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* StartMyOwn: When Creator/ToeiAnimation didn't give him enough creative control for ''Anime/SailorMoon [=SuperS=]'', Ikuhara left Toei and decided to create his own magical girl series.
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* StartMyOwn: When Creator/ToeiAnimation didn't give him enough creative control for ''Anime/SailorMoon [=SuperS=]'', Ikuhara left Toei and decided to create his own magical girl series. That series was ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''.
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Kunihiko Ikuhara (born December 21, 1964) is a Japanese [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] and anime auteur. He is basically the Japanese Creator/DavidLynch, most famous for directing the TV series ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' and its movie ''The Adolescence of Utena'', plus the first four seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (directed several episodes in the first season, and became the series director for the ''R'', ''S'', and ''[=SuperS=]'' seasons) as well as the ''R'' movie, and the Creator/MamoruOshii of TV anime. Also notoriously evasive about giving straight answers to his more surreal works. ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'' has been cited as an influence of his, which is quite easily seen in ''Utena''.
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Kunihiko Ikuhara (born December 21, 1964) is a Japanese [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] animator and anime auteur.director. He is basically the Japanese Creator/DavidLynch, most famous for directing the TV series ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' and its movie ''The Adolescence of Utena'', plus the first four seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (directed several episodes in the first season, and became the series director for the ''R'', ''S'', and ''[=SuperS=]'' seasons) as well as the ''R'' movie, and the Creator/MamoruOshii of TV anime. Also notoriously evasive about giving straight answers to his more surreal works. ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'' has been cited as an influence of his, which is quite easily seen in ''Utena''.
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* FanNickname: Ikuni. He even uses it himself.
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* AuthorAvatar: When creating ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Creator/HideakiAnno started the rumor that he based Kaworu Nagisa on Ikuhara.
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* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''.
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* ControlFreak: AuthorAppeal: He can be has a big one considering the fact very long list of very specific things that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried tend to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacherpop up in ''Adolescence of Utena''.his works: surreal plotlines that get very dark, DesignStudentsOrgasm imagery, unhealthy relationships, BrotherSisterIncest, StockFootage, repeated phrases, flowers, princesses, strange dramatic poses, wacky animal hijinx, ''heavy'' symbolism and obscure literary references, {{Forgotten First Meeting}}s, {{Magical Girl}}s, and, above all else, lesbians.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher
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* DreamTeam: He would like to collaborate with Creator/DavidLynch. Just...[[{{MindScrew}} think about that for a second.]]
** Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!
** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
* ExecutiveMeddling: While he was relatively independent with ''Utena'', the producers only allowed him to produce ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' when he made it more accessible. He added PluckyComicRelief in [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins form of three penguins]].
** Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!
** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
* ExecutiveMeddling: While he was relatively independent with ''Utena'', the producers only allowed him to produce ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' when he made it more accessible. He added PluckyComicRelief in [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins form of three penguins]].
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* DreamTeam: He would like to collaborate with Creator/DavidLynch. Just...[[{{MindScrew}} think about that for a second.]]
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**Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!
** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
* ExecutiveMeddling:While he was relatively independent with ''Utena'', the producers only allowed him to produce ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' when he made it more accessible. He added PluckyComicRelief in [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins form of three penguins]].
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** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
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** Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.''Revolutionary Girl Utena''.
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* StartMyOwn: He formed Be-Papas after disagreements with Creator/ToeiAnimation on ''Manga/SailorMoon'' forced him to quit the series.
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* StartMyOwn: He formed Be-Papas after disagreements with When Creator/ToeiAnimation on ''Manga/SailorMoon'' forced didn't give him enough creative control for ''Anime/SailorMoon [=SuperS=]'', Ikuhara left Toei and decided to quit the create his own magical girl series.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Why he's had barely any involvement since ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' since he's difficult to work with due to heavy creative differences between him and the executives.
* ExecutiveMeddling: While he was relatively independent with ''Utena'', the producers only allowed him to produce ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' when he made it more accessible. He added PluckyComicRelief in [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins form of three penguins]].
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* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Worked on the anime of the trope namer, shows up in other, non-MagicalGirl contexts as well ("Grant me the power to Revolutionize the world" from ''Utena'' or "Imagine!" from ''Penguindrum''). See TransformationSequence.
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* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Worked on the anime of the trope namer, shows up in other, non-MagicalGirl contexts as well ("Grant me the power to Revolutionize the world" from ''Utena'' or "Imagine!" from ''Penguindrum''). See TransformationSequence.''Penguindrum'').
* {{Jossed}}: Often looked to by fans for answers, often takes gleeful delight in disappointing them.
* LyingCreator:
** Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.
** Probably the best example is his response via Website/{{Twitter}} to people asking about ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
---> All of you have enjoyed making your predictions. Now, I'll tell you the truth. Yes. Just as all of you have predicted all along: [[BlatantLies the Penguindrum is a pink washing machine.]]
* {{Jossed}}: Often looked to by fans for answers, often takes gleeful delight in disappointing them.
* LyingCreator:
** Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.
** Probably the best example is his response via Website/{{Twitter}} to people asking about ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
---> All of you have enjoyed making your predictions. Now, I'll tell you the truth. Yes. Just as all of you have predicted all along: [[BlatantLies the Penguindrum is a pink washing machine.]]
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* ShrugOfGod: One of his most defining traits. Not only do his answers rarely make sense at all, they also occasionally contradict each others.
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* TrollingCreator: Big time!
--> '''Interviewer:''' Ikuhara-san, Chiho Saito has said that you have never told her the truth about it, could you explain the significance of Mickey and his stopwatch. What exactly is his role on the Council?
--> '''Ikuhara:''' It has a very deep significance. His stopwatch contains the key to open all the mysteries of the world. And Mickey is the only one who knows that. [[ShrugOfGod So I don't know what it is either]].
** Completely averted with ''Adolescence of Utena'', as Ikuhara provides a (for Ikuhara) reasonable explanation for all the bizarre symbolism.
--> '''Interviewer:''' Ikuhara-san, Chiho Saito has said that you have never told her the truth about it, could you explain the significance of Mickey and his stopwatch. What exactly is his role on the Council?
--> '''Ikuhara:''' It has a very deep significance. His stopwatch contains the key to open all the mysteries of the world. And Mickey is the only one who knows that. [[ShrugOfGod So I don't know what it is either]].
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* Main/{{Biseinen}}: Don't even try to deny it.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature of his work is decidedly uncommercial. This means that he's as well an eccentric anime edition of Creator/OrsonWelles and, by extent, the TV edition of Creator/MamoruOshii[[note]]Mamoru Oshii only has directed one TV series, the first 106 episodes of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' before resigning due to creative differences between him and the executives.[[/note]].
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature of his work is decidedly uncommercial. This means that he's as well an eccentric anime edition of Creator/OrsonWelles and, by extent, the TV edition of Creator/MamoruOshii[[note]]Mamoru Oshii only has directed one TV series, the first 106 episodes of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' before resigning due to creative differences between him and the executives.[[/note]].
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
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* StartMyOwn: He formed Be-Papas after disagreements with Creator/ToeiAnimation on ''Manga/SailorMoon'' forced him to quit the series.
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* Main/{{Biseinen}}: Don't even try to deny it.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature of his
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''.
* DreamTeam: He would like to collaborate with Creator/DavidLynch. Just...[[{{MindScrew}} think about that for a second.]]
** Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!
** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
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* Main/{{Biseinen}}: Don't even try to deny it.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature of his work is decidedly uncommercial. This means that he's as well an eccentric anime edition of Creator/OrsonWelles and, by extent, the TV edition of Creator/MamoruOshii[[note]]Mamoru Oshii only has directed one TV series, the first 106 episodes of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' before resigning due to creative differences between him and the executives.[[/note]].
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''.
* DreamTeam: He would like to collaborate with Creator/DavidLynch. Just...[[{{MindScrew}} think about that for a second.]]
** Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!
** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
* Main/{{Biseinen}}: Don't even try to deny it.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature of his work is decidedly uncommercial. This means that he's as well an eccentric anime edition of Creator/OrsonWelles and, by extent, the TV edition of Creator/MamoruOshii[[note]]Mamoru Oshii only has directed one TV series, the first 106 episodes of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' before resigning due to creative differences between him and the executives.[[/note]].
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''.
* DreamTeam: He would like to collaborate with Creator/DavidLynch. Just...[[{{MindScrew}} think about that for a second.]]
** Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!
** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
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* Main/{{Biseinen}}: Don't even try to deny it.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature ofhis work is decidedly uncommercial. This means that he's as well an eccentric anime edition of Creator/OrsonWelles and, by extent, the TV edition of Creator/MamoruOshii[[note]]Mamoru Oshii only has directed one TV series, the first 106 episodes of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' before resigning due to creative differences between him and the executives.[[/note]].
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
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* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''. \n* DreamTeam: He would like to collaborate with Creator/DavidLynch. Just...[[{{MindScrew}} think about that for a second.]]\n** Then there's his collaboration with MamoruNagano on ''SchellBullet''. A perfect storm of [[{{Camp}} FABULOUS]]!\n** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
* Main/{{Biseinen}}: Don't even try to deny it.
* BrilliantButLazy: Directed only three series in 25 years.
** Likely due to the fact that he's notoriously difficult to work with and the nature of
* {{Camp}}: He wears colorful and flamboyant clothes and idiosyncratic hair dyeing.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Understatement of the century.
--> '''Ikuhara''': The Shadow Play Girls are my friends. Those girls come from Planet Kashira. And they often talk to me via radio waves... almost every day.
** BunnyEarsLawyer: Still, he's acknowledged as one of the best anime directors of all time.
* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in ''Adolescence of Utena''.
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* OddFriendship: One of his closer friends is none other than ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' creator Creator/HideakiAnno, whose introverted personality stands in harsh contrast to the flamboyant Ikuhara.
** Anno calls him ''Kuni-chan'' in public.
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* StartMyOwn: He formed Be-Papas after disagreements with Creator/ToeiAnimation on ''Manga/SailorMoon'' forced him to quit the series.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: He's been known [[http://saezutte.tumblr.com/post/10449191892/ to cosplay as]] [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Mars]].
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* YuriFan: He openly admitted on the commentary for the ''Utena'' movie that the ending is "the sort of thing I thought about a lot when I was younger." Said ending, by the way, [[MindScrew involves two naked girls speeding away on the remains of a car when said car was one of the girls moments before]].
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (A list of the episodes he directed can be found [[http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kunihiko_Ikuhara here.]])
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* ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}''
* ''SchellBullet'' -- a collaboration with Mamoru Nagano
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (A list of the episodes he directed can be found [[http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kunihiko_Ikuhara here.]])
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* ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}''
* ''SchellBullet'' -- a collaboration with Mamoru Nagano
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* ''Manga/TheWorldExistsForMe'' (2002-03) -- a collaboration with Creator/ChihoSaito
* ''Manga/NokemonoToHanayome'' (2006-) -- a collaboration with mangaka Asumiko Nakamura
* ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' (2007) (opening)
* ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'' (2009) (opening)
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* ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}'' (2019)
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->''This is just between you and me, but when I was fourteen, I saw a UFO.''
->''That UFO telepathically told me this prophecy: '''"When you grow up, you will direct an anime about girls revolutionizing various things."'''''
->''Surely you jest.''
->'''''"You must not tell anyone about me. If you ever do..."'''''
->''Wh-What will happen to me?''
->'''''"People will call you a sketchy guy."'''''
->''That UFO telepathically told me this prophecy: '''"When you grow up, you will direct an anime about girls revolutionizing various things."'''''
->''Surely you jest.''
->'''''"You must not tell anyone about me. If you ever do..."'''''
->''Wh-What will happen to me?''
->'''''"People will call you a sketchy guy."'''''
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->''This is just between you and me, but when I was fourteen, I saw a UFO.''
->''That\\
That UFO telepathically told me this prophecy: '''"When you grow up, you will direct an anime about girls revolutionizing various things."'''\\
Surely you jest.\\
'''"You must not tell anyone about me. If you ever do..."'''\\
Wh-What will happen to me?\\
'''"People will call you a sketchy guy."'''''
->''Surely you jest.''
->'''''"You must not tell anyone about me. If you ever do..."'''''
->''Wh-What will happen to me?''
->'''''"People will call you a sketchy guy."'''''
->''That
That UFO telepathically told me this prophecy: '''"When you grow up, you will direct an anime about girls revolutionizing various things."'''\\
Surely you jest.\\
'''"You must not tell anyone about me. If you ever do..."'''\\
Wh-What will happen to me?\\
'''"People will call you a sketchy guy."'''''
->'''''"You must not tell anyone about me. If you ever do..."'''''
->''Wh-What will happen to me?''
->'''''"People will call you a sketchy guy."'''''
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: He's been known [[http://saezutte.tumblr.com/post/10449191892/ to]] [[http://uranime.nekomusume.net/misc/images/SailorIkuhara.jpg cosplay]] [[http://uranime.nekomusume.net/misc/images/ScarySenshi.jpg as]] [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Mars]].
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: He's been known [[http://saezutte.tumblr.com/post/10449191892/ to]] [[http://uranime.nekomusume.net/misc/images/SailorIkuhara.jpg cosplay]] [[http://uranime.nekomusume.net/misc/images/ScarySenshi.jpg to cosplay as]] [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Mars]].
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* DoingItForTheArt: Why he's had barely any involvement since ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' since he's difficult to work with due to heavy creative differences between him and the executives.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: While he was relatively independent with ''Utena'', the producers only allowed him to produce ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' when he made it more accessible. He added PluckyComicRelief in [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins form of three penguins]].
* FanNickname: Ikuni. He even uses it himself.
* FanNickname: Ikuni. He even uses it himself.
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* {{Jossed}}: Often looked to by fans for answers, often takes gleeful delight in disappointing them.
* LyingCreator: Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.
** Probably the best example is his response via Website/{{Twitter}} to people asking about ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
---> All of you have enjoyed making your predictions. Now, I'll tell you the truth. Yes. Just as all of you have predicted all along: [[BlatantLies the Penguindrum is a pink washing machine.]]
* LyingCreator: Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.
** Probably the best example is his response via Website/{{Twitter}} to people asking about ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
---> All of you have enjoyed making your predictions. Now, I'll tell you the truth. Yes. Just as all of you have predicted all along: [[BlatantLies the Penguindrum is a pink washing machine.]]
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** Ikuhara [[http://17th-angel.tumblr.com/post/42052509118/all-about-nagisa-kaworu-a-child-of-the jested that Kaworu]] of ''Evangelion'' might be inspired by him and a similar event [[HoYay he shared with Anno in an onsen]], fueling the fantasy of [[YaoiFangirl some of their fans]].
* OldShame: Ikuhara wasn't fond of how the dub of the first episodes of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' turned out to the point that he became much more involved in the English dub in later episodes as well as ''Adolescence of Utena''.
* OldShame: Ikuhara wasn't fond of how the dub of the first episodes of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' turned out to the point that he became much more involved in the English dub in later episodes as well as ''Adolescence of Utena''.
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* ShrugOfGod: One of his most defining traits. Not only do his answers rarely make sense at all, they also occasionally contradict each others.
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* TrollingCreator: Big time!
--> '''Interviewer:''' Ikuhara-san, Chiho Saito has said that you have never told her the truth about it, could you explain the significance of Mickey and his stopwatch. What exactly is his role on the Council?
--> '''Ikuhara:''' It has a very deep significance. His stopwatch contains the key to open all the mysteries of the world. And Mickey is the only one who knows that. [[ShrugOfGod So I don't know what it is either]].
** Completely averted with ''Adolescence of Utena'', as Ikuhara provides a (for Ikuhara) reasonable explanation for all the bizarre symbolism.
--> '''Interviewer:''' Ikuhara-san, Chiho Saito has said that you have never told her the truth about it, could you explain the significance of Mickey and his stopwatch. What exactly is his role on the Council?
--> '''Ikuhara:''' It has a very deep significance. His stopwatch contains the key to open all the mysteries of the world. And Mickey is the only one who knows that. [[ShrugOfGod So I don't know what it is either]].
** Completely averted with ''Adolescence of Utena'', as Ikuhara provides a (for Ikuhara) reasonable explanation for all the bizarre symbolism.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He offered ideas on the ''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]'' film and was quite upset that none of them were used.
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* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
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* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he understandably had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The reason Ikuhara is able to get away with surreal digs at Japan's culture: by portraying them with ridiculous metaphors, ''especially'' with ''Yuri Kuma Arashi'' which garnered a fair amount of notoriety and attention from its insane premise, irrespective of its actual meaning.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The reason Ikuhara is able to get away with surreal digs at Japan's culture: by portraying them with ridiculous metaphors, ''especially'' with ''Yuri Kuma Arashi'' which garnered a fair amount of notoriety and attention from its insane premise, irrespective of its actual meaning.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: While he was relatively independent with ''Utena'', the producers only allowed him to produce ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' when he made it more accessible. He added PluckyComicRelief in [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins form of three penguins]].
* FanNickname: Ikuni. He even uses it himself.
* FanNickname: Ikuni. He even uses it himself.
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* {{Jossed}}: Often looked to by fans for answers, often takes gleeful delight in disappointing them.
* LyingCreator: Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.
** Probably the best example is his response via Website/{{Twitter}} to people asking about ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
---> All of you have enjoyed making your predictions. Now, I'll tell you the truth. Yes. Just as all of you have predicted all along: [[BlatantLies the Penguindrum is a pink washing machine.]]
* LyingCreator: Possibly, when asked about ''Utena''.
** Probably the best example is his response via Website/{{Twitter}} to people asking about ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
---> All of you have enjoyed making your predictions. Now, I'll tell you the truth. Yes. Just as all of you have predicted all along: [[BlatantLies the Penguindrum is a pink washing machine.]]
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* OldShame: Ikuhara wasn't fond of how the dub of the first episodes of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' turned out to the point that he became much more involved in the English dub in later episodes as well as ''Adolescence of Utena''.
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* ShrugOfGod: One of his most defining traits. Not only do his answers rarely make sense at all, they also occasionally contradict each others.
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* TrollingCreator: Big time!
--> '''Interviewer:''' Ikuhara-san, Chiho Saito has said that you have never told her the truth about it, could you explain the significance of Mickey and his stopwatch. What exactly is his role on the Council?
--> '''Ikuhara:''' It has a very deep significance. His stopwatch contains the key to open all the mysteries of the world. And Mickey is the only one who knows that. [[ShrugOfGod So I don't know what it is either]].
** Completely averted with ''Adolescence of Utena'', as Ikuhara provides a (for Ikuhara) reasonable explanation for all the bizarre symbolism.
--> '''Interviewer:''' Ikuhara-san, Chiho Saito has said that you have never told her the truth about it, could you explain the significance of Mickey and his stopwatch. What exactly is his role on the Council?
--> '''Ikuhara:''' It has a very deep significance. His stopwatch contains the key to open all the mysteries of the world. And Mickey is the only one who knows that. [[ShrugOfGod So I don't know what it is either]].
** Completely averted with ''Adolescence of Utena'', as Ikuhara provides a (for Ikuhara) reasonable explanation for all the bizarre symbolism.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He offered ideas on the ''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]'' film and was quite upset that none of them were used.
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** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
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** There was a small chance in the late 90s that he and HideakiAnno Creator/HideakiAnno could have done a collaboration. Ultimately ruined because Anno got fed up with directing anime after ''Manga/KareKano'' and retired from directing for a couple of years. Ikuhara turned down any commercial offer from Creator/ToeiAnimation and virtually became a PersonaNonGrata due to his [[{{Understatement}} difficult behavior]] - for more than a decade until ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.
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* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher in The Adolescence of Utena.
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* ControlFreak: He can be a big one considering the fact that he had creative differences with Creator/ToeiAnimation about how ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was going after the fourth season, especially when they tried to use Chibiusa as a KidAppealCharacter.
* CreatorCameo: Plays the art teacher inThe Adolescence ''Adolescence of Utena.Utena''.
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* OddFriendship: One of his closer friends is none other than ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' creator Creator/HideakiAnno, whose introverted personality stands in harsh contrast to the flamboyant Ikuhara.
** Anno calls him ''Kuni-chan'' in public.
** Ikuhara [[http://17th-angel.tumblr.com/post/42052509118/all-about-nagisa-kaworu-a-child-of-the jested that Kaworu]] of ''Evangelion'' might be inspired by him and a similar event [[HoYay he shared with Anno in an onsen]], fueling the fantasy of [[YaoiFangirl some of their fans]].
** Anno calls him ''Kuni-chan'' in public.
** Ikuhara [[http://17th-angel.tumblr.com/post/42052509118/all-about-nagisa-kaworu-a-child-of-the jested that Kaworu]] of ''Evangelion'' might be inspired by him and a similar event [[HoYay he shared with Anno in an onsen]], fueling the fantasy of [[YaoiFangirl some of their fans]].
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* PrimaDonnaDirector: He's been known to be difficult to work with.
* OddFriendship: One of his closer friends is none other than Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion creator Creator/HideakiAnno, whose introverted personality stands in harsh contrast to the flamboyant Ikuhara.
** Anno calls him ''Kuni-chan'' in public.
** Ikuhara [[http://17th-angel.tumblr.com/post/42052509118/all-about-nagisa-kaworu-a-child-of-the jested that Kaworu]] of ''Evangelion'' might be inspired by him and a similar event [[HoYay he shared with Anno in an onsen]], fueling the fantasy of [[YaoiFangirl some of their fans]].
* OddFriendship: One of his closer friends is none other than Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion creator Creator/HideakiAnno, whose introverted personality stands in harsh contrast to the flamboyant Ikuhara.
** Anno calls him ''Kuni-chan'' in public.
** Ikuhara [[http://17th-angel.tumblr.com/post/42052509118/all-about-nagisa-kaworu-a-child-of-the jested that Kaworu]] of ''Evangelion'' might be inspired by him and a similar event [[HoYay he shared with Anno in an onsen]], fueling the fantasy of [[YaoiFangirl some of their fans]].
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* TheWalrusWasPaul: He intentionally messes around with the symbolism and narration of his shows, to infamous degree in ''Utena''.
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Kunihiko Ikuhara (born December 21, 1964) is a Japanese [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] and anime auteur. He is basically the Japanese Creator/DavidLynch, most famous for directing the TV series ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' and its movie ''The Adolescence of Utena'', plus the first four seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (directed several episodes in the first season, and became the series director for the ''R'', ''S'', and ''[=SuperS=]'' seasons) as well as the ''R'' movie, and the Creator/MamoruOshii of TV anime. Also notoriously evasive about giving straight answers to his more surreal works. ''Anime/KanashimiNoBelladonna'' has been cited as an influence of his, which is quite easily seen in ''Utena''.
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Kunihiko Ikuhara (born December 21, 1964) is a Japanese [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] and anime auteur. He is basically the Japanese Creator/DavidLynch, most famous for directing the TV series ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' and its movie ''The Adolescence of Utena'', plus the first four seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' (directed several episodes in the first season, and became the series director for the ''R'', ''S'', and ''[=SuperS=]'' seasons) as well as the ''R'' movie, and the Creator/MamoruOshii of TV anime. Also notoriously evasive about giving straight answers to his more surreal works. ''Anime/KanashimiNoBelladonna'' ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'' has been cited as an influence of his, which is quite easily seen in ''Utena''.
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