The Hind End of Space

So I just finished Utena.

That was quite an ending.

Not as big as I hoped but still pretty solid. Overall, I give the whole show a good 4/5. The story and characters were pretty interesting and I love it when a story gives us pretty much the whole thing to understand their motivations and whatnot, instead of spelling everything out right at the gate.

Tomorrow I’ll probably get wasted and watch the movie or something. I hear that’s the only way to watch it.

OH SHIT I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING CREEPY ABOUT THAT WHOLE ROSE BRIDE THING

….

so akio’s fucking his sister

right

Everyone in this show has such well-manicured fingernails.

Always beware of surfing elephants.

“You slapped me! Even my own mother never slapped me!”

DID THIS UTENA EPISODE JUST HAVE A FIRST GUNDAM REFERENCE.

Oh, my pencil case? That’s just where I keep all my snails.

okay so I started watching Utena

and as I said the best way to get me to watch a non-mecha/superhero anime is by convincing me to cosplay from it

and I figured this show was crazy enough to befit a “Sophie watches”, so here we go, notes I took from the first three episodes:

Episode 1:

• This is just the intro and there’s already homolust everywhere
• ha ha “engage ring”. I bet that’s what Picard gave Beverly.
• WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE SUCH POOFY SHOULDERS
• ha ha, the lack of pronouns in Japanese makes that conversation really weird to translate
• even for an anime, everyone at the school is gaijin as fuck.
• With a frame like that, I bet it’s uncommon to NOT be good at basketball
• her towel? groooooooooss.
• Is Utena like, the embodiment of fuckyeahftms or something?
• Jesus Christ the guys are even MORE fabulous than the women.
• WHAT EVEN IS THIS SCHOOL.
• wtf shadow people
• Pulling swords out of girls’ chests is hardcore, yo. That’s some Mazinkaiser shit.
• OPERA GLASSES HAHAHA

Episode 2:

• Young Okui Masumi sounds weird to me. I’m used to hearing her voice when she’s much, much older.
• I never trusted my high school’s student council, either.
• Utena herself is more sarcastic than I expected.
• OH BOY OBLIGATORY 90’S MASCOT THING WITH “CHU” IN ITS NAME
• Does this school exist in some time warp where past, present, and future collide? I mean goddamn. I’m willing to accept all this stuff because the world in general is so weird buuuut it’d be easier to swallow if this were some obscure European country and not like. Japan.
• HERE COMES THE STOCK FOOTAGE.
• That was a weak-ass henshin.

Episode 3:

• Are all the guys at this school creeps and/or jerks?
• Is the one with the short blue hair a dude or a girl…
• Bitches be crazy.
• Bitches be SUPER crazy.
• Who the fuck sprays a bottle of champagne on someone, deliberately or not? That can just go horribly wrong.
• ….Utena how were you wearing that under your dress.

that’s it so far. The further I went the less the notes so I probably won’t do this for long.