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you know the stereotype about utena fans
well
let's take a specific sequence and compare the four primary translations of Utena that I know of. why this one? because i know we changed it and also sequences with these two had a lot of minor telling differences from one effort to the next
Revolutionary Girl Utena, Episode 25, Our Eternal Apocalypse
1998, UTP fan project:
Touga: You're driving quite fast.
Akio: She's purring nicely, don't you think? Care to take the wheel?
Touga: What? But I still don't…
Akio: You're too strict…
Touga: That was a rather indecent proposal, Mr. Chairman.
2003, Central Park Media DVD:
T: We're really flying down the road...
A: The throb of the engine feels good, doesn't it?
A: Care to take the wheel?
T: Hm? But I'm not old enough..
A: Such a strict boy.
T: That wasn't a fair proposal, Mr. Chairman.
2011, Nozomi Blu-ray, edited from the CPM translation via a fan led project that was us and you and it was awesome:
T: We're really flying down the road...
A: The throb of the engine feels good, doesn't it?
A: Care to take the wheel?
T: Hm? But I'm not old enough..
A: How upright of you.
T: That was an indecent proposal, Mr. Chairman.
2023, Some-Stuffs fan translation project:
T: You're flying down the road.
A: Exquisite vibrations, no?
A: Care to take the wheel?
T: Huh? But I'm still not...
A: Well, aren't you stiff?
T: That was rather inappropriate, Board Chairman.
Do you like what you see? Is this level of ridiculous exactness interesting to you? Do you think these decades-spanning comparisons add anything to the discussion?
Well join our forum, Something Eternal, then. Because in the time it took for me to type this up for the Tumblr post, forum member xenofem dropped this in the thread about comparisons of the text with other examples already there broken down by color look just go
Looking at that exchange in episode 25 line by line:
Touga: 随分飛ばすんですね。
The subject of this sentence is elided, which is what's leading to the discrepancies around we vs. you. The verb, "tobasu", is literally "to make something fly" or "to send something flying", but can also refer to driving a vehicle fast, or moving fast through things. The object is also elided, the literal meaning is clearly the car but there could also be room for innuendo here.
ok no but seriously, so much amazing stuff has already happened on this babby ass forum that I can barely keep up, we have birding threads and Baldur's Gate 3 threads and new fans posting their reactions as they watch for the first time threads and terfs are banned on sight
#utena#revolutionary girl utena#empty movement#utena forum#utena translation#utena analysis#utena meta#apparently the 'well aren't you stiff' one is the most accurate#which figures because it's also the worst#in utena#the most uncomfortable scenes are often also the most brilliantly written
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#yuri#wlw#lesbian#sapphic#gl#i favor the villainess#bloom into you#asagao to kase san#tamen de gushi#the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all#handsome girl and sheltered girl#relationship guidelines#she is still cute today#adachi to shimamura#revolutionary girl utena#can't defy the lonely girl#otherside picnic#elainposting
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I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits
#exilley's diary#this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also#it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends#it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost#like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches#theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with
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tragic fictional siblings... save me...
tragic fictional siblings
save me tragic fictional siblings
#cain and abel#better call saul#bcs#trigun#monster anime#mob psycho 100#mp100#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#wuthering heights
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Decided to finally visit my school's mental health clinic about my depression and they prescribed me a cathartic sword duel against this girl with pink hair. I asked if I'd need insurance to help pay for the sword and they said not to worry about it.
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danse macabre should be a more popular "genre" of fanart like tarot cards and catholic saint imagery and princess mononoke knife scene redraws
#🐉#and the anne hathaway/audra mcdonald twelfth night kiss#and the revolutionary girl utena sword#i know all the popular fanart poses
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[Utena] a single perpetual motion machine
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Revolutionary lesbians
#revolutionary girl utena#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#fanart#anime#laweyd#what else do i tag#thats all#they r gay
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Tumblr Tuesday: Women Loving Women in Art
It's Lesbian Visibility Week, an excellent time to be celebrating women who love women. Give it up for the sapphics, their muses, and the gorgeous art that honors them.
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#tumblr tuesday#women loving women in art#lgbtqia+ art#artists on tumblr#wlw#sapphics#lesbian pride#butch pride#femme pride#dimension 20#dungeon meshi#farcille#revolutionary girl utena#lesbian vampires#bubbline#long post
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*firebombs your dashboard*
#chainsaw man#naruto#dorohedoro#bocchi the rock!#dungeon meshi#my hero academia#my hero academia tw#goblin slayer#seven deadly sins#berserk#kirby right back at ya#one piece#rwby#stone ocean#neon genesis evangelion#trigun#death note#kill la kill#utena#revolutionary girl utena#jojo’s bizarre adventure tw#jojo’s bizarre adventure#mob psycho 100#madoka magica#spy x family#anime#cowboy bebop#jujutsu kaisen#ouran high school host club
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#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#sku#shoujo kakumei utena#utenanthy#utena#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#sorry i saw this post and rushed to my computer to make this#its literally them#if someones already made this i am not sorry#we just have to share now
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Anthy Himemiya + the alt Saito palette
#my art#anthy himemiya#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#anthy#utena#90s anime#anime#manga#fan art#digital art#illustration#fanart
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finally started watching utena with the wife
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Hi, Vanna here. I have submitted to the strange authority of Xenforo's image hosting system, which demands that if I want gallery items to appear in proper order, I will have to upload them back to front.
As such, welcome to the last few page's of Animedia Magazine's September 1997 supplemental Duelist Bible, translated by Nagumo and edited by me!
Anyway
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, VINTAGE OFFICIAL PATTERNS FOR YOUR VERY OWN DIY CHU-CHU
#revolutionary girl utena#utena#rgu#sku#animedia#utena merch#utena crafting#my god this is a timeless assault on us#they are attacking the 20 hobby projects scattered around my house#don't even#you are all the same
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epic sword pull sequence
#rgu#revolutionary girl utena#sku#shoujo kakumei utena#utena#utenanthy#utena x anthy#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#wlw
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