Can you translate 'soukatsu' into English? KI: Well, yeah, that's true - no, that's not what it was! I'm fluffing this up a bit, but I wanted to make it into an anime that rounded up all the shoujo manga into one. that's not exactly what it was.ĬS: I had the impression that you were forcibly trying to make Utena your own while you were making it. But as I was doing it, I realized it wasn't the same as what I envisioned, so.ĬS (seriously): You wanted to make it yours, didn't you? The anime, I mean. In the beginning I was planning to do it all in a fictitious world. what do you call it? Hmm, I don't know how to explain this.ĬS: Because there're a lot of authors and manga artists who write fantasy and science fiction all the time, even in the anime industry.ĬS: So are you saying it was different for you?ĬS: Was creating an entirely fictitious world kind of. How do I explain this? Something you've never seen is. I think it's because I realized you can't draw something you've never seen before. 'Don't make it look like it's sci-fi,' and 'don't make it look like a fantasy genre.' The reason why I kept badgering her about that is because. Saito this and she talked about this earlier, but I told her not to give it a sci-fi look. I was trying to avoid the visuals looking like parody too. In the beginning I was trying to avoid it. The visuals may remind you of something like Rose of Versailles, but what you actually intended was that if you paid attention, you'd realize it's nothing like it, right? I figured there's no way around that.ĬS: So on the surface it's supposed to look like a parody. KI (laughing): Yes, the visuals are a parody.

I think the reason why it ended up being like that is because I strongly felt that I wanted to avoid it being called a parody.ĬS : But the visuals totally look like a parody to me. I'm often told that there are a lot of parts where expressionism is used. I had this enormous negative reaction to it being a parody. But in my mind if I made this anime a normal anime, it'd become a parody. Just make it more normal, is what they said. It doesn't have to be like Rose of Versailles. They'd just say there are other storylines I could do. I had to keep telling them, 'No, I don't want to do that.' A lot of people around me never understood that. 'Why don't you make it more like Rose of Versailles?' or 'Why don't you make it more like Ribon no Kishi?' I was told that numerous times. I kept thinking that I have to make it so no one would be able to call it a parody, but I got a lot of requests from the people around me.

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