#like Anthy's femininity is very dependent on her relationships to others - in being others' princess - as a function of her personality | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ariadnesweb · 2 years

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Trying to write an essay on Nanami & Anthy's contrasting views on womanhood is just...

There is so much there to unpack,

like there's their initial rivalry, with Anthy being presented as a 'good woman' and Nanami being presented as a bad one, there's Nanami's B-plot of trying to figure out why Anthy's femininity is valued over Nanami's, there's Anthy and Nanami's actual characters during the series - and how that presents two different skillsets towards womanhood, there's episodes 31 & 32, in which these two ideas come into contact - blur and mix, in which femininity is both a defense and a weapon and a vulnerability...

there's a lot.

#rgu #soilai's labyrinth #and all I wanted to do was use this to compare and contrast other characters...#Keiko is a Nanami to Nanami's Anthy - Wakaba is a Nanami who tries and fails to be an Anthy #Juri is an Anthy who uses androgeny/masculinity to position herself as a Nanami #Kozue is an Anthy who rejects being an Anthy so hard she jumps past being a Nanami to the androgeny/masculinity scale #Shiori is an Anthy who in lacking a 'prince' is forced into the Nanami side #Kanae is a Nanami who never confronts the abstract ideas of Anthy #Utena starts off as a Nanami but actually reconciliates with being an Anthy as well #like Anthy's femininity is very dependent on her relationships to others - in being others' princess - as a function of her personality #and Nanami's femininity is simply based on her perception of herself - functionally forcing herself into other people's sides

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