Why does Ikuha(ck)ra repeat various scenes at least once per episode?
Why does Ikuha(ck)ra repeat various scenes at least once per episode?
Blake Bell
Owen Hernandez
>muh stock footage
This expression indicates Ikuhara's confusion and lack of understanding. When confronted with the task of creating drama or characters that make sense, Ikuhara mumbles, "muh stock footage" or "muh gay sex". This is usually followed by a transformation sequence and shots of staircases.
Zachary Howard
Do you not know what stock footage is?
Juan Sullivan
not an argument
Ryder Wright
To cut corners. It was a bit more artistic decision to follow cliches of Mahou Shoujo girl genre in Utena's case, but Ikuhara's career is defined by Mahou Shoujo girls, so obviously he would simply utilize same production tricks he learnt while working on Sailor Moon.
Aaron Cooper
Stock footage is filler content used to pad out the runtime of your weekly kids' anime that ran for years at a time. It's meant to save both time and money and stupid kids didn't care or couldn't tell the difference anyway. Why Ikuhara thinks it's acceptable to have in one cour shows, while taking crucial screentime from story or character development, is beyond me.
Parker King
Ikuhara is so cute. He has my permission to do anything. I don't care.
Jordan Morales
The stock footages in Sarazanmai could be cut or reduced to save time for more plot after 2 episodes, yet I liked the earlier episodes more than the second half of the anime
Adam Perez
Because there's no such thing as too much ZETTAI UNMEI MUKUSHIROKU or ROCK OVER JAPAN.
Nicholas Clark
Utena could’ve been around 5 episodes shorter if the TWO MINUTES LONG SEQUENCE OF UTENA IN THE TOWER WASN’T THERE.
>2 minutes long
>20 minutes of episode
>39 episodes
39*20 = ~780 minutes
39*2 = ~78 minutes
780 - 78 = 702 minutes
An hour and 18 minutes of filler, approximately. The scene is good but I don’t want to see it FORTY TIMES. And that’s inexcusable because he kept doing the same on Mawaru Penguindrum.