He's Kunihiko Ikuhara. What will he do next?

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>>136347941
Die.

>>136347941
WATEVAR DA FUCK HE WANTS

Give us another masterpiece in 2-4 years

>>136347941
6 episode Cutie Honey OVA and then retire.

>>136347978
he'll be fine

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>>136348246
>6 episode Cutie Honey OVA
Only if he collaborates with Anno-chan
>and then retire
Please god no, the world needs Ikuhara.

Make the worst anime in history. Utena was the best, and it all came tumbling down after.

>>136347941
Make me rock hard.

>>136348507
Ikuhara could have been the next Oshii if he became a film director. He missed his chance. He's done.

>>136348587
>Ikuhara could have been the next Oshii
You mean he could have put out a lot of great stuff then let the praise go to his head and start shitting out mediocre pretentious bore fests with no real substance?

>>136348676
Ikuhara could have been the next 80s Oshii if he became a film director. He missed his chance. He's done.

>>136348554
Way to have garbage taste. YKA is the best anime of the last 5 years, by a long shot.

He will go into hibernation for 10+ years and then make an anime about gay alpacas.

>>136348772
I hope you're not seriously thinking that. YKA was a 3/10

>>136349893
It was a 7/10.

>>136349971
It was a solid Ikuhara/10.

In all likelihood he will continue rehashing the ideas he had in Utena, only progressively destroying them through shorter time constraints and sloppier execution. I really like Ikuhara though, he's just nowhere near his 90s self. There are better directors out there.

>>136349893
>>136349971
>>136349994
(7/10 + 3/10 + Ikuhara/10)/3 = 1/3 (1 +( Ikuhara/10))
What's Ikuhara divided by 10?

>>136350084
>What's Ikuhara divided by 10?
Perfection

hopefully he takes another decades long hiatus

>>136350084
A better question would be what's Ikuhara divided by 30?

What point is there in a partial answer?

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>>136347941

I hope he's announced as the new director for Sailor Moon Crystal S or whatever they're calling it and make it Ikuharier than ever.

I think he need a long anime to give his best, after all Utena was 39 episodes. I wish he could do a precure series but it's a pipe dream, he'll probably work on manga and novels.

>>136350295
He needs somebody to kick his shit in. Utena was a team effort work.

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>>136347941
Hopefully something with Anno.

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Was this worse than Nanami drowning the kitten?

More yurishit probably, fucking hack.

>>136350068
why can't he be?
Utena is a monumental achievement (Sailor Moon as well, for that part).

>>136351828

You are a gay.

>>136350068
He's a great director still, just needs somebody to work out his ideas with.

>>136350068
That's because the 90's were the time when being a communist parading as an intellectual post-structuralist was still the cool thing to do.

His recent works have just been filled with Paris '68 nostalgia and unsubtle Sartre shilling.

>>136350514
Probably this.
I think Ikuhara is an absolute madman. He has some great ideas but needs something else it becomes a mess.

>>136352112
Mess is the intent. He's a subscriber to that whole school of thought that believes being comprehensible is a bad thing.

>>136352194
source: my ass

>>136352240
Surely OP's picture wouldn't lie.

>>136348772
YKA was squandered potential, with a few excellent scenes.

>>136352240
I don't know how to explain this without sounding really pretentious.

So am I supposed to watch Utena and Pengindrum multiple times to get it or something? I feel retarded for not understanding most of the things that happened in those shows for the first time.

>>136352352
Penguindrum references a lot of external literature and it can help understanding some of it if you go and read up on what it was playing with (or at least read wiki summaries or something), since it borrows some themes and metaphors from them. It probably won't answer all of your questions, though.

>>136352352
>So am I supposed to watch Utena and Pengindrum multiple times to get it or something

Yes/No

If you want to really understand the show and all of the symbolism, then yes, you're going to have to watch through it more than once.

You should be able to understand the fundamental plot points and character motivations at level that allows you to enjoy the series on the first watch through, but you would have to be some sort of god to understand every single little piece of symbolism. Actually, at least for Utena it's impossible to understand every little thing the first way through because a LOT of it is self referential and alludes to things that have yet to happen.

I actually have only seen Penguindrum once, and found it enjoyable but inferiour to Utena

I have seen Utena six times

>>136352491
>six times
Hardcore. I've only watched it three times.

needs to work with Enokido again

>>136352570
To be fair I don't watch it all the way through. I'm familiar enough with the general plot that I can wait a week or so between episodes and still be fine. I do the same thing with Evangelion.

I actually haven't been doing it recently because the contrast between those two series and whatever else I'm watching is too painful and ends up ruining the series.

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>>136350261

He wont, he's mortal enemies with TOEI.
I hope he, Anno and Nagano make a mecha anime together.
>Script: Ikuhara.
>Designs/art direction: Nagano.
>Storyboards: Anno/Ikuhara.

They're all best pals or at least Ikuhara is the middleman

>>136353083
>he's mortal enemies with TOEI
That's surprisingly respectable.
I'd also like to see a mecha anime with all three of those.

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>>136353083
>all of them voice act
>Animation director: Mitsuo Iso
>Anno does some key animation again

Never have I wanted something as much as I do now.

>>136353189

They're like the next gen dreamteam, and are in friendly terms with each other unlike Tomino and Miyazaki and all of them are alive unlike Dezaki.

>>136353189
Some Anno keys would be amazing. If he's got anything in him its art talent. Even as far back as Macross.
I really loved the postmodern direction of the old Gainax stuff he was involved in.

He's on the animation dream team for sure.

>>136352491
Have you seen the Utena movie? I'm assuming it should be watched multiple times as well.

>>136353083
>Script: Ikuhara.
>Designs/art direction: Nagano.
>Storyboards: Anno/Ikuhara.

That sounds gay.
Perfect.

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>>136352352
Penguindrum really only made sense if you were watching it with /a/

>>136355382
Ikuhara shows with /a/ is the best

>>136355382
Bullshit, I watched it alone and got it.

>>136347941
Whatever it is, it'll never be as good as Utena

>>136352352
I understood it when I watched if the first time but subsequent rewatches left me baffled.

>>136353083
So no Ikuhara directed Precure ever then?

>>136356312
Nope.

>>136355382
I haven't watched penguindrum since it aired with /a/
I feel like rewatching it, but I also feel it won't be the same

>>136351968
He's old and past his prime, anon. All famous artists star losing steam around middle age and end up repeating themselves until they die.

Such is the sad truth of the world.

>>136356312
Even though I'd happily watch that, I'm glad he's not working on big franchises and their limitations. Let the guy go as crazy as he wants.

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>>136357537
I stood up and cheered in episode 22.
I was thinking to myself the whole time leading up to that scene "is it going to be like the OP? please let it be like the OP" And then it was just like the OP. I loved it.