#vic watches rgu

[gloriousmonsters]

i just saw someone call shiori a straight woman in an article....

[llycaons]

fma and/or rgu!

both!

fullmetal alchemist (I go by manga/brotherhood narrative)

Favorite character: SCAR!! also ed for being a long-haired goth who respects the miracle of childbirth. an incredibly funny shonen protag compared to most others

Second favorite character: really very fond of lan fan

Least favorite character: ehhhh mustang. besides being an actual fucking war criminal, he's overhyped both in and out of universe and he's annoying as hell. there are better characters to make gay headcanons of

The character I’m most like: sheska probably lmao I like to read and I have an excellent memory

Favorite pairing: arakawa writes very cishet romances with tropes I really don't like (moreso in silver spoon) but I have to say edward and winry still get me good...a lot of it is nostalgia but I just think they're sweet and they both grow a lot as people within the series and they're both really important to each other and I think that's a good basis for a relationship. but I know why people don't like it

Least favorite pairing: al and mei...like she was only 12 when she became infatuated and he never seemed to be into her and also she barely like, knew him and was more into him as an idea? the older I got the clearer it became that it was just a little girl's fantasy not based on a real dynamic so I'm fairly baffled by postcanon concepts of them ending up together (EDIT: ALL THE PEDO ONES TOO OBVS. the popularity of r/yed was one of the most upsetting things to see on here as a 15 yr old)

Favorite moment: hmmm most scenes in briggs I really like. oh you know what scene fucks? when ed's been out of commission for a while because he got stabbed in the mineshaft explosion and the chimeras saved him and the military police come looking for him but don't recognize him bc he changed up his look and the chimera "take him hostage" complete with FINGER GUNS. incredible

Rating out of 10: 9/10. great worldbuilding, action, characters, plot, etc. the slapstick was never funny to me and I got pretty sick of the short jokes and the political messages were rancid and I do think it's somewhat overrated but it's still a really good show. also the dub SUCKS. romi paku >>>>>>>> vic miggy any day

revolutionary girl utena

Favorite character: NANAMI. also anthy

Second favorite character: probably shiori and juri along with utena herself

Least favorite character: no character inspires as much loathing in me as ruka does even though he's not even in the story for very long and other characters literally do more and worse. but I hate him

The character I’m most like: probably utena! I too have a bad habit of misguidedly imposing my own ideals on people and talking over people and assuming I know what people want

Favorite pairing: utena and anthy

Least favorite pairing: well. anything with akio

Favorite moment: there are so many good scenes but the balcony conversation will live in my mind forever...absolutely phenomenal

Rating out of 10: 10/10. with some slight nitpicks about nudity (and honestly, body diversity), I feel like this is one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. it's deep and rich and I don't quite have a handle on all that it's saying or all the metaphors but I compare other media and how other media handles similar sensitive topics to rgu all the time. it's such an unusual show for me to get invested in bc I don't usually like surrealism or things that don't have a literal answer to but I watched it twice and the third time is the one I cried at...very unusual for me since I usually get the full emotional impact on the first watch. but it's just!! it's so brilliant and heartbreaking and hopeful I've seen it three times and I'll definitely watch it again

thank you!

[gloriousmonsters]

mamiya using ‘oh well my black rose told me something’ as a reason to undertake a plan on a flimsy concept is so fucking funny. as is the fact that mikage just accepts this. it’s really just like

mikage souji, presumable owner of a doctorate, wrote a thesis, the closest thing this surreal setting has to an Actual Scientist: so that idea doesn’t really make sense going off the previous evidence we have 

his goth twink boyfriend who never went to college, lives in the morgue, and believes that flowers speak to him telepathically:

mikage: hmm. understandable. I’ll take that under consideration but you’re probably right

[gloriousmonsters]

ok i was distracted from this the first second and third times round but: utena ep 14 boys of the black rose. i Just realized that not only is anthy!mamiya putting on his clothes in his second scene, he’s doing it. while standing in the elevator, and mikage’s standing in the giant basement room that’s just studded with morgue drawers. look what i’m saying is that anthy not only had dubious gay sex with her brother’s resident mad scientist in order to bring him around to being an arc villain, she either did it (a) in the creepypasta elevator or (b) the nonsensical morgue room with shoes everywhere. anthy is stronger than the marines

[gloriousmonsters]

saionji has SUCH strong energy of like. the moment he gets over himself and goes to genuine non evil therapy he’s going to pick up knitting

[gloriousmonsters]

thinking about saionji - utena parallels and inverse parallels tonite

[gloriousmonsters]

kanae in the elevator: I just hate anthy himemiya so much! She's super creepy and weird and has inhuman eyes and sucks so bad

mikage, below, leaning away from his intercom: babe what are you doing

mamiya, sharpening a rose stem: i just had a great idea! i'm going to stab her

mikage: is that really necessary

kanae on the intercom: i cannot express how much i can't stand this girl. like wow she's awful

mamiya: YES IT'S NECESSARY