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roseillith · 3 days
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revacholian-girl-utena · 11 months
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WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.
Alt text: screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena. 1: The shadow girls lean in close for a kiss over a microphone. Text says: "TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE"
2: The castle in the sky crumbling and falling to the ground. Text reads: "ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD"
3: Utena and Anthy's hands reaching for each other in the finale. Text reads: "FOR NEW PEOPLE."
4: the silhouettes of all five student council members standing against a sunset background. In the center of them, a table with a watering can full of roses. Text reads: "IT IS TOO LATE FOR US." End alt text
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Juza Hyodo: "Juza had been wanting to be an actor since middle school, but because of his scary appearance he didn't get to try it until his senior year of high school. He wanted to act in order to "become someone else", but in the process of acting he learnt to embrace himself instead, and to use that as fuel for his acting. He's extremely passionate and this passion is contagious to his fellow troupemates. He may not be the leader of the troupe, but he sure is its heart. Despite his wanting to change himself at the start, even from his initial scenes he's ready to face who he is, and to show vulnerability on stage. This and passion are key attributes for any performer to have."
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Shadow girls: "The shadow girls are a literal embodiment of a Greek chorus within the stage-inspired world of Utena, complete with moving sets, prop-like stabbings, and actual spotlights all magically appearing in universe. They are a theater story telling device living on a metaphorical and literal stage. Their awareness of the show, its themes, characters, ect has been enough for a person who worked on Utena to call them the real main characters of the show. They serve as narrators, story telling devices, and important characters that appear in every episode."
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bunneis · 2 months
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Revolutionary Girl Utena [1/39] - The Rose Bride
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inbarfink · 2 months
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Nothing is a truer testament to Revolutionary Girl Utena’s masterful storytelling then the way they built up the mystery and mystique around the Shadow-Play Girls; who they are, what they are, what are they actually doing with their little shows, how much do they actually understand of the deeper truths of the narrative…. and then like five episodes before the finale reveal they’re just a bunch of Theatre Kids.
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tokaii24 · 3 months
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from September 2020
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saionjeans · 3 months
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akio isn’t actually anthy’s father but due to his age, status, and power, he acts as a pseudo-father to anthy (and others), mimetically performing patriarchy without truly embodying the primary patriarchal role (although approximating it to functionally the same effect). this idea of the Mimesis of Patriarchy is in fact the mechanism upon which the entire Narrative (which is to say, akio’s frame) is predicated, from the shadow girls to the projections from akio’s phallic panopticon tower to the entire discourse of dueling that is ostensibly the primary stage upon which the show’s telos is reached—although of course this idea is illusory as well, a more palatable mode of violence serving to distract from the true violence upholding the narrative.
the notion of illusion acting in conversation with and artificially upholding modes of power is a key theme of the show. the matter of projection, performance, trickery, and masks is illustrated symbolically; the modes through which the text facilitates these ideas pervade every mechanic of its storytelling, most notably through everything about the shadow girls, as the shadows (on the cave walls) of performers in a choral role (often imparting digestible yet not particularly trenchant moralistic fables, both vague enough to provoke, yet shallow enough to maintain order). mimesis as a form of hollow power underscores the entire framework of ohtori and what it signifies.
the point being that the roles we feel we have no choice to inhabit within an agreed upon status quo are ultimately illusory, held together through a collective logic enforcing them for no other reason than that the collective will must go unchallenged. there are no real rules set in place that a girl cannot wear a boy’s uniform, that a girl cannot leave her abuser, that a girl cannot love another girl. but these rules are nonetheless enforced through more covert social codes that uphold themselves for no ontological reason besides the expectation that they must be.
the very world itself is the coffin, the egg, the dueling arena of mist and shadow. akio counts on the mimetic integrity of his maintained performance to continue to enforce his power, and anthy’s final act is to reveal the artifice of his semblance of power once his players no longer choose to continue participating, once they realize that the conditions they have been forced to accept are actually unacceptable. by simply leaving, by stepping out of frame to an existence beyond her coffin, she shatters the facade that presents the site of her abuse as being the entire world, as all there is and all that can ever be.
the metanarrative actively critiques its own mimetic mode not only to undermine akio’s constructed drama, but to remind us of the larger purpose of storytelling, beyond one singular framework. dios is an illusion, a cave shadow, but so is akio. he is not patriarchy itself, he is a sign, and patriarchy is the signified. the fact that he is not really a Father, but anthy nonetheless likens him to one, reminds of us this fact. the world of ohtori is a fiction, both literally and figuratively. the shadows on the cave walls are projections, the systems we uphold are arbitrary, the narratives we construct are illusory. akio may not be a real father, but he plays one on tv.
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theatricalnebula · 18 days
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asofterutena · 3 months
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(tie me to the stake and call the ashes holy)
[original comic by @asoftersea]
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albaharu · 4 months
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26 FOR THE SPOTIFY WRAPPED THING !!!!!!! :D
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From tongue to tongue, from ear to ear Wandering around the world, My stories That only I don't know
Rumor by NASTYONA
🎵Send me a number from 1 to 100 and I will do a drawing based on the song from my Spotify Wrapped Most Listed Songs 🎵
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remember: you vote on which one you think is the best, not who is more morally correct or well written! It's about personal preference!
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roseillith · 3 days
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revacholian-girl-utena · 11 months
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Alt text: Screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: A closeup on Anthy's face as a tear falls from her eye. Text: "A bit too dramatic, don't you think?"
2: Closeup on Utena fending off a glowing sword with her broken one. Text: "But then again -- it definitely fits the genre."
3: Anthy sitting alone at a table against a wide blue sky. Text: "*I* fit the genre, we all do..."
4: Dios sitting on his white horse from a broken bridge. Text: "moulded by fiction like we're characters in some bad novella."
5: B-ko the shadow girl putting on a play, dressed as a prince on a broomstick horse. Text: "Human psychology is definitely lazy, don't you think?" End alt text.
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Shadow girls: "The shadow girls are a literal embodiment of a Greek chorus within the stage-inspired world of Utena, complete with moving sets, prop-like stabbings, and actual spotlights all magically appearing in universe. They are a theater story telling device living on a metaphorical and literal stage. Their awareness of the show, its themes, characters, ect has been enough for a person who worked on Utena to call them the real main characters of the show. They serve as narrators, story telling devices, and important characters that appear in every episode."
Mettaton: "He wants to be a star and he tries to murder a child but NOT ACTUALLY because his bestie Alphys told him to so she could look better BUT he hijacks her ruse and tries to kill the child anyway and then his death scene is really sad and in the genocide route when he tries to be a hero it’s implied he’s just bluffing so the monsters have time to get away IM NOT CRYING YOURE CRYING"
"Pretends to be a killer death robot, but it turns out he’s just an ✨actor✨ who also happens to be a killer death robot"
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mieowkoid09 · 5 months
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Hey does anyone know why Shiori Takatsuki has this weird connection to the shadow girls? In the show, shes literally at their stage. she and juri, in the scene where she pulls her sword out, are literally shadowy silhouettes. And in the movie? She literally STEALS the shadow girls' tape.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?? IS SHE A SHADOW GIRL?? /WAS/ SHE A SHADOW GIRL??
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goldenspirits · 1 year
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