#rgu akio

[samandboredom]

          || “The man who will save us is our destroyer.” ((Initially was just Anthy fanart, but I felt very angsty today (also related to having an assailant) so I added Dios. Does this count as vent art? Also may post the Anthy only version because I love how she turned out!))

#revolutionary girl utena #himemiya anthy #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #ohtori akio #prince dios #RGU #rgu anthy #rgu dios #rgu akio #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #im actually really fond of my old art syle #i love the messy look of this #vent art #kind of

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

akio and the coffin

it’s fascinating how akio both literally IS the coffin of ohtori academy and, simultaneously, is trapped by it. ohtori academy is in many ways a manifestation of the ugly side of adolescence, of clinging on to something in your past and refusing to move forward in your life. every character has something they continue to hold on to despite the fact that they ought to let it go for the sake of growing and maturing. for example, saionji has his inferiority complex regarding touga, his refusal to let go of the simplicity of their childhood together when he felt that they stood on the same ground, and that touga saw him as an equal. everything he does in the series is an attempt to make himself feel as though he is finally on equal grounds with touga. if he would only stop tying his self-image to the perception that touga is somehow above him, that touga looks down on him, then he would be able to let go of that sense of inferiority and move on. but he can’t. juri refuses to let go of the pain she feels regarding her past with shiori, and continues to see shiori as someone who is “innocent”, albeit cruelly - someone who is unknowing of the pain she causes juri through her actions when in fact, shiori in seducing the boy she thought juri loved was deliberately acting to hurt her. if juri would only realize and accept the true intentions behind shiori’s behavior, then she could get one step closer to understanding shiori, to being understood by her, and moving past the pain of shiori’s betrayal. but she can’t. 

most of the characters, except utena and anthy of course, remain in ohtori by the end of the show. while they’ve all made progress in “maturing” thanks to the events they experienced throughout the series - both saionji and touga’s as well as juri and shiori’s relationships have gotten visibly better, as shown in the final medley of scenes - they still have more growing to do, hence why they remain in ohtori academy until their time comes. one day, the show suggests, they might also revolutionize their own worlds - their own selves - and finally leave the coffin of ohtori behind as well. 

so where does that leave akio? i think he can be said to literally be the coffin of ohtori in that he is explicitly shown to try to manipulate others into remaining stagnant, to clinging on to whatever toxic things they are struggling to process and come to terms with, though this is of course only shown via the characters he most directly interacts with. naturally it comes across most clearly with anthy, although i think utena and to a less direct extent, touga, are the other two people who are the most straightforwardly influenced by him. when it comes to anthy, she clings to her love for the person her brother used to be, the older brother who, at least as she perceived, was kind and caring and wanted to protect people. to protect that older brother, she willingly took on the hatred of the world, and continues to endure the pain of it to this day for what is implied to be centuries. but akio has shown time and time again, through the repeating dueling cycles, that if he was ever kindhearted and genuinely caring, those parts of him are gone now. i do believe he cares about anthy to an extent even now, but whatever affection he has for her is paltry in comparison to his desire to reclaim his power as prince dios. it’s for that purpose that he set up the entire dueling system, for which he freely allows duelists to treat anthy like a prize and an object. and additionally, because anthy is so integral to the power he has now in ohtori, he uses emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse to keep her tied to him. he’s willing to not just let her wellbeing come last, but puts it at the bottom of the list of priorities, and actively tears it down himself for his own benefit. anthy knows all this - but because she still holds onto that love that she had for who he used to be, she stays with him and does his bidding. and that’s what akio wants. he is the coffin, wishing to keep people in their states of despair, conflict, and pain, therefore ensuring that they are compliant and vulnerable to his manipulation. 

at the same time, akio is trapped by the coffin like everyone else. he, like all the other characters, has something that he ought to move on from for his own sake as well as the sake of the people around him: his goal to reclaim his powers as prince dios. akio has failed in this goal every single dueling cycle that happened before the show’s events, and as displayed in the final episode, he definitively fails the one that takes place during the show as well. he can attempt the cycle over and over and over again, redo and tweak and modify the dueling system however many times and in whatever ways he wants - it’s all useless. there is no sword that can break open the rose gate. there is no way to reclaim his powers. they’re gone, that part of his life is over, and if he accepted that fact, it would allow him to move on and heal from what he experienced. but he can’t. at the very end of the series, right before anthy leaves ohtori for good, he’s typing away just as diligently as he ever did and, completely oblivious, tells anthy that he’s rewriting the rules of the rose crest, that he’ll be counting on her again. and i didn’t pick up on this until rewatching the episode, but it really just hits you then how utterly stupid he looks, working so hard and speaking so confidently about the upcoming dueling cycles as if any of them are ever going to matter in the slightest. i love anthy’s response to him too; i love the subtle but at the same time so blatant scorn in her words: “you really don’t know what’s happened, do you?” because once again, throughout all this, akio has learned nothing. he hasn’t realized it’s useless, what he’s trying to do; he hasn’t realized all the effort and pain and anguish he’ll cause in people for yet another dueling cycle will never make any difference. he is unable to come to terms with the reality that he will never have his powers as prince dios back. he refuses to move on. 

akio is the coffin of ohtori, wanting to keep others in stagnation and regret. he’s also trapped by the coffin, incapable of maturing past his own stagnation and regret. and it really, really says something that all of the other major characters of the show, who have been in ohtori for far shorter a time than he has, have been able to make visible strides in their growth. anthy, who is the only one comparable to akio in terms of duration at ohtori, revolutionizes her world and leaves. meanwhile akio, as deluded and self-unaware as he is, hasn’t made a single step of progress in all this time. the only thing he does is call in bewildered desperation after anthy as she finally leaves him behind, still totally clueless as to what has happened. 

tldr; i once saw an author say one of her characters represents inertia, in fact he is inertia. i think that’s a spot-on explanation of akio, at least in terms of what he symbolizes in the story. i want to beat him in the dick with a cactus

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[leahdrawsstuff]

the shattered remains of a beautiful prince

#my art #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #prince dios #rgu akio #fanart #anime #this is a repost #art #artists on tumblr

[clowningoose]

One thing that stood out to me during Episode 39 of Utena is that Utena and Akio seemingly tried to open the Rose Gate in different directions.

Akio as he is slashing and stabbing at the Rose Gate is obviously trying to open it by applying force towards it, he is treating the door as a push door and in comparison to Utena is as well using a tool or well a weapon in an attempt to get it open.

Utena, and of this Im admittedly not completly certain, seems to be based on her posture trying to pull the door open.

The first noteworthy difference between push and pull doors is the amount of difcficulty one has opening them, push doors being much easier to open due to the applied force following the objects motion while the force applied during pulling goes into the opposite direction.

Now while there are no actual regulations for what direction a door should open to when, but generally speaking a door is pushed open when a room or house is being entered from the outside and pulled open when leaving a room or a house.

So Akio is not only using the method which costs less effort, he is trying to enter into something, the space where he believes his princehood lies to continue a fairytale in which he is the knight in shining armor, a restricted room waiting for him to get inside, to leave what he views as the outside, the reality he is complacend in and does sees as such, his general space of being and Utena is in comparison trying to leave a confined space around her to reach the outside with a method more strenous, of course behind the Gate lies Anthy.

And as we then see Utena opening Anthys coffin, it is arguably a sliding door. Now, sliding doors generally have the effect of seperating one singular space into two seperate ones, in this case seperating Anthy from a world, a space she is part of, then the floor breaks, we see the space well and truly seperate itself from the platform.

When Anthy then leaves we are faced with two new sliding doors, the elevator door in Akios office, closing behind Anthy as the space of the elevator seperates itself, not simply by closing but by moving itself downward which I do find to be reminiscent of Anthys fall, leaving the tower, leaving a point high up above, surrounded by nothing but the sky to get to the ground upon which to walk on and then Ohtoris gate, seperating the place from the rest of the World in the end Ohtori is part of the world, but not the whole of it, much more of it isn't, the gate does not close, there are many more who can leave or enter, Anthy could very well turn around and get back inside, but she chooses to walk way.

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu anthy #rgu utena #rgu akio #akio ohtori #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #rgu analysis #God i feel like i feel like i didnt express what i meant very well #reads more like door trivia

[canapotatoliteraryanalasys]

Something something… Utena and Anthy parallels… Something something…

I felt like I had to redraw this color spread because of how nicely I feel it represents the parallels between Anthy and Utenas character arcs in the movie and especially the manga version of the movie (what I see as the two last time loops(the adolescence of Utena manga is were my pfp comes from)). Nether Anthy or Utena have come to terms with death and the fact that the prince is a lie. But holding on to the idea of the prince (the idealized version of the oppressor, men) is the only thing keeping them apart (hindering them from revolutionizing the world). The difference is Toga wants Utena to move on, he is okay with being forgotten because he recognizes that Utena idolizing him as a prince and trying to emulate him is the thing trapping her in othory (the system of oppression). In the climax of the manga when the ghost of Akio is trying to stop them from leaving Toga says “There is only one way to escape from this world Utena. Forget! Forget about me. Purge me from your mind or you shall live in this world forever never truly alive. Dont cling to love. Memory will hold you here, unable to move on. Just like Anthy and Akio Othory.” While Akio is doing his best to keep Anthy at othory, were he has control over her. We learn in the manga that the duels are Akios plan to “find Anthy a new prince”. Anthy is trying to replace the “prince” she’s lost so that she doesn’t have to face the fact that she wants to be free. Letting go of Toga and Akio is a lot easier in the movie then the manga, which i think is because it is the last loop were Anthy and Utena finally revolutionize the world, by escaping to a world without roads. Only by forgetting their “princes” and loving each other, not like prince and rose bride, but as Utena and Anthy can they escape othory high.

#revolutionary girl utena #revolutionary girl utena fanart #rgu fanart #rgu touga #rgu utena #himemiya anthy #othory akio #rgu akio #akio ohtori #kiryuu touga #tenjou utena #adolescence of utena #rgu manga #utena movie #long post

[adracat]

GWitch: Elnora and The Sword of Dios

We know the story. Ochs Earth absorbs Vanadis and adopts GUND for militarized use instead of the peaceful medical intent of its creators. Their ideals are corrupted by corporate greed. Folkvangr, a lab dedicated to these new operations, is purged. Only two people survive; Elnora Samaya and her young daughter. Decades onward, Elnora is tainted by revenge and a desire to regain what she lost, becoming Prospera.

She's undeniably our Akio analogue. A nefarious manipulator who toys with our cast for his own ends. There was a nobler side to Akio as well once; Dios, the idealistic prince who thought he could bear the burdens of humanity and whose loss of innocence still haunts Akio. Elnora, like Dios, believed in an ideal that was ruined by the world's greedy nature.

Throughout the show, Utena wields the Sword of Dios to fight in the duels. In the final episode, Utena is stabbed by Anthy for her brother's sake and the sword is given to Akio. He then attempts to forcefully open the door to eternity.

The analogue to this sword is Calibarn/burn as revealed in episode 21

How does this relate to Elnora? Because this gundam, like the Sword of Dios, once belonged to a time when the ideals of Vanadis/Elnora were still alive. Though without a permet filter, it's described as immensely powerful, like the Sword of Dios. The name even alludes to its nature as a holy sword as a variant of Caliburn.

Yet Akio does not succeed when using the sword of his former self. He can never return to the idealistic prince and time he remembers. Likewise, Prospera cannot return to the days of Elnora, though she seeks to preserve the last she had of them. They are tragedies who commit heinous deeds in a futile pursuit of eternity. I've already talked about how the Door to Eternity can't be opened by Calibarn in my earnest opinion, but that's purposeful. It's a tool of war for a past that no longer exists; a legacy tainted by greed and loss. After realizing this, I'm positive we'll see either Suletta forsaking this sword or it being 'stolen' and given to another. Eri overriding the machine as our Anthy possibly

As always, don't take me too seriously on future events~

#g witch #prospera mercury #elnora samaya #g witch spoilers #suletta mercury #gundam witch from mercury #rgu akio #rgu spoilers #rgu dios #This is clever utena usage fr

[mercepsycho]

Best Revolutionary Girl Utena Character

- Botting and telling your followers who to vote for is allowed -

- Poll will be closed on Sat 11, and the results should be released the next day -

- Remember to have fun! -

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu utena #rgu anthy #shoujo kakumei utena #utenanthy #utena tenjou #utena #rgu nanami #rgu touga #rgu akio #rgu saionji #rgu wakaba #rguedit #rgu fanart #utena fanart

[revolutionaryshiori]

I’m not sure what to think about Nanami during the ending. Like it’s great that she warned Utena about Akios abuse, but the way she talked about Anthy makes it sound like she saw Anthy as fundamentally lacking sentience or as an extension of Akio.

I also think it’s interesting that she was able to see through Akio so quickly, but through the entire rest of the show she was completely blind to almost everything that had to her. There was also that stuff about her orbiters not really caring about her and only caring about her brother.

I need to rewatch the show lol (and watch the movie)

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu nanami #nanami kiryuu #anthy himemiya #rgu akio

[rainicrartt]

I hate him so much but his design was just too good

#rgu #rgu fanart #rgu utena #rgu akio #revolutionary girl utena #revolutionary girl utena fanart #the way i loathe him is unreal #akio ohtori #akio #artwork #art #revolutionary girl utena akio

[the-banana-0verlord]

Anyways Akio can rot in hell

#just watched episode 33 #fuck akio #theoverlordmonologues #revolutionary girl utena #rgu akio #akio ohtori

[ceyskywalker]

is this a safe place?

I could talk about anthy/tenko akio/afo for days but I'll just leave it here right now

#once you watch rgu you can't escape anymore #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #rgu akio #my hero acedamia #shigaraki tomura #afo #all for one #tenko shimura

[theluciferswar]

Lucifers VS Lucifers : Round 0

Lucifer (@bobvelsebishot 's real life goat) :

Goat. He is a black goat with horns and he is my favorite goat in the field. He is very cool

Akio :

his name evidently isn't ""lucifer"" but ""akio"" is the japanese name for the morning star aka lucifer and he says this in the show, he's also for sure a lucifer figure

Note : The goat in the picture isn't the Lucifer we're talking about. It's a black goat from a public domain images bank. However, I don't have a name for them, so maybe they're a Lucifer

#lucifers bracket #tournament polls #round 0 #lucifer the goat #akio ohtori #rgu #rgu akio #rgu manga #revolutionary girl utena #animeblr

[princess-monochrome]

Watching revolutionary girl utena ep 30. On the verge of screaming crying and throwing up rn

#revolutionary girl utena #currently watching #utena tenjou #rgu akio #first watch

[be-fae-do-crime]

“You seem almost dangerous” he IS dangerous girl GET OUT OF THERE

#*chirp* #revolutionary girl utena #rgu utena #rgu akio

[clowningoose]

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu akio #akio ohtori #fan art #rgu anthy #anthy himemiya #rgu dios #You know how Akios color switch from white when he was Dios to red is also part of his angel/god to devil theme #And Anthys been dressed in all red ever since she was a child and then later on as the rose bride as well #Perhaps as a symbol of Anthy 'corrupting' or 'staining' Akio #As well as a constant commemoration of sin #And with the whole bride thing it also just reminds me of that one guy who wanted his wife to wear a red dress to their wedding #because she was 'impure' (hadsex before the wedding) #But the red has never been absent from Dios Design #Note the Cape #In all likelihood Anthy's color has only been red because of Dios #I mean when she leaves by all means it would make sense for her to be wearing her own colors but she isn't wearing red #But that's obviously not the whole of it #Color in rgu is so varied and vast in meaning that this is just like a small thing on the corner of a circle

[whereireblogallthethingsilike]

Ever wanted a fictional character to suffer

#rgu akio #no mercy