Giovanna wrote:

ZSPACE wrote:

You sound like my kind of guy. I have done almost everything sexually you can think of  ( i know utena is perfect for me) and i have no boundaries.

Wow it's like I'm really at Ohtori Academy!

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NOW YOU SHALL ALL CALL ME AKIO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, I'm Aileene and... like Utena... As I assume pretty much everyone here does too. It's really the only anime I watch, and I've been watching it for FAR too long. I also like to watch the Chinese version for reasons unknown, but do muchly prefer the original.

I like to draw fanart, but I never end up scanning anything... My favourite character would have to be Ruka. I study Interior Environmental Design at my very Ohtori-esque college and hope to make it to architecture after I leave here. I've started a bunch of costumes from the show, but never seem to finish... mostly out of pure laziness. I USED to like to cook until I became allergic to most of my favourite foods. ~___~ I'm 19 and live in Texas, where it is far to hot and sunny for living methinks.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Mindy... I'm almost 22 and I live in a suburb of Houston, Texas.  I'm going for my associate's in Medical Imaging, which will make me an x-ray technologist eventually.  I used to be an animation student in Edinboro University of Pennslyvania.  It didn't work out.  Somehow, I had a premonition that having an art degree wasn't going to get me out of my parents' house and living on my own right away, which is my goal.

I've always liked animated stuff, so becoming an anime fan was a natural step after I discovered a local Hastings that actually had dubbed tapes of Ranma 1/2 back in 1996, which is really unusual when the only anime on TV was Dragonball Z and Sailormoon when it wasn't cancelled or renewed.  Oh god, I feel so old since I can remember discovering that an actual manga magazine, Mixxzine, was going to be published in the US, and they were going to translate Sailormoon.  I've been an officer in two anime clubs and a Japanese club, and I started going to conventions until I moved away from people to go to cons with.  Currently, I'm more of a manga person since I've seen a lot of anime and it's started to blend together.  There's only so many shows about male teenage losers suddenly being surrounded by hot, submissive women that I can watch.

I should probably say something about Utena... I first saw it fansubbed a couple of years ago and been addicted ever since.  I don't really like any one character in particular, which I'm told is unusual.  I really wish Be-Papas had had a bigger animation budget, but you can't except that for such a niche and unusual show.  I like to dream about this by starting vectors of Giovanna's scans and not finishing them.

Also, people should make wallpapers that work on both PC and Mac.  I hate having to reverse them and the text is backwards, when the creator obviously put a lot of effort into it.

*waves* Hi there.

I'm Almaser, a student of Linguistics at university in Brisbane, Australia. I've been in this country almost my entire life, but for last year when I lived with a family in Osaka, while studying at a university there.

I'm functionally fluent in Japanese (I received my 2nd Level Proficiency early this year), so every now and then I pick up my lance and charge at the windmills of Seazer Lyrics. I mostly produce translations that have already been done quite competently on cantarella cookie, but it's really just an enjoyable pastime, until I get my hands on some proper copies of the albums. (Hrm, birthday coming up...)

I didn't really think about what I was going to say, so I'm just going to sneak into the dirty forum now. See you all there:wink:

Hi there! I'm Nariel, I'm a girl who loves SKU. That would be why I am here. I am watched the series over and over obsessing alot. I have been haunted by dreams of SKU, where I was once simultaneously Anthy and Utena. It was weird. Might have been Akio sex somewhere too...I cry so much at the end of the series every time I see it! But the Nanami episodes make me laugh so much it's ok. Tomagoh, tomagoh, watashi no tomagoh...heehee!

I took psychology and philosophy at school so yes, I'm loving every bit of analysis you can throw at me! Eeep, favourite characters...hmmm. Thats hard, well I love Juri, because she's a bitch and she's brilliant. I love the Chu Chu frog immensly. I love all the brilliant caharcters in SKU but there are only 2 I think who I have a teeny tiny distaste for. Mikage is annoying and I'm not too keen on Akio, because you know, the whole 'he'd do it with my whole family if he got the chance' thing is a little off-putting.

I watched the film and it was wonderful in it's utter scariness. I saw the Utena car and my first reaction to it was: That's a lobster. A large pink lobster. I thought it was being cooked whent he rust came on. Then I realised! Raw lobsters will bring revolution to the world! So I want to be people's friends and yes generally talk to me about everything! Nice to meet you all!

Your smileys are freaky...in a good way. I think.

Fluffy! I know you! *waves frantically and embarassingly*

Urm, I think I'm the olny English African-ish person here. Very complicated story about my origins. But not really.

Last edited by Nariel (10-18-2006 12:35:54 AM)

Hi all, though I usually refer to myself as Tenjou on the web, I guess I better to use another nickname here. (I hate to be referred as other names, but I will get myself used to it here)
Well then, call me Trespasser.

I am from Hong Kong, an engaged woman, longing to resign from work for a few months.:(As I am engaged, I am putting some effort to lose some weight, so that I would look better in photos.

I think probably SKU would be my favourite anime for the rest of my life. I am still trying hard to *feel* the messages lying behind the scenes.

I like Tenjou Utena best in the whole series, yet I feel I am most like Juri in personality. (Yeah, I like her, also)

I am considering to let my children (if I would have, that is) to watch the whole SKU series when they reach around eleven or twelve years old.

I might have talked too much, so I shall end now this time.

Evening all, my name is Ronen and I live in a country town that thinks it’s a capital known as Adelaide. 

I first heard about SKU at the end of last century and over time, I have read many essays and reviews about the series and a couple of years ago, I was able to gain my first taste of Utena when the movie came out on DVD.  I loved many aspects of the movie (even thou as a whole, the movie was kinda disappointing) enough to want to see the anime and read the manga.

Thanks to Youtube, I was finally able watch the Japanese subs of Utena from episodes 01 to 39 .  My favourite characters would have to be Juri (Great swordsmanship skills and groovy orange hair), Utena (She gets to become a prince without turning into a boy…unlike me) and surprisingly, Nanami (Normally, I can’t stand girls like her, but she grew on me )

Out of the guys, I like Mikage (Who would have guessed that a guy could have pink hair and still look manly?) and anime Akio (Not the fruity assed one who needs Rohypnol just to score with a girl.)

Food wise, I have the fondness for musk flavoured candies, Jaffas, mash potatoes with chicken gravy and super-tender strips of corned silverside.

I seem to have a thing for anime or manga that features gender confusion as part of or central to the storyline.

Adobe Photoshop is my favourite computer toy, (that and GTA San Andreas).  I just love finding anime/manga pics and altering them to my personal tastes.

*gasp* Bonnie and Yamino are here! *waves*

Hello, everyone! I'm Frau Eva, and I've been lurking around Utena fandom for...an ungodly long time. Utena was the first anime I ever bought. I was a pathetic moonie in junior high school at the time, and seeing "From the director of Sailor Moon" made me get it. Yeah, sad. What awaited me was a mind-blowing, life-altering experience. Utena will always be my favorite series. I love all the characters, the way it builds on and obliterates the fairy tales it draws from, and the symbolism always makes me wet. I love the series and movie the best, but the retarded manga does introduce some cool concepts relating to the Prince and Akio that I'd like to play around with. The musical burns the brain. I primarily write fanfiction, of which some of you may have seen on this glorious website. Some of my stories are also apparently available in Italian somewhere on the interwebs.

Right now, I am a student at Guilford College(Go Fighting Quakers!), but I grew up in Louisiana and am ethnically Cajun. I'm majoring in English(no wonder such love of symbolism, eh?) and Sociology, with minors in Communications and East Asian Studies. Suffice to say...I'm often busy. I hope to eventually use this to get an evil, evil Media job forcing you all to buy products you neither want nor need. Oh, and hopefully writing short stories and/or novels on the side. I've been in two geek clubs, the high school one I created and acted as sole dictator in. At the college geek club, I plan our yearly con' trip.

I enjoy torturing myself with writing, ruling my godlike power over my village of Sims, dying my hair crazy colors while I still can, pontificating, and tacking up crazy pictures on my boyfriend's wall. I'm pretty good at drawing, but my absolute lack of Photoshop skills ensures that any fanart stays in the sketch phase. Oh, and Amy Tan has signed my boob.

That sounds awesome

I've gotta try making it. Post a thread next time you make it, maybe? I'd love to see what to do with it.

Frau! *waves!* Glad you got your icon to work. It's pretty.

Hehe, thankfully I didn't know that the Utena anime was by the director of Sailor Moon, otherwise I would have ran and hid. XD;

..Wow, a lot of Utena fans know how to cook really well. XD *has the culinary taste and skill of a can of tuna*

SleepDebtFairy wrote:

Frau! *waves!* Glad you got your icon to work. It's pretty.

Hehe, thankfully I didn't know that the Utena anime was by the director of Sailor Moon, otherwise I would have ran and hid. XD;

..Wow, a lot of Utena fans know how to cook really well. XD *has the culinary taste and skill of a can of tuna*

Yay, I'm happy too! It apparently righted itself randomly. Oh, the things we had to amuse ourselves with in the olden days of anime fandom. All they had was Dragonball and Sailor Moon, and WE WERE GRATEFUL! We walked uphill both ways in blinding snow just to get to Suncoast Video and WE LIKED IT!

Don't feel bad about cooking. All the people in North Carolina think I'm insane with the way I've been taught to cook. They think I spice things like a smoker, and I think everything is horribly bland. And Cajun food has no room for vegetarians, i.e. 1/3 of my friends. But anyone can cook with a good recipe and some dedication. And...everyone screws up something stupid at some point.

I'm Razara. It's nice to meet you.

My interests include Shoujo Kakumei Utena, or more specifically, Shiori... And just by saying that I'm sure that I've made myself an enemy to quite a few people on this fourm. Not that I mind, of course. I've always wanted to debate Shiori's motives. :3 I've been aspiring to write an essay about her for a while now, so I have a lot to say on the matter... A lot... Too much, really. I'm a bit obsessed. e_e

I should also mention that I absolutely love symbolism. Tracking down and deciphering symbolism is practically my hobby, that and writing fanfictions.

Other than that, there really isn't much to say about me.