#saito chiho

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Shoujo Kakumei Utena Artist: Saitou Chiho Publication: Ciao Magazine (06/1997) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

#shoujo kakumei utena #revolutionary girl utena #sku #rgu #少女革命ウテナ #tenjou utena #chuchu #saitou chiho #chiho saitou #saito chiho #chiho saito #scan: hotwaterandmilk #ciao magazine #90s manga #shoujo manga #shoujo #classic manga #retro manga #vintage manga #classic shoujo #this one is a real treat because it has a full colour present page on its reverse! #featuring some unique lil utena and chuchu illustrations #enjoy!!

[asnowperson]

Cover of Saito Chiho's Shoujo Kakumei Utena - Adolescence Mokushiroku (少女革命ウテナ・アドゥレセンス黙示録, 1999). This one makes more sense than the movie XD

Serialized in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Special issues between 5.5.1999-5.9.1999.

#saito chiho #chiho saito #さいとうちほ #少女革命ウテナ #be papas #revolutionary girl utena #90s manga #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #sku #rgu #utena #i'm tired of adding tags

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

thinking about rgu's assertion that it's a complete misunderstanding to think that touga doesn't care about nanami and saionji. he does care about them. he cares about them so much that he, someone who does not believe in sincerity or trust, is willing to emotionally beat down, manipulate, and abuse them to keep them close to him, to keep them on a short leash and that leash in his hand. because he absolutely cannot bear the thought that they can live without him.

#it understands the dynamics of abuse so well #not just in these three ofc in so many of the relationships #kiryuu touga #touga kiryuu #touga rgu #rgu touga #kiryuu nanami #nanami kiryuu #nanami rgu #rgu nanami #saionji kyouichi #kyouichi saionji #saionji rgu #rgu saionji #rgu tag #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #saito chiho #ikuhara kunihiko

[manekinekocake]

#revolutionary girl utena #official art #saito chiho #the adolescence of utena

[nettaigyo-s]

Revolutionary Girl Utena by Saitō Chiho

#revolutionary girl utena #saito chiho #shoujo kakumei utena #少女革命ウテナ #ma scan

[ikari-brando]

NEE LA ROSE - Chiho Saito

Illustration by Chiho Saito [さいとうちほ]

#chiho saito #chiho saitou #saito chiho #さいとうちほ #shoujo manga

[empty-movement]

Chiho Saito's Illustration Collection artbook is the highest-quality visual media in the Utenaverse. Oversized, single-sided, heavy pages with extremely high quality printing. It is the first artbook I ever scanned.

In 2001, the average screen resolution was 800x600, and I delivered a 1250px wide collection that for a while, took $60 A MONTH to host, because no normal website was hosting images of this ludicrous size. It took my scanner almost an hour to capture a third of each page. I spent months piecing the scans together in Photoshop. It was one of my first true Utena labors of love, and the result is that for decades, these copies have been the definitive copies of Chiho Saito's artwork on the internet. For a very long time, even kinda now, if you see these images, they're probably my scans.

But decades have passed, and I've never been happy with these results, because they couldn't capture the fine details, the paint spills, the sketch beneath poking out, the brilliant use of gradients of dark color to pop the image but drive me insane. What I am finishing up now is a true, archival copy of the artbook. One that delivers such high resolution, that these can print posters larger than the originals, and thanks to some truly brilliant descreening tech, (Thank you Sattva) I've been able to dig up fine details in the work that the printing obscured, but undeniably included.

It's been over 20 years, and it shows. 1250px? Nah, my archive copies are 15,000px wide. I can't wait to finish this and share it with the world. <3

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #empty movement #chiho saito #it's actually insane how much has changed #I can't believe I'm still here doing this shit lmao

[utopikia]

"witch"

cr. revolutionary girl utena settei (scanned by lin)

#revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #sku #少女革命ウテナ #anthy himemiya #rgu anthy #the rose bride #chiho saito #kunihiko ikuhara

[hakonohanayome]

Revolutionary Girl Utena - Chiho Saito

#revolutionary girl utena #chiho saito #utena tenjou #chuchu

[classic-shoujo]

Waltz wa Shiroi Dress de (1990) by Chiho Saito

#chiho saito #円舞曲は白いドレスで #90s manga #90s shojo manga #さいとうちほ

[kawaiimiraclewitch]

FUCK I'M 2 MINUTES LATE

anyway happy birthday Anthy!

#Anthy Himemiya #Revolutionary Girl Utena #Shoujo Kakumei Utena #Chiho Saito #February 29th #manga #anime #shoujo

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Shoujo Kakumei Utena Artist: Saitou Chiho Publication: Ciao Magazine (03/1997) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

#shoujo kakumei utena #revolutionary girl utena #sku #rgu #tenjou utena #chuchu #saitou chiho #chiho saitou #saito chiho #chiho saito #scan: hotwaterandmilk #ciao magazine #90s manga #shoujo manga #shoujo #shojo manga #shojo #classic manga #retro manga #vintage manga #classic shoujo #just in case you were ever wondering about how this particular illustration came to be #it was originally designed by a reader per above and adapted by saito into the final picture #outfit design contests were fairly common in ciao and other magazines for youngsters at the time (and today) #i love the idea of utena and chuchu going through the mail at hq to find their faves though :3

[oscar-julius-claud3]

i love this panel (Shojo Kakumei Utena manga 1996) Chiho Saito

#utena #shojo kakumei utena #utena manga #rgu #sku #sku manga #chiho saito #be papas #utena manga 1996 #utenanthy #anthy himemiya #utena tenjoh #utena tenjou #utena x anthy #chuchu #manga panel

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

akio and the coffin

it’s fascinating how akio both literally IS the coffin of ohtori academy and, simultaneously, is trapped by it. ohtori academy is in many ways a manifestation of the ugly side of adolescence, of clinging on to something in your past and refusing to move forward in your life. every character has something they continue to hold on to despite the fact that they ought to let it go for the sake of growing and maturing. for example, saionji has his inferiority complex regarding touga, his refusal to let go of the simplicity of their childhood together when he felt that they stood on the same ground, and that touga saw him as an equal. everything he does in the series is an attempt to make himself feel as though he is finally on equal grounds with touga. if he would only stop tying his self-image to the perception that touga is somehow above him, that touga looks down on him, then he would be able to let go of that sense of inferiority and move on. but he can’t. juri refuses to let go of the pain she feels regarding her past with shiori, and continues to see shiori as someone who is “innocent”, albeit cruelly - someone who is unknowing of the pain she causes juri through her actions when in fact, shiori in seducing the boy she thought juri loved was deliberately acting to hurt her. if juri would only realize and accept the true intentions behind shiori’s behavior, then she could get one step closer to understanding shiori, to being understood by her, and moving past the pain of shiori’s betrayal. but she can’t. 

most of the characters, except utena and anthy of course, remain in ohtori by the end of the show. while they’ve all made progress in “maturing” thanks to the events they experienced throughout the series - both saionji and touga’s as well as juri and shiori’s relationships have gotten visibly better, as shown in the final medley of scenes - they still have more growing to do, hence why they remain in ohtori academy until their time comes. one day, the show suggests, they might also revolutionize their own worlds - their own selves - and finally leave the coffin of ohtori behind as well. 

so where does that leave akio? i think he can be said to literally be the coffin of ohtori in that he is explicitly shown to try to manipulate others into remaining stagnant, to clinging on to whatever toxic things they are struggling to process and come to terms with, though this is of course only shown via the characters he most directly interacts with. naturally it comes across most clearly with anthy, although i think utena and to a less direct extent, touga, are the other two people who are the most straightforwardly influenced by him. when it comes to anthy, she clings to her love for the person her brother used to be, the older brother who, at least as she perceived, was kind and caring and wanted to protect people. to protect that older brother, she willingly took on the hatred of the world, and continues to endure the pain of it to this day for what is implied to be centuries. but akio has shown time and time again, through the repeating dueling cycles, that if he was ever kindhearted and genuinely caring, those parts of him are gone now. i do believe he cares about anthy to an extent even now, but whatever affection he has for her is paltry in comparison to his desire to reclaim his power as prince dios. it’s for that purpose that he set up the entire dueling system, for which he freely allows duelists to treat anthy like a prize and an object. and additionally, because anthy is so integral to the power he has now in ohtori, he uses emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse to keep her tied to him. he’s willing to not just let her wellbeing come last, but puts it at the bottom of the list of priorities, and actively tears it down himself for his own benefit. anthy knows all this - but because she still holds onto that love that she had for who he used to be, she stays with him and does his bidding. and that’s what akio wants. he is the coffin, wishing to keep people in their states of despair, conflict, and pain, therefore ensuring that they are compliant and vulnerable to his manipulation. 

at the same time, akio is trapped by the coffin like everyone else. he, like all the other characters, has something that he ought to move on from for his own sake as well as the sake of the people around him: his goal to reclaim his powers as prince dios. akio has failed in this goal every single dueling cycle that happened before the show’s events, and as displayed in the final episode, he definitively fails the one that takes place during the show as well. he can attempt the cycle over and over and over again, redo and tweak and modify the dueling system however many times and in whatever ways he wants - it’s all useless. there is no sword that can break open the rose gate. there is no way to reclaim his powers. they’re gone, that part of his life is over, and if he accepted that fact, it would allow him to move on and heal from what he experienced. but he can’t. at the very end of the series, right before anthy leaves ohtori for good, he’s typing away just as diligently as he ever did and, completely oblivious, tells anthy that he’s rewriting the rules of the rose crest, that he’ll be counting on her again. and i didn’t pick up on this until rewatching the episode, but it really just hits you then how utterly stupid he looks, working so hard and speaking so confidently about the upcoming dueling cycles as if any of them are ever going to matter in the slightest. i love anthy’s response to him too; i love the subtle but at the same time so blatant scorn in her words: “you really don’t know what’s happened, do you?” because once again, throughout all this, akio has learned nothing. he hasn’t realized it’s useless, what he’s trying to do; he hasn’t realized all the effort and pain and anguish he’ll cause in people for yet another dueling cycle will never make any difference. he is unable to come to terms with the reality that he will never have his powers as prince dios back. he refuses to move on. 

akio is the coffin of ohtori, wanting to keep others in stagnation and regret. he’s also trapped by the coffin, incapable of maturing past his own stagnation and regret. and it really, really says something that all of the other major characters of the show, who have been in ohtori for far shorter a time than he has, have been able to make visible strides in their growth. anthy, who is the only one comparable to akio in terms of duration at ohtori, revolutionizes her world and leaves. meanwhile akio, as deluded and self-unaware as he is, hasn’t made a single step of progress in all this time. the only thing he does is call in bewildered desperation after anthy as she finally leaves him behind, still totally clueless as to what has happened. 

tldr; i once saw an author say one of her characters represents inertia, in fact he is inertia. i think that’s a spot-on explanation of akio, at least in terms of what he symbolizes in the story. i want to beat him in the dick with a cactus

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu meta #shoujo kakumei utena #saito chiho #chiho saito #ikuhara kunihiko #kunihiko ikuhara #akio ohtori #ohtori akio #akio rgu #rgu akio #anthy himemiya #himemiya anthy #anthy rgu #rgu anthy #touga kiryuu #kiryuu touga #touga rgu #rgu touga #kyouichi saionji #saionji kyouichi #saionji rgu #rgu saionji #juri arisugawa #arisugawa juri #shiori takatsuki #takatsuki shiori #juri rgu #rgu juri #utena

[manekinekocake]

#revolutionary girl utena #the adolescence of utena #official art #saito chiho

[allcolorbut-theblack]

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #manga #chiho saito #manga edit #yaadeinedit #me: hmmm haven't colored anything in a long ass while how about i ease back in with this detailed ass fucking scan #hi everyoneeeeee i'm back ^v^ #i'm so motivated to color again so expect a lot of edits soon!!