Empty Movement
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Empty Movement |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Giovanna, Yasha |
| Dates: | November 2000 - today |
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| Fandom: | Revolutionary Girl Utena |
| URL: | Empty Movement |
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Empty Movement is one of the longest running, still active, Revolutionary Girl Utena fan sites. It currently hosts Utena analysis and meta, galleries, doujinshi, series scripts, forums, staff interviews, and character shrines. In 2006 Empty Movement opened a forum, In the Rose Garden, which quickly become a central hub for Utena fans.
History
Unmei.nu was purchased in mid-November of the year 2000, and Empty Movement was launched before the domain even had a splash page. In February of 2002, the site moved from unmei.nu/utena to its own domain, ohtori.nu.In November 2002, the site entered a hiatus where it was temporarily given to a friend of mine. In 2003, however, I met Yasha, and she offered to split the work with me, which had prior to that been just too much. Since then, the site's been back under our control and grown even more. We don't anticipate ever putting our baby away.[1]
If you've enjoyed Utena enough to look around, you've maybe seen the website that we own (and still update, when we have time), Empty Movement. If you discovered anime by way of Crunchyroll and next-day subtitles, you might not realize that twenty years ago, building a website like ours was just what you did when you liked a show or movie or particular artist. There was no standardized social media platform to broadcast from, and fandoms were limited to the number of people motivated to deal with writing HTML. Families of little websites joined together in curated webrings, clamoring for a place on sites like Anime Turnpike that aggregated them. It was an overwhelming mess of tributes, some of which you can find archived on Empty Movement, while others can by summoned from the Wayback Machine. They mark the beginning of the internet's anime fandom outside Japan.[...]
Our website is a relic of those early days, and we have used it at times to bear the torch of this fandom's birth, but tempers still run hot when people discuss Utena. That hasn't changed, but the venues have, and the nature of discussion has changed with them. Over the years, the community moved from newsgroups and mailing lists to Livejournal, then to our forum, and now, like most fandoms, it's concentrated on Tumblr. In a few years, it will be elsewhere, and wherever that is, people will still be debating whether Utena was being selfish or not by fighting Touga a second time in the first story arc.[2]
Hosted websites
Empty Movement also hosts a number of other Utena fan sites and character shrines so that their content would not be lost over time.
At times, we've encountered websites that we loved dearly, that represented something special in SKU fandom, were the works of close collaborators, or were just something cool and rare that we didn't want disappearing from the internet. Our solution at Empty Movement has been to beg the permission of the original site builders to host their work permanently on our domain. Websites come and go, sometimes people can't afford to keep them up, or simply let them go static and in time they fall away from the internet for one reason or another. Ohtori.nu has enjoyed longevity that's unusual for anime sites, and it's our hope that by offering up these as well, parts of a long history of fandom will be preserved and enjoyed in the years to come.[3]
The sites include:
References
- ^ Empty Movement about
- ^ 20 Years of Utena Fandom with the Ultimate Superfans. Date: Feb 15th 2017.
- ^ Empty Movement Hosted History