Cool, you're posting the Animate tape. I got it from Nico Nico Douga, by the way. I haven't listened through it thoroughly, but it features a Student Council meeting with actual Student Council business, namely recording audio messages to be broadcast throughout the school - morning encouragements, and the like. Not shockingly, Saionji has blown it off, so they call in Utena to help them out instead. Like the Utena and Anthy Real Model CDs, it's all very tounge-in-cheek.

I still have a longer project in the air that I should be working on, but I wouldn't mind giving some of these a shot at some point, if I have the time and energy. The question is what people are interested in.

Giovanna wrote:

The Way of the Rose

I'd call it "The Rose Revelations" or something: we're looking at "bara no mokushiroku," with "mokushiroku" being the same "apocalypse" word we all know so well. 

Don't get too worked up. I bought a copy a little while ago and glanced through it, and not all of it is as awesome as it sounds. The character bios and duel summaries are pretty factual, not interpretive, and even the lists of symbols didn't seem all that interesting when I glanced through it a while ago. The relationship chart is also pretty straightforward, though amusing in some of its details (for instance, the one-directional love arrow from Touga to Utena is labeled "baby, you set my heart on fire").

The interviews with Be-Papas folks and J.A. Seazer are likely more interesting, not that I've really sat down and tried to read them. Most of the little comics are drawn by Chiho Saito, and I remember that one is about Be-Papas getting their pictures taken for the Utena Carddass trading card series. And like Gio said, there's tons of random stuff scattered about the book.

Anyway, thanks, Dani, for sacrificing your physical copy of the books for the almighty Gallery!

SKU interview from Animage

This looks really awesome! Thanks, Clarice!

Last edited by Dallbun (08-29-2010 12:03:46 PM)

Hello!

I'm posting my translation of  SKU interview from Animage. I divided it similarly to how it's divided in the file.

Please forgive me any grammar/vocabulary/etc. mistakes as English is not my native language ><!

I'll try to translate other stuff too when I have time (though when that'll be I can't tell for sure -_-")


Hope you enjoy reading this!


sku04
Having entered the season 3 “Ohtori Akio Arc” “Revolutionary Girl Utena” is becoming even more suspicious and even more surrealistic with even more high tension!
There has probably never been such a strange anime before!
NOW, ALLOW US TO INVITE YOU, TO THE WORLD YOU DESIRE!
LET’S GO TO “THE END OF THE WORLD”

sku06
Only those who hold beautiful memories are allowed to wish. Wish things like: if only that moment could last forever… If only present could be still the same way as it was at that moment…

sku07
Laboratory of Playwriting or Revolution of Production
People make various expressions. Baby when feeling hungry calls his/her mother by crying loudly – act like this is probably the simplest example of “expression”. In that way, every person is making “an expression”.
When growing up people start to make more complicated expressions. Women wearing makeup and dressing up is a form of expression, as is sport player’s competing for a record. Among various people who make expressions those who make outstanding, meta-“expressions” are called “creators” and among them some percentage is called “artists”.
Baby’s crying and author’s conveyment of social themes through his/her work, though the level is different, does not change the fact that both are “expressions” which one person uses when interacting with other person. Also, similar to novels and movies, works of animations are also types of entertainment and at the same time, “expressions” of author.
And so, here we have “Revolutionary Girl Utena”. We can probably say that this work is very enthusiastic when regarding the relation between “reality” and “story”. Things like, railway crossing located without any explanation in Student Council room and which indicates the passing of train. Baseball match taking place nearby the members of the council. Touga who rides a car towards “The End of the World” with, for some reason, unbuttoned shirt. Akio Ohtori making an ecstatic face while sitting on a bonnet. Or existence of Shadow Girls. Or cars sprouting on a dueling arena.
Here what staff is pursuing is not to make “expression” of something through a story, but to play with the expression itself. In episode 22, “pointing finger mark” which appeared on a screen and pointed at a lipstick stain on a coffee cup or cats outside the window, was invisible. It was to show something, that had no meaning (even if, like Ikuhara-san himself has said on the next page, it had in fact a meaning from storytelling point of view) like it was something very me