#manga utena

[canapotatoliteraryanalasys]

Something something… the Utena manga is something else… something something

The fact that most of the fandom hasn’t read the manga is a travesty, it’s not as dark or deep or even as weird as the anime, but it’s so funny and cute. According to my interpretation of rgu the manga has two time loops one that closer resembles the anime series(loop two) and one that closer resemble the movie(loop three). Reading the manga like a part of this larger narrative I think helps contextualize the character arcs of the story.

⚠️THIS POST HAS BIG SPOILERS FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA MANGA PLEASE READ THE MANGA BEFORE MY THOUGHTS ON IT!!!⚠️

The reason for my order of time loops mostly has to do with Toga, I think his and Anthys arcs are the most important to the story of rgu. Every time Utena tries to save Anthy, Anthy herself becomes more and more free, until she is able to save herself(movie). In order to over throw a opresive system the oppressors must let go of the power the system promises them and Utena(the oppressed) must let go of the idea of the prince(the fake security the system promises them) we se this in Toga in the second loop as he genuinely cares for Utena and is no longer under Akios influence, but he still up tries to play prince and protect Utena (“I’m a feminist”). But after Toga lets go of being the prince, (the death of Dios, the literal embodiment of the idea of the prince dying might have something to do with it)healing his toxic masculinity the only thing keeping him alive is Utenas obsession with the idea of the prince, which she learns to entirely let go of in the movie(final loop) and I think this is the thing that allows her and Anthy to a world without roads (I definitely need to make an even longer post about Toga)

[dbl-mnth]

No matter where you are, I'll find you for sure!

[yiranntofu]

The aspiring prince and the rose bride

[scarlettrambles]

Anthy Himemiya + the alt Saito palette

[pink-yuri]

♡ Gushing Over Magical Girls ♡

[dakimchi]

Revolutionary Girl Utena 🌹 Pietà

[watch the full speedpaint here !]

finally, my biggest artwork so far... i wanted to draw Utena and Anthy as Bouguereau's Pietà, but in the end i couldn't resist adding the other characters! RGU holds a very special place in my heart, so i hope i did them justice ❤️

btw i promise next Utena fanart will be more cheerful lmao

[lcrcomics]

Silly comic I made cause I was bored and also love Anthy's outfit she only wears in one scene in the entire show

[yamino]

I have posted several discounted B-grade replica cels and my latest piece, a gorgeous metallic gold-accented Utena/Anthy cel. 💛🖤⚔

https://payhip.com/Yamino/collection/replica-anime-cels

[empty-movement]

Chiho Saito’s 1999 Revolutionary Girl Utena Original Illustration Collection

IT’S HERE. IT’S DONE. IT’S FINISHED. NOW…IT’S YOURS. Happy Holidays, my friends.

Vanna here! I have posted some already about this project, and the responses I got, public and otherwise, have been absolutely incredible. Y’all have been reblogging and hyping this before it even finished…I haven’t felt so encouraged about an Utena project since the musicals! (Yes, streams soon, I promise.) You can read the other post to get more details, and catch my post here with more details about the process if you’re interested. The long and short of it?

This is the first artbook I ever scanned. I did it in 2001. In Photoshop, using multiple scans per page that took hours to process. But it was 2001. A half megabyte file that was 1250px wide was considered extremely hardcore and impressive. That’s just always been the business I’m in when it comes to Utena art, you know? 

It’s now the latest artbook I’ve scanned, and so much of the process, and effort involved, is unchanged. What has changed, is the result. Welcome to your new desktop background. Your new phone background. Your new poster print. 

What I’ve done here is attempt to create definitive digitized images of Chiho Saito’s work as offered by this book--I have removed the print moiré of the original scans, and used my literal decades of experience to try and tease out as much information from them as possible. Without being physically in front of the original artwork (which is a thing I’ve had the great fortune to get to do) this is The Most Chiho Saito you are ever going to get. I’ve tried my best to make sure there is a way to get it that works for everyone:

Do you just wanna scope 'em out? Look at some disaster gays? Grab your favorite one or two? This is the path for you! Check out the ‘compressed’ (not very) 10k ‘web friendly’ (not really) copy at the Bibliothèque, the media archiving wing of the Something Eternal forums at Empty Movement*. All the following links are also available from here. Do you want these copies? All of them? Don't just grab them individually, friend. This batch is 375MB and can be downloaded as a zip of the individual files here on our Google Drive.

Do you like digital archiving? Are you looking for a copy that preserves the archival quality of the effort but sits nice and comfy in a single file? This is for you. A minimally compressed 10k, 513MB version worked into a PDF is now up, shiny and chrome, on the Internet Archive. Do you like the idea of the minimal compression, but want the individual files in a zip? Yep I did that too, here's the drive link.

Are you looking to print these in a larger size? This is probably the only reason on Earth you’d ever want them, and yet a bunch of you are going to go straight for these. Here are the zero-compression JPG full size copies, most of them are 15k across, like simply a ridiculous size. Pick your fave and download it from our Google Drive! 

I am genuinely really proud of this work.** I was able to tease out so much new detail from these…her incredible layering techniques, the faintest brush of her highlights, and the full range of her delicate hand at whites and blacks… details commonly lost in digitization. I sincerely hope you find something here that you’re looking for, as an artist looking for inspiration, as a weeb looking for a desktop, as an archiver excited to see incredible 90s manga artwork saved forever in the digital realm. I feel like I have already said so much about them, and could keep going, but you know what? This work speaks for itself. Enjoy, use, explore, and definitely tell us what you think!

We love y’all. ~ Vanna & Yasha

* AHEM ASTERISK AHEM

You might be wondering what any of that is. Something Eternal? Biblewhatawhat??? EmptyMovement.com? You might even have done a double take at the word ‘forum.’ And you should!!!

I have a confession. This artbook was my ‘side project’ as I worked on this, *the main project.* For a couple years I’ve been banging around with a new domain, and originally I had other plans for it, but Elon Musk ruined my Twitter and Discord is well along on its way to enshittification, and well….we joke on the Discord a lot about ‘reject modernity, embrace forums’ and you know what? We’re right. So Yasha and I are putting our money where our mouths are once again, and doing something insane. We are launching, in 2023, a website forum. Obviously, this is not the official ‘launch’ per se, but I cannot announce the artbook without directing you to the forum, since it sits on the attached very cool gallery system. Oops! Told on myself. Another post more focused on the forum will be forthcoming, but if you are just that motivated to get in right away, you absolutely can! (This will help stagger new arrivals anyway, which is good for us!) If you would rather wait for the ‘official’ launch, by all means that’s coming, including a lengthy screed about how and why we’re doing this. In either case, remember: this is a couple weebs trying to make internet magic happen, we are not website developers by trade. Give us grace as we iron things out and grow into this cool new website thingie…hopefully along with some of you! :D

If you do join up, naturally, there is a thread about this project!

** If you like this kind of content, consider helping us pay for it! We do have a Patreon! If you’re wanting to use these in some public-facing distributive way, all we ask is for credit back to Empty Movement (ohtori.nu or emptymovement.com, either will work.) 

I would like to say ‘don’t just slap these files on RedBubble to get easy money’ but I know that saying this won’t effectively prevent it. Y’all that do that suck, but you’re not worth letting it rain on the rest of this parade. :)

[yonae]

Revolutionary Girl Utena by Chiho Saito

[zazlesynth]

[juneaupaws]

hey guys can you tell who my otp is

[imgboa]

a very late gift for anthys bday. i wanted to paint this for leap day but couldnt.

if you like what i do please consider tipping me on ko-fi. thank you.

ko-fi: ko-fi.com/imgboa

[ciambeeeline]

She suffered more than Jesus.

[jujulsbp]

una cita amb orxata <3

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Shoujo Kakumei Utena Artist: Saitou Chiho Publication: Ciao Magazine (06/1997) Source: Scanned from my personal collection