Ghahaha, when we first posted our Utena review I was actually counting the days till Empty Movement discovered it, I didn't think it would take a year!

Just to let you know, I'm a pretty big lurker around here.  I remember this site from years ago, read all the essays, even some stuff on the forums.  Especially the sega saturn walkthrough threads.  Those were awesome.  Utena is absolutely my favourite anime ever.    But, at the same time, I'm the cameraperson and co-creator of Short Fat Otaku, and I feel that I might as well answer for a few of your complaints!!

SFO and I co-write the reviews, he acts, and I direct.  He's in front of the camera and I'm behind, but the opinions presented in the review are generally an amalgamation of the two of ours.  SFO liked utena.  Not really enough for a second viewing, but he enjoyed it.  Meanwhile I've seen the series probably 6-7 times now.  About once a year I find something that reminds me of the series, I end up looking it up to sate my curiousity, I get drawn into all of the supplementary materials available online again, and before you know it, I'm rewatching the series.  So in essence I'm about as batshit as we accuse you guys of being in the video. 

That bein' said, even as a big fan of the series I can still see its faults and I don't mind admitting them.  The animation DOES get quite bad.  There's a lot of stuff reused, and even if it might have a symbolic purpose, the practical result is still budgetary in nature.  And there's a fair number of filler episodes that I generally just skip more often than not when I rewatch Utena nowadays.

As for the stuff about cosplay, that's more a general complaint than an Utena one and it's actually one I agree with.  Sometimes, clothing designed in 2-d doesn't translate well into 3-d.  It might look cool in the show but no matter how smooth you are in real life it just really looks ridiculous - it's a complaint we make in several other videos too.  Now, you have the right to wear a ridiculous looking costume if you want to.  But we have the right to say it's ridiculous, too. 

As if ripping apart the series, movie, and game wasn't bad enough, he bad mouths the fandom too!

It was all in good fun!!  I love the series, sort of liked the movie, never played the game, and am part of the fandom.  But that doesn't mean I can't poke fun at them all. 

You run a site this big and you have to be ready to be called fucking nuts.

You are. 

Someone rip this for me so I can make it a windows sound.

If I recall, when providing footage for the game, I just took the opening cinematic off youtube - the only way i can think of to get a hold of it is to plug the youtube URL into savevid.com so you can download the video file, then extract the audio from the video with tmpgenc or any other of a variety of tools that extracts the audio track from a video file.  Then, import it to Audacity or another sound editing program and clip out the unwanted bits!

Yeah, he's pretty much a fat-hating asshat who believes possessing a penis and...

We're not anime fanatics, but we don't hate anime, either.  Whenever we write a script, ESPECIALLY for a show that we like and/or is a popular title, we write it as troll-y as possible.  Even what you pointed out, the moe and pre-pubescent shit as background flavour, it's all a big goof.  As somebody else said in the thread, it's pretty clear that we 'get' Utena, at least to the point to offer an analysis of the characters detailed enough that we clearly know what's going on.  That doesn't stop us from making fun of it for fun's sake.  In essence (and no offense) your response is one of the most fun responses to get, especially because, when it comes down to it, we hate everything you said you hated and are actually fans of the show ourselves!

Angry reviewing is one the most shameful internet trends we have nowadays, but hopefully, one day it will have to go.

It really is.  When we initially conceived of doing anime reviewing, nobody else was really doing it - but then we took 9 months to actually get off our asses and give it a go, and by then a few others has sprung up.  And now?  This shit's EVERYWHERE.  We still want to review anime, we have a blast doing it, but we're moving away from the angry schtick.  There still might be a bit of anger if it's warranted, but we're really looking for a format change - and considering SFO is going to be moving in with a roommate in the near future, it will probably end up being a straight man/funny man type thing, where SFO is the obsessive otaku nerd and his roommate is approaching the shows from a more 'normal' person's perspective.  But that's way off topic. 

Anyway, to everybody who liked our video - thanks!  Feel free to watch our others!!  To everybody who didn't, Sorry if I got you mad, but we were just having fun.  We really do like Utena, I promise!! 

I'm glad you signed up, CameraLady; your post was just as fun as the video   I'm curious: you've never cosplayed?  I'm surprised!  Big anime fans always seem to be pulled into cosplay eventually.  I just came back from ACen, where I was part of a group of eight of the trolls from Homestuck, and I wish I could lock you up with the people who made the ridiculous costumes so you could watch them work for just fifteen minutes.  An old classmate of mine sewed several nights till two in the morning, with the flu, during final paper season, so that she could look like this at the con.  Silly, yeah.  But like fandom in general, it's silly in a way that isn't meaningless.  It's a creative activity, and a social one, and a liberating one too; it takes a special kind of courage to get in costume and go out in public!  If you've never cosplayed, I hope you'll try it sometime, start to finish -- not so that you can discover that it's not ridiculous after all (for it surely is ridiculous), but so that you can maybe get a glimpse of why people are so eager to do this manifestly ridiculous thing.  As another wise webcomic artist has said in a different context, we are grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means.

Bahahaha man I wish my phone could do custom ringtones.