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i completely forgot to mention this in my previous ask, but have you seen Too Many Crowns video on LO and how it makes the myth worse? its one of my favourite video essays. a few years ago i had watched their previous critical analysis' of LO before they became unlisted, and they are now linked in the description of her final video about LO (i was searching for LO hate cuz i couldn't find any and i just started to realize it was slowly becoming a bigger dumpster fire lol). if you haven't seen it you definitely should, it sums up everything wrong with the story (a lot of which has been discussed by you and the ULO community, but some other really amazing stuff) and how it negatively diverges from the myth.
thank you! sorry for the long questions lol
I saw this ask the other day and realized it had been a while since I had watched it, so I had revisited it! They definitely do a great job of summing up a lot of the larger points as to why people criticize LO. One thing they pointed out in particular was something I had completely forgotten about-
literally what happened to this crown
does she even HAVE a crown
like we've seen Hades wearing his crown plenty of times on the job but the only time we've seen Persephone with any sort of crown was during her Dread Queen transformation, and not only was it FAR better than this (and within the themes of the story, more indicative of Persephone's true transformation from being the daughter of Demeter to the Dread Queen with the transition from white to black) but it's really telling that Hades' choice for a crown for her was some dinky (white-colored!!) dollar store tiara that's NEVER EVEN BEEN MENTIONED SINCE-
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art of utena wearing the red sweater post-canon is more common than i thought it'd be (<- which is not at all). and like i get that you think it's cute that anthy made it for her but. come on. think about it a little more.
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im sure im not the first person to point this out, but i find it so interesting how miki and kozue are basically identical save for the slightest difference in hair, both style and color. kozue’s hair is darker than miki’s, which as far as color coding goes is pretty straightforward: the “pure,” naive sibling and the cynical, jaded sibling—light and dark. but then there’s also the matter of kozue’s upwards swoop in the back of her hair, as opposed to miki’s which is kept neatly, straight down his head.
at first, you could easily just assume that it’s a matter of kozue’s hair being slightly longer than miki’s, but then akio accelerates his car in “miki’s nest box,” and the back of miki’s hair flies up, and suddenly resembles kozue’s. kozue’s perpetually windswept ‘do is suddenly contextualized as symbolic of her knowledge of sex (as a tool for power), which miki only truly becomes aware of in akio’s car.
but to do so, miki’s bangs also fly up, losing his previous point of commonality with kozue. right before akio speeds up his car, miki is “given” the wheel (figuratively speaking). for miki to gain the hidden knowledge of adults (back of his head, obscured from view) that kozue possesses, he must also lose all common ground with her (front of the head, identical head on). he must shed his childish fringe that evokes his innocence and his sameness with his sister (one and the same, see: the sunlit garden), which is further complicated by the fact that they are both more and less similar than miki thinks.
ultimately, miki’s sexual maturity requires him to distinguish himself from kozue (visually thru gender performance but also thru power, ie, where to sit in the car), since leaving childhood means becoming a man means exerting power over brides and princesses and witches (which both his objects of affection/obsession, kozue and anthy, illustrate are not in fact discrete designations but rather just slightly different labels applied to the same thing, only dependent on how you’re looking at it/her).
as a girl, kozue has the “freedom” to be interpreted in many different ways and embody many different roles and possesses many different ways of understanding herself and others within the patriarchal system of ohtori (by embodying multiple ontologically meaningless labels at once). she can, at least superficially, “choose” how to navigate her own exploitation. miki does not even have the illusion of choice. the path he must take has been chosen for him: he can either be a prince or a failure.
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my little one and her friends running towards the rainbow… this is one of the few most memorable moments in my heart.
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