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Happy finale anniversary!
#A lot of these are from screenshotsofdespair#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#nanami kiryuu#touga kiryuu#saionji kyouichi#juri arisugawa#shiori takatsuki#miki kaoru#kozue kaoru#wakaba shinohara#mamiya chida#utena x anthy#touga x utena#tousai#juri x shiori#souji mikage#akio ohtori
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every episode with these assholes istg
#art#my art#artists on tumblr#art by me#fanart#digital art#touga kiryuu#kyouichi saionji#saionji kyouichi#kiryuu touga#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#rgu fanart#stupid stuff#yaoi moment#yaoi yaoi come get your yaoi here#touga x saionji#touga#saionji#utena fanart#utena
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#i wish saionji and touga had a little pose at the end too#utenaedit#rguedit#utenanthy#utena x anthy#oldanimeedit#animeedit#tousai#touga x saionji#revolutionary girl utena#anime#kyouichi saionji#touga kiryuu#utena gifs#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#flashing#flash warning#flashing gifs#flashing tw#*mystuff
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No more take my revolution, but you can take my doodles! They all could've had such normal lives....
#rgu anthy#rgu utena#rgu fanart#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#anthy himemiya#utena tenjou#utena x anthy#touga kiryuu#kyouichi saionji#juri arisugawa#miki kaoru#nanami kiryuu#lgtbqia+#fruity art#doodles and sketches
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DTI Touga x Saionji
Im Saionji and @lizard-isms is Touga, and we hate how well this worked
#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#me posting#touga x saionji#touga kiryuu#saionji kyouichi#Touionji#TouSai#SaiTou
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In my mind, Touga x Saionji are as canon as Utena x Anthy. They're in love. Otherwise, what purpose is there to draw them like that? I couldn't believe these were official arts when I first saw them, I was sure it was excellent work by some shipper.
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REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA 🌹 EP 7: UNFULFILLLED JURI
#revolutionary girl utena#utena#shoujo kakumei utena#juri arisugawa#touga kiryuu#miki kaoru#utenaedit#animegifs#animeedit#oldanimeedit#ohtori student council#juri x shiori#sku#rgu#anime#rgu rewatch#ellisgifs#ohtori student council you under-enriched little freaks....#queue
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Ok so it's like.
The motorcycle scene: Touga is obviously imitating Akio and failing miserably. Represents an attempt at achieving maturity and adulthood through adopting empty symbols of power. Gives the impression of movement and progress, but in reality is going in circles. It gets faster and faster, there's a sense of danger and agitation. Touga is driving and Saionji sits in the sidecar, they're not on the same level and Saionji disapproves. Seems like they're heading towards some destination, but they're going nowhere.
The bike scene: A reference to their shared memories. Represents clinging to the past and trying to return to the time of childhood. The wheels may be turning, but the bike stands in place. It get slower and slower as Touga gets more tired until he finally stops completely. There's a sense of nostalgia and emotional fatigue. Touga is the only one pedaling, but Saionji doesn't comment on it (meaning that perhaps Touga being in control wasn't the problem in the first place. Maybe it was always about wanting to restore their lost connection and equal footing). They're facing opposite directions, but at the same time leaning on each other.
#sorry for posting about toxic lettuce x toxic ketchup it will probably happen again#their relationship is fascinating to me. they are both pathetic loser boys convinced that Masculinity is the key to winning at life#but it only pushes them further and further away from graduating#and because this neverending persuit of being the Perfect Man caused them to distance themselves from everyone#they have no one to turn to except each other. but even that doesn't really work cause at this point neither of them knows the other anymore#and the only things that keep them together are the memories of boyhood.#a time when they didn't have to be this way yet. when a certain degree of vulnerability and kindness was still allowed#and they're trying to make sense of it all#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#touga kiryuu#saionji kyouichi#moje
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#revolutionary girl utena#shoujo kakumei utena#utena#adolescence of utena#utena la chica revolucionaria#utena tenjou#tenjou utena#anthy himemiya#anthy#utena x anthy#touga vs utena#touga kiryuu#touga x saionji#kiryuu touga#utena vs saionji#saionji kyouichi
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she played Nanami so well and the writers did amazing. Bud of the White Rose (2018) was too good, rgu was made to be a musical.
#revolutionary girl utena#utena tenjou#nanami kiryuu#touga kiryuu#juri arisugawa#utena x anthy#anthy himemiya#rgu#utena musical
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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)
#revolutionary girl utena#revolutionary girl utena fanart#revolutionary girl utena manga#rgu manga#rgu touga#rgu fanart#rgu utena#rgu anthy#utena x anthy#anthy fanart#anthy himemiya#himemiya anthy#tenjou utena#kiryuu touga#chuchu#rgu chuchu#manga utena#rgu spoilers
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Utena - Analysis on the opening
I don’t know if someone has already done it, but here’s my interpretation of the opening.
Warning: very, VERY long post and mention of scenes from the show, enough to be considered spoilers (sorry 😅)
Edit: I’ve made an analysis on the first ending as well
Let’s live heroically, let’s live with style. (Just a long, long time.)
The opening starts with our two main characters naked and in a fetal position, indicating their status of “newborn” in the story. Then, they are clad in the garbs of their respective roles. Interestingly, despite facing and leaning toward each other, their eyes remain close. In the case of Utena, it symbolizes her inability to see beyond her own narrative of the heroic prince saving the princess. As for Anthy, it’s her resignation to not see anything beyond her role of Rose Bride which she has played for decades/centuries, hence the long, long time.
Even if the two of us are torn apart… (Let go of me…) …take my revolution.
In the next sequence, not only are they not looking at each other, but they are also back-to-back, another indication that they are positioned to be at odds with each other, whether they want to or not. Still, despite the obstacles thrown at them, despite Anthy’s attempts to make Utena give up on her (“Let go of me…”), the latter doesn’t stop telling her to take her hand (revolution) and that’s what she did.
In the sunlit garden, we both joined out hands.
Miki’s sunlit garden is an idealized memory, so it makes sense to compare Utena’s goal of becoming a prince to the former. Also, the tower, where her journey is supposed to end with her heteronormative “happily ever after”, is where she and Anthy join hands and the latter’s revolution begins.
The sequence where Utena walks with the male students has a “one of the boys” kind of vibe and that might have been the intent. The tomboy character may appear progressive by refusing to conform to traditionally feminine gender norms, but that’s instead a sexist concept because it implies that Utena’s gender, her femininity (and by association, anything branded as “girly”), is the one thing that makes her less than her fellow male schoolmates. Also, she looks over her shoulder, something or someone (Anthy?) catching her attention which stops her from blindly following the other boys’ lead.
Drawing close for comfort, we both swore…
In Anthy’s case, due to her hair and skin color, the vibe she emanates as she walks with her fellow female schoolmates is “not like other girls”, another trope which hurts women by marginalizing the few “different/special ones” from the “normal/average ones” or vice versa. However, the reason she turned around (Utena? Her perspicacity?) is what helps her preserve the part of her identity which is still deep within her. So being different isn’t a bad thing as long as every person, especially girls, are given the same courtesy.
If you read the Japanese lyrics, you would know chikai (from chikau, meaning “to swear/vow”) is at the beginning of Anthy’s sequence, when we see the gates of Ohtori, where she swears to find Utena again.
(Also, did you notice that their respective sequences begin with a shot of where their story in Ohtori ends?)
…never again would we ever fall in love. (Every time.)
This line is sung as our two protagonists stand face to face in Anthy’s cage-like greenhouse, where the cycle of the quest for revolution always (re)starts. That vow of never falling in love again, along with that Every time, makes me wonder about how many games had taken place before Utena. How many times had Anthy been engaged to a “chosen one”? How many of those “chosen ones” did she grow to love, yet still choose to betray? How many times did she swore to never love another again only to do so despite said promise to herself? Utena, by ending the cycle, makes the vow mentioned before much sweeter: she and Anthy choose to never fall in love again because they have pledged their love for each other till death do them part (like a married couple 🥰🤵🏻♀️👰🏾♀️🥰).
I see that photo of us standing cheek to cheek… …and place a bit of my loneliness in our smiles. (Revolution!)
At this moment, the past represented by Utena and Anthy lying down, facing each other, and the future represented by the lyrics paralleled each other.
Past: a (naively) smiling Utena and a (falsely) smiling Anthy -> Anthy gives the white rose, the symbol of the Prince and by association, patriarchy, the source of her eternal pain, to Utena who is unaware of the dark history connected to it -> (failed) Revolution by dueling (transition to the dueling arena)
Future: the photo at the end of Episode 39 -> Anthy’s longing for Utena -> (successful) Revolution by leaving Akio
Even if I dream, even if I cry, even if I get hurt… …reality keeps on coming recklessly.
This sequence is about the Duelists.
Utena being the one who dreams is self-explanatory.
Saionji, if you pause at the right time, is seen with tears in his eyes. Behind his arrogant attitude is nothing but a mentally weak and insecure boy who throws violent tantrums when things don’t go his way.
Juri is no doubt the one most hurt in the series, not only because of her gender, but also because of her sexual orientation (I’ve made a post about it).
Miki and Nanami being the ones hit by reality makes sense due to the knowledge they idealize the relationship they shared with their respective siblings when they were children.
But what about Touga? Maybe it’s the confidence that he could get the power to revolutionize the (his) world if he emulates the system which had hurt him only to realize that such way of doing things won’t get him closer to his goal. Or, since he’s the first antagonist of the show, giving us a taste of what Akio, another male character whose inside is the opposite of his princely front, could do to girls, maybe he represents the reality/truth of the (imperfect) world.
All these Duelists, these teenagers, fight each other for a purpose and that later turns out to be futile after they find out that the rules they play by are a cover for a much more sinister plot.
I wanna find my own place, the value of being…
The first half, we focus on Utena who raises her sword with a determined look as the blue sky turned golden and the dueling arena crumbled. Utena rejects the narrative Akio wants for her and in the process, breaks the world he has created (and kept Anthy in).
While we zoom in on Utena, symbolizing her will to move forward, it’s the opposite with Anthy. Expression blank, she put some distance between her and Utena/the viewer(s), letting herself (her true self) disappear with Akio’s self-made world.
This sequence foreshadows what will happen in Episode 38.
…the person I’ve been until now…
But as it is shown in Episode 39, Anthy didn’t disappear in the fall of Akio’s world and stood up against her brother (riding a horse), mirroring Utena.
Also, we see Dios opens his eyes as the dueling arena crumbles to dust.
In Episode 13, Akio is conversing with a “sealed” Dios who “glare[s] at” him for wanting to bring the Prince back into the world. Dios had been “sealed away” because playing Prince had been killing him. Anthy had become the world’s sole target of their hatred so that he would no longer carry that great burden on his shoulders ever again. Dios is angry at Akio for not only trying to turn her sacrifice into a fruitless endeavor, but for also taking part in her eternal torment by making her an accomplice in his scheme.
Akio has internalized the teachings of patriarchy. He now idealizes the Prince, forgetting that his current self isn’t the result of Anthy sealing the latter’s power away. He had, of his own volition, casted away his “nobility” and enjoyed the privileges of his gender. He was free of the duties expected from the Prince yet chose to not use that freedom to search for a way to save his sister without taking on that mantle again. Protected by a patriarchal system, Akio is in fact afraid of carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders again despite his desire to return to his “glory days”. He wants to be the Prince again (regression), but also doesn’t want to give up his life of privilege. There is no step toward self-improvement. And that’s why his quest for revolution is nothing but a pretext to play people like a fiddle, especially the vulnerable ones like children and women. I think he subconsciously knows he’s maintaining a perpetual cycle meant to end in failure, but he’s too lost in his self-centeredness to take a third option, to destroy the limits of his coffin. In other words, Akio must let patriarchy (manifested through the game and the dueling arena) disappear in order to regain the lost part of him that is Dios, because what the latter really wants is to live in a better world, one where Princes aren’t needed anymore.
Let’s find the strength to throw it all away. Strip down to nothing all.
Utena having the strength to throw everything away references her decision to give up on the heteronormative “happy ending” given to her at the cost of Anthy’s well-being.
Anthy being stripped of everything references her true (naked) self within her coffin.
Become like rose petals, blowing free!
Honestly, that part was a bit difficult to interpret. We do see petals blown in the wind when Utena beats boys at basketball, but the only time I saw them concerning Anthy (and by association, the duels) was when the Duelist gets “deflowered”, and I didn’t get a feeling of freedom from it. Or so I thought at first. Knowing that the duels are part of Akio’s plot which is nothing but a wild goose chase, it makes sense in the context that losing means some time away from Akio’s control and thus, a chance to reflect and for self-improvement. Also, if the dueling arena is like a groomed flower, then its rubble is the petals. This might be foreshadowed in Episode 9, when Anthy falls with rose petals scattered everywhere as Utena tries to catch her.
Even if the two of us are torn apart… …I swear that I will change the world.
We have a return of Even if the two of us are torn apart… (Let go of me…) / …take my revolution. This time, there’s no request to let go of the other party and Utena is taking the next step toward (self-)improvement. If you pause at the right time, you can see she is not in a fetal position like at the beginning of the opening. Now, it looks like she is opening herself to the real world.
Anthy is not present, but that’s because she hasn’t reunited with Utena yet. Until that day comes, the latter will keep fighting for the world both deserve to live in.
In conclusion, the opening is a summary of the entire series and foreshadows how it would end.
#revolutionary girl utena#shoujo kakumei utena#rgu#sku#utena#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#utena x anthy#anthy x utena#kyouichi saionji#juri arisugawa#miki kaoru#nanami kiryuu#touga kiryuu#prince dios#akio ohtori#revolutionary girl utena analysis#rgu analysis#revolutionary girl utena meta#rgu meta#rondo revolution#mine
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love and hate tousai, they're both jerks
#revolutionary girl utena#rgu fanart#rgu#touga kiryuu#saionji kyouichi#sku touga#touga x saionji#sku saionji#shoujo kakumei utena#tousai#my art#fanart
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#tousai#touga x saionji#oldanimeedit#rguedit#utena gifs#utenaedit#touga kiryuu#kyouichi saionji#revolutionary girl utena#anime#*mystuff#long post
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shoutout to the victims of patriarchy, gotta be one of my favourite genders
#revolutionary girl utena#shoujo kakumei utena#utena#rgu#rgu utena#utena tenjou#touga kiryuu#utena/touga#utena x touga#utena fanart#rgu fanart#please don't attack me okay
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TouSai is SUCH an interesting ship and I need more of their toxic christmas color scheme in my life.
Like look at how romantic(atmospheric) this shot is.
#tousai#saionji x touga#touga x saionji#kyouichi saionji#kiryuu touga#touga kiryuu#utena#revolutionary girl utena#rgu
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