Utena DVD Box Set
Before my comments on Mnemosyne ep 5, I just gotta tell the world…
UTENA DVD BOX SET is finally being released!!
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/utena/
Man I have soooo been waiting for this. I watched this in real-time. It felt like a bizarre acid trip at times, and the Black Rose arc was pretty messed up, but it was not until those fateful episode near the end that I truly understood the mad, twisted genius of Ikuhara.
Utena was a good show. I started watching because it was Sailor Moon’s Ikuhara and it sounded a bit interesting. I finished this series with a profound respect for his creativity and excellent storytelling. A world utterly divorced from reality where characters act because of their extreme, but definitely real, emotions. I’m a sucker for that kind of story, and I think Utena was the one to show me the enormous potential of the genre.
To be honest, I don’t consider this a yuri or shoujoai anime, even though it does contain elements of such. It’s a fairytale, a dark, grim, confusing, hilarious, tragic, touching, stomach-churning, wondrous, sad and hopeful fairytale.
