- eggpressoshot

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

this made me laugh. He would fucking hate this

tHEM AGAIN :-)

Just rewatched episode 20 of Revolutionary Girl Utena with my SO and of course it's still a fascinating show full of marvellous storytelling and deep meaning and it's nice to see another story shedding a little light on Wakaba Shinohara and wow Utena fought with her bare hands today to save a friend, but all I currently r e a l l y can think about is

i NeED ThiS kAPpA thERMoS!!!1!1!

showing off my utena collection minus the art i have on my wall :3 someday im going to assemble and paint the garage kits but im trying to practice with at least one other kit first so i don’t mess them up so they stay in their box for now 🙁

everyone NEEDS to see what finally came in the mail

interest check! I'm considering selling some RGU stuff I made mostly for myself, but I wanna know if there's much demand for it? I've got some sticker sheets of some of my favorite characters in a rough crayon style and some mini acrylic standees of anthy in her pink outfit.

- shea-parfait

Ugh! A friend of mine is trying to get all my money 😩😂

It's very rude 😅

Empty Movement's 2023 Revolutionary Girl Utena UPDATE

Fashionably late? As always. 2023 was a HUGE year for Empty Movement, so much so that to confess, we did a big fail in actually keeping up with sharing the stuff we did! OOPS. So finally, we proudly bring you: all the Revolutionary Girl Utena content we dropped in 2023. Essays, artbooks, CD information, you name it. Click below for the entire site update, or get it at the source, as always, at ohtori.nu.

In Analysis (Fan Essays): • seebee's essay The Power of Living an Embodying Narrative is about more than Utena, it's about the fandom--including us. We were both interviewed for this piece, and the result is an absolutely beautiful essay that has helped inform how we do Utena stuff going forward. Thank you so much for letting us be part of this! • seebee's VIDEO essay FILM CUTS BACK | transfeminism in utena absolutely blew our minds and it's so good we're listing it. Look at the title. Just go watch it, it rules. • Nicole Winchester's essay No Choice But To Become Witches: The Bishōjo-Demonic Phallic Mother Dichotomy in Revolutionary Girl Utena catches you up to speed on the academic discussion around what might best be described as the shoujo manga iteration of the Madonna-Whore complex. Then, naturally, it finds plenty to say about Utena. Great work that was well worth the coding!

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In From the Mouths of Babes (Translated Meta/Creator Content): • Cross X Talk, A Round Table Discussion Commemorating the Second Musical Utena GOGAI FUCKIN' GOGAI. Nagumo and friends bring us the final untranslated part of the 2019 Black Rose Musical's program guide: the monster interview with Ikuhara and the director of the musicals, Yoshitani. INCREDIBLE content here that 100% lives up to the first musical's similar encounter! A must read!! • The Rose Apocalypse's Ei Takatori Interview The director of the mysterious 1999 musical (yes the machine gun one, and YES WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT COMING) interviewed in The Rose Apocalypse book. This...is that. Thank you so much to iris hahn for translating, and I can't wait to bring you more of this mythology!!! • The Utena Dossier Animage Magazine's June 1997 supplemental, this 36-page Utena tome has ben translated by Nagumo with editing by Ayu Ohseki. Because so much of the content is in its visual presentation, I worked the translation into the original scans! Check it out! (PS. Yes that is an entirely different gallery on the emptymovement.com domain, no this won't stay there, yes it has been a weird couple years.) The Dossier includes two long interviews that are also worked into html pages for easy viewing! The Auspicious Joining of Manga and Anime: Saito and Hasegawa For Whom the Director Smiles: Ikuhara and Kitakubo

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In Historia Arcana & The Bibliothèque (Untranslated Resources): • There are a lot of changes happening in this arena!!! How and where to place different materials has been a moving target, so I'll do my best! The sites don't quite reflect this yet, but Historia Arcana will be for cover to cover Utena media, including special magazine publications. Something Eternal's gallery, the Bibliothèque, will be for magazine articles, clippings, and other things. Major artbooks will likely be in both places, cross referenced. New books in Historia Arcana: • The Rose Spiral: Reflections on the Mythology of Utena While not strictly official, this is a fan published book of in depth analysis of Utena, circa 1998! Yep, cover to cover. • Revolution Dictionary (OST 1 First Press Bonus) Cross-referenced from Audiology, this is the bonus dictionary you only got if you grabbed it early! Cool! • Revolutionary Girl Utena Making of Visuals Book Art of UTENA I am mentioning this for completions sake and because I already uploaded it, but this is a cover to cover high resolution, uncleaned scan of the 1999 Art of Utena artbook. I am going to clean the scans, and ultimately be posting the official artbooks elsewhere. • Revolutionary Girl Utena Photobook: Rose Memories This special Animage bonus could be purchased for 700 yen, and back then, was probably a great way to keep the anime in your pocket! It's entirely shots from the TV series, though, so there's nothing specifically new. But I scan it all, baby. New books in the Bibliothèque: • Chiho Saito's 1999 Revolutionary Girl Utena Original Illustration Collection HI THIS IS A VERY BIG DEAL. Read more about why when you visit! TLDR? Here's some of the best artwork of Utena, rescanned and remastered by yours truly to be the best big big scans of big big beautiful Chiho Saito Art. This is a feast. I even made myself a calendar! (Note that the price is such that I don't make a profit on these, so if you're looking to donate, definitely go by other routes, haha.) You will find multiple ways to obtain the scans, and in more than one size. Either way you soak up the rays, enjoy 'em! New articles and clips in the Bibliothèque: • H! Rockin' on Japan Magazine Saito X Oikawa This fashion music magazine's July 1999 article has ALREADY BEEN TRANSLATED? Like, I am going to add the translation officially to the site of course, but holy hell Nagumo is amazing!! This article is actually the origin of a Saito art piece that uh, well. Now we know she went to a love hotel with movie Akio's VA. Cool! Anyway check it out! • Comickers Magazine, August 1997 This absolute monster find is an industry-focused magazine with this gorgeous spread and interview with Chiho Saito. It gets into how she does things. The making of Utena. All kinds of stuff. I'd LOVE to know more about this one!! • Comickers Magazine, June 1998 Again, an industry-focused publication, this time it's exploring the manga and the anime and how they compare. Again looks like a tasty meal!! • Volks Magazine, Spring 2022 YEP SCANS OF THE BOOK OF THE DOLLFIES. For a lot of us, this is at close as we get to these ludicrously gorgeous dolls. I included a few extra pages because they were just fuckin' cool and felt relevant. • Sega Saturn Magazine, December 1997 One of two grabs I got recently on Yahoo! Japan! This appears to be the first look announcement of the 1998 Utena video game! (Yes we have more on it, yes we will eventually post links.) • Sega Saturn Magazine, April 1998 This feature brings attention to the voice actors, who are all returning for the game! • Dengeki G's Magazine, January 1998 Another gaming focused magazine, with frankly a more adult edge, cheaply lets the readers know about Utena. These three game magazine moments are just a bizarre reminder of how we did things before the internet, LMAO

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In Audiology (Music and CD Information): • Complete information about the STAR CHILD - Girls Character Song Best album! You also definitely can't grab the two new remix tracks there. • Did you know there was a first press bonus dictionary for the first OST? I DIDN'T UNTIL RECENTLY. Now I know all about it, and so can you. Check it out! Obviously, scans available, both here and in Historia Arcana. • I FINALLY acquired a complete set of the Utena CD singles!! Check out complete track lists, scans, and information for ALL FIVE Utena singles. Yes. Including the movie Akio guy's one.

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In The Doujinshi Gallery: • Several dozen dounjinshi were uploaded earlier in the year, and can be found listed on the Site Update archive here.

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That's all for now, folks! There's so so so much coming. I have the episode 18 and 20 (!!!!) storyboards to scan, as well as a fully translated scanlation of The Duelist Bible. We're planning to do something for Anthy's rare LEAP YEAR birthday coming up, probably a musical stream or something! Love!

RGU needs a rerelease or something i need ppl at cons to start selling utena merch i cant keep living like this

ndgcIbsks sorry ive been dead this weekend, ive been an anime frontier having a great time in fw :]!! so glad to be home though, i got all my merch in one place and semi organized hehe (w the exception of one (1) yellow crotcheted tulip that is So cute n puffy, its on my drawer w my other yarn/felt and wire flowers :]! )

God i love the posters. look at that elesaaa i saw her and went a lil crazy djchnxns, and yimmy's art is so Gorgeous i had to own some art of hers besides her cow skullearrings(dont tell anyone ive been meaning to watch n read rgu but keep watching other stuff😭 I WILL I SWEARRR) and the t shirt is so fucking good. Big Comfy .... i love everything smmmm

Shop Update

It’s been about two days since my online store opened, and I honestly just want to say I can Not state enough how much I appreciate the response. I’m graduating soon trying to find an apartment and your support is giving me a comfortable cushion that I wouldn’t have had otherwise. I was a lot more stressed about this shop opening than I had realized and I can’t describe how happy it makes me that the outcome has been so positive.

For anyone who’s interested, there’s still plenty of merch still available! The current count on the RGU Tarot is at 12! That’s a LOT closer than I expected! So for that, I’m thinking I’m probably going to keep preorders open for about a week, and see if we can excede 20 preorders!

Thank you again to everyone who has bought from my shop, anyone who’s reblogged shop opening announcements, and anybody who’s been willing to support me and my work right now. It honestly does mean the world.

(tumblr doing everything but it’s job thanks 🙄)

(happy birthday todo to my itadori 😽)

i’m back <3 its been a while since you mentioned the characterization of the cast in this fic (the ask I sent a long time ago lol) and I was wanting to ask (if its ok) what is the current characterization now? is yunho still playing the role of shiori?

the reunion of seonghwa and mc

I can feel her frustration at his attitude while they were talking, but I am not sure if the reunion was something mutual given seonghwa’s reaction and how quickly he dismissed her for the rose bride not even two minutes into their meeting so I am looking forward to how their relationship progresses (or regresses) especially since she put in so much effort to be reunited with him again, joining a place such as this, surely it wasn’t just to say hi to him again for two seconds

I love how perfectly you captured saionji’s character in yeosang. i hate him already (jk) and the dueling scene!! *faints* it felt like I was watching the first episode all over again. I can’t wait to see what you do with this series next (take your time obviously <3) (also at work today: one of my co-workers was talking to me about anime and I asked her if she’s seen rgu, and she said she has! so me and her were talking about during our lunch breaks today. good times 💛)

you would think that it would be easier to actually have the messages that you send to other users, actually delivered. BUT NO.

what is the current characterization now?

no changes have been made 🥰 the ways that the characters they are meant to express themselves and some of the choices they will make, levels they will go to, etc, are probably going to differ from canon to this (because i don't want it to be 1:1). i don't want to give all of the casting choices away just yet, but i will say that yeosang/saionji is much crazier in this, and will, in ways, play a much larger role.

I can feel her frustration at his attitude while they were talking

he's so annoying but frankly, so is touga 🙄 AND ESPECIALLY IN ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA. which this scene is specifically written after.

annoying ass man. i can fix him (a bit, author way.)

I love how perfectly you captured saionji’s character in yeosang. i hate him already (jk)

no he's sexy and you think he's sexy ☝🏻

ANYGAY, i'm glad you're enjoying it since i know i've been dangling this over your head for what feels like a million years LMAO. I'M SORRY. I'm shockingly slow with writing this, but that is largely because i got viciously, carelessly attacked by ateez comeback and all of the outlaw teaser and vibes and...well, then answering eternity had to happen 🥲

i'm gonna try to put AE away a little bit and focus on this and The Other Thing. kisses u. have a lovely day and enjoy your rgu coworker they have TASTE. (one of my colleagues watches anime but all her merch is AOT and i'm like. ok.)