Giovanna wrote:

YamPuff wrote:

rhyaniwyn wrote:

I like Touga's speech, but I can't ever take it seriously when his shirt springs open.  I just shake my head in dismay.

I mean, why??

I knoww, it's so corny. T_T

I think the problem with it is that it holds still on that shot before the car comes. They shoulda stopped while it was still the grinning arms spreading thing. It gets silly when he's standing there, especially since he's not being drawn especially well.

Ya, its usually at that moment I start giggling.

Razara wrote:

The random shirt blowing open scene didn't strike me as unusual, but it struck me as fan-service, which bothers me even more. It's like, "Hay, let's make their shirts blow open and have them strike sexy poses, teeheeheehee..."

RainbowRoseQueen wrote:

ooooooh what about this.....http://www.ohtori.nu/gallery/moviedvd/Cap256.jpg This one is wtf because for one thing akios ass is hanging on the balcony and the sheets are real puffy like a bunch of fat people are underneith....his drunkness led to his death......

Is it bad that that scene makes me laugh every time?

No...cause I do too....even my mom did.....

Yeah, I was expecting something bigger than just him falling off. Like maybe Anthy ACTUALLY killing him, brutally, maybe even eating him alive. It's what all witches in the fairytales are known to do. They eat people
After all, she WAS the culprit responsible for his secret burial, the movie!Anthy creeps me out SO much more

The whole shirt-flying open thing exasperates the heck out of me. Whenever it happens I just can't keep a straight face. Don't any of the guys know how to button their shirts properly?

Off topic:
There's a poptart smiley now?! Let's dance!

Last edited by Himemiya's Coffin (04-10-2007 06:47:35 PM)

I think it might have to be those lil moments in the Nanami's egg episode when she has all the ideas about people's reactions to her egg that end with her being locked in a cell...or when in the same episode she convinces Touga she's a lesbian.

And, this one's more of a cool moment than a WTF moment...When Ruka tries to force himself on Juri, and she smacks him and pushes him away...he just turns real slow, looks at her all cold-like, and the locket drops from his hand. She goes all "WTF HOWD YOU GET THAT HOSHT", he just drops it threatening to step on it, looking all awesome and cold.

Ruka, you fucking rawk :3

Last edited by Z-Ko (04-11-2007 04:33:31 AM)

Nanami's egg is hands-down my favorite Nanami episode.  Even my friend, who I was forcing to watch it (and who I don't think had much interest or appreciation), laughed at that episode.

Last edited by rhyaniwyn (04-11-2007 07:16:57 AM)

It's frightening that you brought up how the adult world shares so much commonality with the twisted perverted mind that is Akio
It's a reason why sometimes I'm hesitant of growing up because it would seem that grown-ups don't dream the way we do. They don't see the castle in the sky, maybe they don't want to.
My WTF moment is still the part where Akio tells the duelists, "Let me show you the End of the World". Is each of them seeing something different or are they all being shown the same thing that Utena saw (the ceiling of the chairman's office as opposed to the Eternal Castle)

I always wondered what they saw, too...  I made the irreverent comment that perhaps all they can see is Akio's ass plastered against the windshield.  "Ends" of the world indeed.

Ha, brian!  I always get so ... bleh ... at those scenes that the connection to advertising never occurred to me.

Last edited by rhyaniwyn (04-16-2007 07:02:56 AM)

brian wrote:

I don't know. Satan showed the kingdoms of the world to Christ and Arjuna saw the horror and glory of the universe, but were they really shown everything? Proabably not. Satan wanted to distract Christ and Krishna was maneouvering Arjuna to fight a battle. And being shown the World may not be the same thing as a vision of the world beyond, such as Utena may have had. Much of the time when someone purports to show or describe the way the world really is, they often have an ulterior motive and they are really just showing something that is just as artificial as anything devised in Akio's planetarium. What makes it really insidious is that people like Akio, like most con artists, have partly conned themselves.

To be able to deal with the world as it is without being corrupted or deceived or destroyed by it is the work of a lifetime. But I also read a comment, (from CS Lewis perhaps?) that youth is inherently closer to God. It seems like Ikuhara would agree with that.

When Saionji and the others saw THE WORLD I doubt that their visions included Anthy being skewered.

Oh my! There're so many parallels with what you said. Krishna and Dios showed Utena and Arjuna respectively what they're supposed to see to be given the courage to fight, while Akio and Satan did the same thing to make Utena and Christ forfeit their fights.
Maybe the reason why Utena sees the prince is because she was a child. Nemuro sees Akio since he's already "grown up" and technically, lost his innocence.
The ability to deal with the world without being corrupted or deceived or destroyed... I wonder if I've already lost that battle... I mean, I DID cheat and lie and stuff, not to mention porns :p
With regard to what Saionji saw... whatever it is, it made him smile, in a crazy and disturbing way... I DO think he saw something ABOUT Anthy because duringt he duel, he said he realized that the Rose Bride has no feelings of her own. (Which we all know is a big lie if that's what Akio showed him)

I just found out another WTF moment... Utena usually refers to people as "kimi", right? On Episode 38, she referred to Akio as "anata" (If I'm not mistaken, she usually calls Akio by "Akio-san".

SwordKing wrote:

If AoU counts, I'd have to go with the burning postage stamps in the opening sequence. The rest I sort of figured out, but that part still has me scratching my head.

Of course it counts! Actually, I think my biggest wtf moment in SKU movie is the shoes. I mean yes, I understand why they're there, but... SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE. Why a shoe? Why not an abstracted pattern suggesting hair? Why not an image of the parasol floating on the water?

But no.

SHOE.

Red shoe floating through water overlays Utena's dorm building, accompanied by a watery noise during a scene transition.  If I'm not mistaken it's when she's following Anthy to the garden.

It took me a minute to figure out what that meant, too.  I never thought of them as postage stamps.  During the opening credits, the paintings we see throughout the movie are shown on the screen one by one, they appear, then burst into flame and disappear.  They're very small in the opening credits: postage-stamp-sized!

rhyaniwyn wrote:

Red shoe floating through water overlays Utena's dorm building, accompanied by a watery noise during a scene transition.  If I'm not mistaken it's when she's following Anthy to the garden.

There are two of them. I don't remember when the second one is, but they are both in the scene transitions, both of them accompanied by that water noise.