Princess Tutu

Am I the only one who knows about the series only because of these?

For Drosselmeyer, I think the events of Princess Tutu are less a story in the sense that he has complete control, that nothing happens without his saying so, and that his word is truth, and more like a game of Solitaire in which the cards have minds of their own. People talk about characters taking on a life of they're own, but these people are every bit as real as he was. He's just using his power to bring stories to life to pull their strings and bind them to "the Story."

Not even real authors have complete control over their characters.

Besides which I think Drosselmeyer wanted his story to evolve and surprise him.

I loved his final fourth wall speculation at the end.

But the concept of Drosselmeyer is extremely interesting. I mean... The writer is also a character, watching the whole thing from the outside and steering the story into the direction he wants.

Xcept Femio. What nationality is he supposed to be anyways?

French...I think (the triple irony!). In the Abridged series he jumps between a lot of accents.

Look at that, the dub is better than I expected.

^^ Related.

edited 25th May '10 6:50:39 PM by CDRW

This probably needs to be posted then. Spoilers for the end, but still hilarious.

^ That explains soooooooo much. Like why Fakir didn't write a story where she turns back into a girl.

edited 25th May '10 7:01:05 PM by CDRW

Not even real authors have complete control over their characters.

Besides which I think Drosselmeyer wanted his story to evolve and surprise him.

Yes, but the relationship he has with the PT characters is very different from Ikuko Ito's, or the relationship he presumably had with the characters of TP&TR when he was alive and writing it, or the relationship that Tailsteak had with his own characters. Again, Princess Tutu was his creation, but the duck wasn't.

Drosselmeyer doesn't seem to care about anything except the story itself though. He pays no heed to the change of medium including a change of setting, the characters being aware of his existence, the real people affected by the story or anything.

Come to think of it, how real was TP&TR when it was a book? Doesn't everything Drosselmeyer writes come true? Was it the story Drosselmeyer was writing in his own blood before he died, or was that his own story?

edited 25th May '10 7:23:59 PM by the1ultimate

the story in blood is his own, which he used to write the machine that writes his story after his death into existance, which machine writes him into existance even...though....My head hurts.

edited 25th May '10 7:25:19 PM by CDRW

^ Out of interest, where did you get all that from?

Just my memory of the last episode.

Edit: Why? Now you've got me nervous that I misinterpreted the whole end.

edited 25th May '10 7:33:56 PM by CDRW

I just didn't get that watching it. You could be right, but I don't remember it being explicitly stated.

The machine is certainly a story... Oh man I've never been very good at picking up on hints. Someone should really do a recap or synopsis of Princess Tutu.

I do know for sure that The machine was what was writing the Princess Tutu story.

The Story the characters were experiencing, that is, not the anime.

But then Fakir dismantled the machine that he wrote into existence that writes him into existence. So does that mean that he is no longer being written into existence, and therefore...he can't write the machine into existence? Wha???

edited 25th May '10 8:10:11 PM by Tumbril

And now you see my reasons.

^^ Ah yeah. Drosselmeyer did still exist after the machine was dismantled. I do kinda-sorta remember them saying that the machine was what allowed him to keep writing after death though. I'm going to have to pay more attention this time around.

Fakir destroyed the machine that wrote the story. But there was more to the machine than that. Somewhere there were gears still spinning.

Although, Drosselmeyer appeared to be leaving that area with Uzura.

edited 26th May '10 9:40:05 PM by the1ultimate

Somebody on another forum has produced this.... I'm not sure how to feel.◊

XDDDDDDD

You made me spray my screen. Thanks.