#tougas

[wowitsverycool]

OH btw my idea isn't that the tridentarii twins are, like, into each other and that explains why they're fucked up. no they act like they're into each other because they're fucked up. like i do genuinely think at the core of it it's about WAIT I HAVE A BETTER WAY TO EXPLAIN IT. HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA DO YOU KNOW WHO NANAMI KIRYUU IS

#IT'S LIKE THAT #tlt #tridentarii twins #like the fucked up ness isn't because they're into each other it's just that they act so emotionally incestuous bc they're like eachothers #tougas

[gideonisms]

Having friends who love the same character as you is so so so important, you know what else is underrated though? having a friend who absolutely HATES a character you have NEVER heard of. Beef with a man who is truly just some guy to you

#every day kris tells me about that man and his hard boiled egg shaped head ❤️ #ily kris keep hating ❤️ #also me with touga during the first arc. step aside tall man i am trying to see the lesbian rituals

[transmascutena]

ohtori dashboard simulator

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WHO KEEPS LETTING ANIMALS LOOSE IN THE HALLWAYS

🎹 sunlitgarden Follow

Has anyone else noticed that time is really weird?

🧅 onion-princess123 Follow

making lunch for my beautiful boyfriend <33

snail-lover-deactivated011998

just made dinner for my roommate ^_^

girlprince-deactivated121997

i never ever wanna walk up another flight of stairs again in my life once this school year is over

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what the fuck does our student council even do like actually

🌹 touga-kiryuu Follow

If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. We are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell!

#deep #inspirational #poetry #poetic #quotes #literature #dark academia

🌹 ohtori-official

If you or a friend/loved one is currently attending Ohtori Academy, please remember that you can get a free counselling session in the abandonded building at the edge of campus.

- Souji Mikage

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if someone i hate just so happens to fall down the stairs while i'm walking by how is that my fault 🙄🙄

⚔️ kendocaptain Follow

just got my ass kicked by a middle school girl for the third time in a row dhmu..

#sad #vent #delete later

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Anyone who voted no DNI !!!!!!!

🎭 abc-ko Follow

reblog if you think the chairman should fund the drama club more instead of spending all the board money on sports cars

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Akio Ohtori Call-Out Post

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#in other news i'm dropping out of school #goodbye forever i will not miss any of you

#this was unreasonably fun to make hope you all enjoy #juri is not included because she would not have a tumblr account #shiori would but i couldn't think of a post for her #revolutionary girl utena #sillyposts #nanami #miki #wakaba #anthy #utena #touga #mikage #kozue #saionji #m

[grendelsmilf]

various utena doodles

#id in alt text #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #utena #sku #tenjou utena #nanami kiryuu #anthy himemiya #shiori takatsuki #touga kiryuu #kyouichi saionji #juri arisugawa #miki kaoru #fanart #o.art #100 #the anthy drawing is actually pretty old. fyi #but i just remembered that i forgot to post it so i figured these new doodles were a good opportunity #a sketchdump if you will #it was rly fun to draw the student council #their uniforms and insane hairstyles are so tricky #it was fun trying to figure it out #and also shiori. bc she's just so pretty i needed to draw her #and future anthy in cute little outfits ofc. duh

[thegooblet]

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

[comradekatara]

it’s so funny to me when ppl discuss “sokka’s sexism” like it’s a defining character trait but then simultaneously refer to zuko as some kind of tacit champion of feminism who has never heard of misogyny in his life and is baffled by the very notion. like, just collecting the data here, zuko is way more misogynistic than sokka is throughout the show. which isn’t surprising at all considering that sokka is defined by his remarkable receptivity to new information and his rapid ability to grow and change, whereas zuko is oblivious and recalcitrant and requires the same lesson drilled into his head approx one million times before he can even somewhat begin to grasp it. but then again, i am sokka’s defense attorney and zuko’s prosecutor, so i may be biased ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#sokka #zuko #hot takes #ppl who think sokka is a misogynist are so funny to me 😭 you guys could NOT handle touga and saionji 😭😭

[gemishrooms]

who will get the last piece

#digital art #art #artists on tumblr #artoftheday #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #fanart #kaoru miki #miki kaoru #saionji kyouichi #kyouichi saionji #kiryuu touga #touga kiryuu #arisugawa juri #juri arisugawa

[sepyana]

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

[anonymous-gambito]

Saw this, thought of the egg speech and now I'm like something something "the difference between the egg being nurtured and provided for so it will grow and someday break out of its shell and take flight" vs "the egg being seen as something only meant for consumption, to be broken and eaten" something something "how children are treated as possessions in our society" something something– [EXPLODES]

#revolutionary girl utena #nanami kiryuu #touga kiryuu #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #rgu #utena analysis #Of course‚ there's also the whole birdcage symbolism to consider too but I better slow down now or else– [EXPLODES AGAIN] #ambi utena post

[yume-holic]

this made me laugh. He would fucking hate this

#i was curious whether he had any merch #touga kiryuu #kyouichi saionji #rgu #utena #revolutionary girl utena #sku

[scouttf2isnamedafterjerma]

potentially my magnum opus

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #tousai #kyouichi saionji #touga kiryuu #touga x saionji #saionji x touga

[bloodraven55]

single funniest line in all of anime

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #touga kiryuu #rgu touga #sku touga

[transmascutena]

some thoughts on photography and memory in utena:

on the wall in nemuro memorial hall, there are pictures of real people. i'm not sure who they are, but i assume they're of people involved in making the show. either way, they're obviously not real; in the close-up shots of them, they change into pictures of the black rose duelists and other imagery from the show. i imagine it's there as a fun detail by the creators, but also to show how weird and inconsistent reality itself is in the black rose arc.

as for the black rose duel images themselves, it's possible that they are literal as i've talked about in a previous post, but what i think is more likely, is that utena noticing them is a visual representation of her connecting the dots of what's really been going on in this arc.

when mikage brings up the idea of memories and eternity, we see the picture on the wall behind utena, of her at her parents funeral. and behind mikage we see one of his own defining memories.

a pretty clear line is being drawn between memory and photographs. in fact, memories are so important to mikage that photographs are his black rose duel symbol. it's the one he keeps of mamiya and tokiko, altered to look like anthy's disguise, just like his memories are. through mikage we see both how memories of the past can keep you trapped in it, as well as the malleability of these memories. let's look at everybody else:

saionji has a framed photograph of him and touga as kids on his desk. he values their friendship, or at least the memory of how it used to be. he idealizes the time touga was less cruel (or maybe just the time saionji wasn't aware of his cruelty.)

miki doesn't have any literal photographs of kozue or the sunlit garden, though his memories of them are often framed as such. he also keeps a picture of anthy amidst his sheet music. she is his idealized memory now.

juri has the locket of course, inside of which is a cutout of shiori from a picture captured in the moment that ends up defining their entire relationship. is this the version of shiori that juri idealizes? not really, but she is fixated on her resentment of shiori's percieved cruelty, just not the cruelty of taking the boy away. juri keeps this photograph closer than anybody else does with theirs, but she also keeps it hidden. this could mean she treasures her memories the most out of everyone, and is also the least open about it, although i'm not sure i believe the first part.

nanami has the photo-album of her and touga; she idealizes her relationship with him, as well as their childhood. when she makes the connection that touga is adopted, the photos are scattered all over her bed, probably to represent her emotional state.

touga doesn't keep any photographs from what we see, which makes sense with everything we know about him. unlike the rest of the council, he doesn't have any idealized memories of his childhood. but he does use akio's camera, so let's talk about that.

the camera is, much like the car, a tool that only akio is shown to own (although, wakaba does mention a photography club in episode 34.) like the car, it is used to facilitate his grooming (specifically of touga and saionji when he takes those shirtless pictures with them.) and, also like the car, he offers to lend it to touga, to make him feel more like an equal part of the whole thing. unlike the car though, touga accepts the camera.

the photoshoot scene in episode 37 has a transition where the camera shutter sound effect is played over the previous scene. over the shot of utena and anthy holding hands after confiding in each other about akio. i think it's to show that he's always watching, and that they can never truly be free of him as long as they're in ohtori.

i think it also shows the idea of akio framing the narrative of the show as a whole. he plays a sort of director role in it, in that he directs the events happening, as well as how they're portrayed. it's no coincidence that he is quite literally behind the "camera" in episode 33. like the car, a symbol of akio's power and sexual abuse (which is not-coincidentally also present in all of the photoshoot scenes,) his camera (his narrative, his biased framing of events) is ever-present.

and then there's the most important photograph in the show, the frame it all ends on. the picture utena and anthy took together is, unlike every other photograph, used as a look into their future. the reason they take it in the first place is because utena realizes she has no photos of anthy, which distresses her, presumably because she worries that their friendship might not last forever, and she wants something to remember anthy by. this obviously comes with the risk of making anthy an idealized memory, like every other person put in a photograph in this show, but instead it ends up as a symbol for their love. akio may have set up the camera, but anthy (with the help of chu-chu) manipulated their positions so her and utena could hold hands. she also cuts akio out of the frame, much like she cuts him out of her life in the last episode. she doesn't want his presence to tarnish her and utena's memory anymore (although he isn't completely gone from the photograph either, as he will never truly be forgotten.)

#id in alt text #finally finished this post #these are not the only photographs in the show just the ones linked closest to the themes i wanted to discuss here #revolutionary girl utena #analysis #utena #mikage #saionji #miki #juri #nanami #touga #akio #anthy #m #the narrative

[grendelsmilf]

oh, you know

#id in alt text #revolutionary girl utena #utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu memes #rgu #sku #juri arisugawa #touga kiryuu #miki kaoru #kyouichi saionji #fanart #o.art #100 #:))

[salmuera-a]

I had an idea.

#rgu #revolutionary girl utena #rgu fanart #art #anthy himemiya #nanami kiryuu #touga kiryuu #miki kaoru #juri arisugawa #myart #mine

[aptericia]

The prince has both a corpse and a ghost, yet he was never even alive in the first place

#inspiration comes when you haven’t slept all night and the part of your brain that says “this makes no sense” has shut off #also I don’t think I’ve drawn any Adolescence fanart so I needed to fix that #my art #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #touga kiryuu #utena tenjou #digital art #death