Take my revolution, please!
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avram(Yeah, I know everyone and his same-sex obsession has used that as a parody title. I want to see if Google still loves me.)
Much Utena was watched. We’ve finished off the Black Rose arc, and seen the first few episodes with the amazing car that blows people’s clothes off. We will probably not finish off the rest in a massive six hour viewing session.
Modern Japanese high school romance is probably not as formal as it seems in Utena (which is, after all, inspired by The Rose of Versailles, an early manga series from the 1970s, set in pre-Revolutionary France), though I wouldn’t be surprised if it were more formal than American high school. And given how stratified American high schools are, it’s no wonder high school is such a ripe setting for romance stories.
Given how much all the characters keep talking about “world revolution”, I’d kinda like to see some good, old-fashioned leftist politics in Utena. (Or maybe that’s an echo of The Rose of Versailles too.) Maybe sit China Miéville down in front of it and see what he comes up with.
Much Utena was watched. We’ve finished off the Black Rose arc, and seen the first few episodes with the amazing car that blows people’s clothes off. We will probably not finish off the rest in a massive six hour viewing session.
Modern Japanese high school romance is probably not as formal as it seems in Utena (which is, after all, inspired by The Rose of Versailles, an early manga series from the 1970s, set in pre-Revolutionary France), though I wouldn’t be surprised if it were more formal than American high school. And given how stratified American high schools are, it’s no wonder high school is such a ripe setting for romance stories.
Given how much all the characters keep talking about “world revolution”, I’d kinda like to see some good, old-fashioned leftist politics in Utena. (Or maybe that’s an echo of The Rose of Versailles too.) Maybe sit China Miéville down in front of it and see what he comes up with.
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Date: 2004-12-25 07:21 pm (UTC)