Shinshi Doumei Cross †

Out of words.

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Maomao's reaction to medicines vs her reaction to Jinshi-sama ≧▽≦

I super love their dynamics 💕💕

Just extremely difficult.

Alt text: Screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: Shadow girl B-ko onstage dressed as a prince with a sword and broomstick horse. Text: "You're like a fish that's only now discovering that her whole life has been dictated by the movements of sea currents."

2: Anthy, Utena, and Akio sitting in an empty theater with no other audience. Text: "That's what ideology is."

3: Akio sits on a couch with his back facing Utena. Utena stands some distance away with a confrontational stance. They are dwarfed by the silhouette of the massive planetarium behind them. Text: "is. It's like there are these invisible forces everywhere,"

4: Utena sitting in Mikage's elevator with the sword of Dios in her lap. Her rose bride dress is on a mannequin beside her. Text: "pushing and tugging you this way and that,"

5: A closeup of the camera that took the family photo of Utena, Anthy, and Akio. Text: "and you don't even know they're *there*."

6: Utena leaning against the tower's bedroom window with her shoulders hunched and a hand on the glass. The view is of a starry sky. Text: YOU — "Is it even possible to imagine a world without ideology?"

7: Anthy standing at the other end of the window and looking at Utena. There is no text.

8: Anthy's hand laid on top of Utena's, both pressed to the window. Text: "Of course it's possible." End alt text

is it just me who had this relationship with nanami? where i first thought she'd be a big antagonist of the series (i REALLY didn't know how intense this show would get) only for her to immediately shift from this coolheaded mastermind to this incompetent comic relief , and it was sort of whiplash but i didn't think much of it. but like...of course nanami isn't a master manipulator, she's literally a kid. she's desperately grasping for control but continually being reduced to a farm animal by herself and others, and it's sort of like how anthy is painted by akio to be some evil genius when she is also...a kid! neither of them are bad people and yet by the framing of the story they are seen by everyone as such. because of course these two girls have to be the petty villains of the story, and not the Very Trustworthy Adult Man Akio. she was a distraction from the real antagonist, the real deal genuinely bad person- but in the end, when given the chance to be like that for real, nanami realized how dumb this all really was. because for all nanami's flaws and shortcomings, she's not a side character. if she wants to be in a story she'll make her own.

Turning older than your favorite fictional characters feels like a completely impossible and mind blowing experience

Love and cure.

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