#I didn't QUITE comprehend that Anthy was pretending to be Mamiya

[baked-hylian]

on one hand I love the use of the pointing hands in episode 22 of Utena because I'm dumb and miss things easily but on the other hand I hate it because it feels like they were mainly put there to ensure that everyone knew the different objects in the background were intentional and not just some animation error

#rewatching revolutionary girl utena #second watch #and while I didn't quite catch what they were meant for in the first watch through #it was much clearer on a second watch #much like a lot of things with this show #there's just so many layers #and symbolism #it's hard to believe it's packed into only 39 episodes #I also was so frickin oblivious #I didn't QUITE comprehend that Anthy was pretending to be Mamiya #like I knew that Mikage was having memory issues #but I didn't quite somehow catch that? #even though it's so obvious? #maybe my cat was distracting me during the last few episodes of this arc too much cause man I feel silly