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when i wake up remind me to make a post about the lack of blood in utena and what it means to have a world where suffering can only be beautiful or hidden
security is tight around here (it's holding a stick)
obsessed with how rgu never does anything to try to prove that dios was as good as anthy believed he was, or that the pain he caused was somehow worth it. when we meet him he’s weak and powerless. the fact that his form possesses utena is something other people read into her actions, not any kind of material power he possesses
anthy loves him the way so many of the characters love the people that hurt them: reflexively, desperately, miserably. at the end of the day there’s no prince at all; akio is just a corpse rotting under the floorboards. utena is not the spirit of dios reborn, and she’s not anthy’s prince, and their love is real because of and not in spite of that
How did I get here? What did I do to deserve this?
i actually would love some kind of explanation as to why So Much japanese (and korean) romance media relies on this trope of “we met as children and formed a connection, but one or both of us has forgotten about this. when we meet later on and fall in love, our secret childhood connection will be revealed as proof that we are meant to be together” like it’s SO specific and yet there’s soooo much shojo romance that relies on this trope
and you can tell it’s an entrenched trope because revolutionary girl utena, which is now a good quarter century old, is extremely busy subverting the fuck out of that premise. like the fact that utena thinks she remembers a prince from her childhood that she’s in love with is a) a construction of the patriarchy, b) used to manipulate and groom her repeatedly by multiple people and c) forcing her to participate in a system that actively harms others in pursuit of this impossible ideal
like Twenty Seven Years Ago revolutionary girl utena went “fixating on childhood romance will keep you in a state of permanent immaturity that opens you up to manipulation by bad actors” and yet! everybody is still having Resonant Childhood Repressed Romance Memories
on ep 14 now and a good 1/3 of this show is just
utena goes to patriarchy mountain to do penis battles. in penis battles, you lose when you get penetrated, otherwise known as being deflowered. getting your dick sucked by the Divine Feminine before a penis battle gives you extra powers. thinking really hard about how you are a man who loves to protect women also gives you extra powers. if you win a penis battle, you control the reproductive rights of the future.
