#Akio

[saionjeans]

“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.

#utena #u #anthy #akio #like. she’s sillygoofy and adorable but she isn’t STOOPID

[transmascutena]

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.

#akio's thematically relevant complete lack of knowledge about astronomy strikes again #to be fair i don't know much about it either but one simple google search tells me the exact opposite of what he's saying #revolutionary girl utena #analysis #utena #akio #anthy #m

[biruesque]

"I'm going to become a prince!"

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #tenjou utena #utena tenjou #utena #ohtori akio #akio ohtori #akio #biruesque art #this is one of my fav moments from 38 idk it's so powerful #but yk the concept of “prince” in 38 and 39 is still vaguely up to interpretation i think #it could be the figure doomed to die from saving someone #like in juri's story #it could be an impossible and unattainable virtue #it could still be genuinely what utena wanted to be #and that she still believed in some version of it even if it was removed from akio and dios #eitehr way the way dios' grave just shatters #its so fucking good i oaaouaououghghg

[revacholian-girl-utena]

Just extremely difficult.

Alt text: Screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: Shadow girl B-ko onstage dressed as a prince with a sword and broomstick horse. Text: "You're like a fish that's only now discovering that her whole life has been dictated by the movements of sea currents."

2: Anthy, Utena, and Akio sitting in an empty theater with no other audience. Text: "That's what ideology is."

3: Akio sits on a couch with his back facing Utena. Utena stands some distance away with a confrontational stance. They are dwarfed by the silhouette of the massive planetarium behind them. Text: "is. It's like there are these invisible forces everywhere,"

4: Utena sitting in Mikage's elevator with the sword of Dios in her lap. Her rose bride dress is on a mannequin beside her. Text: "pushing and tugging you this way and that,"

5: A closeup of the camera that took the family photo of Utena, Anthy, and Akio. Text: "and you don't even know they're *there*."

6: Utena leaning against the tower's bedroom window with her shoulders hunched and a hand on the glass. The view is of a starry sky. Text: YOU — "Is it even possible to imagine a world without ideology?"

7: Anthy standing at the other end of the window and looking at Utena. There is no text.

8: Anthy's hand laid on top of Utena's, both pressed to the window. Text: "Of course it's possible." End alt text

#revolutionary girl utena #disco elysium #shoujo kakumei utena #utena #anthy #akio #thinks about this quote for a thousand years #a world without ideology……

[mangalho]

ELENCO PRINCIPAL !!!!

fiz bustos tipo foto-passe, e acho que ficaram bem giros. :)

#OC #ok!next #drawans #akio #akemi #mayumi #shinta #kazuo #jinpachi #masaru #moritsugu

[allaboardthechuchutrain]

Utena's hair in her "backstory" looks like Anthy's as the rose bride and the crown is the same as the rose bride's. Also the ring is an "engagement ring" (engagement, bride, you get what I'm trying to say)

The narrative (Akio aka the embodiment of the patriarchy) introduces this idea that Utena was a princess/rose bride and thus she will continue to be one: she is a girl, her only options are to be a princess or a witch, and a rose bride in either way

But just as the backstory is false, the ideas it introduces are false. There is no prince riding on a white horse and never was, the ring wasn't an engagement ring, Utena wasn't a princess/rose bride. Even though society tried to make her one (the backstory, Akio's grooming), she is not.

At Ohtori, all girls are like the rose bride, but there is an outside world. Girls are like the rose bride not because they are predestined to be from birth, but because Akio/Ohtori/the narrative forces them into these roles.

More on the hair style: Anthy's hair is pinned up, made to look sort of like a bob/short hair, to resemble her hair as a young child (shorter) while in the present her hair is long. The illusion of eternity that Ohtori perpetuates (her hair is made to look like it's the same as when she was younger but in reality it's grown)

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #anthy #utena #anthy himemiya #analysis #utenanthy #my analysis #akio #i noticed this when watching adolescence and anthy was wearing the outfit #theres a lot more to be said when you bring in adolescence #could also tie in we were born in the outside world #utena is wearing very normal very non fairytale fantasy clothes as a child #she was born in the outside world but this world wanted her to forget she was

[ginabiggs]

Utena - Take My Revolution

Ended up needed to get this illustration out of my soul, so I've been working on this for a couple days. 

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#utena #take my revolution #fanart #art #anthy #akio #prince #princess #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo #swords #fantasy #women in armor #shoujo kakumei utena

[chipsncookies]

Rare coloured akio and yukiko + old photo edit for fun

#pokemon #chips's oc #chips's work #akio #yukiko #ive been trying to render for hours but in the end i gave up ;j;

[cyphyree]

Revolutionary Girl Utena spoilers.

I think what guts me the most is how Utena tries to rise above the mistakes of others, tries to do good, tries to be kind in the name of becoming like the prince she was inspired by...... only to fall short just like everyone else.

She's hypocritical, willfully ignorant, insufferable, malicious even.

When confronted by others who reflect her worst qualities, she tries to defeat them, tries to tell herself that she's not like them at all, when in fact she is all of them to some degree.

The fact that she's "trying to do good" doesn't even make her special or morally better. Lots of well-intentioned characters try to do good in the show, and try to break the rose-tinted windows of their cages. They still end up hurting others, willfully or not. So does Utena.

Utena also tries to drive change, but so does everyone else. All everyone manages to do is reinforce the status quo.

Is Utena a bad person? No.

Is Utena a good person? She's trying, but again that doesn't make her any less malicious than anyone else.

I think what ultimately sets Utena apart is her pursuit for honesty.

Honesty isn't something that's talked about in the show in the most explicit way, and why would anyone talk about it? To be honest is to make yourself vulnerable and open to abuse. To seek honesty is to shatter the lies that offer comfort and confidence, and expose the ugly, dirty little truths underneath. It's to break the rose-tinted windows of their cage: it's painful and sharp and cold and the cuts will be deep and will they even heal?

Utena is honest to a fault, making her susceptible to manipulation and mind games. She's also DIShonest to a fault, therefore perpetuating the illusion that continues to harm Anthy (but it's hard, isn't it, when that illusion is the reason you're still alive?). Utena being naive also has trouble perceiving truths that others more experienced can see.

However--while everyone else resorts to deflecting blame, mind games, or neglecting the inconvenient truth--in the end, Utena continues to pursue truth and be truthful. Not out of naivety like in the beginning, but knowing full well that it's a hell-ridden road worth walking.

She doesn't want illusions and deceit to lull her into false grandeur anymore. She doesn't want to see herself or anyone else through rose-tinted lenses, because to live a pretty lie is to die without being born. She eventually becomes honest with herself, sees the ugly truth of her flaws, and confronts them. She refuses the final illusion Akio offers her because it's dishonest to who she is and what's really important to her. She becomes honest with Anthy, and when Anthy is finally honest with her, Utena receives it in full however much it hurt.

In the end, she didn't save Anthy, because the truth is that Anthy was never hers to save. But by shattering the lies between them, and baring her truth, Utena became the vehicle for Anthy to save herself.

And that is revolutionary.

#i have words about this for the movie too but this post is long enough #utena thoughts #revolutionary girl utena #anthy himemiya #utena x anthy #shoujo kakumei utena #utena tenjou #utenanthy #rgu #sku #akio #analysis

[teacupballerina]

he just wants her to brush her got dang teeth

#ppg #ppnkg #powerpunk girls #powerpuff girls #berserk #akio #samurai jack #viletown au #arts #doodles #but akio if she brushes her teeth her fire breath wont be cool anymore

[easelie]

the witch and the prince

#utena #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #anthy #anthy himemiya #akio #akio ohtori #anthy rgu #sku #shoujo kakumei utena #my art

[saionjeans]

akio knowing jack shit about astronomy but pretending to because it suggests a knowledge of the outside world, what lies beyond not just the gates of their school but the borders of their world, their planet. his cosmology is not one of curiosity; it is constructed, fabricated, and imposed. he controls the tools through which his students are allowed to imagine a possible future, a possible world beyond ohtori’s walls. he limits their flow of information, feeds them false information. he doesn’t care about the stars, he only cares about the illusion of stars, projecting them within the frame, teaching them to fear the real ones. just as he fears the real stars, of a thing that exists beyond his control, of ever leaving his cozy coffin, he imposes that worldview and that fear onto everyone else, because the less they know, the more afraid they are, the more he can impress them with his false knowledge, groom them with his conditional power, control them through his projected illusions.

he’s pretending to be an expert in a subject he clearly knows nothing about (like, you don’t need an astro degree to know that most of what he says is patently false) to impress a bunch of children. he is an adult who is still trapped in his illusion of an idealized childhood and would do anything to reclaim it including (but not limited to) torturing his sister who loved him. he wants the approval of children and to control children because he possesses all the maturity of one, riding endlessly on his carousel, trapped in the revolution of stasis rather than the revolution of change, of potential, to imagine a possible future, to imagine a possible world, to imagine a limitless universe. his soul has been calcified, his statue permanently figured in a pose of despair. because wouldn’t you despair if this was your sad, pathetic life? wouldn’t you be too embarassed to simply start over, to leave your coffin and accept a reality that does not center you and accommodate your every petty and cruel whim? the central truth about akio lies in the fact that he doesn’t actually care about the stars, and what that truly means: he’s pathetic, and he’s scared.

#akio #u #analysis #manalysis #EVERYONE POINT AND LAUGH AT THE STUPID MAN WITH THE STUPID MULLET

[transmascutena]

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

#if someone tells you the origin of their name. no matter what it is i don't think it's at all reasonable to assume they are a predator #m #utena #akio

[drippin-melaninn]

𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍

#sims 4 #blender #portfolio #sims 4 render #render #3dart #sims 4 roleplay #3d #akio

[chromaclopse]

[I.D.: digital fan art of akio, utena, and anthy from revolutionary girl utena, set against a background of roses with a spotlight shining on them from above. utena is in the very center, holding the sword of dios. on her left and slightly in front of her is akio, and to her right and slightly behind her is anthy. akio has a hand on utena’s chest, and is leaning in to kiss her with his eyes closed. utena’s mouth is wide open and so are her eyes, looking forward to the camera and slightly to the right, toward anthy. anthy has her eyes closed with a sad, weary expression. her arm goes under utena’s arm and grips the sword right before the tip. the other arm firmly holds utena’s other wrist, and head rests against utena’s shoulder. / end I.D.]

happy pride heres an utena based on that one anne hathaway image

description by @divine-buster!

#this was mostly me playing with textures and shading #pretty happy with how it came out #any differences in pose from the original are intentional changes to better fit the vibe #i was gonna have akio look like he's holding the sword like over utena's hand but i could not get it to Read Correctly #i kinda like it better this way than what i was thinking #shoujo kakumei utena #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #utena #anthy #akio #utena rgu #anthy rgu #akio rgu #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #utena spoilers #rgu spoilers #git your hands off her akio youre not welcome here #my art #fan art

[zagreuses-art]

"And yet the Prince she loves is no longer the prince she knew. not anymore. He is now the End of The World"

(click for better quality) [ID: a digital drawing of Gideon Nav as Kiriona Gaia, and John Gaius. They are posed and dressed in a way that echoes a scene from episode 39 of Revolutionary Girl Utena, where prince Dios and Akio watch Utena attempt to free Anthy. We see Kiriona, lounging and resting her head on her hand, from the back, she is dressed in Dios's princely outfit, but accented in red rather than blue and with a golden laurel wreath in her hair. Facing her is John, also lounging with his head on his hand. John is dressed in Akio's princely outfit, trimmed with iridescent white rather than red, he has his iridescent baby finger bone wreath in his hair. he is also holding a steaming cup of tea. They are lying on the tiled dueling arena in a void, and there is a shadow of one of the "swords of hate" between them. end ID]

#kiriona gaia #john gaius #tlt fanart #tlt #Revolutionary girl utena #RGU #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #dios #akio #my art #digital art