In the Rose Garden / Akio and Rule 34

HonorableShadow · Back to Top

I was just watching my Utena DVDs and I noticed in the episode Her Tragedy, Akio tells Nanami that rule 34 states that middle school students can't sleep out of their assigned quarters. I thought that was pretty hilarious...of all the numbers for the creators of the series to pick, they picked 34. It's so fitting for Akio. XD

OnlyInThisLight · Back to Top

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. I laughed so hard I almost cried. emot-rofl

KissFromARose · Back to Top

LOL!!!! Rule 34. Epic 4chan win on SKU. I think this made my day.

Cyrias · Back to Top

Yay! Akio invented Rule 34 of the internet emot-rofl At least Akio is good for something poptart

Carrie Asagiri · Back to Top

LOL! Rule 34 must have Akio's signature XD.

Neva Caruso · Back to Top

*dies laughing*

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.

HonorableShadow and Carrie, I'm quoting you on my LJ. Hope that's all right.

HonorableShadow · Back to Top

No problem. I'm flattered that I said something quotable! emot-redface

Carrie Asagiri · Back to Top

I'm agree with HonorableShadow XD. At least I made laught someone. I feel good XD.

winksniper · Back to Top

*embarrassed as fuck*

I don't get it. emot-gonk

Lightice · Back to Top

winksniper wrote:
*embarrassed as fuck*

I don't get it.

The Rule 34 of the Internet: "If something exists, there is porn about it."
Google it some time, though I would recommend doing it at work. emot-wink

winksniper · Back to Top

Ooooh okay.

*last-one-to-get-it laugh*

satyreyes · Back to Top

What's really funny is that subsequent events in that episode prove that Ohtori Academy also has an unwritten Rule 35: If a student sleeps outside their assigned quarters, their new sleeping arrangement becomes the Akio Tower. This rule is designed to expedite the operation of the Internet's Rule 34.

CausalityStar · Back to Top

I didn't notice that until the second time I watched the series and I spent a lot of time wondering whether it was deliberate or not/

satyreyes wrote:

What's really funny is that subsequent events in that episode prove that Ohtori Academy also has an unwritten Rule 35: If a student sleeps outside their assigned quarters, their new sleeping arrangement becomes the Akio Tower. This rule is designed to expedite the operation of the Internet's Rule 34

I agree with you completely. Akio even told Nanami that he was trying to start a harem! I did feel bad for Tsuwabuki because he almost got to have Nanami to himself before Akio came by.

Lightice · Back to Top

CausalityStar wrote:
I didn't notice that until the second time I watched the series and I spent a lot of time wondering whether it was deliberate or not/

Not possible, since the meme wasn't yet invented, back then. It doesn't date back many years. It's funny, but things like YouTube, Wikipedia and TV Tropes are all products of the latter half of the past decade, and now we take them for granted, like they always existed...

CausalityStar · Back to Top

Lightice wrote:
CausalityStar wrote:
I didn't notice that until the second time I watched the series and I spent a lot of time wondering whether it was deliberate or not/
Not possible, since the meme wasn't yet invented, back then. It doesn't date back many years. It's funny, but things like YouTube, Wikipedia and TV Tropes are all products of the latter half of the past decade, and now we take them for granted, like they always existed...

Actually, I probably should have noticed it because I first saw the series on the internet in early 2009 and then I re-watched it this summer.

Zabel Z · Back to Top

Rule 34 exist because of Akio emot-biggrin

someone MUST make some SKUpidity about this.

Last edited by Zabel Z (09-24-2010 07:36:46 PM)

Tenjou_sailorsaturn · Back to Top

Sorry... emot-redface Your request is answered, Zable Z.

Zabel Z · Back to Top

he surely is emot-biggrin

HonorableShadow · Back to Top

That picture made me laugh. XD Great job! It's so true.

Duelist Megu · Back to Top

CausalityStar wrote:
I did feel bad for Tsuwabuki because he almost got to have Nanami to himself before Akio came by.

Oh, for sure. Birth of a supervillain right there.

Koshernova · Back to Top

Akio: Do I know about Rule 34? My dear...

*turns around to face the viewer, slowly, creepily*

*camera zooms in on Akio's lips. His voice changes and sounds, oddly, like Emperor Palpatine*

Akio: I AM Rule 34!

Melancholic_Soul · Back to Top

lol, loved that piece of SKUpidity. It reminded of Azumanga Daioh when Osaka reveals: "I am the murderer" ...I even read it in that voice >__>

Tenjou_sailorsaturn · Back to Top

Koshernova wrote:
Akio: Do I know about Rule 34? My dear...

*turns around to face the viewer, slowly, creepily*

*camera zooms in on Akio's lips. His voice changes and sounds, oddly, like Emperor Palpatine*

Akio: I AM Rule 34!

Epic. etc-love school-devil etc-wankgirl This fits the SKUpidity so well.

Hiraku · Back to Top

Why didn't I realize this until now?
Wait, was 4chan created in 1997?
Nope, it was created in 2003, as indicated by Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
Hmm... does that mean Utena was predicting the coming of 4chan?

Tenjou_sailorsaturn · Back to Top

Koshernova, I'd like to quote your dialogue for my signature. etc-love

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