURE HO!
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