and two, i also learned ikuhara's dream is to collborate with david lynch at some point and i can only pound my fists on the table and scream WHY HASN'T THIS HAPPENE DYET

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD THAT THIS ISN"T A THING

it seems like it should happen

just from the phrase "lesbian bear anime"

oh my god mel

ikuhara is like the craziest of anime directors it's fucking great

he's the guy responsible for revolutionary girl utena

whelp

OH GOD

he's he the dude who tried to explain that utena and anthy turning into naked race cars at the end of the utena movie was a metaphor for them going out into the world without protection or smth

because i remember that interview

yup

which -- actually isn't a bad interpretation

it's not meant to be literal iirc

but he also answers questions as troll-ish as possible too because he wants people to come to their own conclusions lmao

naked race cars tho

i blame all my familiarity with utena on my best friend back in high school tho because she lived with me my senior year and we would literally come back after school and watch utena while we did hw

and for some reason we watched the utena movie sped up so akio falling out the window wound up being the funniest shit to us ever

LMFAO

the movie is Something Else

i own it and i've seen it so many times and i still couldn't tell you

something else is a way of talking about it

for sure

i freaking love it though, and the tv series

formative i tell you

don't get me wrong i like the series but i have so many jokes about it

from watching it in high school

LMAO no way man i get that

prince licky lick for instance

i took it SO SERIOUSLY its ridiculous to look back on it

i saw so much shoujo ai in high school because my friend had such a hard time dealing with her own sexuality in the beginning and when i was so chill about it she basically wound up dragging me through it all

with her

yeah that's why i clung to utena so badly

i was trying to figure out what my sexuality was

i even own some things that are technically hers but she was afraid to keep them at home so she kept them at my house instead

aw ;;

i don't know why but gay or straight was literally never an issue for me it was figuring out that i was ace aro that took time

like even in middle school i was very casual about "like the person not their gender" and had no issue telling friends i was "bi" if they asked (i didn't figure out the ace thing til college)

but utena was a huge part of my high school life because of her so i'll always look back on it fondly

because back then it was incredibly important

My friend made this and I feel it is fun to share whenever someone brings up Ikuhara in this kind of context...

Ikuhara's Experimental Film

LMAO FUCK

BRILLIANT

it is AMAZING.

man i forgot how much i dug utena's hair in the movie

i'mwatching penguindrum right now

also the shadow girls are my favs

right?? the character designs in the movie were a+

i loved anthy's

i want to rp movie anthy someday le sigh

i just love anthy in general

if she wasn't so godmode i'd def app her somewhere

beautiful

love her

LMFAO SIAONJI

the only line in the dub worth it: 'nice skirt, saionji'

oh saionji i think we called him asparagus

that last one i am anthy

That knitting needle line could pass for canon and I wouldn't notice

are we sure it's not canon

"oh, did Anthy knit in an episode? Was she ever that open about it? Are they in the dorm? That was pretty early, right?"

(open about the stabbing I mean)

RIGHT

THAT'S WHY IT'S GREAT

fucking saionji

FUCK

i love to make fun of saionji it's so easy

I just made this horse noise

LMAO

so easy

i also feel like this is a canon line

probably

jesus christ

lmaoooooo

touga pls

holy shit penguindrum is fucking amazing i love it

it's so weird A+ work ikuhara-san

oh hey incest!

it wouldn't be ikuhara without that

LESBIAN BEAR STORM pls

That anime was so bad it was hilarious

UTENA IS THE BESSSST I LOVE IT

I was too impatient for them to finish releasing it in the US that I bought fansubs

and then when there weren't fansibs available for the final eps, I printed up a translated script and bought tapes recorded straight from Japanese tv, I was obsessed

some of the first fansubs I ever bought were the black rose saga episodes

YUP same!

iirc it was even before it was released over here