SleepDebtFairy wrote:

New Orleans makes me think of Utena a lot.

Kiseki wrote:

SleepDebtFairy wrote:

New Orleans makes me think of Utena a lot.

Do tell... er, if I may ask.. What aspects of the city remind you of Utena?
I've never visited New Orleans so I wouldn't know.

RoseCon 2010 happened there.

Giovanna, Yasha, Satyreyes, SleepDebtFairy, Riri-kins, BlackRoseVixen, Stormcrow, Lex, Frau Eva, Rhyaniwyn, Frosty, Dollface, SexingTouga24/7/365, Jmie5, Clarice, and Ashnod all got together, had fantastic food, consumed delicious beverages and Saionji cookies, wore dueling roses, and somewhere in there also had time to have a ton of conversations about our favorite fandom.

Being There poster remind me of Anthy walking in the ending theme of the last episode.

I'd love to see Nanami wearing one of those eggs and we know she has a thing for eggs as it is!

My university has a this rather tall tower that really stands out. From outside it looks a bit like Akio's but inside it reminds me more of the crazy designs in the movie:



It's not the best quality but there you have it.

I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip to Venice recently, and while walking over a bridge and stopping to admire some flowers I heard "Dona Dona" rising over the buildings. Someone was playing it a few streets down. It was some masterful violin-playing, and it gave me a little smile.

So i've playing Bayonetta 2 and finished it, the plot is shocking similar to Utena's, for example look at  this closeup shot of Loptr, the main antagonist of the game:

Facially there's an uncanny resemblance to Akio with the exception of the grayish eyes since Akio himself had Green eyes then theirs the fact that he is one of two halves of Aesir(The leader of the choas realm and creator of the eyes of the world) along with Loki who was Amnesic up until chapter XV in the game which is like how Akio was original part of a singular entity.
And Loptr's goal was to regain a power he loss which was the ability to control the eyes of the world like how Akio wanted to gets his godlike abilities back from Dios through revolutionizing the world.

It may be a coincidence because Hideki Kamiya himself probably is't the kind of guy that would be into a Avant-Garde anime like Utena knowing him but who knows.

TIME FOR NERD (Conjecture is FUN.)

Akio's projector is most likely inspired by the Zeiss projectors between the Mark III and VI, which span from 1957 to 1968. The dumbbell shape put two primary sets of lenses (northern and southern sky) on opposite sides of a central axis, with secondary smaller spheres to project bodies expected to move across a sky at a different rate from the stars (ie. planets, moon.)

None of the projectors look clearly enough like Akio's for positive ID. (The weird spike things coming off the center have no place in any projector I've seen, but said spike things also look suspiciously similar to the mechanism that opens the duel arena, but I digress...) I'm inclined toward the Mark IV, for a few reasons. 1. It does bear the most resemblance to his, being the first model to abandon the 'spider legs' for a more solid base. 2. It was the projector model Ikuhara was most likely to have encountered, since more than one planetarium in Tokyo used it (until very recently.) 3. The Mark IV was released in 1957, which is, coincidentally, the year his particular model of Corvette came out.

I knew a lot more of that offhand than I should. Sorry for lack of pics, I just came off a night shift and am only lasting as long as it takes to shovel scrambled eggs in my mouth.

I was a space nerd long before Akio.

I actually avoid learning about projectors (would be expensive to travel the world chasing them) and telescopes. Because if I read up on telescopes, well...I'd want one. Especially since I'm a three hour drive from places where a telescope would truly shine.

Anyway, it does make an interesting headcanon, and going from Amsterdam to Tokyo in that time frame does imply they favor areas with some degree of instability in the social or cultural structure. I wonder, would they still be in Japan today?

Opened my copy of Saikano and there's a subscription card for Animerica Extra with an Utena cover.

I was on Tumblr and saw this post and thought it would make an AMAZING cosplay opportunity. I mean, they're not swords, but arrows are pretty close...

Unsurprisingly, this video reminds me of Utena. And the sequel vid.

I believe there is a Ferris Wheel in only one episode (The Prince who Runs Through the Night iirc) and yet I strongly associate ferris wheels with SKU.