Or a golf cart. That would be awesome!

With a reclining leather bench seat. (Bench seating basically makes a bed. I find it far more preferable to bucket seating, and is one of the reasons I will never give up my car)

Touga lives in the "President's Mansion" though doesnt he? im pretty sure that was on campus

It's never mentioned in the anime whether Touga's residence is his family's, the President's Mansion, or some kind of secret batcave where he tries on costumes and maintains the Bat-Scooter, but fanfics have made his residence into either of the first two, although I believe it's more often the President's Mansion than Touga's home.

You're certainly welcome to do so-- as long as you don't mind me spending all my free moments in your bedroom.

Well, I'm pretty sure the houses are off campus, anyway. That aerial map for the Utena game shows the basic layout, and there doesn't seem to be room for the gigantic mansion houses. Miki and Kozue seemed to have spent their childhood at their house, so it could be that their family owns a few residences with one being in the town Ohtori is in. Touga and Nanami live together in their mansion, and it seemed really elaborate to be a glorified dormitory. The girl said that the part would be at 'the president's house', but she could be either referring to him as the president OR the house as 'The President's House'.

I could've made this up, but I remember in one of the Saionji-living-with-Wakaba episodes a classmate to her door and knocks on it. So that's either a dorm or some girl walked from her place into Wakaba's apartment and knocked directly on her bedroom door.

Could still be offcampus, though.

EDIT: And Touga seems like more of a Vespa guy to me.

Last edited by Hinotori (01-22-2007 01:12:31 AM)

Actually, I think that the dorms are kind of blended into the town. I've seen schools with that kind of layout before where the dorms are on one side of the street and the rest of town is on the other side. The impression I've always gotten from the opening pan-out from episode 1 was that Ohtori was on a big-ass island and that the academic buildings were closer to the center.

Rampala wrote:

Namely, that everyone is trapped in Ohtori, that there is timelessness, and except for "Curried High Trip" where Nanami and minions fly to India-- no one ever leaves campus.

Even when Nanami (and friends) go to India, they aren't free from Ohtori's influence. Note also that her plane appears to be taking off from campus grounds. "Ohtori could use an international airport!"

I think the restrictions Ohtori imposes are mental, not physical. For example, Ruka leaves the campus for an extended period of time, only to return. Arguably at the cost of his life. The hospital in which Juri visits the injured fencing student probably isn't on campus either. (This is Ohtori, so I can't rule it out unequivocally.) Nevertheless, the shadow girls appear as nurses at the hospital and imply it's where Ruka had been staying as well.

There's no physical barrier to lock Anthy behind Ohtori's gates and technically she could leave at any time. It's Akio's manipulation that keeps people bound to the school, as well as what draws them to it.

Getting back to Wakaba, she might be considered too normal to bother trapping at Ohtori. Though she does appear to be entwined in the school's grip, it's not necessarily by active design.

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Lightice wrote:

Even Utena spends her nights outside the walls of Ohtori Academy - we clearly see her climbing the hill to the Academy as her morning routine. But she comes in every day. As Ragnarok says, the barrier isn't physical in nature - you can leave whenever you want, but you always end up coming back.

Between climbing the hills each day, sometimes with Wakaba on her back as well as walking all the way up those stairs to her duels without collapsing afterwards, Utena proves one thing, she's not just fit she's like super-uber-fit.  She would kick some serious bottom if she ever enter the 'Ironman' Triathlon contest.

Raven Nightshade wrote:

Actually, I think that the dorms are kind of blended into the town. I've seen schools with that kind of layout before where the dorms are on one side of the street and the rest of town is on the other side. The impression I've always gotten from the opening pan-out from episode 1 was that Ohtori was on a big-ass island and that the academic buildings were closer to the center.

Seconded.

Personally, I would consider that Ohtori Academy has a HUGE campus, more or less like a town itself. Inside the school there are shops running, roads and traffic and everything. I would assume that EVERYBODY in the academy lives on campus, (yes, including the teacher too) it's a mini-town so big that they can build all kinds of extravagent dorms.

Well, a campus is simply grounds designated as being grounds of the school.  So if the dorm is school housing and located on property owned by Ohtori, it's still "Ohtori", in a way.  The school I work for owns a lot of land around here and has an apartment complex associated with it.  The actual "campus" is just the part of school that has the school buildings and library & stuff.  But FSU has dorms and frats scattered among school buildings right smack in the middle of town, some are campus, some aren't.

I always figured Ohtori itself was pretty isolated.  Like there might be a city there that some of the school property merges with (Wakaba goes grocery shopping), but that town is isolated from other towns and thus more under the influence of Ohtori.  Remember the town in Haibane Renmei?

I agree that the division's importance is more symbolic and mental...but I think there's got to be an associated physical landscape.