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GeekNights Presents Utena: ep01
GeekNights Presents: Utena
Episode 01
Episode one - Pay Attention - throws the viewer right into the thick of it: unintroduced characters, inscrutable motivations, secret forests, and floating castles all! There's little to analyze with just this to go on (without spoiling), so we point out a number of directions of inquiry for the viewer. The best thing you can do to better understand this show is to pay attention.
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What about the lyrics of the songs played during the duels? Some meaning there or just random words?
I also noticed that although they say Utena is wearing the boy's uniform, there's not a single boy dressing like that, and the actual boy's uniform is not even close in shape or colors. Something to say about that?
We plan to focus on particular aspects for given episodes. For example, we pointed out the spinning rose framings and Miki's stopwatch, but didn't devote much time to them yet. In the next episode, you'll see we focus primarily on the duels themselves.
As for the in-universe explanation? Harder to parse, since you're right, it really doesn't look much like the regular uniform except for the high collar and the cut of the jacket. My guess is that it's a carry-over from the manga that didn't quite get explained well enough (since they were developing the anime and manga at the same time but they were largely independent projects). In the manga, Utena has a hot pink uniform, and it is more explicitly stated that she is exploiting an even more specific rule in order to wear it: So for our purposes, we can probably assume the same rule also exists in the anime (otherwise yeah, she probably wouldn't be allowed to wear it), and that the rule she quotes in the first episode is just the general rule about girls' and boys' uniforms because it's the quicker one to read off in a hurry.
That all said, it still bothers me a bit. Ikuhara, why you gotta be vague? :P
No one is biting at my offer for purchase, so umm.. MERRY CHRISTMAS! I'll see if I can mail out the first season in the next few days.
Also, I am finally almost done with your X-mas present!
Is there some kind of hint as to what you should change to make them not complain? Like take out the clips? Or just do audio? Wow, there's a lot of "?" in this post. :-P Man I was looking forward to watching more of these in the future, screw those guys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
[Edit] Ninja'd.
Anyway. I had to take a class in college that was all about this stuff, it was pretty eye opening. Which is why I'm shocked* they would claim infringement for a review, only thing I can think of is that maybe it was from using so many clips? (In which case it would still fall under fair use, but makes sense why they'd complain.) I had a video removed that I felt was fair use (for containing part of a particular song), yet when I tried to defend it through their process, its like nobody at YouTube even read my defense and just ignored me.
*Honestly not sure why I'm shocked, seems like this crap happens all the time.
Nevertheless, chances are your video will be blocked in Italy at the very least.
You also have to enjoy the boxing kangaroo one too.
TSUWABUKI! *SNAP*
The only Nanami episode that you probably can skip safely is episode 24, which is the Nanami recap episode. It has some good moments (e.g.: Tsuwabuki's version of the cowbell ending, the bits in the infirmary, and the ending with C-ko and the triplet guys), but if you really find you still can't deal with her by that point, maybe skip over that one in your first watch-through and go back to it afterward if you really like the series and want your watching of it to be complete.