What was the anime community's reaction when this came out?
After it aired, /a/ was completely unbrowsable for YEARS.
Back then only little girls watched anime, so obviously everyone liked it
/a/ didn't talk about it. There were literally zero threads on /a/ at the time.
>>160438252
Yeah, for almost 6 whole years, that was horrible.
>>160438134
Probably aghast that she got curry dick. This was the moment I stopped caring for Utena as a character. I kept going for Nanami.
How is this not posted yet?
>>160438610
>I can't root for Utena because she slept with a man
>I'll root for the girl who fucked like 5 of them
>>160438765
Nanami is the only pure character in the whole series.
>>160438765
Nanami didn't fuck anyone, you retard. I'd rather champion a fucking cat killer than whores.
>>160438731
>A virtual conversation? Is she talking to me?I feel ashamed for thinking the same
This anime taught me even the purest girls will only fall for the exotic rich asshole who has a fiancé and dozens of lovers
Your girlfriend is only around because she hasn't been picked up by her Akio yet and put into his harem
>>160438804
>fucking your prince makes you a whore
>>160438953
"muh prince"
This signals the slut's confusion and lack of unserdtanding
"muh prince" "muh prince himemiya"
>>160438731
Sasuga Morinaga MilkGirl Friends anime when?
Toll = Paid
>>160439030
>unserdtanding
Did you have a stroke there?
>>160439082
Anthy is holding the sword wrong. Now way would she be able to hurt Utena like that.
>>160438877
It's the same for guys though. Dudes will gladly dump their girlfriends/wives for some new young chick without a second glance. Better to just not deal with 3DPD
>>160438953
>Prince
Disgusting slut, sex before marriage is wrong.
>>160439378
Akio was married so it counts
>>160438134
>lesbians!
>hot!
And?
What's wrong with that.
My wife's son is sitting next to me playing xbox, while I patiently wait my turn so I can watch the football games later. I love that kid. So what if his skin tone is more tan than I? He is my son now, and it's my duty to raise him.
It's like this: you own a yard and there are two big trees in the back.
But one tree next door is even bigger, and the branches extend into your yard. One of those branches drops an acorn, and it starts to grow in your yard now, alongside your two trees.
Are you just going to cut down the new small tree? No...your going to raise it with your own.
My wife saw a bigger tree and had that seed planted in her. My son is my acorn.
Why are Utena threads always so cancerous?
>>160439482
This, we all need to go back to gaybearposting
Reminder that Utena was only like 14 here.
Penguindrum > Utena > Sailor moon > Yurikuma
>>160440004
It truly was before its time
What about the new manga chapters? Have they been scanlated yet?
>>160440004
Akio is living sex, age and gender are the least of his concerns
Was on the mailing lists and shit long before /a/ when the fansubs hit in late 98 or early 99, can't remember.
If you're asking about a general reaction to utena, it was mostly sailor moon fans who got into it because ikuhara. In general, everyone was just confused and writing a ton of analysis trying to make sense of the symbolism. It was the evangelion fandom, but majority women who were arguing over touga or akio being hotter instead of rei vs asuka.
Reactions to akio fucking utena in that episode though? If I remember right.... reactions were
"Why the fuck did they hide something so important at the end of a clip show full of recycled animation?"
Also, akio fan girls jealous both jealous and happy for utena (akio was kind of a meme for being a sex god)
Also "wtf is this rape? How did this happen?"
You have to remember in those days digital subs were only available for certain series because not everyone had broadband, and utena was relatively obscure and weird then. So most of us just got all the tapes at once through trading and marathoned it, then went to ohtori.nu and the mailing list to make sense of things
>>160440004
Already too old.
>>160440182
>ohtori.nu
Wew lad, now you had to go and make me feel old.
>>160440182
I guess purityfaggotry was a post-Love Hina thing
>>160440238
It's full up and running. I don't think it ever went down
>>160440004
Yeah. Isn't Akio like 30 or something?
>>160440288
Literally living the dream.
>>160440288
So I still have a chance?
>>160440278
It's been years since I went to check. Good to hear, though.
>>160439455
>I didn't watch the show
>>160438252
Wasn't it aired like 5 years before 4chan was born?
>>160440264
I think so. Utena is primarily a shoujo show though for girls and women, that really turns the manservice up to almost ridiculous levels in the final episodes. Outside of the internet only boy i knew liked it and he was very, very gay. So most men avoided it because the aesthetic was so girly and the man service and no girls in short skirts like sailor moon.
I don't know that fangirls ever cared about purity in their bishounens. Fujoshi would screech about a female love interest ruining their yaoi pairings though (relena peacecraft for example in Gundam Wing)
>>160440503
Correction meant there was only one boy I knew who liked it who was really gay
>>160440288
That's the point of his character. Him no longer being dios is saying he's no longer young, idealistic and innocent like utena is. He's trying to live his youth through her again. Akio is literally that guy who never stopped hanging around high school because that's when he peaked and he's trying and failing to feel young again by fucking teenage girls.
Most straight people think sex between two people of their own sex is gross. Non-realistic sex between two opposite genders (sparkley anime dudes for chicks, sparkley anime grills for guys) is typically smiled upon, but is no where near reality.
Just wondering- to any of the femanons who might be here- when was the last time one of your gay anime husbando near-rape like comics ever had the two MCs discuss "we have to wait an hour to make love, I have ate itallian for lunch and have a massive shit coming"?
>>160440685
>not pushing his shit in
>>160440182
>people actually thinking Touga is hotter than Akio
How
>>160440810
Isn't indian for one
>>160440685
>husbando question
Literally zero yaoi do that.
But neither does straight sex in anime. Vagina cavity is seriously right next to the colon internally; it does not feel good to have anything in your pussy when you feel a massive shit coming
Anime is always fantasy though. How many straight romances discuss birth control or accidental pregnancies? How many yaoi and yuri actually discuss the societal implications of being in a dame dec relationship?
Also, yuri where the girls have long fingernails? Totally unrealistic too, things don't work that way.
>>160440810
They were the minority, I assure you. Akio was practically worshipped for his sex god powers. Some of the touga fans were more into how he was written in the manga
>>160440938
I have yet to see another anime character as sexual as Akio, practically every moment he appears with someone is a seduction
>>160440810
Dark skin is ugly.
>>160441045
>>160440444
thatsthejoke.jpg
>>160441269
Akio is more aesthetic than Touga though.
>>160440629
Suddenly I feel sorry for Akio.
>>160441857
I'm also a woman
There is always only one reaction: it's shit. Unless it's some kind of manime.
>>160442012
Utena is the quintessential manime
>>160438134
MODS
>homoerotic interracial feminist anime that ends with "I'm a strong independent black woman who don't need no man!"
If this were released today /a/ wouldrightfullydespise it.
>>160440288
More like 3000.
But yes that's the point.
Akio fucked his fiance's mom
He is sick!
>>160442641
>black
>>160442641
>/pol/ would despise it
fixed
Dunno why but that image pissed me off a lot now. It's been ages since I've seen it and I can barely remember what was most of the episodes about, but that made me angry back then and still does it seems, just pure shit in a mess of a series.
when you have respect for a character and then they get literally fucked and quite effortlessly I'd say you would feel betrayed and the character will feel rather shallow
atleast that's how it is for me.
>>160443791
>little girl's parents die and she becomes suicidally depressed.
>a prince shows her something eternal, and she vows to live noble, brave and pure just like the prince. is no longer depressed
>turns 14, goes to high school
>much older adult man manipulates and seduces her, slowly making her forget who she is and what's important to her.
>fucks her in a love motel
it's supposed to make you mad. There was a time when anime was about making you think and feel, instead of just being comfy or fap/schlick material.
You guys seem to forget Akio reminded her of the prince, that is literally the only reason she took interest at all. She would have ran for the hills if she knew Anthy was fucking him and that she would try to kill her for sleeping with him.
>>160443681
What was Utena's gender again? It wasn't male or female, it was a car. Utena transcends gender norms.
>>160441857
Don't, this describes my ex and he is a complete retard shit.
>>160446533
You still fucked him
>>160446590
Yea but not before he went and became a retard. Now he makes me want to throw up.
>>160446590
Good job proving >>160445900 's point
>>160446756
>men will never understand how much of a slut I am
You're right
<watching yurishit
<any year
ISHYGDDT
>>160446756
Women fuck the alpha, even if he disgusts them, because being alpha takes precedence
Not rocketscience
>>160446859
You replied to a different anon, but I think I'm willing to get a lobotomy so I'd never be attracted to anybody again, then I'd treat everybody like shit equally and never feel like I'm missing out on anything.
>>160446938
humans aren't animals. And this is not how women think. Try spending more time with real people and not in your internet echo chambers; it'll do wonders for your personal life
>>160447232
>humans aren't animals
I can tell you're a woman just by reading that.
>>160447387
Good for you?
>>160447451
Is it?
>>160440629
>Him no longer being dios
Is this a JoJo reference?
>>160438134
No one but the retarded "muh DEEP anime" kids gave a shit. Everyone was into the moe shit like Card captor Sakura or Sailor Moon.
Actuall at the time of the release, there were better anime out there like Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Lain, Eva, Macross series, etc
In terms of draw style, this anime was pandering to the josei/shojo crowd + retard crowd of "muh deep anime". Those are the minorities.
>>160446446
>found out Anthy was fucking him also
>became a catty jealous bitch to her
Was pretty refreshing to see
>>160447667
>sailor moon
>moe
No
>>160447716
>became a catty jealous bitch to her
I missed that part, but Anthy did try to poison her so maybe it was that.
>>160448402
The poison scene was a bonding moment.
>this thread
God, purityfags are cancer.
>>160448402
Pretty sure she goes and hogs the currydick for herself during the morning, and then the cantarella talk about poisoned tea and cookies happen
>>160448386
>>160448454
God, Sluts are disgusting.
>>160448543
Utena is not the show for you
>>160448454
That's why you wait for the children to go to bed.
>>160439082
>>160439111
Yeah, the perspective is absolutely fucked
>>160447232
Believe me, I only started thinking like this after interacting with women. When I was a shut in I thought girls had agency, honor and self-awareness as us boy do, and thought shit like Utena were highly unrealistic without the use of magic or cruel manipulation
But once you pay attention to how women act, rather than what they say, they are lot more animalistic than men
>>160446533
>btw I'm a girl
>oh and here's the long-awaited update on my life
this isn't reddit you pig
>>160448454
<why you don't stop shitting on sluts wahhhhh
Get out.
>>160449024
They just act more on feeling rather than on reasoning.
stop talking about gross stuff around my animes
>>160449024
>thought girls had honor
this is your problem. women are human beings. We get confused by feelings and make mistakes just like men do, especially when teenagers. People don't operate on logic most the time. Women don't go through their early years with their thoughts consumed by finding an ideal husband and having his babies. And women cam be just as superficial and sex driven as men, if not more so. Don't see what the issue is being a "pure maiden" is boring as fuck
>>160449887
Don't bother, this board is for people who converted to 2D. it's a one way street.
>>160450071
True I guess. I hear a lot of sexual insecurity in that post though. The whole purity thing just seems like younger or less experienced men who feel threatened by the sexuality of women whom they're interested in and haven't matured to the point where they realize women are people too who masturbate, have sex fantasies etc just like them.
Funny enough there's an utena character just like that! Miki is very much into purity
>>160450302
>>>/reddit/
BLOWING FREE
I'm a newfag, can someone explain this to me?
>>160450484
14 years old noble girl in a supposedly /u/ anime gets unironically BLACKED
>>160450302
The fact that you think maturity comes from just accepting all past mistakes and allowing for an "anything goes" mentality is actually hilarious. I'm glad us Islamists are replacing you in your countries.
>>160450484 Akio shoop da whooped about 1000 internets into Utena's vagoo
TAKE MY REVOLUTION
>>160440182
>ohtori.nu
>The two top admins live in the same city as me
Welp, if I ever have any Utena questions, I guess I'll just get the bumper sticker and wait for any fujo-looking middle aged women to comment on it.
>>160440893
Hahaha
I always laugh whenever I see how dicks and balls are drawn in yaoi. No hairs, no threatening veins, no elephant foot wrinkles, no dingleberries. Same with straight/lesbo stuff.
Do RL gay guys ever blast particles of feces in ejaculation? I despise the anus and never stuck my donger in one.
>>160440629
It's absurd writing. Men like to fuck teenage girls because they're in their prime fertility. If 90% of men were the sexy owners of a private school you can bet they'd spend their days fucking as many students as they can get their hands on. Only women have their libidos driven by their fucked up emotions.
>>160452228
14 is not prime fertility.
>>160452375
But from an evolutionary perspective it's the prime age to monopolize a woman for exclusive breeding rights.
>>160438134
Disgusting.
>>160452375
This, that's way too old
>>160452375
>physical development is exactly proportional to age
The sole reason sexual majority exists is to set a lower bound on age so that the vast majority of people above it are certified to be mature enough to start having sexual relations.
You brainlets really need to stop thinking that age is absolute
Why is heterosexuality frowned upon in ikuhara anime?
>>160453260
Because he wants to be the little girl
>>160448520
I want to know where people like this went. Actual big brothers of the internet.
Would like to join them, but have a feeling they don't want to be found..
>>160453260
No conventional relationships allowed.
>>160453447
They are in the "ironic weeaboo" threads
>>160453447
It reminds me of posters I sometimes see that are blatantly older and out of touch with current anime. People have a passing interest in anime that lasts a few years while they are a NEET and have no social life who move on from it when they become normalfag and get a job and friends. Then every now and then they will check in on what is currently airing for the sake of nostalgia maybe when they have nothing to do and find it doesn't measure up to what they think of in their mind as "the glory days" of anime and just complain about whatever it is.
>>160438134
I believe my reaction was "This is everything I hate about anime but done very well and actually good." It was young me's show I hated to love.
>>160453534
I assumed they took up other hobbies like bird watching or studying geological fault lines.
>>160453975
Laughed, that's me at 33 minus the complaining. Rather just see whats new with a small hope that there's an anime about people in their 30's and 40's (Seinfeld the Anime). Likely won't happen though.
>>160454181
I find those types kind of interesting because I am nearly 30 and spent a lot of time watching anime as a NEET in my early 20s but never stopped when I got a job and a social life. Perhaps I watch less per a season but still never really stopped.
Reminder that that scene was literally put in to troll purityfags. Ikuhara is the same man who told Anno that he should make Rei pregnant in Evangelion just so it would shatter fanboy delusions. If that scene is in any way some kind of big deal to you, you're one of the ones Ikuhara was giving the middle finger to.
>>160453260
>what is Touga/Nanami
>what is Saionji/Wakaba
>what is majority of Akio's exploits
Also what the fuck is all this shit taste in this thread. Can't tell if we're invaded by /pol/ or /s4s/ shitposting as /pol/.
>>160438731
no wonder her manga are shit. She's a retard.
>>160454984
>watched a lot of anime in my beginning 20s
>used to think that I would stop anime, get a job and a social life by the time I'm 30
>now 29 and nothing has changed
>>160454984
Don't you get bored of teenagers and early 20's characters?
>>160441468
hahhahahaha!
>>160455535
Not the person you are conversing with, but want to add that "hunger" plays into aggression.
>>160455535
A woman knowing a guy fucked 50 women turns her on
A guy knowing a woman was fucked by 50 men turns him off
That's all there is to it.
Nothing would change if this thread got moved to /pol/
>>160455692
It's too hard to follow the board's first rule.
>>160455847
Which is why divorced men are more desired than studs who only do hook ups right?oh wait
>>160455847
I'm not gonna risk getting banned arguing with a larping beta
I'm guessing half the thread is already reported
>>160455997
no, you're continually proving me right. You think that's what women want. Unless you're looking for random hookups it's not the case. you're literally projecting your insecurities on to what you think women like to hear.
>humans/animals
Biologically yes. Psychologically no. Animals don't build rockets or talk about whether or not souls exist. They don't have religions or bury their dead or sacrifice their lives for ideals like humans do. Just because some people act like animals doesn't invalidate that humans do a lot animals don't.
>>160456180
This has to do more with age. Of course women want a younger man. if a guy is in his 20s and divorced with no kids it makes no difference
>>160456435
>>160456435
>You think that's what women want.
You literally said before that you judge him by his past relationships, which means you expect him to have experience, having no past experience is a no go because to you it proves he's not able to obtain or handle a woman like a man who has had many can
God I'd wish women at least were honest with us and themselves and accept who they are
>Animals don't build rockets or talk about whether or not souls exist. They don't have religions or bury their dead or sacrifice their lives for ideals like humans do
Just because we are smart and self conscious doesn't mean we aren't tied to our biological impulses
Holy shit, just fuck off from this board forever you turds
Why aren't mods deleting this 9gag-tier "conversation" already
>>160453260
Did you not watch Penguindrum?
>>160455479
Not him, but as I get older the average age of characters in shows I enjoy has only decreased. I don't really understand people who need things to be excessively relateable or self-insertable.
Why did the movie feel so rushed compared to the show?
And how come pic related wasn't in the show? And why did they turn Touga into a ghost?
>>160456629
>if a guy is in his 20s and divorced with no kids it makes no difference
Too bad that's totally bullshit, I mean, divorce in men has always been something negative for them but now it doesn't matter because you need to justify women whore behavior
This kind of delusion is amazing
>>160457027
It focuses on less characters than the tv anime, those that are there relate directly to Utena or Anthy in some way.
>>160457027
>Why did the movie feel so rushed compared to the show?
Because...it's a movie? Like, an hour and a half compared to roughly 20 hours for 39 episodes?
>And how come pic related wasn't in the show?
That is still essentially Touga's backstory in the series, according to the staff. It just wasn't expanded upon there.
>And why did they turn Touga into a ghost?
To have things be different from the series, many things were changed. These kinds of AUs were quite common in the 90s. If you did an OVA and it got popular, you did an AU TV series. And if you had a TV series that was popular, you did an AU movie. Escaflowne is another example of the latter.
>>160456971
I always looked for older characters as a sort of role model. Like as a child, wanting to be like Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. As a teenager, thinking how cool Spike Spiegel and Vash the Stampede are. Don't really care having a MC just like me... just really appreciate role models. Or does that fall into the same category? 对不起, I'm not really that smart.
>>160457027
The movie tried to be really meta and weird. I mean, it's a cool experiencd, but still
>>160457624
Pretty sure Shiori came out of fucking nowhere as a car, I only watched the movie once but I don't remember her even being in the movie other than that.
>>160455333
Ikuhara is just a dick, hate that guy. He just like to trigger his viewers with cheap drama.
And I'm someone who would be fine if Rei had sex or a family with someone.
Fuck that guy and his stupid symbolism.
>>160458034
>>160447232
>humans aren't animals.
you know this is wrong and you still said it. im not defending the people youre arguing against because i totally disagree with them and agree with most of your other posts but come on. at least i hope you know this is wrong. in fact the animalistic nature of humanity would support your argument, at least in my view of it (the alpha male bullshit is cherry picking examples to compare to).
>>160447232
No, thanks. Real people are trash.
>>160440182
I used to buy the tapes. I just recall her talking about mayo and then she was having sex.
>>160455333
Seriously? What a piece of shit.
>>160438134
helo guys if you would like to discuss this with me further add me on skype offir.harrosh
>>160455333
What a fucking legend.
>>160457027
It's an alternate take on characters and themes of the show.
>>160440810
>shitskin, manchild, regularly fucks his sister, all around shitlord
>fair-skinned, manchild but with character development, could fuck his sister but doesn't
Pretty obvious who is better desu
>>160453523
lesbians also?
>>160457677
>Because...it's a movie? Like, an hour and a half compared to roughly 20 hours for 39 episodes?
That's an explanation, not an excuse.
>>160464653
Seemed well paced to me
>>160464653
The movie is just an add-on.
It's really only for dedicated fans, since it's nothing more than a reinterpretation of the series and a separate continuity.