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there are cathedrals (revolutionary girl utena references) everywhere for those with eyes to see
#everything is about revolutionary girl utena if you believe it#every waking moment i ponder about revolutionary girl utena#revolutionary girl utena is very serious to me#i love revolutionary girl utena#revolutionary girl utena#shojo kakumei utena#shoujo kakumei utena#rgu#sku#meme#text#i'm sorry it's just that rgu is very dear to me :(#✮
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I will NEVER not fuck with women using a traditionally masculine title. Tell me more about that girl that's also a prince.
#yes im a lesbian#yes this statement includes me bro i love those funny little titles#anyway#the locked tomb#but also uh#sort of#revolutionary girl utena#i guess
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Idk, I just wanted to see her with some nose bleed, I guess?
I practiced drawing people a lot lately because I wanted to draw more Utena and I can see a lot of growth already so that makes me really happy!
#kind of a scene redraw ish? I just love this scene so much#revolutionary girl utena#utena fanart#fanart#utena tenjou#tw: blood#tw blood#artists on tumblr#anime fanart#anime art#magical girl#oggysart#oggysobsessions#shoujo kakumei utena#utena
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“Poison of Salvation”
#Utena#I love Revolutionary Girl Utena sm omg#revolutionary girl utena#utenanthy has my entire heart#utenanthy#no akio in this cuz I don’t even wanna look at his face for references blech#wanted to finish this for Pride Month but I got stuck lol#illustration#anthy himemiya#utena tenjou#print available now!
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if you’d told me, i would have given you a nicer picture
#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#shiori takatsuki#juri arisugawa#juriori#shoujo kakumei utena#sku#i love shiori!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#i hate painting#realest girl of all time#yuri#yay#ayilings#2024
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#nanami kiryuu#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#rgu nanami#hope I don’t need to say this but I love her#and I love the Dona Dona and the other egg song they give her. Nanami… 😭❤️
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i always thought you were stronger than everyone...
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Utena sketches
#my art#revolutionary girl utena#utena tenjou#juri arisugawa#artists on tumblr#I have fallen in love with this show... ourgh
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Intertwined sewn together
#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#utena#rgu fanart#my art#rewatching rgu and had the urge to draw this#its the power of lesbians i swear bc i usually cant finish a piece to save my Life#i love u girls
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I hate this guy /j
#revolutionary girl utena#utena tenjou#revolutionary freak souji#eepy utena is wearing my clothes. i have fuckass socks w “i ♡ -city-” text. i dont love -city- this much to wear socks abt it#also i think ohtori would have its own socks
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the way utena held onto wakaba and anthy's hands, trying her best to not let go (even though utena was barely holding onto anthy's hand, i'm sure she never wished to let anthy slip away from her grasp). both shots were lit with soft lighting ⟶ to highlight the importance of the person utena was holding onto and their bonds to utena.
the fact that she reached out to them with her left hand, the hand on which she wore her rose crest ring (the ring being clearly visible in both shots) ⟶ utena believed that she could only save wakaba and anthy by being a prince/playing the role of a prince.
utena caught wakaba's right hand with her left hand; wakaba wasn't holding back. meanwhile, anthy reached out to utena's left hand with her left hand as well. i think the difference in how each pair held hands may lie within the ideals between the pairs in their respective circumstances. with regard to wakaba, she harboured lots of pent-up emotions and thoughts about how unfairly the (ohtori) world treated the people it regarded as "special" and "ordinary," such as utena and herself. wakaba was clouded with feelings of inferiority and wanted to be special, to put it simply. utena didn't understand/wasn't aware of these dichotomous mechanisms/systems at play, at this point at least. these conflicting ideals, as in, awareness versus ignorance, were represented in the way they held hands; the hero/chosen one with her firm grasp on the motionless hand of the underdog/forgettable one.
with regard to anthy, the moment utena cracked open her coffin was the first time the both of them saw each other as they truly were. utena believed in a world beyond eternal pain and suffering anthy had to endure and wanted to share that view with her, wanted anthy to see and experience such a world, to save her from this needless perdition for good. eventually, anthy took the chance on the possibility, given how unyielding utena was in trying to reach her despite being stabbed by anthy herself; anthy hesitantly reached out to utena. both utena and anthy wanted to believe in a world where suffering is transient when they reached out to one another through the coffin opening, and not an eternally all-consuming pain as their fates in ohtori. they shared similar hopes in that moment.
utena reached out to both wakaba and anthy with kindness and love:
in the duel with wakaba, she never drew out the sword of dios or fought her. utena de-escalated the duel carefully by taking hold of wakaba's sword (the sword pulled out of saionji) and cutting off the black rose. despite not understanding the sequence of events that had them facing each other off in the dueling arena, wakaba was one of utena's closest friends and utena would save her. it's a little interesting to note that the audience (and utena, too i believe) didn't get a glimpse of wakaba's face during utena's speech as above. in addition, the focus on their interlocked hands when utena mentioned about not understanding the situation and saving wakaba is also interesting (even though the interlocked hands were due to them struggling against each other). it's possible what utena said at that moment may have reached her heart even while being under the control of the black rose. perhaps the speech may have made wakaba realise that she was indeed special. this "specialness" was emphasised by utena not letting wakaba fall into the outline of one of the bodies like the other black rose duelists; because she mattered to utena. "to not be chosen is to die" but in a way, she was chosen by utena here beyond the presented choice between her or anthy. utena chose wakaba and anthy.
in episode 39, akio used the sword pulled out of utena to break through the rose gate. utena was injured and incapacitated by anthy's stab, while anthy was relentlessly impaled with millions of swords embodying humanity's hatred. akio's futile attempts eventually broke the sword and he gave up on the pursuit. so long as he had anthy, he could try again, as in, try again to gain the power to "revolutionise the world" instead of freeing his little sister. utena tried opening the rose gate with her bare hands; dragging her injured body there, clinging onto the thorny vines of the roses on the gate, pushing through the large stone doors. she only wanted to stop the swords from hurting anthy, to help her. utena's love and care for anthy finally unlocked the rose gate into anthy's coffin. utena steadfastly held out her hand to anthy despite anthy's protests. utena's efforts moved anthy to tears, and she reached out to her. in episode 38, utena chose anthy over akio, and all the way back to episode 11, utena chose anthy over the power to revolutionise the world. utena had always chosen anthy against all odds and choices.
the aftermath:
wakaba wasn't holding back possibly due to being under the control of the black rose while anthy's hand eventually slipped away from utena's hold.
nevertheless, utena's efforts matter, very much so, because wakaba will always be on utena's side no matter what happens and anthy will find utena no matter where she is.
#i love them so very much:(#revolutionary girl utena#shojo kakumei utena#shoujo kakumei utena#rgu#sku#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#wakaba shinohara#parallels#analysis#i think#i hope this is readable#i don't know if this analysis is anything substantial#i keep rewriting because i wanted to get the points across the best i could#i'm sorry for mistakes and/or misinterpretations#✮
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I just wanted to draw this cool pose but then it turned into a color study. Uh this video changed my life
#Loved trying to pick up on the details from my crisp 240p screenshot at best. So I took some creative liberties with that and the lankiness#revolutionary girl utena#anthy himemiya#utena tenjou#do they have a ship name. idk the entire show is this ship#I have not finished Utena yet but I know it is#that pole dancing is so fucking mesmerizing they pull so many cool poses...!! I have done a bit of pole dancing before and man idk#how these guys ever manage to get such a grip on that thing. Especially in cosplay. ESPECIALLY IN THAT DRESS.?#How is REIKO/Anthy hooking their legs around the pole with no skin contact visible at points. It's fucking wizardry#tubby art
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Happy (somewhat belated) birthday Anthy!!!! I love you dearly.
I think she deserves to make her own cake if she wants.
#I love someday together utena and anthy#I want anthy to learn how to make her own food and enjoy it#something something agency and self sufficiency and adulthood#there are no candles on her birthday cake#just cream cheese frosting applied messily by utena#yes the eggs are a reference to the world’s shell or whatever#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#shoujo kakumei utena#art#fanart#anthy himemiya#utena tenjou#happy birthday anthy#no image id#rgu fanart#my art
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good luck babe [wip] ⚔️🌹
#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#anthy himemiya#chappell roan#shoujo kakumei utena#sku#good luck babe vmas 2024 changed lives…….mine…#also ! an opportunity to draw something incorporating anthys armor from the opening!!!!!!#wanted to post while apparently everyone cant get this performance out of their head#i wanna maybe paint it later idk it might be a hot minute#i love swords i love lesbians i love sword lesbians#like dude chappells whole performance?? annbait incredible stuff#2024#ayilings#wip#id in alt
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This is my friend, Chu-Chu!
#chu chu appreciation post#chu chu#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#shojo kakumei utena#sku#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#gif#series#90s anime#hes so cute i love him#my post
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hm rgu just has a really nuanced take about how patriarchy harms men. it says that men are brought up in a society that encourages them to harm women and emulate other misogynistic, abusive men [touga emulating akio, and to a lesser extent saionji emulating touga and later akio]. this often does come at some cost to their own psyche, because the men they are emulating hurt and abuse them too [touga is abused by akio, saionji is abused by touga though touga is not nearly as skillful with it]. but regardless, they are punching downwards to mistreat the women in their lives the same way their abusive male role models do [touga abusing nanami, saionji abusing anthy], and they choose to act this way to women because, despite the conditions of patriarchy inflicting a toxic and self-destructive relationship with other men on them, they are willing to imitate and obey the same men that hurt them if it means they can keep the privilege and power over women that the patriarchy grants them by default for being men. [touga wants to be akio's successor, he wants to inherit the world that akio has constructed for himself, which is built on the foundation of patriarchal power over women. and to do this touga deliberately keeps himself on akio's radar rather than pull back once it becomes clear what akio's intentions with him are. touga believes he's letting himself be manipulated, he believes he is consenting to it, and that that will be worth it if it means claiming akio's seat of power in the future. (of course what touga doesn't consider is that he cannot meaningfully consent to any advances akio makes, because he's a minor and akio is an adult.)]
rgu asserts that yes, patriarchy does harm men, but that harm comes almost exclusively from other men. and, more importantly, while abusive men may have been hurt by the patriarchy at the hands of other men, it is still their choice to hurt the women around them. and rather than dawdle and sympathize with harmful men for how they themselves were hurt by other harmful men, it's more important to prevent them from hurting anyone else
#ofc 'men' here applies only to cis men#god. i love rgu so much#kiryuu touga#touga kiryuu#touga rgu#rgu touga#kiryuu nanami#nanami kiryuu#nanami rgu#rgu nanami#saionji kyouichi#kyouichi saionji#saionji rgu#rgu saionji#ohtori akio#akio ohtori#akio rgu#rgu akio#himemiya anthy#anthy himemiya#anthy rgu#rgu anthy#rgu tag#revolutionary girl utena#shoujo kakumei utena#saito chiho#ikuhara kunihiko
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