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[mokushiyami]

I finished TMA a few days ago and i have to say jon’s character has been very helpful in my professional life. I’m training to be a therapist btw

#the magnus archive fanart #tma #jonathan sims

[mokushiyami]

What are some of the big differences between the anime and manga of Revolutionary Girl Utena? I've heard several times that the manga is rather weak compared to the anime but it's hard to find anything about it online.

Where do i even start? Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like the same story but i might not remember all the details because it’s been a long time since i read the manga for the last time. Also this is only about the main series i’m not gonna get into after the revolution and adolescence.

-Nanami and Shiori are not characters in the manga. Shiori does appear in the side story though

- The black rose saga again is just a side story, it doesn’t hold the same importance

- Touga’s character. The manga is a lot more forgiving to him than the anime, largely because nanami is not there so we don’t get him emulating akio in relation to his own sister and he seems to be more “awake” than the others

- Juri’s character. I’m not gonna go into super details but in the manga she’s in love with Touga…

- IIRC Miki’s affections are not towards Anthy but towards Utena and he is, well he is worse in the manga imo

- Utena is not that different, save for the ending

- Anthy and Akio have a very different backstory, there are no swords of hatred

- There is no projection motif which in turn makes Dios and The Castle semi-real, a construction of Anthy’s power

- The student council goes up to the castle with Utena and Anthy, the other three get locked up in coffins to protect them but Touga is with them to the very end giving us the idea that Touga is the next to leave

- The “good dios” and “bad dios” are a bit more literal in the manga. As in Akio says they are two souls who share a body and Akio himself tried to kill the good Dios when he kept on helping others

- Utena sort of kills Akio? Like slashes him across the chest unites him with the “good dios” which makes him cease to exist.

- Anthy… well anthy has more outwards agency for one. Unfortunately that manifests in the way of her damning herself to the rose bride fate and not it being a result of… well everything else, the swords of hatred and everything. However it is very much implied that she is the only thing that keeps this whole show running, it is her power at the end of the day that keeps dios alive (anthy says dios gave her the power but also neither of these people are reliable narrators).

- The manga is a lot less revolutionary (ha ha) than the show. While in the show you learn that the concept of the prince is futile, manga utena maintains her belief in the prince until the very end, she tells anthy “i will end as your prince” and takes the place that dios was occupying so far

- Because Akio basically dies, there’s no satisfying scene of Anthy telling him she’s leaving. Instead we see that after the castle has collapsed, no one but Anthy and Touga remember Utena. Anthy now wears a boy’s uniform and is basically living in honor of Utena. As the castle was collapsing a rose ring falls to her and it calls her name. Anthy says she is going to search for Utena bc as long as she has the rose she knows she’s out there. We do get a panel of them reuniting so that’s cool i guess.

That’s all that i can remember atm. All in all, i’d say if you have watched the series and have a couple of hours to spare you can read it. It’s probably online somewhere, and it’s only like 6 or 7 chapters and like 700 pages

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou

[mokushiyami]

An ideology donor

I pray to be devoured from the inside out.

Teeth gnawing on my flesh and bone.

Nails clawing escape from my ribcage

While my blood spills under the church doors

and into sacramental cups.

>

I want my body to be destroyed.

To be taken apart methodically

And catalogued thoroughly.

Locked away in a university basement.

Abandoned aside from one macabre soul

Fascinated by the concept of death.

>

But I will no longer be a person.

Nothing but a memento mori.

Proof for an ethical code.

A weight for a moral argument.

>

My bones will be shelved.

My blood drank at the communion

And my teeth turned into

Jewelry she really wishes

You’d ask about.

My separate pieces

Fulfilling a role in others lives

Almost like an

ideological organ donation.

>

Now please.

Ask the poor girl about

My canines she wears.

And ask the boy

How seeing my eyes

In dusty bottles

Made him believe in God.

And ask them

How the taste of my flesh

Made them vegetarian.

#sometimes the rawest lines you’ll read come from your kpop twitter oomfs tumblr poetry sideblog

[mokushiyami]

You’ve written a lot about utena but i want to know anout your favorite naruto character and why?

It’s unsurprisingly the entirety of og team 7 but for like vastly different reasons bc naruto is my fave bc i heavily relate to him, sasuke and kakashi are my faves bc i love my little traumatized anime boys who have a brief period of unbridled insanity and as for sakura i plucked her off the hands of kishimoto and decided she is My Character now and i choose which plot points stay and which don’t.

#naruto #team 7 #naruto uzumaki #sakura haruno #sasuke uchiha #kakashi hatake

[mokushiyami]

what do you think about the theory that mikage and tokiko are utena’s parents?

I hadn’t checked my inbox in so long and i saw this but when it comes to analyzing utena with a lot of theories i have different branches in my brain that go “this is what it means if x theory is true” and “this is what it means if it’s not”.

For this one is specific I genuinely don’t know if i believe it or not, leaning on believing it, and if it is true it adds another layer to the foil between Utena and Mikage. Because it means both father and daughter were doomed to the same cycle, manipulated and taken advantage by the adults in their life while only wanting to pursue a “noble” goal, saving a loved one. And also something so very fatal, with Utena’s own destiny being intrinsically tied to Ohtori.

Certainly, there are many clues that point towards this theory being true, one of the most damning being Tokiko walking out of Ohtori carrying a pink suitcase, and I can think of many art pieces and media where suitcases/bags/luggages are a metaphor for pregnancy and almost nothing in rgu is coincidental, so the fact that she would walk right past Utena, when we know how time is in Ohtori does tell us something. Also no piece of media takes the expression “the devil is in the details” as seriously as rgu does, so the fact that they desperately want us to notice the cat family growing when Mikage and Tokiko are drinking tea, with two pink petals falling onto the tea, also says something. And the nail in the coffin (ha ha) is the shadow girls play that episode where the father clearly states “Your dad’ll go to school”.

Also i saw you sent this recently and idk if it’s prompted by this but @/_glaringdream on twitter recently made a thread talking about it so i do suggest you check it out.

Tl;dr, i am on the fence, leaning towards believing it bc it adds more complexity to the story.

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #souji mikage #tokiko chida #utena tenjou #rgu meta

[mokushiyami]

Dead Weight by PVRIS is sooooooo "Anthy's inner resentment of Akio" coded to me, especially the second verse!!!

OH ABSOLUTELY, especially the “taking wings of a goddess line” top tier anthy representation

#anthy himemiya #rgu #revolutionary girl utena

[mokushiyami]

https://youtu.be/fyk0U2BpiQg

RGU animatic material. You agree?

Absolutely agree

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena

[mokushiyami]

once you hit adulthood a day will come when you’re suddenly like VEGETABLES 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 and it never goes away

#cucumber tomato salad my beloved

[mokushiyami]

Taemin Juice

#taemin

[mokushiyami]

230701: HARD — lee taemin.

#someone sedate me #shinee #taemin

[mokushiyami]

shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

[mokushiyami]

Daily checklist of affirmations:

Nothing wrong with me

Nothing wrong with me

Nothing wrong with me

Nothing wrong with me

[mokushiyami]

[mokushiyami]

Did I ever mention how much I love Anthy Himemiya?

#anthy my beloved #anthy himemiya

[mokushiyami]

[mokushiyami]

eating cement as we speak

#taemin #shinee #shinee world vi #lee taemin

[mokushiyami]

exo’s new album being called exist is so funny because like yeah sure barely