#i love anthy so much

[thesuntookgoodcareofme]

I love how many if not mostly utena fans calls the sword that is pulled from anthys chest "Anthys sword" instead of "Sword of Dios", like it's called in the show. I don't think calling it "Anthys sword" is intentional, it's more because it's the sword she guards, but it makes so much sense

Like it's her sword. It's her power and strenght. Duelists fight for revolution and eternity with her sword. The prince, Dios, only exists because of her love. The sword is hers because without her Dios (and Akio) would be nothing

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #anthy himemiya #utenanthy #i love anthy so much #anthy himemiya consumed my brain #oh god i love utena #dios #i have a hard time interpretating all the symbolims in utena but I was really thinking about this #it's just like todays world depending so much on marginalized people while having so much prejudice #i guess #i hope im not sounding too dumb

[bublines]

<3

#i love drawing anthy’s hair so much #utenanthy #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #adolescence of utena #id in alt #my art

[thenbecauseshegoes]

episode 1 / episode 39

#the ep 1 shot was when utena first saw the rose garden #anthy was in the garden watering the roses #the ep 39 shot was the first time we saw anthy after being separated from utena #revolutionary girl utena #shojo kakumei utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #sku #utena tenjou #utena #anthy himemiya #anthy #utenanthy #i love them so very much #i am entirely consumed by utenanthy #i can't stop thinking about them #so much love #the credits were first placed in front of anthy at the right where utena stood before #the credits were then superimposed on the rose garden as anthy walked past it #you could say that the placement of credits from being in front of anthy to obstructing the rose garden was symbolic of anthy becoming free #free from the burdens of being the rose bride etc #i may be reading too much into this i'm sorry

[saionjeans]

what’s crazy about kozue is that she isn’t JUST a foil to anthy, but also to touga. she’s the witch and the rose bride AND the playboy who uses her sexuality to attain [the illusion of] control and power. she is also a victimizing victim, leading miki by the nose so that he may finally understand and fulfill his purpose within this paradigm. like touga, she encourages him to become a prince by claiming his “power.” they work in tandem to mold miki into what they think he ought to be, into what kozue wishes she could be. she compares herself to a wild animal, not like those livestock raised for slaughter, and yet she is willingly submitting to the stipulations of and operating so heavily within the system she claims to reject. she pushed a predator down the stairs, and led miki into the car of another. she wants to be an adult, to be a man. she wants to wield that power because she thinks she understands what it means. she’s trapped in the middle of the ferris wheel, not quite low enough to simply disembark it, but not quite high enough to see the full view. and she’s inviting you to join her.

#kozue #miki #anthy #touga #akio #u #analysis #ish #manalysis #I love her so much u don’t understand….. #she’s such a good character #in the new paula vogel play they say ‘I wish I was a six foot tall man’ multiple times #and that is so. kozuecore

[transmascutena]

in the episode previews for episode 37 utena and anthy have this conversation, which i think surprises a lot of people because of their uncharacteristic directness. and i think that often leads to people believing it's true, that anthy does hate utena and for good reason; look at this victim blaming happening right now! and, i mean, yes it is true, but also it's not? it's more complicated than that.

generally speaking, utena and anthy tend to be more open and direct in their conversations during the previews (my favorite example being the one for episode 31 where they talk about blood types and each other's flaws) and i kind of wonder whether or not they're literal. i think moreso they are reflective of their feelings in some way. neither of them would actually say these things to the other's face, but they are thinking it. this preview in particular is i think their very surface level feelings after the end of the episode, and utena's discovery of anthy's abuse. utena feels angry and betrayed (for a variety of complicated reasons) and lashes out at the wrong person; anthy is fed up with utena's ignorance to the situation at hand and has been for a while. but the next episode itself isn't really about that, it's almost about the exact opposite: acceptance of the ways they've hurt each other. this is the episode with the cantarella scene and anthy's suicide attempt (we don't see the full rooftop conversation here but it is when it happens), the two scenes where utena and anthy are the most honest with each other. and what we hear from them is the opposite of what we hear in the preview: utena realizes that what she was initially blaming her for isn't anthy's fault, and can forgive her for the things she has actually done. and anthy hasn't always despised utena, in fact she's currently trying to protect her by telling her to get away from ohtori, because she loves her.

yes, there is truth to what they both say in that preview, but it's not the whole truth. the episode itself gives us true honesty between them.

#maybe someday i'll make an analysis of every episode preview. i love them so much #revolutionary girl utena #analysis #utena and anthy #m

[aroanthy]

kiryuu sibling stasis post-32 is so interesting to me. nanami tries to leave and is (temporarily but also, crucially, violently) prevented from doing so by touga and akio. after this experience she puts distance between herself and them: she leaves touga’s phone in the car, she resigns from the student council (though she dons her old uniform still), she repeatedly dismisses and undermines the authority of the rose code, of end of the world, of akio, of touga. but she’s still in ohtori, isn’t she? uncomfortable with the idea of leaving, uncertain if it’s really possible. she tried before, and it hurt her. deeply. it’s so interesting to me, nanami’s agency and how she limits her exertion of it after 32, when she realises it for what it is. contrast that with touga, who accepts this weird stalemate between them, who is, really, uninterested in having any relationship of any kind with nanami if he can’t gain something from her. he’s very passive with her after 32, compared to the passivity he’d always feigned towards her before in order to stoke reactions from her and then exploit them. i was thinking about how touga has always been able to sever his relationship with nanami, but chosen not to; first out of a sense of obligation (‘we should live to help each other’) then a realisation of how that could be exploited. i was thinking about how nanami has never realised her ability to leave, in part because it is limited by touga and the harm he does her. i was thinking about the desperation and confusion akio calls out to anthy with as she leaves. i was thinking about how different that is to the kiryuus’ strange semi-breakdown; touga doesn’t want or need nanami, and nanami might love her brother but she cannot trust him or feel safe around him, doesn’t want to see him anymore; she’s itching to leave, and just a little scared (you know, because last time she tried that her brother assaulted her), and he’s not doing anything because ignoring her means he doesn’t have to deal with the emotions of her leaving or staying. something something gendered power dynamics something something tragic siblings

#local kiryuu sibling enjoyer has thoughts about them #i wrote this like three days ago but it’s getting posted now i have to speak my truth #touga loves a bit of inaction #nanami doesn’t but what the fuck else is she gonna do?? be brave? she tried that already #and she WILL try it again and i don’t think touga will try particularly hard to stop her #i think he might try a little but in doing so he’ll just become more aware of how much he doesn’t want to do that #and is only doing it bc of a vague sense of obligation to a perspective on life that he’s already questioned a la utena #im just. i have so many feelings about them. i bet none of you were aware of that fact already #i am once again wondering: does touga love nanami? what does that mean for each of them? #and im concluding: i really don’t think he does #i think he’s felt obligation to her and turned bitter towards that emotion and her in turn #i think he has no idea how to feel about her so he ignores the problem and exploits HER feelings as he thinks he understands them #until he realises that he doesn’t and has to deal (a little bit) with the ramifications of that #touga and anthy when nanami makes them self reflect. or swagever. the 32 way. neither of them would ever admit this but it’s true #dais.txt #her tragedy her triumph

[jamismejamiam]

Might as well post some of my Utena stuff🎉🎉

Lots of random sketches and such, I have more I just can't find them atm, the shows style is so fun to draw in!!

#revolutionary girl utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #i love them so much #im so insane over them #utena utena utena utena

[himemiyaaah]

she's a weird girl, she's an actress, she's a symbol, she's vilified, she's victimised, she's an animal mum and a bad cook, she's funny, she's selfless, she's full of repressed rage, she's the sword in the stone, she's doomed, she's breaking free, she's ancient, she's just 14, she's a bitch she's a lover she's a sinner she's a saint, and on top of all that, she likes girls.

#revolutionary girl utena #anthy himemiya #rgu #sku #shojou kakumei utena #I love anthy so much top 10 characters of all time to me

[creadorkara]

Some old doodles of Revolutionary girl Utena 🌹

Please, help these girls. And my style to be still, not experimental in everything

I saw this joke in vines compilation and couldn't help myself -

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #revolutionary girl utena fanart #shiori takatsuki #juri arisugawa #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #utena vines compilation is so funny i can't it explains so much mess in it #but i still love this in serious and dramatic tone

[cranberrytart451]

A princess and her knight.

#revolutionary girl utena #utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #utenanthy #my art #I speed drew #I love utena’s hair so much

[murrlizas-art-corner]

you can run a sword through me baby, ruin me and build me up again

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu utena #rgu anthy #shoujo kakumei utena #utenanthy #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #utena x anthy #artists on tumblr #украрт #український tumblr #procreate #utena immediately forgives anthy because saving her is more important #she loves her unconditionally #ever thought about that #anthy betrayed herself by betraying utena #she didn’t think she has a choice - not running a sword through utena meant giving up on everything she ever known #even if everything she ever known was hell #she run another sword through her own heart that way #anthy only ever knew that love means pain #and hopeless running in circles #and hope was pain to her #and utena was hope #they love each other so much and so powerfully and so tragically #and they win #anyway I hope you’ll enjoying the fanart #it was 20 hours of sheer determination #also there will be alt versions in another post #mrrliz

[casiavium]

i stabbed you because i love you

#in a way all girls are the rose bride etc #utena spoilers #man I love this whole episode SO MUCH #my favorite TV show episode ever tbh #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shoujo kakumei utena #utenanthy #I also love drawing anthy's hair down I know it's not accurate #doodle #I drew this very fast and didn't really bother to make it look the best #the dress is supposed to be turning into rose petals

[buy-axes-in-central-london]

watcher’s bride 👁️🌹

#yes yes more TMAxRGU fanfic art I know #I finished the draft of the 4th chapter tho so that’s neat #anthy himemiya #revolutionary girl utena #RGU fanfic #TMA fanfic #the magnus archives #I love my coloured pencils so much #they are my bbgs

[beastialmoon]

Thinking about the rooftop scene from near the end of Utena and how personal it is. For the first time, without walls, secrets, hidden smiles or fake laughs, these two *see* each other.

Utena recognizes how, in trying to save her from the council and the duels, she's still perpetuating the same cycle of violence towards Anthy without even realizing it. A cycle that Akio (and the society that pleaded for a Prince to save their daughters without doing anything themselves) put in motion, yes, but a cycle she unwittingly continued all the same.

Anthy, too, sees Utena for what she is - someone who genuinely cares, and was taken advantage of in her own way. Both of them were used, abused, and cast aside by Akio when it no longer suited him.

Both characters, atop the school rooftop where a horrible event almost happened, were able to grieve, apologize, embrace, and promise to each other to move on and find someplace together in love.

Because Someday, Together, They'd Shine.

#Rgu #Man I cried writing this #I love these two so much u don't even know #Though Nanami will always be my blorbo character lmao #Utena Tenjou #anthy himemiya #I hope I got the details right bc im literally writing this in my workplace bathroom :P #Bmoonsays

[saionjeans]

what makes anthy’s tragedy so well-crafted is how her formative, character-defining moment of self-sacrifice is perceived as a moment of selfishness, and it does not make her noble and exalted above all other girls, but in fact ruins her. when nanami drowns the cat, it out of a purely selfish desire to monopolize touga’s time, right? when anthy bears the swords of hatred it is to save dios from his prince’s burden, right? nanami is an irredeemable monster for this singular act of innocent cruelty for the sake of her brother. anthy is an irredeemable monster for her brave sacrifice for the sake of her brother. right?

no, they are both selfish, says the narrative, for wanting so much of their poor, innocent brothers, robbing them of their their short floppy hair and wide-eyed innocence. they are the ones to blame for their abuse. dios used to be pure. touga used to be pure. don’t you remember their purity? their younger sisters, at the time barely old enough to fit into their dresses, are the real monsters, the ones to blame. they are the ones who must bear the swords of hatred for daring to steal our precious princes of the world, to cloister them off for their own, personal use. it’s pure greed, the crime of wanting too much from brothers who tempted them with their effusive good and made them gluttonous.

but of course, purity is an illusion, the prince is an illusion. the swords of hatred are quite obviously a metaphor, and yet by the time we arrive to the first sequence depicting its stark red violence, we are already acquainted with the narrative. who could ever drown a cat? that cat, the last vestige of touga’s purity, perhaps. but purity is a myth, so what is nanami really drowning? what is that cat? a victim, an innocent. what is the box? a cage, a system. what is the river? the inexorable currents flowing towards a violent fate. what is the crow? a spectre of death, yes, and a witness.

if drowning the cat is the sublimation of self to be consumed by the other, and the swords of hatred are its consequence, then how could it possibly be selfish? how could such a cruelly self-negating act ever be considered greedy, entitled, or overproud? to define these acts in these terms must mean our hermeneutics are impossibly, critically warped. so in confronting this crisis of interpretation, it is our duty to deliberately locate the flaws in this system: to make our own meaning. to escape it.

#u #manalysis #analysis #anthy #nanami #<- they are like best friends to me (describing known enemies) #I love them so much it’s cRAZZYYY #and I am the kitten and I am the box and I am the witness watching it 😭😭😭 #touga #dios #akio

[transmascutena]

[ID: A collection of screencaps of Revolutionary Girl Utena subtitles, the first four from the anime and the second two from the game.

Miss Utena, you really are naive, aren't you?

Huh? But Shiori just wants to be friends with Jury, right?

I've heard the rumors that Jury loves Shiori, but...

Do you understand what that means?

Anthy: That's true. Her partner wasn't necessarily a member of the opposite sex.

Utena: Huh? What do you mean?

End ID]

"utena tenjou does not understand what a lesbian is despite being one and also being constantly surrounded by them" compilation

#that episode 29 preview is so good actually. why are you so curious about a girl's feelings for another girl utena 🤨 #and of course anthy is being unhelpful as always. love her for that #realistically i think she does understand she just subconsciously distances herself from the topic as much as possible #so she doesn't start to question anything #“i am so Normal and heterosexual that i have never even thought of the possibility of queerness being a thing that exists" #“huh? girls? i don't even know what a girl IS! haha...” #revolutionary girl utena #utena #anthy #m