#considering akio. is akio...

[wygolvillage]

touga as a character makes like 1000000x more sense once you find out that they couldnt put his backstory into the show because his voice actor wasnt available at the time so his movie backstory is technically canon if you subscribe to that particular authorial intent. like oh so thats why hes like that... oh 😨 <- the realization i had after seeing the movie

[transmascutena]

not a fan of when people claim that akio and anthy don't "really" love each other. like idk man have you considered that love and abuse are not mutually exclusive polar opposites and that this may be a pretty significant part of the show's themes. you can abuse someone because you love them, and you can love someone despite their abuse. this in fact happens often. would be nice if it was as simple as "bad people don't feel love because love is inherently good" like some people make it out to be but it's not

[chipsncookies]

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[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

[empty-movement]

The opening gag where Utena mistakes a planetarium projector for Anthy's brother is one my favorite moments in the show. It's classic 'Ikuhara gave the plot away when no one was listening for it' content. Because of course, it's true. It's true in at least a couple ways, not the least of which being that Akio has been relegated to the *purpose* of a projector. His job is to show the lovely illusions necessary to accept the terms of the present Anthy lives in. Anthy doesn't need to believe he's trying to save her, she can gloss over that. But she needs to believe he's trying to distract her, because that's the least he can be doing to keep surviving in the state he does. It's okay if a constant parade of potential replacements for him continue to march across the pretend sky, as long as it's him that's left with Anthy, safe.

It's kind of like how the media computer in our living room is called Akio, and for the last month the TV it displays to has been an absolute feeding frenzy for my dumpster taste in men. Knives, Sephiroth, Silco, now fucking Astarion, and who Akio disliked so much he fried his own GPU. I replaced it. He took the hint. Akio is only ever as good as his ability to show you what you want. Even if it isn't him. Especially if it isn't him. No one shows up to look at the projector. They are there for the show.

[charmtale]

ep 36 / ep 38

[tamaharu]

"Isn't that what you always wanted?" "That's not what I want!"

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) / Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

[xelidonia]

Something that shouldn't have taken me 30+ episodes to notice: Nanami and Touga's last name, Kiryuu, is the Greek word Kyriou, meaning "of the Lord." highlighting their parallel with Anthy and Akio, as well as the fact that despite their power they are tools/pawns in a more powerful man's grasp

[cafeleningrad]

Repeated symbolism: Predatory cats and coniving mices (unsorted notes)

EP 10 Nanami's precious one; The shadow play showcasing how Nanami partly can't name and partly won't take repsonsibility for naming her relationship with Touga. By the time it has been given a cute description, their relationship has actually turned out monsterous. (Note: Touga likes cats, and is Akio's apprentice)

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Episode 14 Landscape framed by Kozue; Anthy imitating mouse noises while getting (routinely) assaulted by Akio.

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Episode 16 Cowbell of happiness; Shadowplay about the logical trap to think that cozying up to an oppressive power would make them the individual exception from systematic abuse. Applies to multiple chracters, in multiple forms.

[revindicatedbyhistory]

random utena details: wakaba seems to be somewhat religious? like she mentions god in a few lines and when one of her random classmates asks what she was doing she lies and says she was praying

[transmascutena]

i need to talk about the utena game more . i don't at all consider it canon because that really just doesn't work, but between all the weird self insert fanfiction tropes there are some really interesting character moments and commentary about ohtori. like the fact that the protagonist's parents met when the mom was a student there and the dad was a teacher is so. ough.

[linagram]

i try my best not to spoil things but i've finished writing aimi's mv description and song lyrics and. these lyrics being the last ones she's ever going to sing in milgram is so. ugly crying and sobbing and throwing up

[p2ii]

can't believe Its night and I'm in bed when my brain decided to tell me abt nge x rgu asurei crossover fanart ideas

[the-best-bagel]

back on my utena bullshit and getting annoyed by ppl reducing her to just a herbo jock like. please remove your horny hat for a sec and think more about the themes of the show outside of lesbianism

[aquatic-hybrid]

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>Send in 📜 and I’ll use this incorrect quotes generator using your muse and my muse.

Akio: Okay, truth or dare? Noelle: Truth Akio: How many hours have you slept this week? Noelle: Noelle: ...Dare Akio: Go to bed. Noelle: I don’t like this game.

@songofsilentechoes

[waiting-on-a-dream]

oh, the new guard will interact with eiji and miki, he just doesn't want to do it in person yet, so he's just gonna leave notes, use screens for "video calls", etc! (i also thought of giving them phones (that they can't use to get help and ask someone to get them out of there obviously) so that the guards can text each other but i felt like it wouldn't feel as isolating as it's supposed to, soooo yeah) but he will join them eventually, he's just a bit shy and feeling very confused right now (and he doesn't really want to leave that room anyway).

there's also a small hint to his identity and like, which prisoner he's connected to, but it's really vague and i only mentioned that detail when i answered one of the asks i got dfhjdkskssl. i'm very excited for his interactions with haruto though >:D (honestly i wonder how your prisoners would react to how my prisoners have changed)

Your third guard has truly taken us all by storm adsjdsjkdskdsk can't wait for the reveal can't wait for the reveal can't wait for the reveal-

As for how my prisoners would react to your prisoners' development, let's start with my ocs that have formed friendships with yours!

Ichiro isn't doing well from his guilty vote either, but I can imagine him being more clingy towards Akio. He likes being around the other boy, and finds his presence comforting, even though Akio's current state makes him very anxious. He would help Akio walk around anytime, and got very distressed when Akio beat his head against the wall even though he himself has developed that habit. 

I'm making myself sad imagining Akio and Ichiro curled up in a room together, their respective voices raging in their heads. Akio mumbling to himself while Ichiro holds onto his hand with a death grip. Yikes.

I'm not sure if Aimi would stop being friends with Akane after the start of trial 2, but if so...Akane wouldn't take that very well. She'd probably try to communicate with Aimi, find out if she did something wrong. But if Aimi doesn't give her a straight answer, then that's the end of their short lived friendship.

But if Aimi continues to be friends with Akane, everything would go on smoothly. Akane will even help Aimi take care of Akio, as long as he doesn't reject her help. Sure, Aimi's new less-friendly demeanor is a little weird, but Akane doesn't think much of it. For now.

Daisuke would be horrified by Kei's condition actually. He just isn't used to seeing the other so...hurt and in pain. He'd try and help out whenever he can, but Shun and Eiko creep him out, so he finds himself not visiting Kei as much as he can. He tries to talk to Kei once in a while, but seeing his once cheerful companion in so much suffering puts him in a really bad mood for the rest of the day.