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is anyone gonna talk about the connections between Arcane and Naoki Urasawa’s Monster or am I going to have to do it

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Sorry I need to go slightly insane about something for a second.

So I was reading this NME article about the song Guilty by Taemin, minding my own business, until I came across this paragraph:

I read that quote and was like um not to make everything about Utena but that sounds exactly like Utena. Like “crack the world’s egg”. Utena absolutely had to have been inspired by this book too.

And lo and behold, look at the title of the OST track that plays during the student council scene:

Maybe this is some obvious basic shit to the kinds of people who have dug into every single literary reference made in Utena, but as someone who hasn’t done that and also has never heard of this book before I feel extremely validated that I read a random quote in an unrelated article, thought “this gives me Utena vibes”, and turned out to be 100% correct

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there’s a lot of anime where the main characters have absolutely no business being teenagers doing all the stuff they’re doing but ngl they needed to be 14 in Madoka Magica. like that’s just what being in middle school feels like

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For some reason I can’t engage with any headcanons/theories about Utena or Anthy’s lives post Ohtori, I just don’t like thinking about it at all

I like not knowing. I like not even having a little bit of an idea. Is that weird?

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fully agree that many mental health issues are exacerbated by the burdens of capitalism however, major extreme side eye to the people who seemingly imply all mental illnesses would magically disappear if capitalism stopped existing

“therapy is pointless because how is anyone supposed to thrive mentally in a system that is so unlivable” well sure, because you’re assuming the only people who go to therapy are people with situational anxiety and depression, but that’s actually not the case and I hope you’re aware of that

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it’s October 3rd

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love how I get so extremely attached to the most random and un-fandomified fictional characters ever, like good for you that your favorite parasocial blorbos are the Fullmetal Alchemist crew bc mine are the entire cast of the 2015 slice of life family kdrama Reply 1988

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actual screenshot of my private insta story from when I was watching boys over flowers for the first time lol

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as someone who has only seen the anime, my main takeaway from starting the Pluto manga is that for some reason the anime really toned down the casual robot racism

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actual tshirts I saw people wearing this weekend

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savior “complex”? I find it quite simple

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this is so rough but not as bad as I thought it would be

wanting to make an oc with a shaved head/buzzcut but realizing that means I’d have to figure out how to actually properly draw the shape of a skull

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wanting to make an oc with a shaved head/buzzcut but realizing that means I’d have to figure out how to actually properly draw the shape of a skull