“utena should have realized that she’s basically participating in a sex trafficking ring” she does she thinks it’s bad and she does everything in her power to help anthy because she is aware that the system is wrong. “utena should have asked more questions about the duels” she does and anthy shuts her down every single time until she starts to feel like maybe she’s the weird one for finding it weird. “utena should have known that akio is end of the world” he’s literally just a guy who is nice to her, she is not privy to the same information that we are, and once it is revealed to her, she actually understands the situation pretty well. “utena is a dumb jock” utena is canonically good at math. “utena is naive” utena is a manipulated child.
it's interesting that the word "shining" is used in utena and akio's conversation about childhood, in contrast to utena and anthy's "someday, together, we'll shine" being linked to their promise to have tea together in ten years, when they're both adults. they understand what he doesn't -- that the future can be better and brighter than the past. life doesn't only get worse as time goes on, and neither do people, because growing up is part of growing as a person. it's especially interesting considering that akio is literally just wrong here. stars actually become brighter as they age, not dimmer.
so I read the new parts of @ask-cupbros-parents’s comic and I got ✨Inspired✨ and made a thing, feast my friends, feast
I wanna specify I made this based off the part where Utena says “I did notice you liked “someone” secretly, I didn’t know who. You and Chalice never mentioned “her” to me” poor baby thought bro liked someone else 😭
I've started watching Revue Starlight (少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト) because I was in the mood for a more recent show (and apparently for me that means the end of the Heisei era). Everyone's been talking about how much it was influenced by Revolutionary Girl Utena (少女革命ウテナ), though I'm not sure if I think it's a magical girl show yet.
people making fun of utena for not reacting to akio saying his name is very tangentially related to the devil is so stupid because that literally is not a red flag in any kind of real life situation. god forbid a girl doesn't know she's in metaphor school
Hi, Vanna here. I have submitted to the strange authority of Xenforo's image hosting system, which demands that if I want gallery items to appear in proper order, I will have to upload them back to front.
As such, welcome to the last few page's of Animedia Magazine's September 1997 supplemental Duelist Bible, translated by Nagumo and edited by me!
Anyway
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