#my longest utenny post here may sound like shiori apologetics but i promise its nawt me bein a martyr💔💔💔

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if you must know i was looking for an rgu post. so I've had rgu downloaded for over a year but didn't get round to watching it. then i saw you post a lot about it and some posts relating to iwtv so i decided I'm going to watch. I'm on episode 1 and was wondering what a rose bride is and I remembered you'd posted about that

oh thats lovely i love that for u. im happy ur starting! utena is an amazing work of television. the first 7 episodes & the show itself do rely on the viewer being familiar w / 90s shoujo tropes [& i love it] yet that can be something that can drive ppl away from it.. by ep10 on i feel like thats where u could be primed to the parallel thematic concepts to iwtv [& even to the wider chronicles] .. theres a watch guide somewhere for utena that also warns for the sexual violence entailed in the narrative& none of it is actually graphically shown on screen short of moments in s3 [i can say a scene in ep33 unsettles me, and im teflon don!] but i can understand if ppl have different boundaries/capacities in what they want to engage with in fiction .. i do hope u enjoy the show it really does mean a lot to me. ziska said it & i agree in that anthy’s situation as the rose bride is more genuine and is truly a terrifying level of disempowerment enforced on her as young woman[or immortal witch punished for ‘refusing’ to let the prince act, but still trapped in a physically immature form nonetheless] of color from her abusive brother + the duelists competing for what anthy represents rather than who she is even. the thematic beats persist nonetheless.. they both ask what do eternity mean to u+ all dat