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LADIES MEME: [10/10] dynamics > eve polastri and villanelle
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Chart based off this post, on the juxtaposition of every character in Utena being a variation of the 3 main players: Akio, Utena, & Anthy
Okay SO:
Juri is an Anthy’d Utena – Stoic Prince Lesbian who has marinated WAY too long in how fucked up the world around her is, crushing her emotionally
Shiori is an Utena’d Anthy – Demure Dependent Princess who has no idea what she’s doing and falling for internalized misogyny and comphet
Kozue is an Akio’d Anthy – Adultified Sexualized Younger Sister except this one thinks that No-Basing-Your-Maturity-Off-The-Fact-That-Middle-Schoolers-Don’t-Know-What-Sex-Is is cool, actually
Saionji is an Anthy’d Akio – Controlling & Entitled Swordfighter who is just really desperate to shadow his higher-ranking same-sex counterpart
Miki is an Utena’d Akio – Creepily Childish Older Brother except this one is acting pretty genuinely from his core memories to improve, with the problem that said memories are dramatized for convenience
Touga is an Akio’d Utena – Revolutionary Inspired By Seeing A Person In A Coffin, this one is emulating the more fucked up sexual adult version of the Prince, though
Nanami is smack in the middle of the Utena-Anthy-Akio triangle: She’s a younger abused sister used as a scapegoat, She’s the figurehead manifestation of fucked up gender hierarchies, and she’s the revolutionary protagonist newcomer upsetting the order of the dueling game
There’s some fun triads here – Idiot Boys’ club at the top, girl princes for the left, and rose brides in the right
Characters facing Utena (Miki, Shiori) are deeply insecure in their ability to conform to gender
Characters facing Anthy (Juri, Saionji) are repressed tragic gays
Characters facing Akio (Touga, Kozue) are mean siblings that fail to grasp the ways Ohtori Is Using Them Too
Not getting into side characters like Wakaba, Mikage – These don’t fall neatly into this triad, and have more grey zones
#ohhh this is so cool#tenjou utena#himemiya anthy#ohtorio akio#kiryuu nanami#kiryuu touga#arisugawa juri#takatsuki shiori#kaoru kozue#kaoru miki#saionji kyouichi#rgu meta#revolutionary girl utena
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The heavy surrealism in RGU used to frustrate me as a new viewer, but now, I think it's such an integral piece of Ikuhara's storytelling. Because to me, the absurdities of Ohtori Academy perfectly capture how it feels to live under an abuser.
We as outside observers naturally question why there's a baseball game happening during the Student Council meeting, or how thirty cars can magically spring up in the middle of the dueling arena. And yet, the characters hardly bat an eye. Utena initially struggles to make sense of the duelists, the Rose Bride, and the Castle Said to Hold Eternity, but the more she becomes absorbed in this system, the more normalized it becomes.
We viewers fall for this, too! Show someone almost any Utena scene out of context, and they're going to have questions. Did that guy drive his car through a second-story window? Why is this boy boxing with a kangaroo?? Where the hell did all those swords come from???
"Yeah, don't think too hard about the logic. That's just how things are at Ohtori, you know?"
It's debatable to what extent the characters can perceive the visual symbolism that Ikuhara presents to us. Nevertheless, Ohtori remains a very weird place. But abusers possess the sinister power of normalizing behavior that any outsider would find absurd and unacceptable. They can — quite literally, in Akio's case — project their own version of reality onto their victims.
When Anthy gives Akio her glasses at the end of episode 39, she's rejecting the version of reality that he's convinced her to believe. Through Utena's sacrifice, she can finally see her circumstances for what they truly are.
The exit to Ohtori was always there for Anthy, but like so many real life victims of abuse, sometimes the logistics of leaving aren't what's keeping you trapped. An abuser can make themselves your whole world, and sometimes the greatest challenge can be realizing just how small, confining, and batshit crazy their rules really are.
Abandoning the life an abuser has made for you can feel impossible from the inside. But then you catch a glimpse of something beyond, something that makes you look around and ask, "How did I think any of this was even remotely normal?" And suddenly, leaving starts to feel like the most natural thing in the world.
#rgu meta#revolutionary girl utena#himemiya anthy#huhhhhh i always thought of it as bc utena is obv a very symbolic show#and lots of things that don't make logistical practical sense are still serving a purpose#but even the symbolism itself is symbolizing something..... dsafuoiasdfuhh. the only series ever
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This is peak romance
#they are the blueprint#they are the original#no one is doing it like them#utenanthy#tenjou utena#himemiya anthy#rgu edit#revolutionary girl utena
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ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA (1999) dir. KUNIHIKO IKUHARA
#AGHHHHH I LOVE THEM SMMMMM#ready to face the insane barren wilderness of the world together after breaking out of a manufactured illusion that cloistered them both#utenanthy#tenjou utena#himemiya anthy#rgu edit#revolutionary girl utena
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The god, the prince, the king, and the witch
#this is absolutely breathtaking#tenjou utena#himemiya anthy#ohtori akio#prince dios#rgu fanart#revolutionary girl utena
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Count of Monte Cristo
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The Final God
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My goal now is to draw them every year.
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イド、お疲れ様でした。
巌窟王の新規霊基もビックリするほど美麗でしたね……。
思わず久しぶりに筆が走りました。
-FGO/巌窟王 モンテ・クリスト伯-
くの
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she may be partially responsible for my taste in women
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How to read Fate/Strange Fake Light Novel
Read the First Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.1 (2015) PDF
Read the Second Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.2 PDF
Read the Third Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.3 PDF
Read the Fourth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.4 PDF
Read the Fifth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.5 PDF
Read the Sixth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.6 PDF
Read the Seventh Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.7 PDF
Read the Eighth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.8 PDF
Read the Nineth Volume: Fate/strange Fake Vol.9 PDF
Volume 9 PDF updated 17/4/2024:
Chapter 29: Rhapsody of the Demigods I (part 1)
Last update ended on page 60.
Important note!
The chapters translations are made by OtherSideofSky and Comun. You can read the original raw text submitted by the translator in The Beast Lair along with epub versions.
Manga!
You should also read the manga. It has a sharp and beautiful art style (by Morii) and complements the story already being told in the LN.
Credits!
Thanks to Nakula for translating the initial version (2008) of F/SF Vol 1, and Mew and Food for the extra chapters to complete the final Volume 1. Thanks to OtherSideofSky for translating the Volumes 2 to 6 and Comun for Volume 7. And thanks to Ryohgo Narita for writing Strange Fake!
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Loki's made a lot of mistakes in his time. He's lied, he's killed, he's betrayed his friends and enemies so many times that he's not even sure what side he's on anymore. When they speak his name, they speak in equal parts distrust and admiration. Loki: god of chaos, advisor to the All-Father, traitor to the Jötnar.
But when he finds himself in the impossible position of having the chance to fix things, he's not sure if he's worthy of the chance. If he even has what it takes.
He knows one thing for sure, though: he's not letting his father die this time around.
In which GOW:R ends poorly and Atreus Loki accidentally time travels.
if you're craving a good ol' fashioned, cliche, secret identity shenanigan, self-destructive protagonist, bad-end time travel fix-it, then my fic might check some of your boxes
#this is the best fic ever btw.#loki my dear beloved#god of war fanart#god of war fanfic#god of war#atreus#loki
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King of Nargothrond, Finrod Felagund
Or the unfortunate boy that earned himself a very stupid nickname with me during the process of this portrait... thing xD
I'm so sorry, he's actually pretty badass, but that didn't stop my sleep deprived mind
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