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Between them, hecatehatesthat andriddering have uploaded nearly every episode of Princess Tutu for taking.

Come on, anime flist people. d_irge. jaina. settiai. donna_c_punk. bronwenstx. mooness. girlwithjournal. permetaform. psychodragon82. evemac. fadingembers. flutingfrenzy. cowgirlnoir. automatedalice_. rainjewel. arafel. And anyone else I can't recall at the moment.

It's free anime! And it's awesome! And it's so totally the most meta anime ever! Go, download! Fly little otakus!

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Actually, neko-sensei is my least favorite thing of the anime, though everyone else seems to like him.

I think the strongest episodes are probably 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13 of the first season, and then probably 21-26 of the second season. Although, really, I liked almost all of them. And I tended to watch them in clumps so I finished theseries in a very short time, like you will-- the events kinda blended together in my mind.

meta is... well, best definition I can give is by example. Are you a Farscape fan? In this one episode of Farscape, John (the astronaut stranded in alien space) finally makes it back home, and brings with him the first aliens earth has ever seen. The next episode is designed like a television program like those cheesy "Unsolved Mysteries" things, with a host offering clips of John and the alien characters interacting with interviewers, and various experts or people John used to know before he got stranded in alien space offering commentary on the footage of the aliens. It even ended with a promo for the next episode designed as the chessy show. A few episodes down the line John and the aliens are back in space again, and John has gerry-rigged a tv to pick up American television across space. And so he's watching the program that was the other episode, only he's seeing it on tv. So you have a fictional character watching a fictional televsion show about that fictional character that was the episode a few episodes before. I think. Unless I remembered it wrong. ahh.. that probably just confused you.

Basically, meta is like blurring the line between the story and reality. Sometimes it's characters having awareness that they're in the story, sometimes it's more complicated than that. Princess Tutu is very meta because the narrator is the writer of the story we're watching unfold... but he's also a character in the story. And there's the overall story of the prince and the raven that controlls the story we're seeing at the ballet school. And there's fictional characters from narrator/Drosselmeyer's prince and raven story (which he never finished) being "reborn" as real characters... who all attend ballet school together. Who's writing the story-- Drosselmeyer or the characters themselves? If Mute/Mytho the prince knows he was once the prince in Drosselmeyer's story, where does story end and reality begin?

There's probably other people who could give you a simpler definition.

[rainjewel.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I think I need to take notes.

....Just kidding--thanks for such a clear example. I get it now. And I must admit, I'm really liking where this thing is headed. Thanks for the heads up on the episodes!