Episode 3
-I'm curious as to how Utena managed to fit through the door ways in that dress
- I love how Wakaba almost sent the two of them sailing out of the window
- On the "next time on Utena" bit they say Miki has only faught one duel but seems to be aiming to fight another for Anthy. Just curious about the duels previous to Utena

I wish I could say more about episode three than how hard it made me ship Touga/Utena. I really do. (Utena's such a tsundere!)

One thing I never really noticed about number four is Miki's "Maybe I'm the one who needs tuning" line. As an aspiring teleplay writer I was very impressed with that dialouge. However, Nanami's melodrama is still my favorite part. You get to see how much of a glutton for attention she is.

Conveniently timed to coincide with the great SKU rewatch, this week's Anime News Nina webcomic has a little something for the SKU fans:

http://fast.animenewsnetwork.com/anime- … 2010-03-24

Ah, this sounds fun. Maybe I'll join in, but I did a binge rewatch of the whole series like a year ago, so maybe not. Hmm.

Well, the series actually does get interesting pretty quickly if you know how to look.

Episode 3

- Anthy's blankfaced pause right before she agrees to go to the ball is a reaction that I don't quite know what to make of it. I think it's supposed to be showing how much Utena is throwing Anthy off of her practiced Rose Bride role.

-TOUGA'S FACE WILL HAUNT ME FOR ALL ETERNITY. UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

- Am I the only one who heard Naji's line from the dub? "Fuck YOU Table"

Episode 4

-Miki talks like an old man, it's quite off putting for how young he is.

-If everyone weren't fucked up, I'd totally ship MikixNanami. They would be so cute together if they didn't have such crippling complexes

-Miki worries me greatly. I think out of everyone in the series he buys into the delusion of Ohtori the most and shows the most danger of becoming SO MUCH like Akio *criiiinge*

haelsyx wrote:

Also, was Touga's reaction to Utena false? (The wide-eyed ness, we'll make a beautiful couple nonsense) Seemed a little cookie cutter playboy for me so I'm gonna go ahead and say he was trying to play her for an average girl.

I'd say less to do with her and more to do with smugness that he got her to wear a dress. Either way, horrifying. Touga doesn't really clean up very well until later.

Also, there's a reason Miki is my least favorite character. And that reason is that...he's so innocent. Would someone please blow this kid already? I know the 'music' is a metaphor but still. That's not even a phallic metaphor!

No, I maintain you don't see Touga's colors (hurr red hurr) until episode 9. At this point they seem to still play with him as the playboy character, and really that becomes just stupidly unimportant later--to the point where it's made an afterthought to larger things (the girl that approaches him and he kisses and then drops the card).

Saionji, however, adorable and full of rage and poorly compensated insecurity from day one.

Uhm.... Sorry, I completely forgot to post here! Been so busy with math homework... I'm going to have to do some catching up when this is over.


Episode 05 - "The Sunny Garden - Finale"







Episode 06 - "Nanami-sama, Beware!"

Okay so. I'm surprised, truly surprised, that Touga boxes. I mean, it makes sense for him to be into any sport that isn't a team sport--not his thing, I suspect. But boxing is for aristocrats to spectate, not participate, in. It's like the emperor of Rome fighting in the Colosseum (you liked that movie, huh?) I just don't see anything in boxing he can't accomplish with kendo, except that perhaps boxing strips the 'ritualism' of kendo and the spiritual-mindedness. It's the same devotion to strategy, to focus, to knowing your opponent, but the emphasis is less on a diffuse concept of mind-body-spirit and more on mind over matter. Actually I suppose those terms, boxing makes more sense for Touga than kendo does, where it'd sit poorly with Saionji, who is so desperate to infuse his life with meaning.

That said....DUDE. What if someone handed him his ass? He's so vain, I can't imagine him doing well with a broken chin, nose, and clavicle.

Also, how adorable that Miki imagines Touga so sexually. Not without reason obviously, but it's so...cute. I dunno how Touga resisted corrupting that poor little guy.

There should be an almighty reckon one day, Nanami vs. Animal Kingdom

Also, what was with the cactus Mitsuru lifts after he finishes reminiscing about Nanami and Touga? My understanding is that in flower language cactus=sex, and who doesn't remember the TougaxAkio cactus room scene. I'm not exactly sure what its context is here though.

He could certainly nail the ego. But RDJ is a little too rugged to play Touga, don't you think?

Going by the great curry high trip shot, Anthy- or Anthy's body, rather- has smaller breasts than Nanami. Could Nanami's superiority complex  be explained at last? Does size really matter?

Last edited by crystalwren (04-04-2010 11:15:24 PM)

OMG EPISODE SEVEN.
I'm definitely going to write something down!