Rukia uses the macho male forms normally (which I don't think I've ever seen in an anime before-- even Utena uses polite male forms)
It would be interesting to compare them! Is the difference simply a product of when they were made? The ultra slurry, ultra slangy "w'ka'nai zo" or "w'karan" type boy Japanese that everyone speaks in Bleach is pretty modern "yoof slang". I don't know how much guys talked like that in the early 90s, when Utena was made. My impression is that as young girls in Japan are starting to drop the female stylings and speak in a more masculine way in general, guys are creating and retreating into an increasingly hyper-masculine speech of the kind that's used in Bleach. But this shift is a fairly recent phenomenon, the last 5-10 years.
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It would be interesting to compare them! Is the difference simply a product of when they were made? The ultra slurry, ultra slangy "w'ka'nai zo" or "w'karan" type boy Japanese that everyone speaks in Bleach is pretty modern "yoof slang". I don't know how much guys talked like that in the early 90s, when Utena was made. My impression is that as young girls in Japan are starting to drop the female stylings and speak in a more masculine way in general, guys are creating and retreating into an increasingly hyper-masculine speech of the kind that's used in Bleach. But this shift is a fairly recent phenomenon, the last 5-10 years.