Shall I watch the TV series or the movie?
Or shall I watch both, then which one should be first - the movie or the tv series?
Synopis for bot animes are very similar but mal's tags are very different. It seems like the movie is more darker than tv series. Am I right? Or is it because it has some fanservice?
This reply is probably too late, but you should watch the anime first and then the movie. The movie isn't darker than the anime, a bit weirder maybe, and it will be hard to understand it unless you see the anime first.
Gaichi said: "Loose retelling", not sure if I'm going to watch atleast for while. If I don't find other anime to watch, then most likely I will watch this.
You haven't fully experienced Utena if you haven't seen the movie. It's not a recap movie.
EratiK said: You haven't fully experienced Utena if you haven't seen the movie. It's not a recap movie.
Hmm, you got me interested. I see you in few hours and say what I think about it ;)
Edit: review
Alright, first good things about the movie:
Most characters in the movie were somehow different from tv series, best changes were made to Utena (real tomboy look with short hair, long hair somehow appear on combat mode...) and Anthy (less nerdy like and way more sexy)
Alright, prepare for bad things then:
Too many characters were either missing or just made briefly cameo (like Nanami cow on film), Akio died (fall from balcony, lol?), Shiori were like main antagonist on this movie (which I didn't like), Touga drowned (yet another good fighter loss life for bad made movie alternative to tv series)
Utena car, yay wtf is going on :D Shiori also transformed to a car, alright let's take race battle! Wakaba as car... well nothing does surprise me anymore, atleast thought so... until wild castle TRUCK appeared!? Laughed so hard, and this made me reduce scores on MAL, mostly.
Intro/credits text in total took around of 15 minutes? really, from 89 minutes long movie xD
I gave 6/10, only because certain differences on characters compared to tv series. Was really disappointed on this movie. Too many bad things vs good things.
IMO movie MAL page should be rewritten, or atleast "Loose retelling" changed to "Alternative version"
GaichiNov 2, 2017 12:00 AM
"A half moon, it has a dark half and a bright half, just like me…", Yuno Gasai
Utena (real tomboy look with short hair, long hair somehow appear on combat mode...)
Yeah, this one confused me for the longest time too. She actually doesn't have short hair, she just puts it up in a way to make it look like she does. I can't find it, but there was a character design sheet that showed how her hair is tied up and pinned to the base of her skull with the shorter top hair covering it up to give the impression of having a short hair cut.