#and of course there are 300+ rgu articles on google scholar if you're feeling adventurous

[elevatortherapy]

hi hi, i just finished utena and im looking to read about it and some good analysies (videos are okay too but id prefer text for the most part). do you have any recommendations by chance?

yeah!! i tend to mostly hang around tumblr for that; i'm not sure which utena blogs you’ve already found but theatricalnebula and saionjeans both have rlly good analysis tags

idk what topics specifically you’re interested in but here's a grab bag of some tumblr posts i like: sunlit garden, bird symbolism, shadow girls, aesthetics, juri gender, episode 11, kozue (& miki)

for when you inevitably start a rewatch, or if you just wanna read something episode by episode: I enjoyed vraikaiser’s watch-along blog, they do an extensive blog post per episode with sections on e.g. the shadow play of the episode and whatever anthy’s up to with the context of someone who’s already watched the show before. [caveat that with text that long there’s inevitably gonna be a bunch of takes i disagree with lol but it was a fun read]

also the palace perspective is really good, it’s a ~20000 word essay series mostly focused on nanami and all the sibling relationships in the show. heavy content warning for discussions of abuse/incest in that one for obvious reasons (the writer also has a tendency to take the bleakest possible interpretation of things that are ambiguous in the show)

as for videos, i’ve watched a couple but so far i don’t think they really measure up… i'm sure there's good ones out there but i've been burned by bad nanami and anthy takes too often to venture back in just yet.

if anyone has recs feel free to add them! :)