adhdusagi
All I care about are Shenanigans and Gay Subtext
Sometimes I liveblog shows I used to watch when I was 12. Sometimes I yell about Princess Tutu. *john mulaney voice* i think sailor moon has adhd
232 posts
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Last Seen Blogs
date-food-good
date food
matchakale
bichael
memories-of-unknown
intensive_impressive
🤍
overheardiniwatodaidorm
“I Never Felt Like”
“Midday Street-Walks”
jun-q
ě śëŞ© 없음
Text
chasingspacerabbits submitted to sailormoonsub:
Sorry for submitting this giant wall of words especially since you finished Princess Tutu like, a While ago but I really need to rant about Mytho’s character arc because I DO think he had one, it just wasn’t well executed. And that’s a real shame because there’s some good stuff there!! Like I just realized the reason he keeps saving helpless things even when he has no heart is just because that’s his role in the story, the Prince Who Loves Everyone. And the story is still in effect, it’s why he’s heartless in the first place, so he can’t NOT throw himself out of a window to save a bird, for instance.
And then there’s the raven’s blood thing… and the show mostly plays that as him being taken over by Something Else, but I think you could absolutely make the argument that all the raven’s blood is doing is making him selfish and cruel, but what he’s selfish about comes from him. Like there’s the “love only me, hate everyone else” thing, and this that I wrote down while I was watching the show:Â
“I’ve been thinking… Raven Mytho keeps saying things like “people only want love because they want to be loved” and I wonder… if that was sort of his experience as a prince. Or maybe I’m just getting this mixed up with Utena lol. But it does seem like a genuine issue he has as opposed to just something he says to manipulate people. Hm.” (and there’s an episode opening that pretty much confirms this)
And he says all this stuff to other people mostly, BUT he keeps talking about it even when he’s alone, which is what really makes it seem like its his own issues. Like he got the ability to be selfish and just started yelling “MAYBE I DESERVE TO HAVE SOMETHING FOR MYSELF FOR ONCE!!!” which he does! But not like that. The raven’s blood does push him more into being actually cruel about it.
But I think it’s really important that his heart isn’t purged of the raven’s blood in the end. It’s still there. And as long as he doesn’t let it make him cruel, that bit of selfishness is what allows him to love Rue in more than a vague, impersonal “prince-who-loves-everyone” sort of way. And his big moment in the climax of the story is saving Just Rue, while Ahiru saves everyone else. The resolution of his story is that he doesn’t have to be the sole hero who sacrifices himself over and over again to save everyone, and he’s allowed to love just one person The Most.
And I think that’s really interesting!! And it adds a really interesting dimension to Princess Tutu’s commentary on stories and character archetypes!! And I really wish they would have made it clearer in the actual show, instead of me having to Pepe Silvia this whole thing while I was in the shower.
I totally relate to the experience of “this idea is actually really interesting, but only in my head where I can explore the concepts in depth and not at face value as presented in the material itself”. And I am always down to talk Tutu!!Â
When you’re watching the series from the beginning, Mytho doesn’t make a lot of sense, and I think that’s because his behavior is explained only when you consider the context of the Drosselmeyer reveal later on.Â
At the beginning of the show, Mytho performs the action of saving without the emotional attachment to the saved, like a robot “programmed” by his author to fill the prince role. He performs the task with no intention behind it. As he gains the ability to feel, he begins to ask questions like “Why do we save?” (With a few minor tweaks this could be an extremely successful science fiction story about artificial intelligence.)
Mytho, as a prince, comes to the conclusion that we save because we want to gain the love of the people. But, with the corruptive influence of the raven’s blood, that desire to love and be loved (a desire that everyone has!) becomes a desire to possess. It’s a sideways look at the same thing. The raven’s blood doesn’t inspire anything in Mytho that wasn’t already there.Â
Maybe Mytho’s arc was just a journey to find the balance between total selfishness and total sacrifice. Somewhere between villain and messiah. And in the end, that complicated relationship with his own wishes is what makes him a person rather than an archetype.Â
88 notes
·
View notes
Text
the Student Body of Gold Crown Academy is the best character in Princess Tutu
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
also ive read two peoples liveblogs of princess tutu and neither one of them mentioned the music choices which is a Crime
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
me every single day: fuck maybe i should watch princess tutu again
90 notes
·
View notes
Text
currently going feral about how the main theme of princess tutu, a magical girl/ballet anime from 2003, is that a story doesn’t need to be dark or tragic in order to be deep and meaningful
#princess tutu#chickened out from posting this on my main but i think ppl need to hear it#like what an amazing message????#that is still relevant today perhaps even more than it was then???#me at All Hours of the Day And Night: it's about the Metanarrative#stories about hope are where it's at actually
65 notes
·
View notes
Text
might turn this into a blog where i just go bonkers fucking yonkers over princess tutu 24 sev but also occasionally liveblog tokyo mew mew still
1 note
·
View note
Text
On This Day having to seriously hold myself back from plotting out an entire au where kyubey is drosselmeyer, madoka is the prince, and homura is rue/the raven
okay but in princess tutu the villain is literally the author of the story who is trying to control the story from beyond the grave and ensure it both continues forever and ends in tragedy
#princess tutu#madoka magica#the thing is i watched madoka when i was like 14 and only wanted to write angsty stuff#but now im like thats bullshit#john mulaney voice i think madoka and homura should get matchmade by a cute duck#also there was like some concept movie for madoka in like 2015 where madoka does ballet to the dying swan so#im actually completely justified in this#gen urobochi himself gave me permission to write a princess tutu au actually
46 notes
·
View notes
Text
no thank you @ every shot of the Tooth Crow
1 note
·
View note
Photo
this Tooth Bird is extremely fucking cursed
1 note
·
View note
Photo
brilliant observation /s
1 note
·
View note
Photo
wait, when did this turn into Princess Tutu?
1 note
·
View note
Photo
wow Zakuro really lit All of those candles huh...... gotta have the proper mood lighting for your Vague Brooding i guess
1 note
·
View note
Photo
i DO feel bad for Minto but like... literally all Zakuro says is “yeah i don’t have a personal relationship with you, random fangirl” which, SHE DOESN’T
1 note
·
View note
Photo
Mintoooooo........ what made you think that would be a smart question to ask kdsfjhdkjfhjksh
1 note
·
View note
Photo
this just in Zakuro gets a FUCKING LAZER WHIP
1 note
·
View note
Photo
Minto thats pretty gay
1 note
·
View note