#rgu thoughts

[angry-glasses]

i think if touga and saionji ever manage a semi-functional relationship nanami should get to throw touga's little homophobic speech from the egg episode right back in his face and then leave forever

[bullmotif]

Revolutionary Girl Utena, episode 12

[arielluva]

utena and anthy (and chu chu)

[image id: a drawing of utena and anthy sitting in a grass field. utena is squatting, and anthy is sitting in the grass. utena has both hands under her chin, intently listening. anthy is talking, while looking down at chu chu, who is drawing a heart in the dirt with a stick. /end id]

[emberwritesinsight]

Every year Akio Ohtori loans his sister out to a bunch of teenagers, grooms said teenagers, makes all of them fight each other several times, does irreparable emotional damage, hopefully THOROUGHLY cleans the inside of his car because Christ alive.

And all of this, all these surreal, intricate rituals, are so he can lose a sword fight with a door.

This has happened multiple times. He doesn't even seem particularly upset about failing. Every year Akio Ohtori loses a sword fight with a door and somehow does not feel like an absolute clown. Could NOT be me, I would never try again. I would lie awake at night every night after the first attempt agonizing about how stupid I must have looked and how my sister absolutely would have laughed at me if all the organs she needed to do so weren't getting shish-kebabed six ways to Sunday.

[maggiecheungs]

REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA ↳ EPISODE 23 / EPISODE 29 / EPISODE 39

[nyarasss]

Look I know pride month ended today but it's pride month year round 'round these parts

[ayilings]

let’s meet again in the real world

[idkhowtopickausername]

I think it’s interesting in rgu how Utena’s aspiration of being a prince is not only hurtful to Anthy but also serves a sort of double purpose in Utena’s life wherein it allows her to express aspects of her gender expression and sexuality without having to really confront them directly, and a lot of the most important moments in her character arc are moments where she has to confront those things without relying on it.

Utena saying at the end that the only times she was really happy was when she was with Anthy is so important because it’s not just her presence that changes Anthy’s life but the reverse is true as well, and the idea that she is acting solely on some sort of heroic noble mission separate from her own feelings at times allows her to kind of sidestep the vulnerability of admitting that. It’s after Dios has urged her to give up, saying that she’s done all she could and giving her a way out and into complacency that would still leave her ego and dream of keeping her promise to Dios partially intact, but it wasn’t ever really her promise to Dios that mattered but her promise to Anthy both as a child and once she knows her that matters.

It’s also really interesting that the first time she says no to Akio she says it’s because she wants to stay true to her prince—it’s an idea that gives her a way to momentarily reject his advances without acknowledging that her own feelings should be reason enough, and shows how she feels that appealing to (even an abstract) patriarchal figure gives validity to her own feelings that they wouldn’t have on their own.

Episodes 12 and 37 are also really interesting in that they both begin when Utena has realized that she does not truly know or understand Anthy and feels betrayed by her, and she temporarily renounces her role of “protecting” her only to realize that her relationship with Anthy is deeply important to her personally even outside of that dynamic, as is her masculinity/gender expression, but in order to express this realization she ultimately returns to that dynamic (trying to protect Anthy via the dueling system) in both cases because she cannot yet imagine another way. It’s not until she fails at being a prince that she succeeds in expressing her true feelings and escaping the academy/the structure it represents (and inspiring Anthy to do the same) because those things were never truly compatible to begin with.

[drolaticdaydreams]

psychologically tormenting nanami has got to be the most fun anthy's had in a million years and if nanami was YOUR narrative foil you would be no better

[prismaticglass]

TOWER: IN REVERSE

Happy Valentine's Day!!

[angry-glasses]

i think the twst cast should watch utena. for enrichment.

[sol-shines]

my favorite thing about revolutionary girl utena is that finishing it changes you fundamentally as a person and both you and the characters will be haunted by the narrative and its impact forever. my second favorite thing about revolutionary girl utena is that one episode where nanami nearly gets her shit rocked by a renegade boxing kangaroo on school property

[arielluva]

havent drawn nanami digitally before

[ohtori-dropout]

If you saw this 5 seconds ago when it had a cropping issue no you didn’t

[arscorpii]

on helping one another

episode 25 / episode 25 / episode 27 / episode 31 / episode 38

[velvet-ii]

that one class of 09 scene

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