Let me just share the opinions of two towering figures in anime fandom on the subject:
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Quote:As for "just a hint of strangeness" -- I take it you've not seen the Utena movie. I had acid trips that weren't that wacked. -- MegaZoneand
Quote: It's all sort of a Victorian Love Story with Girls in a Theater-of-the-Absurd Twenty-First-Century Paris, which is fine if you're into that kind of thing. -- Gryphon, about the Utena movie, Eyrie website discussion groups, 8/6/2001This is not to say it isn't good, mind you, it's just that... well, as Offsides, Peggy and I learned one evening almost a decade ago, you do not watch it and End of Evangelion both in one night. There's only so much bizarre and inscrutable symbolism and imagery the human mind can take in so short a period.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.