#Revolutionary Girl Utena

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[empty-movement]

Let's Meet the Utena Cast!!!

The Animedia September 1997 supplement 'Duelist Bible' has been slowly getting scanlated as a project by Vanna...that's me! Because of weird Xenforo nonsense, I have to upload them in reverse order to get them to show up right later--so I'm working back to front! Welcome to pages 90-93: the cast interviews! (Touga's voice actor was like this ALL THE TIME, goofy bitch.)

Like what you see? There is A TON happening on Something Eternal, I can barely keep up. Our weekly watch is chugging along happily, about to see Touga living rent free and slutty in Miki's head. But hush! Spoilers. ;)

Oh? Not into that? Check this thread out, where we learn that Anthy's iconic creepy 'ba-ha-hai' in episode 30....is a reference to a children's TV show, where you'll also find something else familiar....

[gamesgogirling]

revolutionary girl utena picmix haul part 2

[kristybluebird]

"She opened her eyes, lifted the lid from her coffin, sat up, and was alive again" (Grimm, 1857/2005)

[bublines]

utenanthy for the last day of lesbian visibility week

[xekstrin]

rgu is crazy it starts off like “hahahah, isn’t it funny that Nanami is in love with her brother? how childish!” And you’re probably inured to anime bullshit by now that you’re like “well, we’ll roll with that” and maybe even notice how it’s weird that kozue and miki is treated so seriously (and then anthy and akio is a straight up horror show) while nanami and touga seems to alternate between slapstick and tragedy until rgu grips you by the skull and goes “it’s funny, right? it’s funny? you think this is fucking funny?” And then her brother assaults her

[bunneis]

@pscentral event 26: minimalism - Adolescence of Utena (1999) @paletmblr event 31: Fav Pairings - Utena + Anthy

The outside world doesn't have any paths, but... You can make your own path. That's why we have to go. If we go forward... the world will surely open before us.

[dharr5]

every episode with these assholes istg

[yelmosaur]

Screenshot redraw

[ot3]

anthy himemiya from rgu pls?

one of the girls of all time really

[transmascutena]

trans flag color picked from utena 👍

[ebaltika]

shut up akio this is not how stars age

[goodbyeanthy]

.28.04.2024

Last year's anthys pt 1 🖍 👭 ❤ 😴

[thenbecauseshegoes]

episode 32 / episode 38

translations from the empty movement website for comparison (i rearranged the ep 32 shots to match ep 38 shots)

[bublines]

utena ⚔️

[spookiestmothintown]

I also think a lot of the Shiori Hate™ comes from her portrayal in Adolescence. Now, while I understand the conclusions that peoole come to based on this, I don't think it's entirely fair to Shiori's character as it doesn't really take into consideration the context of Adolescence and the role that Shiori plays in the narrative.

Adolescence of Utena (regardless of whether you interpret it as a direct sequel, a standalone reimagining, or something in-between) clearly serves as a synopsis of the events of the series, just with details cut-out, changed, or condensed to support the movie's length. For example, the Student Council arc is instead condensed into a single duel with Saionji, as is the Apocalypse arc with Juri.

I would argue that Movie!Shiori, rather than being 100% representative of the real Shiori, is instead meant to serve as a stand-in for the Black Rose Duelists as a collective. The Black Rose Arc in RGU is vital in showing how victims of the system are turned against one another in order to keep them distracted from their real oppressors (this idea is also embodied in the series by Nanami, who is missing from the movie). It also demonstrates several examples of how Ohtori Academy's patriarchal system has fostered unhealthy and toxic relationships between various characters. I believe that Shiori is meant to serve as the embodiment of these themes in Adolescence of Utena, in lieu of the Black Rose Arc.

In Adolescence, Shiori has a very unhealthy and toxic relationship with Juri. She wants to force Juri to be her prince forever, so that she, by extension, can gain power within the system. This is in much the same way that the Black Rose Duelists make their respective student council members into rose brides by forcefully pulling swords from their chests, all in order to gain power and agency within the system. Shiori also plays a major antagonistic role in the movie as she is the one who exposes Anthy as the one who "killed" Akio, and she later attempts to stop Anthy from escaping to the real world (its a big mistake to think you're the only one who can turn into a car). I would argue that this represents how the Black Rose Duelists are convinced by Mikage to kill the Rose Bride, believing that it will solve their problems- which in itself represents how victims of the system are turned against other victims in order to keep them from rising up against the real oppressors. I think that this shows how Shiori's motivations within the movie more closely align with the general motivations of the Black Rose Duelists as a whole, rather than her original motivations within the series (which are worthy of an analysis all on their own).

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Tl;dr Movie!Shiori shouldn't be taken as a true 1:1 representation of Shiori's character, because she actually represents the entire Black Rose Arc and all its themes as a whole, just in condensed movie format.