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transmascutena · 2 months

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ever since i made this post i've been thinking about how often utena avoids eye contact with akio.

and comparing that to her relationship with anthy where all they do is look at each other. it's the most prevalent form of intimacy between them along with the handholding.

and of course it shows how comfortable she is being with anthy compared to how nervous she always is around akio. but also, utena and anthy's relationship is all about learning to see each other for who they both really are. what they see isn't always positive, and it isn't always what they want to see, but they are always looking. while utena (understandably) often tries to avoid seeing akio for who he is.

#i was looking through the entire show for every instance of utena and anthy looking at each other to make this post #but i ran out of image space.#revolutionary girl utena #parallels #analysis #(just a little bit)#akio and utena #utena and anthy #m

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kristybluebird · 2 months

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A canary in the coal mine kind of day...

#nanami kiryuu #akio ohtori #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu fanart #revolutionary girl utena fanart #my art

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andstuffsketches · 3 months

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you've got blood on your hands and I know it's mine I just need more time

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu anthy #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #utena spoilers #rgu spoilers #akio ohtori #ask to tag #lyrics from #unfinished business #by white lies #though it was the mumford and sons cover. lol. I only just found out the real version #2024 #digital art #id in alt #image described #lyricstuck

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strawberryjamsara · 1 year

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Don’t ask why but being a prince is for boys and being impaled by thousands of swords embodying humanities hatred is for girls

#revolutionary girl utena #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #rgu #gothitxt

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yurisorcerer · 27 days

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most of Anilist's April Fool's Day edits are not funny but what they did to Akio's character page is pretty fucking great

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #Akio Ohtori #they finally got him....#yurisorcerer speaks #“what about Utena and Anthy making out” I'll be honest I didn't even notice that until after I posted this #that's just what they look like in my head at all times #spoilers #yurisorcerer's greatest hits

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thegooblet · 26 days

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thought too hard about dynamics of abuse in rgu and blacked out

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #miki kaoru #juri arisugawa #nanami kiryuu #touga kiryuu #kyouichi saionji #akio ohtori #kozue kaoru #mitsuru tsuwabuki #sorry for all the character tags but these are the main people i was thinking about when writing this

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charmtale · 2 months

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episode 23 ... episode 35

#rgu #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #anthy birthday. sorry i don't have a real post. take this instead #utena realizing anthy can't quit being the rose bride and anthy realizing how much influence akio has over utena

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saionjeans · 3 days

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“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

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sepyana · 10 months

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Shout outs to Wakaba for being the only brown eyed character frfr

#i haven't made much rgu content in a while eithere here or on my art blog #a shame #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #sku #shoujo kakumei utena #wakaba shinohara #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #mikage souji #mamiya chida #touga kiryuu #juri arisugawa #↪ posts

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anonymous-gambito · 26 days

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The thing about the strangeness and surrealism surrounding Ohtori Academy is that the characters learn to see it as normal, just like a real person in a bad situation might not realize it because that's the whole world surrounding them. In the same way, the narrative might also at times lead the viewers to dismiss these strange and questionable things they're being shown, and so they might say things like "that's just how anime is" in the same way one might claim "that's just how the world is", so in conclusion that's why I feel the need to point out that Akio has a stupid fucking green ball on his hair

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #rgu #akio ohtori #utena shitpost #utena sillypost #ambi utena post

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transmascutena · 4 months

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[image description: two screencaps from revolutionary girl utena, both showing an othello board. in the first there is about an equal number of black and white pieces. in the second most of the board is filled with black, with only two white pieces. in the second, utena is saying "huh?! now i'm losing!" /end id]

i think the scene in episode 33 where utena and akio play othello is very interesting because there's just a whole lot to read into with it. after they start playing utena gets distracted, and when she looks at the board again she realizes she's losing. really badly. this is symbolic, in that she's losing to akio in the game that he is playing, the one she doesn't know she's a part of. but also, the board is invalid. no legal moves would lead to the pieces being arranged like that, which means the reason utena begins to lose when she looks away is because akio is cheating. again symbolic, in that utena thinks they're on equal footing and playing by the same rules, when they aren't. cheating in what is meant to be a friendly round of a board game is really just taking advantage of your opponents trust. which is what he's always doing. i've also heard someone (probably in one of the podcasts i listened to) bring up that utena's two white pieces being separate and isolated (but also not that far from each other on the board) might be symbolic of her and anthy, and how akio is tearing their relationship apart. and there's probably even more to the scene if you want to look for it, it's so cool.

#it's 4 am i need to sleep why do i always make these posts in the middle of the night #revolutionary girl utena #analysis #akio and utena #m

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igura · 4 months

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the quickest way to get juri to act is to provoke her to anger

#juri arisugawa #anthy himemiya #revolutionary girl utena #myart #me pointing at all of juri and anthy’s interactions and how the only way akio could get juri to duel was to involve shiori #i am going to create an engagement that is so toxic

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allaboardthechuchutrain · 4 months

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obsessed with how Utena uses both definitions of revolution: a change, a spark but also rotation, circular movement that repeats and repeats (a perpetual motion machine). change vs staying the same (not growing up)

thinking about how Akio is associated with rotation (the carousel, maybe even the Ferris wheel?) how when the road he drives on appears curved, circular

how he takes the students in his car on this road after they give up on the duels, not allowing them to escape/stop participating in the system, trapping them in this cycle

if the road is circular, it doesn't go anywhere. It eventually comes back to where it started (how the characters regress sometimes). It also means Akio isn't taking them anywhere, he's just tricking them (bc he's a manipulative piece of shit + shows how he's giving them a false sense/idea of adulthood since none of them actually graduate aka grow up)

thinking about how he claims that Utena didn't bring revolution while he's preparing for the next set of duels (he completed a revolution, now it's time to start over)

Yet while Akio tries trapping them in this eternal cycle, he fails. The ending (will get to that later) but also the students grow and develop. They are not the same people they were at the start of the show. You know who doesn't change though? Akio. On to the ending: I love the ending of Utena so much. The students are talking about growing up, about changing!! The student council, Tsuwabuki, Kozue, Shiori, Wakaba have all clearly changed. They are no longer partaking in the same behaviours they kept repeating throughout the show (all their relationships are noticeably healthier, no one is obsessing over anyone anymore, hanging out w/out animosity between them). Utena and Anthy escape and leave!!!!! Anthy is no longer trapped in the cycle of abuse Akio put her through. Anthy is no longer going to keep playing the role of the rose bride, Akio is free to continue playing prince (revolving), but she has to go now (revolution).

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #anthy #utena #rgu #akio ohtori #revolution vs revolution

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aptericia · 1 year

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