#rewatching utena

[danwensrandoms]

Director of 90s anime told to refrain from showing that two main female characters are in love with each other:

Ikuhara gives zero f@cks about hiding the gay and it’s brilliant.

[p3hero]

The best part of rewatching Utena

Is watching Anthy , understanding her motives a lot better and being able to admire how passive aggressive she is . She gives some of the shows best disses and first time viewers mostly miss it.

[robiest]

ZETTAI

UNMEI

MOKUSHIROKU

[gideonisms]

After utena wins the first duel when anthy shows up on her walk home and says "I've been waiting for you".....damn she really has. She really has

[monstersqueen]

ok, three episodes in utena:

first, utena’s desire to be a prince is dependant on there being princesses. or, people in distress. (fsn vibes, anyone?)

two; well. utena was utterly manipulated that first episode wasn’t she. saionji didn’t post wakaba’s letter. before the match, anthy encourages utena, which she has no reason to do. not that it excuses saionji. he’s still hitting her for daring to be friendly with someone else. still. playing on utena wanting to ‘save’ someone isn’t it? (so yeah. what happens in this episode is akio going ‘ah yes. that ring i gave a few years ago is coming into the academy. go lure her in won’t you anthy? she’s easy to manipulate if she sees someone she thinks need saving’)

three: the party. ok, both girls ARE having fun dancing together. but also - utena is saving anthy from. a danger she exposed her to. anthy didn’t want to come - she came because utena ordered her to - or, in utena’s pov, because she insisted that she needed to have more friends. it’s an unintentional version of touya (and mitsuru) putting a girl in danger to rescue her and making himself look better.

ah yes, four: it’s very known that utena’s ‘boy uniform’ is not atcually. the standard uniform. You know what it mostly says a lot about the teacher going ‘you’re not a boy’ when utena say tahyt ‘that’s what all the boys are wearng’ EVEN IF IT ISN’T TRUE - because the teacher prefers to object to a girl wearing a boy uniform rather than the fact that. the uniform isn’t standard. Because, somehow, it’s a bigger transgression. (it’s. one of the very first scene. i think it tells a lot about the themes, no?)

[randomnessrising]

i’m almost drunk enogh to post my massively unpopular Utena OTP theory.... with picture evidence....... 

[strangebrain]

Episode 1: The Rose Bride

The imagery for this show is so damn pretty, oh man

I really wish they'd had Utena and Anthy in armour in the actual show!

"Here little girl, have an engagement ring!" "LOL NOPE IMMA BE A PRINCE!"

WAKABA oh god I love Wakaba

PHALLIC IMAGERY!

Oh god, I get such an architecture boner from the sets in this show

Teacher flips her shit about Utena's uniform, and she's all, "LOL, WATCH ME HAVE A MINI MONTAGE TO SHOW IT OFF BECAUSE IT AIN'T AGAINST THE RULES!"

The whole school is in lesbians with Utena. Even the boys.

Utena, you naive fool *tear*

I'm really fond of that whole, spinning-roses-in-the-corner-picture-frame thing

No Saionji, stop hitting girls!

No Wakaba, stop pseudo-raping Utena out a window!

If only all student council meetings were accompanied by such intense music...

UGGH ANTHY :_:

YES, REAL CLASSY, TACK UP A LOVE LETTER FOR EVERYONE TO READ

Oh man, that single tear that Wakaba sheds is so pretty :_:

Yes Saionji, inadvertantly insult Utena's best friend. This will turn out well.

SHADOW GIRLS :D

More architecture boners

I want to make a drink called the Absolute Destiny Apocalypse. It'd have Absolute Vodka, something to make it pink, and a sword with a cherry through it because OH GOD EPISODE 33

I wonder how long it would actually take to climb that many stairs, because that is a FUCKLOAD of stairs

And the creepy upside down Disney castle in the sky!

Hehe, Anthy's gliding around like Morticia

Seriously Saionji! Stop slapping people! Nothing good will come of this.

Hnng, the drawing of the Sword of Dios animation is so pretty!

Well shit! You never said to bring your own proper metal sword!

Yes, colour coded slash attack is pretty!

Touga, you creeper! Watching the fight with opera glasses...

"Well that was some crazy bullshit. Best forget about it!" "Oh hey Utena, I'm pretty much your prize/fiance/roommate from now on!" "WHUT"

Oh god, that look that Anthy has in the credits D:

HAH! And I love how she ends the "on the next episode" thing with a super creepy tone of voice!