This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#1 | Back to Top11-11-2006 08:28:56 AM
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Kunihiko Ikuhara Materials
Oh, that wacky director Ikuni. He's a barrel of laughs. I searched around online for a little bit and turned up every interview that Google could find me, for the purposes of providing a more semi-comprehensive set of links here. 
At least, comprehensive in terms of Ikuhara interviews available online. Some of them are more fun and/or interesting than others, of course.
Newtype Magazine Interview (w/Hideaki Anno) (November 1998)
http://www.cjas.org/~leng/anno-ikuhara.txt
Anime Expo 2000 Interview Summary
http://www.ming-ling.net/utena/creators.html
Bonus! "That's Top Secret" Video Clip
http://aglick.web.wesleyan.edu/Dallbun/ … _watch.mpg
IRC Interview (October 2000)
http://uranime.nekomusume.net/misc/ikuh … iew.iphtml
Akadot Interview (February 2001)
http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=28
Akadot Feature
http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=27
Akadot Drinking Game
http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=29
Ikuni Observation Journal
http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=18
Fanime Con Interview (March 2001)
http://anime-tourist.com/article.php?sid=150
Anime News Network Interview: (April 2001)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature.php?id=65
"Bandwidth" Interview: (November 2001)
http://www.ybfree.com/13IKUHARA1.html
Minor:
Arisawa Takanori Interview Mentioning Ikuhara
http://www.kurozuki.com/takeuchi/anime/arisawa.html
Marc Davis Lecture w/ Ikuhara (March 2001)
http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=19
Megumi Ogata Interview Mentioning Ikuhara
http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=31
If anybody can turn up any other interviews or such, please, share them! For instance, anybody have a copy of Photoculture Addicts #67? It apperently has some Ikuhara anecdotes. 
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#2 | Back to Top11-11-2006 01:39:06 PM
Re: Kunihiko Ikuhara Materials
These are awesome! 
But "Akadot Drinking Game" is the same as "Akadot Interview (February 2001)." And it doesn't seem to be a drinking game, so I'm guessing you meant this link: http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=29
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#3 | Back to Top11-11-2006 01:52:16 PM
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Re: Kunihiko Ikuhara Materials
satyreyes wrote:
These are awesome!
Yep, you're right, my mistake. Fixed!
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#4 | Back to Top11-16-2006 12:11:32 PM
Re: Kunihiko Ikuhara Materials
These were a blast. Also, I hate that man. 
Srsly, if I ever ran into him, I'd punch him.
Coincidentally, I'd do the same thing to Tom Cruise, who he seems to think he resembles.
There are piles of interviews in the artbooks with other people involved in the series. I frankly suspect the weird symbolic references to paintings and such weren't all Ikuhara's idea.
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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