They mention that in the movie, and how some slander against her is really awful.

Last edited by Sevelle (05-08-2007 11:30:37 AM)

The story I'd always been told about Marie's "Let them eat cake" remark was that she had been told that the poor were angry because they had no bread to eat. In her naivete, she allegedly replied, "Then, let them eat cake."

And I'd honestly been thinking about parallels between SKU and that period of French history. Of course, the similarity to Rose of Versailles kind of helps.

And I wouldn't really be surprised if Sofia Coppola had watched either Rose of Versailles or SKU, or possibly both. She did make Lost in Translation, which is set in Japan, after all.

Last edited by Raven Nightshade (05-08-2007 04:20:05 PM)

Well I've read in a couple of places that Saito was a fan of Rose of Versailles. Also some of her other stuff is based in Europe. One's based in Italy about a girl fighting being stuck in a rosebride-ish position due to a painting...

There was an article about Saito and her material waaaay back when SKU the manga was being published in Animerica. I'll look it up and get you the title to look for.

Didja find, didja didja???

I've been watching Brother, Dear Brother, which is the same creator as RoV, and I can see a lot of similarities there as well. One of the characters is quite clearly the inspiration for Juri's character design. RoV probably influenced it more, although I recall Ikuhara saying it hadn't. I always take him for a miserable liar.

Mai_Kanzaki wrote:

Edit: Oh and judging by the article in Vol.5 #6 practically half of her early works are set in Paris.

And from what I recall of my digging around at her stuff, she has rather a certain fondness for Indian characters.

The Paris thing might be a disease of the genre though, Saito, honestly, has done a lot of cookie-cutter romance mangas that are the manga version of bodice-ripper romance novels.

Probably have a few less WTF!?!-isms and we would've had Akio with wings at the end.
I for one would like to see if Dios vs Akio would turn out like the Razara's fight films between Akio and the thing from the movie.

I read somewhere on here that it was a metaphor for growing up and getting one's first period and that Nanami didn't understand what was going on. Something like that.

Sevelle wrote:

Well I knid of got that, however . . . it was just strange.

Here's what I think. I think schools should show that episode to girls if they ever want to teach them something memorable about periods and teen pregnancy for sex-ed classes instead of those old videos from the library every year.
Nobody ever paid attention from what I remembered.

Last edited by Hiraku (05-12-2007 10:26:23 PM)