instead of getting angry about people’s bad takes about characters being ‘doomed’, im going to redirect my energy towards a discussion of representations of disability and illness in utena and say this: isn’t it weird how the only characters that the vast majority of us agree are For Real Dead are ones who died of unspecified illness (mamiya and ruka)? like, there’s so much death in rgu, so much of it is taken allegorically, and i think it should be, but it’s interesting to me how little people question these vague illnesses. meanwhile people are locked in threads discussing whether or not touga is actually dead despite the fact i think it’s quite straightforward to say ‘maybe the show that’s about how you can escape abuse and actually live even having done bad things isn’t going to suggest that if you’ve been abused and perpetuated abuse you should just die’. like. guys. imagine if ruka was like mikage but 1000x more incel-coded. what if the real mamiya was also pranking mikage by faking his death???? i don’t know why this is just the mikage dunk hour but you know what can you do. anyway has anyone heard from my buddy kanae recently im getting kinda worried about her..