#touga

[saionjeans]

do you get what im saying

#id in alt text #u #utena #saionji #miki #juri #nanami #and then #anthy #touga #kozue #shiori #and nanami. again #‘oh but isn’t saionji touga’s rose bride’ that’s just what they WANT u to think #princes and witches and brides etc etc etc. no I shan’t elaborate #(for now)

[dharr5]

every episode with these assholes istg

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #art by me #fanart #digital art #touga kiryuu #kyouichi saionji #saionji kyouichi #kiryuu touga #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #rgu fanart #stupid stuff #yaoi moment #yaoi yaoi come get your yaoi here #touga x saionji #touga #saionji #utena fanart #utena

[transmascutena]

ohtori dashboard simulator

🐄 calf-kin Follow

WHO KEEPS LETTING ANIMALS LOOSE IN THE HALLWAYS

🎹 sunlitgarden Follow

Has anyone else noticed that time is really weird?

🧅 onion-princess123 Follow

making lunch for my beautiful boyfriend <33

snail-lover-deactivated011998

just made dinner for my roommate ^_^

girlprince-deactivated121997

i never ever wanna walk up another flight of stairs again in my life once this school year is over

6524771891-deactivated Follow

what the fuck does our student council even do like actually

🌹 touga-kiryuu Follow

If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. We are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell!

#deep #inspirational #poetry #poetic #quotes #literature #dark academia

🌹 ohtori-official

If you or a friend/loved one is currently attending Ohtori Academy, please remember that you can get a free counselling session in the abandonded building at the edge of campus.

- Souji Mikage

🪺 lonchura-oruzivora Follow

if someone i hate just so happens to fall down the stairs while i'm walking by how is that my fault 🙄🙄

⚔️ kendocaptain Follow

just got my ass kicked by a middle school girl for the third time in a row dhmu..

#sad #vent #delete later

🐄 calf-kin Follow

🐄 calf-kin Follow

Anyone who voted no DNI !!!!!!!

🎭 abc-ko Follow

reblog if you think the chairman should fund the drama club more instead of spending all the board money on sports cars

snail-lover-deactivated011998

Akio Ohtori Call-Out Post

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#in other news i'm dropping out of school #goodbye forever i will not miss any of you

#this was unreasonably fun to make hope you all enjoy #juri is not included because she would not have a tumblr account #shiori would but i couldn't think of a post for her #revolutionary girl utena #sillyposts #nanami #miki #wakaba #anthy #utena #touga #mikage #kozue #saionji #m

[biruesque]

this is what episode 36 put to the test

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #tenjou utena #utena tenjou #utena #himemiya anthy #anthy himemiya #anthy #utenanthy #utenthy #saionji kyouichi #kyouichi saionji #saionji #kiryuu touga #touga kiryuu #touga #tousai #biruesque art #comic #tougas uniform is atrociously difficult to draw bc of those cords hguh #please excuse me being mia #finals r running me over

[prince-charmless-nightlight]

Color update!

#inu no taisho #inuyasha #sesshoumaru #sesshomaru #toga #touga #inuyasha figures

[revacholian-girl-utena]

This system does not require faith — only accordance.

Alt text: Screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: Dios on a white horse, standing up high on a broken bridge. Text: An innocence is infallible.

2: Dios and young Utena looking at young Anthy, suspended in the air on the swords of hate. Text: The decisions made by one are not decisions.

3: Anthy's silhouette against a pink background, pierced by many blades, hair flying. Text: They are inevitabilities —

4: Touga looking out the tower window at the stars. His shirt is open and he holds a potted cactus. Text: what would have happened anyway,

5: An apple with a slice cut out, pierced by many forks. Text: only accelerated.

6: B-ko the shadow girl in Prince costume, taking a heroic stance. Text: An Innocence is a continuous, compressed event, a sacred human being.

7: Akio, dressed as End of the World, holds Utena, dressed as a rose bride. Text: It is an honor and a glory to live when one is in office.

8: Closeup on young Utena and Dios's feet, standing at the edge of a sheer drop. Text: YOU — Is one in office now?

9: A dark, empty stage with a rose design on the lowered curtain. Text: No.

10: Young Utena standing alone under a spotlight. She is staring at the spot where young Anthy disappeared. There are cracks in the wall resembling the shape of the swords coming out of Anthy's body. Text: We are alone.

#revolutionary girl utena #disco elysium #shoujo kakumei utena #dios #akio #utena #anthy #touga #kanae #csa tw #for clarity in case this doesn’t read the way im intending for it to read #the comparison between akio and the innocentic system is the idea of like. why they’re called innocences to begin with #the idea that they are ‘’innocent’’ in that everything they do is 1) inevitable 2) a reflection of the will of the world and everyone in it #akio and the prince archetype both have echoes of that idea #the prince as someone who is infallible and sacred and a necessary part of the world #and akio as someone who uses that rhetoric of infallibility and of only being a reflection of the way the world works #to write off his heinous crimes a la the innocenses and their war crimes #and ‘’we are alone’’ is utena recognizing the death of the prince. she is alone. she has to do this herself #in sacred and terrible air miro says something like ‘’be at peace. i am innocent and so you all are as well’’ #in the same breath as he launches a nuke #i feel part of utena’s arc is about rejecting the idea that something is acceptable just bc everyone else around her seems to accept it #bc the truth is more that her peers have resigned themselves to their fates… it’s not truly what they want. they just cant imagine smth else #and so rather than say ‘’i am innocent and so we all are innocent’’ #she learns to say ‘’i am guilty of many things but i can change. and so can you. and so can the world’’

[elevatortherapy]

"The widely-adored Student Council members didn't get along very well. In fact, they had a tense relationship, almost to the point of discord."

objectively the best part of the first light novel is how much the student council all* hate each other's guts so i made a little compilation for anyone who doesn't feel like reading it <3

*juri & miki are buddies :) also touga derives enjoyment from being hated so i'm not sure to what extent he really hates the others back lol

juri vs saionji:

1) "His swordsmanship was his only strong point."

2) "A 'mistake'... is that really all it was?" Arisugawa Juri spoke softly, but still loud enough for Saionji to hear.

"What!?"

"You lost because you're so infatuated with our mysterious Rose Bride. It's made you rusty."

"Interesting. Why don't we test that theory?" Saionji said, bristling in response to Juri's criticism. Touga made no move to stop them. On the contrary, he looked amused at the situation, a smile playing about his lips.

saionji vs touga:

1) "What's normal varies from person to person. For instance, why don't you try to unravel these mysteries, best friend?"

Saionji, the target of Touga's words, glared at him with undisguised distaste.

2) "The two of them had been childhood friends, but now they got along terribly. Or, more accurately, Saionji harbored a deep one-sided hatred of Touga."

miki vs touga:

1) "He stopped writing, and glared at Touga."

2) "Touga-sempai! Did you... is this one if your plots!?"

"I don't know anything about it. It's 'The Ends of the World's doing."

"You liar.

juri vs touga:

1) "Don't get cocky, Touga," Juri said grumpily, from across the table.

2) "Touga, you're full of bullshit. I doubt you've said a sincere word in your whole life."

"My, such harsh words." Far from sounding hurt, Touga seemed like he was enjoying himself.

3) [afterword] Manga Juri is in love with Touga, but Novel Juri doesn't even like him. Actually, it would be more accurate to say she detests him.

bonus juri & miki palate cleanser:

"This is unlike you. What are you so worked up about?" Juri protested to Miki. But her voice held none of the iciness she'd shown when speaking to Utena and Saionji.

#if u wanna read twin saplings for yourself go ahead but i'll be honest: kinda sucks! #utena's really cute in it tho of course <3 as are anthy and chu chu. and miki for the most part. #juri's like 200% more misogynistic it's kind of funny. she keeps talking about utena like 'a girl??? fighting???' girl who ARE YOU #rgu #utena light novels #elevator confession #text #light novels #stuco #juri #miki #touga #saionji

[inuparentsday]

Celebrate the Fourth Annual InuParents Day on Tuesday January 16th, 2024!

Over the years, you may have noticed the mod's affinity for stars in our announcements, so to mark our fourth anniversary we decided to make them the official 2024 event theme.

In the Western tradition, Canis Major, the great dog, is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. Its brightest star is named Sirius, the dog star.

We look forward to seeing and sharing everyone's fics, art, metas, playlists, moodboards, or whatever else you create for these star-crossed lovers on January 16th using the @inuparentsday feed and the #how to make a hanyou and #inuparentsday 2024 tags.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to any of the mods.

Best wishes,

@superpixie42 @dawnrider @fawn-eyed-girl and @ruddcatha

#Touga #Izayoi #inuparents day 2024 #Inuyasha fandom #how to make a hanyou

[mrshobbit]

no context just gay

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu anthy #rgu sayonji #rgu utena #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #touga kiryuu #touga #nanami kiryuu #miki kaoru #kyouichi saionji #juri arisugawa #akio ohtori #wakaba shinohara

[saionjeans]

while it’s true that all gender configurations do the “rose bride sword pull,” and thus drawing a m/m or even m/f couple in that pose isn’t necessarily displaying a lack of fidelity to the show, it nonetheless often feels highly reductive when it’s framed purely romantically. like yeah saionji can pull touga’s sword, but touga is also an abuse victim, and their relationship is hardly a pure, uncomplicated romance. the rococo aesthetics of the show deliberately obfuscate the urgently violent underbelly that is gradually exposed via a tapestry of intentionally beautiful symbols. the sword pull is one of many examples of the violence underscoring romantic relationships across the show, best exemplified throughout the black rose arc, but nonetheless constantly emphasized throughout the final arc, especially when you learn where the swords come from and what they signify. so it’s not even that it would be more accurate to “only draw lesbians” in the sword pull pose, but that most romantic relationships are simply not framed with the nuance and implicit violence that utena establishes. saionji can pull a sword from touga’s heart, certainly, but if you transposed that onto, say, troy and abed from community (they’re the only “yaoi ship” i can think of), that would be weird! but that would also be equally true of like, korrasami or whatever.

#im so sorry to troy and abed for even implicitly likening them to touga and saionji 😭😭😭 they don’t deserve that 😭😭😭😭 #anthy #touga #saionji #i guess .? #u #manalysis #analysis

[transmascutena]

some thoughts on photography and memory in utena:

on the wall in nemuro memorial hall, there are pictures of real people. i'm not sure who they are, but i assume they're of people involved in making the show. either way, they're obviously not real; in the close-up shots of them, they change into pictures of the black rose duelists and other imagery from the show. i imagine it's there as a fun detail by the creators, but also to show how weird and inconsistent reality itself is in the black rose arc.

as for the black rose duel images themselves, it's possible that they are literal as i've talked about in a previous post, but what i think is more likely, is that utena noticing them is a visual representation of her connecting the dots of what's really been going on in this arc.

when mikage brings up the idea of memories and eternity, we see the picture on the wall behind utena, of her at her parents funeral. and behind mikage we see one of his own defining memories.

a pretty clear line is being drawn between memory and photographs. in fact, memories are so important to mikage that photographs are his black rose duel symbol. it's the one he keeps of mamiya and tokiko, altered to look like anthy's disguise, just like his memories are. through mikage we see both how memories of the past can keep you trapped in it, as well as the malleability of these memories. let's look at everybody else:

saionji has a framed photograph of him and touga as kids on his desk. he values their friendship, or at least the memory of how it used to be. he idealizes the time touga was less cruel (or maybe just the time saionji wasn't aware of his cruelty.)

miki doesn't have any literal photographs of kozue or the sunlit garden, though his memories of them are often framed as such. he also keeps a picture of anthy amidst his sheet music. she is his idealized memory now.

juri has the locket of course, inside of which is a cutout of shiori from a picture captured in the moment that ends up defining their entire relationship. is this the version of shiori that juri idealizes? not really, but she is fixated on her resentment of shiori's percieved cruelty, just not the cruelty of taking the boy away. juri keeps this photograph closer than anybody else does with theirs, but she also keeps it hidden. this could mean she treasures her memories the most out of everyone, and is also the least open about it, although i'm not sure i believe the first part.

nanami has the photo-album of her and touga; she idealizes her relationship with him, as well as their childhood. when she makes the connection that touga is adopted, the photos are scattered all over her bed, probably to represent her emotional state.

touga doesn't keep any photographs from what we see, which makes sense with everything we know about him. unlike the rest of the council, he doesn't have any idealized memories of his childhood. but he does use akio's camera, so let's talk about that.

the camera is, much like the car, a tool that only akio is shown to own (although, wakaba does mention a photography club in episode 34.) like the car, it is used to facilitate his grooming (specifically of touga and saionji when he takes those shirtless pictures with them.) and, also like the car, he offers to lend it to touga, to make him feel more like an equal part of the whole thing. unlike the car though, touga accepts the camera.

the photoshoot scene in episode 37 has a transition where the camera shutter sound effect is played over the previous scene. over the shot of utena and anthy holding hands after confiding in each other about akio. i think it's to show that he's always watching, and that they can never truly be free of him as long as they're in ohtori.

i think it also shows the idea of akio framing the narrative of the show as a whole. he plays a sort of director role in it, in that he directs the events happening, as well as how they're portrayed. it's no coincidence that he is quite literally behind the "camera" in episode 33. like the car, a symbol of akio's power and sexual abuse (which is not-coincidentally also present in all of the photoshoot scenes,) his camera (his narrative, his biased framing of events) is ever-present.

and then there's the most important photograph in the show, the frame it all ends on. the picture utena and anthy took together is, unlike every other photograph, used as a look into their future. the reason they take it in the first place is because utena realizes she has no photos of anthy, which distresses her, presumably because she worries that their friendship might not last forever, and she wants something to remember anthy by. this obviously comes with the risk of making anthy an idealized memory, like every other person put in a photograph in this show, but instead it ends up as a symbol for their love. akio may have set up the camera, but anthy (with the help of chu-chu) manipulated their positions so her and utena could hold hands. she also cuts akio out of the frame, much like she cuts him out of her life in the last episode. she doesn't want his presence to tarnish her and utena's memory anymore (although he isn't completely gone from the photograph either, as he will never truly be forgotten.)

#id in alt text #finally finished this post #these are not the only photographs in the show just the ones linked closest to the themes i wanted to discuss here #revolutionary girl utena #analysis #utena #mikage #saionji #miki #juri #nanami #touga #akio #anthy #m #the narrative

[carnal-lnstinct]

I need this trope of men to stop breaking my heart and start breaking my back 🤌🏾

#men who love their wives but tough love their sons amiright #shinjuro rengoku #bardock #toji fushiguro #inu no taisho #touga

[rural-mage]

Huge red flag colour picked from Touga Kiryu

#i hate him so much even though i liked the anime i cant bring myself to do more edits of it #because this and some other guys show up and it throws me into a blind rage #if you see this man kill him on sight #edit #anime edit #revolutionary girl utena #touga kiryuu #touga #image described

[prince-charmless-nightlight]

Perorder opening soon!

#inuyasha figures #inu no taisho #inupapa #inuyasha #sesshoumaru #toga #touga

[revacholian-girl-utena]

My soul is puny.

Alt text: Screencaps from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: Young Saionji watches in horror as Touga opens the coffin in the church. Text: At the core, you're a very banal person,

2: Closeup of young Saionji clutching his head and screaming. Text: with a very small soul.

3: Closeup of Saionji's empty hands when he drops his sword after hurting Touga. Text: One you should be *ashamed* of.

4: Touga and Saionji's silhouettes as children at kendo practice. Touga is holding Saionji's hand and Saionji is looking up at him. The background is a warm sunset. Text: It's no wonder the soft one doesn't want it back.

5: Touga's silhouette standing by the incinerator. Text: It was right to abandon you... End alt text

#revolutionary girl utena #disco elysium #shoujo kakumei utena #saionji #touga #this one goes out to daisy and all the other saionji posters #go vote for him in the green hair and pronouns bracket #but yeah. waves my hand in inarticulate emotion at this episode #tfw someone you love is suffering unimaginable pain and you are a child who literally can’t imagine it #so you grow up with this feeling that your soul is too small and banal to comprehend that pain or soothe it #and instead of trying to reach out and bridge the gap and expand your soul a little #you let it curdle into something SO despicable. #and yet the desire to understand and fix everything remains despite it all… #[slaps him upside the head] this guy can fit so many problems and issues

[deilantha]

I feel you, Zero.

#yashahime #hanyo no yashahime #manga scan #inu no taisho #Touga #Toga #charming smile #charming daiyoukai #even covered in blood #inuyasha #chap.28 #my edit