#like. it actually drives me bonkers touga you can’t DO THAT

[aroanthy]

you know it’s really important to acknowledge how anthy letting utena win the ep 12 duel is an accident, imho, a slip that conveys just how much she’s beginning to hope for utena, but also. if i were anthy i wouldve let touga eat shit just for pulling this the previous episode

[ID: a shot from episode 11 of ‘revolutionary girl utena’. in it, touga smugly asks anthy: ‘oh? are you really just an ordinary girl?’

anthy looks at him with a wearied but otherwise unclear expression. /end ID]

episode 11 is so underrated somehow episode 11 i love you episode 11. the way that utena is so right and so well-intentioned and so desperate to have herself heard and understood. stop going on about who gets to own the rose bride!! she’s just an ordinary girl named himemiya anthy!!! the way that touga’s little prince act functions to foreshadow how akio will isolate utena from anthy and make her lose sight of her desire to help anthy— which itself is just a reiteration of what happened in their very first meeting, wanting to help the other and being distracted by the self (being undermined by Some Fucking Guy, but. you know). the way that anthy and touga have orchestrated this whole thing with a sense of togetherness that isn’t amicable but was all the same togetherness until touga asserts a fundamental difference between them in this coded way that only anthy can understand for what it is. literally everything this episode has to say about identity and selves and recognising and seeing one another…… oh it’s just too much. oh? are you really just an ordinary girl?