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THERE SHE IS IT’S MY GIRL

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And unlike in the series, where she called her -sama insistently, even when Utena asked her not to, here she starts out with just -san and drops it to no honourific at all as soon as she asks. Hmm, I say, hmm. 

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Asks pt.4 Utena

(I think this is all the same person going through my Utena tag, which is why it gets its own post)

..fair enough, haha. Weird things happen... silly things happen....

Oh I like that explanation for the uniform, lol. It was bugging me that everyone kept saying “but it’s the boys’ uniform!” when all the boys were wearing something else... but I guess it being a weird summer uniform just makes it fucking hilarious that everyone recognizes it from that one time in the 80s when Ohtori developed a booty short boys’ uniform and nobody ever wore it xD

Yeah, I think the Onion Prince’s deal is less that he’s actively good and more that he’s not a good vessel for a duel? He’s not as likely to lash out, he’s just... a bit pathetic.

god yeah though the comedy episodes are nuts. I think the first few were just a little jarring in that I didn’t expect them, but then once I learnt to roll with the absurdity it became fantastic. It also helps that I became steadily more invested in Nanami over the course of the show....

I will never understand how people can wear shoes without socks. It’s. So weird to me. How do your feet not feel terrible all day?

I mean, that’s also entirely possible. I think my default assumption was that all of Ohtori was pretty darn rich (except Utena the scholarship student), the Kiryuus were just extra rich, but I don’t think that was ever actually confirmed it was just the vibe I got.

Nanami is so fascinating. I think that a lot of the depth to her arc is wound up in the fact that she started out as comic relief and never fully shed that aspect-- I almost want to apologise for overthinking things but I don’t know if that’s possible with this show-- because it feels like this sort of comment on how women’s problems are often overlooked or treated as comedic? Little girls in pain are cringe, especially ones who have less palatable ways of dealing with trauma-- like lashing out. I’m really intrigued by Nanami.

...weren’t we talking about languages when Latin came up? Obviously Rome is in Italy, but when you’re talking about language, “latin” languages are Spanish based and “romance” languages are Latin based. Aren’t they?

“Betrayal is practically the only arrow in that man’s quiver and the other arrow is controlling his sister” YEP. THAT’S IT THAT’S THE CHARACTER.

And yeah, I agree with you on that; Akio is like the stain left behind by Dios, a sort of nega-splinter.

Oh man I remember in high school my sib who was (and is) a big Tezuka fan was telling me about how early Disney was a big influence on him... I wish I remembered more details about that stuff, I should ask them. But I mean, What’s Opera, Doc has a very specific art style, you know? The background paintings are nuts even by the standards of early-WB and I love it.

...oof. Fuck. Yep. Didn’t really think of that. Nanami’s lucky in some ways, huh.

...that could be super cute, actually? Wakaba is a person with no artifice, which could be really good for Juri. Someone who puts her whole heart into things.

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Ohhhh my god Wakaba’s the jeep, I was just joking when I asked who the jeep was, oh my god--

wait

WAIT

SHE HAS A NEW DRIVER LEAF ON HER

WAIT ISN’T THAT THING STRAIGHT UP CALLED A WAKABA STICKER

OH 🔰🔰🔰 MY 🔰🔰🔰 GOD

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Hey, guess what? My screener just tipped me off that Nozomi, the licenser for Utena, which put the episodes on YouTube for free (which is how I watched them for my blog)... is uploading them again, this time in HD! Looks like the first one will go up tomorrow afternoon! I’ll reblog this with a link in a moment :)

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While sitting here, go-bag packed, trying not to completely lose my shit over the possibility of evacuating and my house burning down, I edited this panning shot together. California’s on fire, by the way.

Also, my screener hooked me up with a WAY higher quality file for the movie, as you can tell, and I’m very excited about it.

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It’s called growing up.

This is lovely.

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...because they’re all pink I feel like this is some kind of Inside Utena’s Brain image?

Also, holy shit was this movie an aesthetic influence on PMMM, I keep saying it but it keeps being true this is such a Witch’s Barrier