Oh, and let's not forget Miki's piano instructor! 

BlackRoseVixen wrote:

the boys pop up on the screen and turn and look at you.... *shudders*

*agrees wholeheartedly*

dollface wrote:

I guess I'm in the same boat as Hiraku (albiet for different reasons). If this is the case, I'm a sick individual.

I don't like you anymore. Kidding. *hugs*

dabouse1 wrote:

Am I the only one that found Touga about to eat a Nanami-stake creepy?

Nope. I was planning to mention it actually--until you beat me.

Oh my, I remedmber now!

While the swords were approaching, there were whispers all around "Witch! Witch! Witch!"... That creeped me as much as Nemuro boys

Akio: You didn't even take off your ring that one time.
Utena grins

Not exactly creepy but dismaying.

The Terms of the Duelist gets to me. Next to the finale, I consider it the most intense episode. Mikage's sheer delusion and madness is both sympathetic and utterly pathetic. Not to mention I think Mamiya's performance revealed so much of Anthy. His talk of eternity seems far more sinister in light of her history. Not to mention this is the episode where Akio's true ruthlessness is shown; he arranges the brutal and horrible murder of a hundred young men, after all. In comparison, his "deflowering" of Utena seems rather insignificant. And just think...all those spirits still linger on campus. If someone dies in Ohtori, is someone trapped there forever? Why the hell was Mikage stupid enough to have pictures of his victims on his walls? Genius my ass.

Halloween thoughts.

OnionPrince wrote:

Speaking of which, when Utena sees those pictures, a close-up of once flashes on screen and all the boys in the photo turn to face her (i.e. us). That's pretty damn creepy too.

My favourite moment with those pictures is when one falls facedown, and then the others fall together in the duel arena. It's not creepy, exactly, but it still twisted my guts something terrible. Poor crazy Professor Nemuro.

ETA: The narrative reason for Mikage having those photographs, IMO, is that it was symbolic of what Akio calls the time where he stopped changing. Mikage is sustained by a perfect memory, a "snapshot" of the time when his life was perfect (which is often what a photograph can be; a tangible memory). However, Akio photoshopped the hell out of Nemuro's memory in order to create Mikage, and when the real photograph of Mamiya and Tokiko falls over that is when Mikage lets it go.

OnionPrince's reason may hold up better in court, though. But don't try this at home, kids -- as always, your mileage may vary.

Last edited by Clarice (10-31-2008 05:51:26 AM)

Clarice wrote:

Akio photoshopped the hell out of Nemuro's memory...

*dies laughing*

I was first introduced to the fandom through the movie, so I had no idea what the actual series was about because the movie makes no sense.
But anyways, that scene, where Anthy is undressing to show Utena her 'scar' or whatever you'd call the gaping hole in her silhouette, and then they start zooming in on the paintings, I wanted to close my eyes it was so eerie and I had no idea what was going to happen next. Utena's eyes were widening and at the time I kept thinking of the bloody corpse from The Shining so I was thoroughly afraid of what might happen next.

The same reaction came later on when the 'video' of her brother and her comes up. I think its the lack of a soundtrack or anything moving in the scene, just the figures. I determined SKU was part horror after this, and was surprised to see nothing else quite that eerie in the series until Anthy started disappearing from her dresses...which was also followed by the creepy 100 victims staring at the viewer and the outlining of the dead bodies on the duel floor during the Black Rose arc.

Last edited by haelsyx (10-26-2009 10:32:17 PM)

sharnii wrote:

Katzenklavier wrote:
Why the hell was Mikage stupid enough to have pictures of his victims on his walls?

Personally I think it's for the same reason that Akio and Anthy do it in the middle of the observatory, over and over, when Utena is sleeping in the next room and could walk in at any minute!

That's right...DAMN GOOD TV.

I always assumed Anthy/Mamiya put them up, which is part of why she is absent for the first part of that episode.

^

Actually I thought someone put them up so others would find them, to brag about what happened. Like a serial killer displaying clippings of their murders on the wall.

For me, one of the creepiest moments, or at least a disturbing moment is when Touga burns Saionji's exchange diary. I think that's when the anime started to "turn" from being a lighthearted teen show into something more sinister...or at least, that's the first real hint of where it's going to go.

Also, seeing Utena and Akio kiss. Near the horse in the forest. It's the ideal prince/princess scenario, and it's wrong, so so very wrong. I mean, she's 14 and he's--what? 32?

Last edited by minervana (11-02-2009 05:07:10 PM)

Hmmm.

I'd say the first time Anthy takes off her glasses and does that slow dead-eyed turn around.

In the very last episode, when the swords are heading towards Utena, screeching. That last shot before they cut away. OMG. So effed up.

The first time the Black Rose boys turned around at the end of the thirteenth episode.

Whenever Anthy uses her shiny glasses motif, and especially when she's watching Utena with those indiscribable eyes... All the red chalk outlines of the fallen people in the arena also does it for me, and whenever Akio wants to be CLOSE to Utena by using his White prince personality and the car outside, kissing her foot...ick. Anthy the witch stabed Utena with her sword without heistation.  Little Utena asleep in her coffin
*the scene in Akio's car with Touga and Sainoji*

Last edited by Cyrias (11-05-2009 09:48:25 PM)