#they’re riddled with issues but everyone already knows that can we just chow down on the good stuff already?

[aroanthy]

everyone reading atr for the first time vs me who read it for the first time three years ago and has been insane about it ever since. (guy who loves the painting motif) the paintings!!!!!!! also i think it’s neat that akio and ruka die again even if juri’s chapter is a bit wobbly wrt dunking on that guy. i dont consider it canon in the strictest sense, primarily bc if touga was 37 years old before he had an ounce of growth it would kill me, but i think its ideas and messaging are largely scrumptious. i deeply enjoy the baby-utena-spectre thing and the utena-prince thing and how transparently and directly the stuco’s perceptions and understandings of who utena was have shaped them; in turn, how that has trapped some remnant of utena in ohtori, as ‘prince’. also shout-out anthy bc the way she functions in atr ohhhhhh it makes me crazy. what chiho saito says about not seeing an aged up utenanthy about seeing only a previous form of themselves that maybe isn’t all that real at all, ohhhhhhh it’s incredible 10/10 no notes on that front for me. we’re still storytelling within ohtori and that is sososososo important. it’s not as good as the movie manga imho, but atr is like. it just holds a special place in my heart for being such a compelling and mixed bag of Stuff. great food for thought. i think everyone should read it honestly im baffled that people are choosing not to

#if after the revolution has one million fans im one of them etc etc etc #i feel like whenever any rgu manga comes up im like I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!! #like it’s true i do #they’re riddled with issues but everyone already knows that can we just chow down on the good stuff already? #they’re fun texts they’re interesting texts they’re occasionally maddening and baffling texts but you know #we have fun. they are absolutely visually gorgeous #movie manga is imho Exceptional. like it just is it’s brilliant #you guys talk so much shit about chiho saito and it really irritates me tbh she’s a real one #dais.txt