{TL note: just fyi this is still pretty rough and I haven't gone over it yet}
Boys choose guns and girls choose knives
And how Kunihiko Ikuhara chose "Kunihiko Ikuhara" by his own stubborn determination.

Enokido Youji


There are already plenty of anecdotes out there about his ingenuity and stubbornness when it comes to his work.
Like, when he was working on the storyboard for the episode that went on to win the Anime Grand Prix[1]. That story about cats and mice was such a departure from the atmosphere of the rest of the series the rest of the staff was pretty taken aback by it. So, apparently, one of the assistant producers[2] tied him to a column in the hall at Toei to get him to reflect on the direction of the episode. But, the storyboard of mice he drew on the floor, crying and bound to the column, looked almost like it was alive.

Alright then––
So, in Kyoto, where student film was quite popular, there was one particular club that was the talk of the town.
It was a film club, comprised primarily of young art students, "Moonrise Mannor."

The films they made, as independently produced student films, completely outshone the competition and all eyes were on them. At the time, I really didn't want to grow up so I was avoiding the real world, and I'd heard the talk about them too, so my feet carried me to the west auditorium of Kyoto University where the student film festival, "Elegance" was taking place.
The films they were screening were all amateur productions, mostly parodies, homages and some academic experimental pieces. Oh, don't get the wrong impression, those films were by no means bad. Basically, there is no better place than a student film festival to savor this sort of cheap flavor.
However––
I'm pretty sure the first piece of his that I saw was called "Raku."
The screening room was abuzz from the moment it started. I don't really remember the finer points of the story anymore (actually, was there even a story?), but the director and male lead, was sauntering about the city at night in the nude. It was a truly shady film. Moreover, behind the male lead, there were always several semi-nude girls, doing a weird sort of dance, but they were pretty clearly under age, and I was more weirded out by those images and questions like, 'How'd he get them to do that?' and 'Isn't that illegal?' than the film itself.
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TL's kinda long so it might be more readable in the comments:

{TL note: just fyi this is still pretty rough and I haven't gone over it yet}
Boys choose guns and girls choose knives
And how Kunihiko Ikuhara chose "Kunihiko Ikuhara" by his own stubborn determination.

Enokido Youji


There are already plenty of anecdotes out there about his ingenuity and stubbornness when it comes to his work.
Like, when he was working on the storyboard for the episode that went on to win the Anime Grand Prix[1]. That story about cats and mice was such a departure from the atmosphere of the rest of the series the rest of the staff was pretty taken aback by it. So, apparently, one of the assistant producers[2] tied him to a column in the hall at Toei to get him to reflect on the direction of the episode. But, the storyboard of mice he drew on the floor, crying and bound to the column, looked almost like it was alive.

Alright then––
So, in Kyoto, where student film was quite popular, there was one particular club that was the talk of the town.
It was a film club, comprised primarily of young art students, "Moonrise Mannor."

The films they made, as independently produced student films, completely outshone the competition and all eyes were on them. At the time, I really didn't want to grow up so I was avoiding the real world, and I'd heard the talk about them too, so my feet carried me to the west auditorium of Kyoto University where the student film festival, "Elegance" was taking place.
The films they were screening were all amateur productions, mostly parodies, homages and some academic experimental pieces. Oh, don't get the wrong impression, those films were by no means bad. Basically, there is no better place than a student film festival to savor this sort of cheap flavor.
However––
I'm pretty sure the first piece of his that I saw was called "Raku."
The screening room was abuzz from the moment it started. I don't really remember the finer points of the story anymore (actually, was there even a story?), but the director and male lead, was sauntering about the city at night in the nude. It was a truly shady film. Moreover, behind the male lead, there were always several semi-nude girls, doing a weird sort of dance, but they were pretty clearly under age, and I was more weirded out by those images and questions like, 'How'd he get them to do that?' and 'Isn't that illegal?' than the film itself.