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transmascutena · 3 months

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something about how utena tries her hardest to make the people around her happy even when she isn't. something about how anthy is the only one who can really do that for her in return.

#can she stop being relatable to me for like one second. lol.#revolutionary girl utena #utena #utena and wakaba #utena and anthy #m

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asofterutena · 6 months

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(I just won’t do that!)

[original comic by @asoftersea]

#a softer world #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #a softer world remix #rguedit #utena tenjou #utena and wakaba #wakaba shinohara #a softer sea remix #3 2023

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exilley · 5 months

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I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

#exilley's diary #this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also #it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends #it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost #like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches #theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with

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bixels · 6 months

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Shoujo proportions.

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #wakaba shinohara #my art #fanart #character design #rgu

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biruesque · 7 months

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me and my buddies (cult of children who desperately need therapy that i, a sham therapist, cant give them)

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #souji mikage #black rose arc #shiori takatsuki #wakaba shinohara #mitsuru tsuwabuki #kanae ohtori #keiko sonoda #kozue kaoru #biruesque art #i hope he looks horrible enough in this one #idk what i was going for tbh i just wanted to draw him (again)

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gamesgogirling · 2 months

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revolutionary girl utena picmix haul part 2

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #shojo kakumei utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #shiori takatsuki #souji mikage #wakaba shinohara #nanami kiryuu #mamiya still has no last name rip #picmix #my posts #tw flashing

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strawberryblondie-locks · 9 days

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so i finished the black rose saga... heres my favorite duelist

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #wakaba shinohara #zuzu art #onto episode 24 soon

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multiocular-mushroom · 10 months

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safe and soundless

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #wakaba shinohara #saionji kyouichi #(and his coffin)#traditional art #watercolor #colored pencils #alcohol markers #mixed media

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transmascutena · 1 month

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one of my favorite things about the movie is that the very first thing utena does on screen is flirt with wakaba. it's funny, sure, but it also works to establish a few important things about the movie right away. most notably that wakaba and utena don't remember each other, and by extension that this is not a continuation of the show in a traditional sense (though it can of course be interpreted that way.) it also tells us a lot about how utena as a character is different, serving as a nice contrast to the way he's kind of unresponsive or uncomfortable with wakaba's constant physical affection in the show, which i always read as that classic closeted teenage lesbian experience of not knowing how to respond to affection from other girls, because it seems to mean something different to you than to everybody else. something bigger and more important. you can't say you're in love with them as a joke like wakaba (seemingly) does, because you know it wouldn't be a joke to you. and this moment goes to show that utena is generally a lot more comfortable in her identity in the movie. a little older, a little more aware. obviously there's still stuff she needs to work through, but her hesitancy to be intimate with anthy is also something that has less to do with her being a girl, and more to do with the whole rose bride thing and the consent issues around that.

#utena #wakaba #utena and wakaba #adolescence of utena #m

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asofterutena · 9 months

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