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OST 6
[Pitcure Available Soon]
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OST 7
[Coming Soon!]
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OST 8
New Addition!
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Welcome! I'm glad your travels have brought you to this
humble page of Utena music. This site was constructed so that fans could
find someplace to get a taste of the excellent music of this series,
hopefully prompting them to go out and find the soundtracks, all of which
are absolutely wonderful to own!
"Shoujo Kakumei Utena" is an anime series, created by Kunihiko
Ikuhara and Be-Papas. It centers around a young girl named Ten'jou Utena,
who attends school at the Ohtori Gakuen. Through a strange quirk of fate,
she becomes "engaged" to a girl named Himemiya Anshi, and the subsequent
chain of sometimes surreal, sometimes touching, but always moving moments
and scenes leads Utena into a whirlwind of imagery and drama which ends in
a surprising climax. For more information on the series itself, I
recommend the Utena Encyclopedia
As you might expect, the score for this anime is incredibly well
done, reflecting the Victorian setting and surreal, dreamy quality of the
show perfectly. The soundtracks are balanced between background themes and
"duel songs", the themes invented by J.A. Seazer for the many sword duels
which occur in the series. Currently, there are 5 Original Soundtracks
(OSTs), with a 6th planned alongside the release of the Utena feature
film, "Adolesence Mokushiroku." For more info on the movie (and for a damn
good overall Utena site), visit The Ends of the Innocence
The purpose of this page is to provide a musical resource to the
Utena fan community. We realize that mp3's, while useful, do detract from
the viability of the music's original authors. As such, we encourage you
to listen here and enjoy, and if you like what you hear, BUY THE
SOUNDTRACK! Requests for more mp3s received through email will be
summarily ignored; this is as much as I hazard to put up, as I'm skirting
the laws as is. If you need a good place to find Utena and other import
CDs, I recommend visiting Mike Kiley's Tokyo Pop Shop, which is both reliable
and dependable. Finally, please DO NOT LINK TO THE SONGS. If you
must link to us, please link to "http://www.duellists.tj/~anshi" instead.
=) I'll try and get a banner for you to use soon.
Other than that, thanks for visiting, and happy listening!
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Webrings, Dreambook, Links!
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Last Update: August 15th, 1999
Hooray! Thanks to Miki@duellists, we now have selections
from the new Original Soundtrack 8 preorder copy he
has! Hopefully once I can get myself a copy we'll have more up there for
you to see.
Woohoo! Finally! I was lucky enough to
attend GenCon this past weekend and lo and behold, OST 6 and OST 7 are now
mine! Let me say, too, that they're impressive pieces of work. Most of OST
6 woin't be featured since it is replay tracks from other CDs, but the new
stuff I'll be sure to feature. OST 7 is full of haunting J.A. Seazer
stuff, so choosing which tracks to put up here is going to be tough!
Expect to see fully-functional pages for OSTs 6 and 7 around the first
week of September.
Masami Okui's new image song for Adolesence Mokushiroku,
"Toki ni Ai Wa", is apparently a big hit with the Utena music fan crowd
right now. Thanks to Utena and Miki@duellists I procured a copy for all of
you to listen to and judge for yourself! To see it, click here!
Yay! Thanks to Utena@duellists, we're proud to
announce two new songs from Original Soundtrack 6! If you'd like to give
them a listen, click here!
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