"We need YOUR help!"

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Hi everyone!

I just showed another friend of mine Tutu, and she finished it last night (and she loves it, horray!)

She had a question for me today, that i sadly could not answer, and was wondering if someone here could help me:

What is the song playing during Mytho and Rue's dance during episode 21?
(my friend thinks she's played it before on an instrument)

*bows* thank you very much if you can help me!
(I think i'll try to buy her a Tutu dvd for her birthday now ;) )

NEWTYPE Coverage of Princess Tutu Cast Party

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In the latest issue of the U.S. NEWTYPE (April, 2007) check out pages 100 & 101 for some coverage of the Princess Tutu Cast Party held at Ushiko's Block Party in Austin, TX earlier this year.

There's a group shot photo of all the U.S. and Japanese cast and crew that was there, and there's even a photo of Itoh-sensei holding the Scrapbook, as well as some cosplayer photos!

P.S. This is my pet peeve: for the love of god people, it's USHIKO'S BLOCK PARTY that it happened at, NOT USHICO. >_< What ever happened to fact checking that everything was spelled correctly??? >_< I hate sloppy editorial work. Especially when in the same article you refer to the creator as Itoh and later as Ito. And really, I like how ADV decides to change the name of the event to suit them, it was always called "The Princess Tutu Cast Party" not the Tutu summit. Grumblings aside, it's worth it for the photos.

Prokofiev, Princess Tutu and Subtext

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Note: Spoilers ho for the entire anime! Read with caution!

A couple of weeks ago, in a discussion of classical music in Princess Tutu, I mentioned that the animators seemed to be cribbing some of their dance passages from the real-world choreography of (for instance) Swan Lake. These "quotations," along with the soundtrack's appropriation of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Beethoven and so on, add depth to the story by creating subtext for the viewer in the know: if you're familiar with the piece being quoted, you can compare its original form to the use being made of it in Princess Tutu and sometimes see additional meanings in what's going on. My first "aha!" moment in that vein was to see Rue, in her "Dying Swan" dance, perform moves previously associated with Princess Tutu to the major motifs from Swan Lake. This happens just as Rue is beginning to move into the Odette role with respect to Mytho/Siegfried -- a role which Duck/Tutu is simultaneously in the process of abandoning for something else. Ding! It's all symbolic!

That led me to wonder whether Fakir and Duck's pas de deux in episode 25 was borrowing any choreography from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, which provides the music for it. So I went off to watch the ballet and find out. Short answer: yes, the animators are cribbing again, and in ways that make that scene even more interesting than it already is (to me, anyway). Longer answer follows behind the cut ...

Ravens & Swan Pics

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More pictures of everyone's favorite booknerd ^.^ Well, actually, only one is. The other is of Rue-chan in this raven filled AU >.> Just doing my part to aid in the growing raven fetish.

( There is no cut...whoo! )

quick fanart

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Hey guys, I seriously needed to quit reading for my classes, so I pulled out the old tablet and whipped this up. Certainly not great, but I thought it ended up cute enough so I didn't trash it. It is Fakir and Ahiru because I can't draw Mytho's hair worth jack.

( it's huge, sorry )