Interesting to think what kind of jobs the Utena cast would get in the real world. Somehow I can't see Juri flipping burgers; she'd be a sharp-dressing CEO hitting on all the young pretty secretaries.

Now Saionji I can see flipping burgers.

Oooh! I've actually considered this kind of thing pretty strongly before. What would happen if Akio, removed from the school he manipulates in, had to set his stage in the modern adult world. Definitely one of those 'owns half the universe' kind of things, and it would be so easy to use corporate politics to drive people to the same irrational behaviors he does in the show. It'd be comparatively bland in some ways--the school setting allows for a lot of themes that would be absent in adult casts.

But how would it go with them all grown up? Juri beginning to resent her commercial modelling success, because even if she comes out, it will only be yet another shallow surface of her that people will cheer for, while none ever know who she truly is. Touga fighting and clawing his way to the top, only to find the view gets very boring because from such heights, the landscape rarely changes. Saionji finding out those noble qualities he always failed so hard at turned out to mean even less than he thought they did. Does he drown his disappointment with life in sake? Does it all fold back in on itself and turn him into a cruel, cynical user? Seeing this, will Touga laugh...or cry?

It's kind of scary, the things Akio does play to every audience. Children are weaker, easier, perhaps even more fun, but at the end of the day, his tricks, even when they seem so cheap from a distance, would work pretty much anywhere.

gorgeousshutin wrote:

I know that many Asian companies will make joining company sport events semi-mandatory for employees, so the "duels", at least, can in fact still exist in the corporate world (be it via kendo, fencing, or other sport-types).

Wah! I totally forgot about stuff like that. Force that team spirit on the group kind of thing, yeah?

Duels are by nature not a team effort, though. I don't know much about this trend in Japan, but isn't the point that it's stuff like baseball that forces the group to work together? Or is Akio just that strange a CEO that he wants to instill a competitive spirit between individual members of the group?

Or, Akio in the 'real' world takes the form of the leader of a cultural movement encouraging individualism and self-servingness, similar to his role in Ohtori as a liberating teacher.

Is Mikage gonna be there?

Atropos wrote:

Or, Akio in the 'real' world takes the form of the leader of a cultural movement encouraging individualism and self-servingness, similar to his role in Ohtori as a liberating teacher.

So he runs Occupy?

I could see it working either way. Either the setting encourages people to be the same or fit in, and they chafe against those limitations, or individuality is so honored that it's exaggerated past all reasonable behavior. Ohtori Academy kind of has a bit of both, with the student body versus the student council.

Giovanna wrote:

So he runs Occupy? .

If Akio runs the large corporation that owns everyone else's place of work and starting her own business is Utena's means of revolution, does that make Anthy representative of the wealthy investors other people aren't sure how to make use of?

. . . god help me, for I am actually in the process of finishing part one of this crack fic  (even when I so obviously LACKED the time to do it)!

Will post it in this forum once I finish.  Should I start a new thread with the [fanfic] in the header?

Thanks, Rebel Prince!

BTW, dose anyone know of any Utena fic hosting site aside from fanfiction.net that has reasonable traffic?  Originally I was only gonna put it on fanfiction.net, but the site now has these dangerous seeming ads that I'd rather not get . . .

Thanks anyway, Giovanna!

I think I'll likely put it on my blog first, as a blog post.  I thought about putting a copy in my [fanfic] thread, but had no idea how to preserve formatting on this forum, so I'll probably just link to my blog post from there.

Please C & C when it come out, guys

gorgeousshutin wrote:

BTW, dose anyone know of any Utena fic hosting site aside from fanfiction.net that has reasonable traffic?  Originally I was only gonna put it on fanfiction.net, but the site now has these dangerous seeming ads that I'd rather not get . . .

I didn't know the ads on ff.net could get you.  I haven't bothered in a loooong time.  o__o  This being said, Utena doesn't get a lot of traffic, but maybe you could look into seeing if there are any active communities on Livejournal?  Thanks so much for being willing to share! 

Hi Koshernova:

*cough* Surely you mean Josei Kakumei Utena ;)

Actually, I do mean *Seinen*  (Have the title already given some kinda spoiler away?)

But really, Seinen is "青年" in kanji.   While often thought of as meaning "young adult male" when used to categorize manga demographics, this kanji term (like its Chinese equivalent) simply means "young adult".  Seinen is really a gender neutral term, even though many commonly associate it with young adult males unless there's the "女" (female) character preceding it.

Josei, "女性", by strict definition simply means "female gender" without being age specific.  It can apply to kids or grannies.  The term josei is only associated with "lady" because it is a "sophisticated" way of saying female.

In case you wondered, I'm Asian.  Thus why I'm familiar with these terms.

Please see
http://forums.ohtori.nu/viewtopic.php?id=3026
for the actual fic itself, and if you could, C&C pretty please