#utena text posts

[transmascutena]

while i'm working on my next utena text posts post. have this.

[ID: Revolutionary Girl Utena screencaps overlaid with parts of a Tumblr post.

Utena, a pink-haired girl, stretching and looking at a wall of photos in Mikage's hall: @/live1967: i hope i don't have to fight my evil shadow self today

Mikage, a pink-haired man, smirks at her: @/die1967: hey

Utena, frowning and surprised: no fucking way. End ID]

#revolutionary girl utena #utena text posts #sillyposts #utena #mikage #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

[arielluva]

been a while since i painted something

(watercolor and gouache)

#my art #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #utena tenjou #because apparently tumblr ate this post the first time... good thing i still had the alt texted copied i guess #2024

[rose-reads-visualnovels]

the great thing about the revolutionary girl utena finale people don’t usually talk about is that one scene where all the council members promise they’ll get out of ohtori - and thus their coffins - when they’re ready. it’s great because it gives us the viewers hope for ourselves.

it’s easy to come out of utena realizing a few internalized hang ups you never grew out of. it’s a whole other thing to actually do something about it. these obsessive vices are so comfortable in their routine, even when it’s obviously unhealthy to keep going. being stuck in a rut of your own making fully aware of what you’re doing.

but utena never really scolds you too harshly about it in the end. it tells you, take your time. one day you’ll be strong enough to stand up and leave. people may help you get there, but you will leave with your own two feet.

it ends, not with every issue resolved and all the characters fully developed, but it ends with the promise that they will. and the camera is nice enough not to stalk them through it as they work out the kinks

#not a liveblog #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #I was rewatching some things instead of reading umi #not capitalizing anything in this text post against all my instincts bc I think it flows better in the usual tumblr text style

[comradekatara]

guy lee and (cis) dyke sokka for @kyoshi-lesbians

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #ty lee #sokka #sokka&tylee #AUs #art #mart #nearly posted this to my utena blog….. kmsss #realized i showed u my original sketch but never actually posted my finished version all colored in #guy lee would be insufferable let’s not kid ourselves #lowest cut shirt known to man. tougacoded. #also rocking that air nomad palette . as a treat #meanwhile we don’t even have time get into the implications of cis girl sokka #but giving her azula hair. was fun :)

[magicaldogtoto]

I think it’s interesting how Revolutionary Girl Utena has that line in that play about how “girls who don’t become princesses are doomed to become witches” (or something to that effect)…

And then a few years later, Prétear makes a point about how the Prétear and the Princess of Disaster are basically two sides of the same coin (specifically, the Princess of Disaster is a corrupted Prétear)…

And then about a decade later you have Puella Magi Madoka Magica with the connection between Magical Girls and Witches.

Granted, all three draw heavy inspiration from fairy tales and folklore, where princesses and witches abound, but there’s also a deeper, systemic reason for those dichotomies…

#revolutionary girl utena #pretear #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica #magical girl #utena tenjou #himeno awayuki #madoka kaname #my posts #text

[wildersfanart]

JURI

#juri #juri arisugawa #revolutionary girl utena #the reference ran away with me lol #it looks way too much like my muse LMAO #i probably will keep posting inconsistently but here’s this!! ����🏻🌟🍾💃🤲🦚🥂✨ #id in alt text

[cosmicluci]

Don’t know why, but I had a thought about the sexualities of Revolutionary Girl Utena. I’m sure this has been done over and over again, but I thought of this and heck, this seems like as good a place as any to express them. Spoilers ahead.

Utena is a lesbian, but she’s in denial through most of it. Every time she shows interest in a man, it’s just because she thinks it might be the Prince, which she thinks is who she loves and the bearer of something eternal (but, as we find out, the actual eternal thing is Anthy. That’s who she loves. Her memories and feelings have just been distorted by the patriarchal heteronormative system she’s in). Also in that disgusting sex scene with Akio, not only is she entranced by that illusion, but even then all she thinks about is Anthy.

Anthy, similarly, is a lesbian. She only ever shows any romantic interest towards Utena, who leaves her smitten and afraid of what might happen. When Akio seems to “win” and have Utena for himself, she’s livid. The only man she’s ever in any sort of willing relationship with is Akio, as Dios, but then, his actions have led her to see sex as a means to save someone (as he does to princesses). So she does what she knows as a means of salvation.

Akio is straight, but he sees sex as a way to exert power, so he’ll do it to people regardless of gender. He enjoys power, and to him sexuality is power.

Touga is gay, but he’s been groomed into wanting to be like Akio, so he also has relationships with women because he’s been convinced that’s how you get power.

Saionji is also gay. He has relationships with women because he yearns for love and romance. He’s abusive because he’s been shown that that’s how relationships work by Touga, and also because he has no interest in women and doesn’t know how to deal with that.

Nanami is aroace and sex-repulsed. She’s got some infatuation with Touga (allonormativity, heteronormativity, and patriarchy), but the thought of any sexual or romantic relationship with him disgusts her. In fact, she seems to dislike all relationships of that sort and have no interest in them with anyone.

Juri is a lesbian. This requires no explanation.

Shiori is bi, but has no parameters for how to deal with her attractions in any sort of healthy way. And so she tries her best to hurt Juri (who’s not as ashamed of her sexuality, if unable to live it) as the only way of having a relationship with her.

Miki and Kozue are both pansexual. Miki is repressed, getting flustered by both Touga and Anthy, and Kozue is not, going after boys and girls in an aggressive way. They’re also both trans, but they’re eggs and will be happier when they figure it out. That’s also why they’re like that. That’s what they’ve learned femininity and masculinity are, respectively.

#cosmicluci #text post #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #touga kiryuu #saionji kyouichi #nanami kiryuu #juri arisugawa #shiori takatsuki #miki kaoru #kozue kaoru #sexuality #lgbtq

[hezuart]

Regarding Utena, I wouldn't use the phrase "sleeping with each other" when most of the sex is outright abuse.

For example, Utena and Anthy are 14 years old, and cannot consent to having sex with Akio, so saying they're just "sleeping with" him frames the issue as if it was consensual and an active choice on their part.

Ah I wasn't just talking about Utena and Anthy. Akio also slept with Kanae (and Touga... I think) Shiori slept with Touga. Touga actually slept with everyone in school. Our main three sibling groups in the show, Akio & Anthy, Touga & Nanami, Kozue & Miki were all incestuous. So that statement was just an overall. Pretty much every relationship in this anime is heavily messed up in some way

Forgive me, I haven't watched Utena in a very long while, so there are some things I totally forgot about, but from my memory, the love square was insane. Utena started dating(?????) Akio, and then found out he was sleeping with Anthy, and then the two of them seem to passive-aggressively fight over him briefly?? This show is absolutely beautiful and started off with a somewhat clear story. A tomboyish girl named Utena joins a strange magical fight club at school for the hand of Anthy. Anthy is maybe under some kind of spell to serve whoever she is betrothed to. Utena doesn't seem to get it, and really only wants to fight for Anthy's freedom and happiness. After living together, the two become good friends and maybe even start to fall in love. Utena loses at one point and falls into a depression, dressing up like a girl again, doubtful and insecure about herself, only to make a comeback. There's a mysterious prince who descends from the heavens to grant her power through the sword she pulls from Anthy's heart. That castle could be real magic, from another realm, or just from her imagination from the prince who saved her as a child- (sike!!! its a projection in the sky?????? guess what, everything is fake!! ??? ....except for the swords pulled out of peoples hearts. Those are real, somehow.)

But yeah once Akio is introduced the show quickly devolves from "Magical LGBTQ+ highschool girl challenges gender roles and relationship norms, saving a princess in the process and falls in love with her," to backtracking, incest, sex, sexual abuse, weird comic relief, manipulations, illusions where everything isn't real yet at the same time it is, shirtless men, driving cars, dead people, etc. The bitter-sweet confusing ending where Anthy is finally free but at the expense of Utena, who in the end realized she could never be a prince, apologizing in despair at her failure, pierced with thousands of swords in Anthy's place...

It still has an interesting aspect parallel of Anthy, a princess, sacrificing herself for a prince who in the end becomes a corrupt shadow of himself. Vs. Utena, a princess acting as a prince, sacrifices herself for the princess who was a shadow of herself to free her. The fact that the thing that saved her all those years ago was her want to save Anthy was really poetic.

Like there's a lot of metaphors to be found here, really beautiful, surreal amazing ones, but in my head I can only see it as a horrific confusing tragedy. But the cliffhanger is like "Utena is out there somewhere in another universe! I'm gonna go travel to find her : ) " how and why did that happen and where on earth did she go-

(I don't know how to associate the movie with the anime because those feel like two completely different universes and probably are.) The show mid to 3 quarters of the way went absolutely bonkers. I feel like it kinda lost sight of where it was trying to go for a while. The ending was truly beautiful, but it was so odd due to prior inconsistencies in the story. You couldn't tell what was actually real or not, or how things came to be or why. And things that happened before, like all the sexual abuse is never addressed or brought up again. And it acts like the ending is happy, like there's hope for Utena and Anthy, but it just feels like nothing was really resolved. Anthy leaves the school, which, you know, good for her, her freedom was the point of the anime, it was what Utena was working towards her whole life, even if she didn't remember. But I don't know if she was well and truly saved if Utena was now in her place. Feels like they're just gonna go in a loop. Doomed by the narrative when the narrative itself doesn't really acknowledge that. I just got a "Don't try to be something you're not because you'll succeed but at your own demise" kind of moral from it, which felt like a loss rather than a win when it came to the gender role commentary.

#with a surrealist metaphorical show unless stated otherwise by the creator #its left up to interpretation- and with this show there are many #just everyone in this show is just so messed up #Nanami killed a cat #Akio slept with kids #Touga slept around #green haired guy abused #Utena and Anthy themselves fight over Akio #everyone is manipulating each other in some way #and then we turn around and have nanami becoming a cow- laying eggs- anthy collects bugs like a quirky school girl- #anthy and akio gaslighting some guy into being in love with their cousin who set the school on fire #its inconsistent tonal shifts #like what on earth was going on #utena #revolutionary girl utena #utena critical #ask #text post

[sheiylv]

about to binge watch revolutionary girl utena, wish me luck.

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #utena tenjou #first post #text #i heard it get really deep and serious towards the end😅

[transmascutena]

more utena text posts :)

[ID: Revolutionary Girl Utena screencaps overlaid with text posts.

Akio + "my students are the most diverse group of psychologically tormented people youve ever seen"

Mikage + @/gyuto: "in my evil fucking lab doing whatever the fuck"

Touga in the passenger seat beside Akio + @/fantasialuna: "being pretty in the passenger seat is just one of my many fortes"

Anthy smiling falsely + @/chaoticneutralcunt: "girl who is sitting in a chair quietly with a neutral expression actually screaming very loudly in her head"

Anthy smiling falsely while hiding a saw behind her back + @/storm-of-feathers: "oh teehee I'm in a silly goofy mood (I am hanging on by a fucking thread)"

Utena and Anthy reaching out across their semicircular beds which face each other + "if you ever feel embarrassed just remember that in middle school I tried to convince myself that I wasn't gay by making a compromise to myself to "only be gay at night""

Anthy with her glasses completely opaque while on the phone with Akio + @/melangedmess: "babygirl I can feel guilty in ways you can't even imagine"

Akio looking imposing + @/evilmario666: "I'm a reliable narrator. You can trust me"

Anthy stabbing Utena + ThatWolfdog @/thatwolfdog: "Gays be having bad breakups without even dating."

Anthy smiling after leaving Ohtori + "i could escape the narrative actually. rip to the rest of you but i'm going to get out of here."

#if the handholding bed one looks familiar it's because it's from my old account. it's too good not to include #revolutionary girl utena #akio #anthy #mikage #touga #utena #m #utena text posts #sillyposts

[fujoshidefender]

UTENA TENJOU YOU HAVE TO STOP. YOU SMOKE TOO TOUGH. YOUR SWAG TOO DIFFERENT. YOUR BITCH TOO BAD. THEY’LL KILL YOU UTENA

#revolutionary girl utena #mine #text post

[milanesa-enthusiast]

[Image description: A still from Revolutionary Girl Utena, from Nanami's first duel. Nanami, off-screen, says: "I know everything there is to know about my brother!" Touga looks unamused, and is frowning slightly. End image description]

#that's it that's the post. #rgu #magg text #touga kiryuu #nanami kiryuu #revolutionary girl utena

[an-error-0ccurred]

Oh to be a loveable, happily single, side character in a very sapphic coded '90s shoujo anime

#shojo #sapphic #funny? #asexual #aromantic #aroace #sailor moon #revolutionary girl utena #girlblogging #cardcaptor sakura #tag with more sapphic coded '90s shojo animes #or just tag with more sapphic coded shojo in general #mahou shoujo #mahou shoujo is particularly sapphic coded I feel like #I just want to be friends with Usagi and the rest of the sailor scouts #but as in like we hang out at school and I know nothing about the magical girling #funny i guess #text post

[comradekatara]

[saionjifies your zuko]

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #art #mart #synthesis #animefication #posting for the five of you who love utena <3

[magicaldogtoto]

I remember when Magia Record’s final few episodes came out, there was a tweet by Inu Curry about how they saw the plot of MagiReco as a “failed revolution” (at least, that’s how I recall the Google translation putting it; the Reddit post I found to check on it translated the tweet as “a revolutionary failure”).

At the time, I kind of just wrote it off (along with the rest of the anime adaptation) as just an indicator for how Inu Curry wanted to make the anime more tragic/edgier than the gacha game’s first arc.

But after starting Revolutionary Girl Utena, I took note of how MagiReco’s anime had J.A. Seazer on the production team, mainly for the Uwasa song. And then I recalled how MagiReco’s visuals looked very surreal, far more surreal at times than anything Madoka ever had. And I remembered that tweet about the anime adaptation being about a “revolution” that failed.

And now I’m wondering… did Inu Curry intend for Magia Record’s anime to be something like Utena…?

#magia record #magia record puella magi madoka magica side story #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica #revolutionary girl utena #gekidan inu curry #inu curry #j a seazer #my posts #text #magical girl