I was playing Portal today and Glados sort of reminded me of Anthy.    She's pretty passive aggressive (well in the beginning.  Towards the end she becomes more normally aggressive.) and her situation could be compared to Anthy's somewhat.  Glados was [spoilers]made by humans to de-ice things, but got too intelligent and killed off all the humans who had worked on her.  She's somewhat faulty and probably knows that she's faulty, but of course she can't be fixed because she killed off everyone who worked on her.  All she can do is live on, suspended in place, not really able to do anything except run useless little experiments in an abandoned lab with test subjects over and over and kill them off in the end.  Who knows how long she's been doing it?  It provides her with some entertainment, but all in all, the experiments are meaningless and don't tell her anything she doesn't already know.)  Her song is kind of melancholy.  She sounds like she's bragging, but at the end, her last 'still alive' sounds sad to me.)[/spoilers]

Last edited by HonorableShadow (11-10-2010 08:56:15 PM)

Music video

Something about the giant rose she's caressing...I think SKU ruined me for roses. So now it just looks obscene and I cannot unsee it.

Last edited by haelsyx (11-15-2010 01:05:48 AM)

I know this has been mentioned before.
But.

Fucking Scott Pilgrim.

While watching the 11 episode of the second season of Haruhi Suzumiya, there's a scene where Koizumi asks Haruhi if she is thinking of introducing any more characters to the movie (this is an episode that shows them making the amateur movie in the first episode of the series. Koizumi ended up being the reason Kunikida and Taniguchi were in the movie, apparently) and Haruhi responds with deciding to add more characters. In return, she said, Koizumi would play a more vital role in the movie and would have more screen time. Then there is a pause... and he unconsciously twiched, like his whole body, then a pause.... then thanking Haruhi with that smile still on his face.
I got to thinking about it, because this was one of the first times Koizumi showed anything like his true feelings, albeit, not very noticably. Koizumi is just like Himemiya, always smiling and saying polite and nice things to people. Remember he has been given something like superpowers and is forced to watch over this crazy girl who may end up destroying the world.


It just got me thinkin... and liking Koizumi more for that.

The company that produces Happy Meal Toys has an emblem of an egg shaped earth

Hearing the song "It's The End of the World As We Know It."

Which naturally leads me to sing "...And he is slime" instead of "...And I feel fine."

HonorableShadow wrote:

It snowed on a sunny day today!  And my first thought was "yay, now some bunny people are rushing to get married!" It was only sunny for about an hour though, then the clouds covered the sun.  I wonder if the sun has to last all day or if they can only get married while the sun is still out. D:

I think this during sun-showers, too.    I think they have to get married while the sun is out, but fortunately, bunny-people weddings are pretty easy.  Your whole family lives in the warren, and catering is provided by the grass.  We should all be so lucky.

One of my colleagues start to wear glasses recently. Her glasses are so reflective that I can almost see her as Anthy. Luckily she is not the passive aggresive kind of person.

I was playing Taboo with my neighbors, and the word I had to guess was "duel". I was ready to have a fit right there, but then I got "palace" and I just died. What a coincidence, huh?

I don't want to destroy your innocent minds but any here seen the hentai: Shin Reyon Densetsu?

It's a violent hentai with no redeeming value, but it's clearly inspired by utena, imo.

Is there incest?  Roses?  Prince-princess dynamic mixed with lesbianism?  Because when I think of Utena and Hentai those are the most obvious connections that jump out at me.

Spoilers below lol:







There is yuri, the main female heroine is captured by a female tentacle monster who rapes her, if that's yuri lol.
But the main female heroine is an naive action hero type, has pink hair, but more importantly at the crucial battle scene is taken over/channels the spirit of some ancient hero who imbues her with power to slay the demon.

Here is where she grabs the sword that can be used only by the chosen one, and then the ancient hero's face overlays hers with the same kind of imagery as when Dios appears.

http://i.imgur.com/u8nJD.jpg (NSFW)





I mean this is not a utena parody or anything like that, just sometimes something jumps out at me and I think, hey looks like they got that from Utena!

There's a prequel that explains the stuff with the ancient hero whose spirit she is embodying but I didn't watch that.

I also think there's supposed to be a sequel where she saves the world? But I think it got canceled.

Last edited by satyreyes (01-19-2011 08:40:05 AM)

I could have sworn we had a topic for SKU in other media but I can't seem to find it so I figured I'd give this a little bump...

Last night I played through a VN by Christine Love (very talented lady as far as I'm concerned) called Don't Take It Personally Babe, It Just Aint's Your Story. At it's heart it's a very intriguing look at social networking and the whole aspect of privacy but the reason I'm posting about it in this little topic is that there are a few direct references to Utena (in spoof form, giving it another name but very obviously SKU) that absolutely made me smile so very much. Since the game deals with Facebook like wallposts there's one conversation pretty late in the game that would make any SKU fan happy, and one of the characters has a line from Rondo Revolution in their profile that made me grin like a fool.


If anyone is interested, the game can be downloaded for free here:

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitperso … yourstory/