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Dueling arena concept art for Revolutionary Girl Utena, courtesy of the gallery at Empty Movement

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photographer: transnormativity // models: j.cagz (she/they/siya), tragic_babe (they/them), & bearimy_bros (he/they)

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Your body must be rested and fed if you wish to be a pervert.

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In my mind, the series ends with this episode.

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ooo this is cool

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I love the sapphic solidarity in this episode

Revolutionary Girl Utena “For Friendship, Perhaps”

Do you know? Do you know? Have you heard the news? Study normal subjects, find a normal job. Fall in love normally, get married normally. Have a normal family, and have a normal life. But being normal has nothing to do with us! We're tired of doing all the things we've done till now. Time for us to go back to being what's normal for us. Do you know? Do you know? Do you know what that is?

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Butch Love by aliss_myth

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That's right, the time has come to make the master digitized copies of the production artwork of Revolutionary Girl Utena, via insane scans of the massive two volume Hardcore of UTENA artbook.

Because of how the forum software works, I'll be going in reverse order through the books, which means we start with the movie artwork. This is artwork I do have on the gallery, via the original scans Rushita made of the swap cards they're printed on. But those had frames, and these? Clean. Beautiful. Some of that is their work, and a lot of it is mine. This will be a slow process. If you like it, consider supporting our efforts, or just coming to hang out with us on our forum, Something Eternal! There you will find an incredible ongoing archive of Utena magazine clippings and artbooks, as well as our scanlated Utena books! Yeah, it's like, plural now.

The 'master' copies of these scans are 10k pixels wide, and will eventually be on the Internet Archive. The uploaded copies are 6k. That's also an insane size. I'm adding this because I had to resize the 'smaller' copies even more to get Tumblr to take them.

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wet rat

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the notes are broken 😂

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"Stop Stop Stop"

vs

"Don't leave or you'll die."

Episode 33 vs. Adolescence of Utena

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average gay interaction

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WAKE UP BABES NEW YOJI ENOKIDO BULLSHIT TRANSLATED

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX writer Yoji Enokido's commentary from the two Revolutionary Girl Utena script books for the episodes of Utena that he wrote....TRANSLATED.

We sent these two 1998 script books, The Rose Bride and The Rose Crest, to Nagumo, who confirmed there are indeed deviations in the published scripts compared to the final result...so I guess that's these puppies on the scanner chopping block! But in the meantime, the episode commentaries themselves have been translated, as always, by our friend Nagumo, with Ayu Ohseki editing! Downloads to the scans of these pages in Japanese are included! Read them here, at From the Mouths of Babes, our creator commentary/meta site!

The Rose Bride (Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14, 15, 22, & 23) The Rose Crest (Episodes 25, 26, 30, 34, 37, 38, & 39)

What have we got??? A handful of highlights:

The 100 boys that died were Class D, for 'des' (Death.) Afterwards, they began skipping D and going straight to E, like we do with skipping floor 13

Nanami thinks the letters from Ends of the World are ridiculous.

More mentions of Terayama Shuji's "Pastoral: To Die in the Country"

Multiple explanations for incest that boil down to 'it's drama baby'

Kanae probably knows about Akio and Anthy, deep down.

Juri and Kozue 'seem to understand each other well.' (shifty eyes)

The character 時 (“time”) is shared between Tokiko and Souji. Souji borrowed the character from Tokiko’s name to incorporate it into his false name.

"...somewhere deep within Anthy, she has unknowingly started seeing Utena as a Prince. That’s why Akio’s Sword of Dios disappears and “Utena’s Sword of Dios” manifests."

Confirmation that Nanami called Saionji 'Kyouchi' because he's been part of her life pre-dating Ohtori

Anthy appears as Miki and Kozue's new mother-in-law because 'Bride' as a concept is shared and it's an anime so nothing is real

Utena doesn't pick up on the vibes Akio's throwing until he takes her shoes off

His favorite scene to write was the badminton one.

Akio's birthday is based on Cesare Borgia's, because Cesare and Lucrezia are Akio and Anthy inspos

Akio is not a duelist, and because of that, his name lacks a reference to plants, which everyone else has.

"It is likely that as her Christ, she knew Anthy would deny her three times before the cock crowed."

The last scene had originally had it snowing, but they felt a more hopeful and uplifting aesthetic served better in the end.

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and someday, together, we'll shine... tumblr wasn't lying that rgu episode 39 is lifechanging

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