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number1villainstan · 7 months ago

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FUUUUUCK i just realized that that shot when Mikage's standing up against the wall so that his shoes are part of the lineup of all the dead boys' shoes it's to hint at the fact that Mikage's already dead

#mikage's character arc with mamiya deals so heavily with death and dying and inevitability and trying to escape it #and then you get to the final arc and it's like. you know who else is already dead? dios. and by extension akio.#extending his life through torturing his sister but he's still *in a coffin*. akio is dead just like mikage #and can only live as he exerts an unnatural influence over the world #sucking the life out of everyone else #and he can only live through anthy holding so desperately onto the ideal prince Dios that she's willing to put up with Akio #through utena holding onto the reconstructed memory of dios showing up to save her from her grief and thus falling into his trap #through saionji holding onto the ideal of a childhood friendship with touga (a childhood now dead and gone)#through miki wishing desperately for his sunlit garden (now gone to seed and impossible to reach)#through juri being unable to let go of shiori (stuck in the past like everyone else)#anyways this has been another episode of Gray Freaking Out Over RGU's Brilliance #rgu #sku #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #souji mikage #mikage souji

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