#ambi utena post

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Black Rose Arc duelists be like

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Saw this, thought of the egg speech and now I'm like something something "the difference between the egg being nurtured and provided for so it will grow and someday break out of its shell and take flight" vs "the egg being seen as something only meant for consumption, to be broken and eaten" something something "how children are treated as possessions in our society" something something– [EXPLODES]

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The thing about the strangeness and surrealism surrounding Ohtori Academy is that the characters learn to see it as normal, just like a real person in a bad situation might not realize it because that's the whole world surrounding them. In the same way, the narrative might also at times lead the viewers to dismiss these strange and questionable things they're being shown, and so they might say things like "that's just how anime is" in the same way one might claim "that's just how the world is", so in conclusion that's why I feel the need to point out that Akio has a stupid fucking green ball on his hair

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Did this motherfucker just manage to do a sexism by telling a woman her place isn't in the kitchen??? What the fuck???

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Word of God/movie backstory aside, it suddenly came to me that there is one other gap of knowledge that has probably contributed to a significant part of the alienation between Touga and Nanami, and it's something that existed throughout all of Nanami's life, so it's given that she wouldn't truly notice it: Touga knows they're adopted, Nanami does not. I think that makes a big difference.

Touga's backstory is bound not to be the exact same as the movie (After all, Nanami isn't even there with him), so I'll let myself speculate a bit. Their biological parents could have died, they could have abandoned them or sold them, or the siblings could have been removed from their care, and unless Nanami was brought in later to wherever Touga was, it's safe to assume that he spent at least 5 years with his original parents. He has memories of a different family, and of losing that family. Nanami doesn't even know about any of it. She doesn't realize there is a side of her brother that she never got to meet.

"Blood" is very important to Nanami. Blood is what Nanami uses to try and reassure herself that the parents who are cold and distant to her, and the brother who's grown cold and distant too, have an eternal unbreakable bond. It's very brittle though. Nanami constantly fears being replaced, discarded or harmed by her family. Most often by Touga, who ironically, happens to be her only blood relative there.

Her anxiety can be very easily explained by her experiences with how she was treated growing up in the Kiryuu household, but I do wonder if there's some subconscious parts of her that tap into these knowledge gaps too. I already felt like it was there, in the way her love for her brother is as protective as it is possessive, and how to protect him from harm, be it real or perceived, she can go feral, often shooting wildly at whoever she thinks is to blame, always hitting the wrong targets; and so maybe, I thought, it is possible that her anxieties are also tied to these repressed early childhood memories. Ones of once having a family, and then losing that world, being thrown someplace unfamiliar. Vague mostly forgotten memories fueling her fear of abandonment, working like a constant little nagging at the back of her head signaling to her how little blood ties really matter in the end.

"Blood" doesn't matter to Touga in the same way. He doesn't hold into a rose colored view of it. He knows by experience how easily those ties can be severed, how fickle they are. That's why when he found a little girl in a coffin, a little girl who spoke of there not being anything eternal, of how those you care about are bound to leave you, and questioning what's even the point of living then, he couldn't give her anything. He couldn't save her. He didn't know the answer for himself either.

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If the kids in rgu had social media they would reach levels of not touching grass previously unknown to man

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I have a fucking problem

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Touga and Utena being exes in the movie is funny as hell, like, they make their tweenage relationship sound so sophisticated too: "We had plans of getting married and buying a mansion and I'd be her husband–" "He was by my side when I needed him the most" like shut uuuupppp I just know one of you dared the other to eat a worm once and they did it

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Me: *Aware in a logical level that time in rgu is an illusion and every damn thing is some sort of metaphor*

Also me: "Utena has to be around 10 or 11 years of age in the coffin scene, because Touga and Saionji are there and they gotta around 13 considering we saw Touga's 12 year old birthday party and his hair was short there and now it's long. Though if Utena is like 10 that means her proportions should be similar to that of Mitsuru and Mari since she's not a child of a particular short stature, but she actually looks way younger than that; though Touga also looked too short in that birthday party flashback when he should actually be only a bit shorter than Miki. Though it's possible he just hit his growth spurt later considering Saionji was actually taller than him at that time, but Saionji didn't actually look as tall as your average rgu 13 year old either, but that might be an issue of perception. In the manga though Utena was actually 6 when her parents died so maybe this is just some weird rgu time shenanigans, but that random unnamed guy in the flashback did refer to Utena as being around Touga and Saionji's age though so what's up with that–"

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Akio, to Utena: "I am the prince. And you, the princess"

Anthy:

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Need a new RGU iteration so that Utena honors her first duel tradition this time by bringing a baseball bat and swinging it at saionji

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I think what the show's symbolism is trying to tell us and what Saionji's outfit is meant to represent here is that as a younger kid Saionji wasn't very good at understanding metaphors; so as you can see he ended up struggling with a Literal Closet

(Lil dude can't decide if he's dressing for the cold, hot weather, if he's going for formal, casual or soccer game, which could also be meant as symbolism for the idea that young Saionji simply doesn't know just what the fuck is going on)

[ID: Six pictures to show young Saionji's interesting choice of outfit. It consists of a purple sweater, tight jeans shorts, knee high black socks with a white line on top, and white... dress shoes? END ID]

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I've seen some people who didn't notice this, so in case you didn't notice this; this isn't merely a leaf, it has 4 little butterfly eggs in it. Which makes way more sense than it being just a leaf, though I'm sure that I (*unhinged individual*) could've found some kind of symbolism to the leaf too.

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Post on my timeline: "milk and orange juice"

My tired brain: "?? and ??"

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I have one petty unexplainable pet peeve about the utena movie and it's that I hate that they gave Utena these stupid Miki bangs

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Juri girl, you need to call an exorcist asap