It would actually also be interesting to see how many people here don't really like happy endings. I'm not keen on them because all too often they seem like they've been tacked on to keep the fans happy.

Mmm, yeah, I have to say... I'm usually incredibly dissatisfied with endings, whether they are happy OR sad.  Especially in anime.

When I first found out how SKU ended... I was totally... upset, confused, devestated.  I felt that Anthy leaving at the end was just a... consolation prize for destroying my wonderful hero Utena.  Realizing that the ending was, in fact, perfect (and, I think, pretty happy in most ways) was one of the greatest feelings of epiphany I've had in my life.

I mean, I remember the exact moment with complete clarity.  What's that saying? 

That I'm a freak?  Well, that's a given.   I wonder if initial reactions to SKU's ending deserves a thread..............I always feel like I'm taking liberties when I make threads.  I don't wanna.

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Mmm...21 white female, although I'm pretty much straight, despite some bi-curious leanings. I am pretty poverty-stricken, though -I literally live below the poverty line, so low that I haven't had to pay taxes the last couple years. I proudly proclaim my Italian heritage, but my mom's side of the family is interesting, too -and makes me INCREDIBLY white. My great-grandmother traced it back about 600 years or so after her husband died in the late 80's, so I know that we had family that was part of both the Civil War (one of the very few to survive Pickett's Charge, actually) and the Revolutionary War. She traced it back through to the Mayflower (and a gen or two beyond before she had to give up) so I guess that means Thanksgiving should have more meaning for me then it does -I hate turkey so bad. Also, Buffalo Bill Cody? Like, my great-great-great uncle.


Aside, you might know more about my family then you think! Anybody here ever watch Wings, the old show on NBC? One of the writers, David Lee, I think, was my cousin's roommate at Yale. All the stories that Antonio told about the old country and his family? At least 75% of those are about my family.

Giovanna wrote:

morosemocha wrote:

I proudly proclaim my Italian heritage

Necessity, given how Italian you look.

Hahahaha! You should see my prom pics. I look a bit Sophia Loren -crossed with a chipmunk, though, cause I have a really round face. I hate my sister, cause she looks like Audrey Hepburn. When I do her makeup for cosplays though, inevitably people ask her if she's japanese, which I just don't understand, because she looks more Italian then I do. She looks more like the Greek/Tuscan part of the family. Little bitch has gorgeous skin.

Giovanna wrote:

...I almost without fail root for the bad guy, so endings tend to disappoint me. Except SKU...well in a sense Akio wins. Not by the standards of the show, but he'll end up getting what he wanted.

Indeed. I say Ikuhara needs to rewrite the ending and have Akio get what he wants. A harem.

I'm 18, female, an Estonian, Low/Middle-class. Estonian is also my native language but we learn a lot of other languages in school. I only consider myself good at English, since I haven't had many chances to practice my Russian or German outside of classes. As for my sexual orientation, I'll leave it undefine since I place absolutely no importance to it. Funny thing is I can't really talk about it here in Estonia since most people are quite narrow-minded and homophobic. Racists? You bet! If people were more open-minded around here, I'd like living here much more. In fact, if it wasn't for the language and culture, I wouldn't have anything to do with Estonians. So what our country is famous hot women!
Anyeway, the point is, I don't consider myself an average Estonian. I don't have absolutely anything against people with different nationality/skin colour/sexual orientation/whatever but it saddens me that the majority here does.

And I love this forum. This is the best thing to happen to internet in a long time! I've been to so many forums and eventually most of them lost their politeness or turned into Spamfests. Also, this is one of the few forums I feel welcomed to and for some reason I come here waaaay too often. This is always the first place I visit when I'm online and it's so damn hard to stay away from here.

What does this show? That SKU is still around and does not even plan to leave after being released about 10 years ago AND that the wonderful webmistressesesesses of Empty Movement are doing a great job at sharing their love for SKU with everyone else.

Why thank you! I hope I'll do well on my exams.
I've had a few other people told me that my English is better than some of the native-speakers'. That's so illogical to me, my grammar may be fine mostly, but not only do I mess up when actually talking to someone in English, but I also have an accent so it makes it harder for them to understand me. And there are still so many phrases and idioms I don't understand, not to mention slang.

I might as well jump on in. Hong Kong Chinese, lived in Japan for 3 years, now living in Texas. XD. Incidentally, A Day Without Me's post interested me, because I am an ex-officer in the military.

Ger wrote:

I might as well jump on in. Hong Kong Chinese, lived in Japan for 3 years, now living in Texas. XD. Incidentally, A Day Without Me's post interested me, because I am an ex-officer in the military.

I'm Shanghainese living in Texas~ But I'm more than likely a horrible representation of either of the two.

Chiming in to say Caucasian female (euro-mutt, mostly Ukrainian and Prussian), 24, bi, and currently struggling barely above the poverty line. I only speak English, though I am learning Japanese, and I am neither well-traveled nor terribly literate, although I'm aspiring to both.

I'm glad everyone likes it here. I like it here too, and to be honest, both Gio and I were worrying about what kind of people we would have-- so many anime forums are just filled with genki baka omg animu ^____________________^ hai hai fans. I am so wonderfully, fantastically surprised and delighted that we have such a gorgeous crowd of people here-- people who think, discuss, and handle controversial topics in a mature manner, accepting people who seem more than willing to be honest and genuine in the things they talk about-- that I can't wait to check the forum whenever I get the chance. Thanks, guys.

Aie.  I'm olllllld.  As in, 38.  White, almost entirely Irish-American, middle-class, and I'm a great big dyke.  My Kinsey's pegged all the way over there.  Yeah, there, only further. 

Native to the state of Delaware, currently living a modern Boston Marriage with a younger woman and a trio of feline overlords.  I only speak English, though I can passably read Spanish if there's a dictionary close to hand, and was once passable in Klingon.

Ger wrote:

I might as well jump on in. Hong Kong Chinese, lived in Japan for 3 years, now living in Texas. XD. Incidentally, A Day Without Me's post interested me, because I am an ex-officer in the military.

Sweet!

Ger wrote:

I loved living there, though I don't know if I'd want to live in Tokyo again. I lived there for 2 years then moved up north to this tiny hick town in the northernmost prefecture of Aomori.

Dude, Aomori makes the best rice-derived alcohol! Everyone says it tastes like lighter fluid, and it does, but it is AMAZING lighter fluid!

Yasha wrote:

I'm glad everyone likes it here. I like it here too, and to be honest, both Gio and I were worrying about what kind of people we would have-- so many anime forums are just filled with genki baka omg animu ^____________________^ hai hai fans. I am so wonderfully, fantastically surprised and delighted that we have such a gorgeous crowd of people here-- people who think, discuss, and handle controversial topics in a mature manner, accepting people who seem more than willing to be honest and genuine in the things they talk about-- that I can't wait to check the forum whenever I get the chance. Thanks, guys.

Eh, I am capable of disintegrating into that kind of fan, but usually only when exposed to way too cute for it's own good shounen-ai ^.^;

tohubohu wrote:

Native to the state of Delaware, currently living a modern Boston Marriage with a younger woman and a trio of feline overlords.

I would just like to take this moment to brag about the fact that my home state boasts being the creator of TWO descriptive phrases for relationships... thank you, Massachusetts - you have served this country well.

(the other one I am referring to is, of course, a Massachusetts Marriage, or Massachusetts Wedding, which, at least in my experience, is used colloquially in the United States to refer to gay marriages)

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Oo, religion now!

I don't have any religion, I guess I just lost it a few years back. I wouldn't term myself an atheist or an agnostic, though - I just... don't have any particular beliefs except that a higher power, if in existence, is closer to what the Greeks thought the gods were like than what Western religions seem to think god is like. Oh, and that evolution happened

But I would call myself religion neutral before anything else.