that kid just beat up three samey teenage boys one has his face pounded in the second is doing the yomiel butt pose and i think the third might be dead this child may very well have killed a man and that's fucked up hardcore
Nope, no worries, this thread was just kinda slow before, I think everyone's just happily chinhandsing at your liveposting here. I feel like there should be an "achievement unlocked" for making this post in a liveblogging of Utena because everybody does, sooner or later. Spoiler: trigger warning spoilers Spoiler: open if you'd rather be warned than unspoiled The references to incest are absolutely intentional, and it's gonna get a lot worse on that front. On the plus side, it's dealt with realistically, but on the other hand it's dealt with realistically. If incest/incestuous abuse is a major trigger or dealbreaking squick, be forewarned.
...is it really the dude that juri is into? it was looking more to me like she had a crush on the girl, but okay
Well...the manga ran in Ciao magazine. Ciao is aimed at the same late-elementary-school age group as Nakayoshi (Best Friends) which is the magazine that Sailor Moon ran in through the early 90s. (Sailor Moon was the first thing I read from start to finish in Japanese.) Ciao is the reason that Pokemon was such an unwelcome surprise to me I never got into it--I had been reading a comic in Ciao that was set in the Pocket Monsters universe about a little girl who had a Pikachu, a Purin (Jigglypuff), an Eevee and a Pippi (which has a different name in English that I do not know) so when I found out that the actual star of the show was a boy and that it was all about making them fight, I was ticked. So yeah, it was a lot tamer than the show, and a lot less "symbolic" aka acid-trippy than the movie. Ikuhara (the director) had made such a success of the Sailor Moon adaptation for TV that they really gave him his head with Utena, and Ikuhara's favourite thing in the world is apparently lesbians. (Ikuhara pushed Takeuchi to play up the Haruka-and-Michiru thing far more than she originally intended to--the show and manga were running concurrently for the last 3 years--for one thing.) Don't get me wrong, I love Ikuhara, I was so thrilled we had him out here in San Francisco for Pride one year and ran the movie in the Castro Theatre. :)
